Clare also accompanied singers including Ella Fitzgerald,[1] Tony Bennett, and Cleo Laine.

On 5 December 1971, he appeared in concert at Queen Elizabeth Hall with fellow drummers Buddy Rich and Louie Bellson.

Clare visited Hayle in Cornwall on 16 April 1984 and performed a 'drumming duel' with former professional and local drummer Jimmy French (in the photo shown) at the Penmare Hotel.

[5] Clare was admitted to Westminster Hospital, London in November 1984 and had several operations for the removal of cancer from the esophagus.

They had both been members of the Oscar Rabin Band in the early 1950s; she also sang with the Don Smith Orchestra, her stage name was See Saw Majorie Daw taken from the nursery rhyme.