Career
The single reached number 20 in the United Kingdom singles chart in April 1960. Johnson also participated in A Song for Europe, the United Kingdom qualifying heat for Eurovision in 1961. His song, "A Place in the Country" came fifth.
He was also an actor who, in Donald Wolfit"s company, played such roles as Feste in Twelfth Night and the Fool in King Lear.
In Ronald Harwood"s biography of Wolfit, the actor is quoted as saying (p 251) that he was "the best Fool I ever had". He was an actor of the old school with a melodious speaking voice and a strong stage presence.
Johnson recounted his Eurovision experiences in an edition of Gloria Live, with Gloria Hunniford, broadcast on British Broadcasting Corporation One on 4 May 1990.