Career
He is best known for his work with Cliff Richard and the Shadows, both together and separately having steered their early career—producing and arranging most of their material from the late 1950s to the early 1970s. Paramor was both a composer of studio albums, theatrical productions and soundtracks for film scores. Paramor also composed music for films, including Serious Charge (1959), Expresso Bongo (1959), The Young Ones (1961), Number My Darling Daughter (1961), The Frightened City (1961), A Pair of Briefs (1962), Two and Two Make Six (1962), The Wild and the Willing (1962), The Fast Lady (1963), Doctor in Distress (1963), Father Came Too! (1963) and My Lover, My Son (1970).
He also co-wrote the 1962 hit song "Let"s Talk About Love" for Helen Shapiro.
In 1968, he was the musical director for the Eurovision Song Contest, staged at the Royal Albert Hall, the first to be broadcast in colour. He also conducted the United Kingdom entry, "Congratulations", performed by Cliff Richard.
In 1977, Paramor and his orchestra recorded with the Shadows for a final time, on the track "Return to the Alamo". The lyricist Tim Rice was Paramor"s assistant producer for a time in the early 1960s.
Paramor was married to actress Gloria Brent, he died of an unspecified cancer on 9 September 1979.
His death came a fortnight after his protege, Richard, had returned to the top of the United Kingdom Singles Chart with "We Don"t Talk Anymore", his first number one single in more than ten years. Paramor and Richard had worked together professionally from 1958 to 1972. Despite his record of success as a producer, he died in relative obscurity without receiving any public recognition from any British institution.
In 1962, Paramor was the subject of a scathing critique by David Frost on the satirical British television programme That Was the Week that Was for, the programme claimed, taking undeserved songwriting credits and royalties on other people"s work and making popular music more bland and "ordinary".