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Bill Crompton

real name William Crompton

Bill Crompton is credited on 725 releases across 142 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1957–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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725

Credits

142

Albums

8

Decades active

40

In collections

Biography

British songwriter and singer, co-writer of the 1958 hit "House of Bamboo" with Norman Murrells, famously recorded by Andy Williams. The song charted in 1960 by Earl Grant in the U.S. and later as the song "The Sound of Bamboo" by Flickman in the UK in 1999 and 2000.
Crompton also had a successful songwriting partnership with Morgan Jones.
After emigrating to Canada in the 1970s, in the 1980s Crompton became the manager of the Canadian musician Richard Stepp.
PRS IPI #: 7114234.

Bio from Discogs

Credited work

725 releases · 142 albums · active 1957–2025

  • Performance · 736
  • Production · 20
  • Other credits · 1

Studios: Studio Rahlstedt · Friedrich-Ebert-Halle, Hamburg · Musikhalle, Hamburg · Shibuya Kokaido

Discography

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