Joe "Mr Piano" Henderson
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Joe "Mr Piano" Henderson was a British pianist born in Glasgow, Scotland, who was most active during the 1950s. Early life and career Henderson was taught to play the piano by his mother and became a professional at age 15, playing in dance bands. After World War II, he began working for the Peter Maurice publishing company. It was there that he met the singer Petula Clark in 1947. In 1949, Henderson introduced Clark to Alan A. Freeman, who, together with her father Leslie, formed the Polygon record label, for which she recorded her earliest hits.
