Autographs of Emile Ford
Michael Emile Telford Miller (16 October 1937 – 11 April 2016), known professionally as Emile Ford, was a musician and singer born in Saint Lucia, British Windward Islands. He was popular in the United Kingdom in the late 1950s and early 1960s as the leader of Emile Ford & the Checkmates, who had a number one hit in late 1959 with "What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For?", which was the Christmas number one that year. He was also a pioneering sound engineer.
Emile Ford was born in Castries, Saint Lucia, in the West Indies. He was the son of Barbadian politician, Frederick Edward Miller, and Madge Murray, a singer and musical theatre director whose father had founded and conducted the St. Lucia Philharmonic Band. His mother married again, taking the name of Sweetnam; some sources erroneously give Emile Ford's birth name as Sweetnam or Sweetman.
He was educated at St Mary’s College, Castries. He moved to London with his mother and family in the mid-1950s, partly motivated by his desire to explore improved sound reproduction technology, and studied at the Paddington Technical College in London. \nIt was during this time that he taught himself to play a number of musical instruments, including guitar, piano, violin, bass guitar and drums. Using an abbreviated form of his name, as Emile Ford, he first entered show business at the age of 20, and made his first public performance at The Buttery, Kensington. His first appearance with a backing group was at the Athenaeum Ballroom in Muswell Hill. His TV appearances in 1958 included outings on The Music Shop, the Pearl Carr & Teddy Johnson Show, Oh Boy! and Six-Five Special.
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The most expensive item with a signature of Emile Ford (EMILE FORD & THE CHECKMATES SIGNED AUTOGRAPHS) was sold in March 2014 for £88.00 while the cheapest item (LP 1st PRESS SIGNED COPY EMILE FORD SOUNDS OF COUNTRY TRLPS 007) found a new owner for £0.05 in May 2022. The month with the most items sold (16) was March 2025 with an average selling price of £14.41 for an autographed item of Emile Ford. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in March 2014 with £88.00 and the month that saw the lowest prices with £0.05 was May 2022. In average, an autographed item from Emile Ford is worth £8.39.
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