Eddie Holman

b. 3 June 1946, Norfolk, Virginia, USA. Holman’s claim to fame was the 1969 soul ballad ‘Hey There Lonely Girl’, sung in a piercing falsetto style. Holman began playing keyboards and guitar as a child and studied music at schools in New York City and Pennsylvania. He first recorded in 1962 for the small Leopard Records and later with the Cameo/Parkway company. He collected minor chart hits for that company and then signed with ABC Records in 1968. ‘Hey There Lonely Girl’ was a remake of a song originally recorded by Ruby And The Romantics as ‘Hey There Lonely Boy’. Holman changed the gender and took the song to number 2 in the US charts in 1970. Four years later the song reached number 4 in the UK. He continued to have lesser R&B hits on the Parkway label with ‘This Can’t Be True’ (1965) and ‘I’m A Loser’ (1966). Releases during the early 70s kept the singer in the US soul chart while his career enjoyed a brief revival in 1977 with ‘This Will Be A Night To Remember’ and ‘You Make My Life Complete’. He recorded on such labels as Salsoul and Polydor Records in the 70s and recorded for his own label, Agape, as a Christian artist in the early 90s.