Bunny Lewis remembers I found a singer called David Whitfield and he was enormous, much bigger than Dickie Valentine. He was a dreadful fellow really. He’d been a merchant seaman and he was uncouth, to say the least. But he’d got this extraordinary voice; quite untrained, but it had the thrill of it, it had the kick and in a kind of rough looking way he was a good-looking fellow too.
My wife went down and she heard this fellow David Whitfield, who had done a Hughie Green thing (Opportunity Knocks?) but nothing had happened. Also there was a friend of ours, Harold Landau, a sort of an agent, more of a manager. He heard this fellow too. My wife came back and said ‘I think we should get this chap; you should get him for Decca and I should get him for agency.’
From an interview with David Hughes
Huge hit record for Whitfield with both sides charting separately.
A-side, 'Ev'rywhere' spent 20 straight weeks in the top 20 from July-November 1955, peaking at #3 in September.
B-side, 'Mama', first charted at the end of May 1955 and eventually peaked at #12 in August 1955.