They were both Top 10 hits in the UK Singles Chart in 1962,[1] recorded by Bernard Cribbins with lyrics by Myles Rudge, and produced by George Martin for Parlophone.
While working as a teacher in the 1950s, Dicks composed a stage show Let's Go Mad, which had a short run at the Fortune Theatre in London's West End in 1960 under the title Look Who's Here!, featuring Nyree Dawn Porter, Donald Hewlett and Anna Quayle.
Dicks and Rudge also wrote "A Windmill in Old Amsterdam" which was a hit for Ronnie Hilton in 1965 and won an Ivor Novello Award in 1966 for the Year’s Outstanding Novelty Composition.
[2] Other examples of their collaborative output were Petula Clark's "The Happiest Christmas", Val Doonican's "Annabelle", and their ballad "Other People" was on the B-side of Matt Monro's "Born Free".
His solo work included "Busy Boy", the theme tune to the classic 1970s children's television series Catweazle, and the scores to the films Clinic Exclusive (1971) and Virgin Witch (1972).