Radio de Ronnie Hilton
Ronnie Hilton (26 January 1926[1] - 21 February 2001[2][3]) was an English singer and radio presenter. Hilton was one of those 1950s vocalists whose career coincided with rock and roll's 1956 onslaught on the ballad dominated hit parade. But for a time Hilton was a star - strictly for home consumption - with nine Top 20 hits between 1954 and 1957, that transitional era between 78 and 45rpm records. A quarter of a century later he became the voice of BBC Radio 2's 'Sounds of the Fifties' series.[2] Born Adrian Hill in Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, Hilton left school at 14 and worked in an aircraft factory at the beginning of the Second World War, before being called up into the Highland Light Infantry.[2] Following demobilisation in 1947, he became a fitter in a Leeds sewing plant.[2]