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'''Clifford Leonard Clark "Cliff" Hanley''' (28 October 1922 – 9 August 1999) was a [[journalist]], [[novelist]], [[playwright]] and [[Television presenter|broadcaster]] from [[Glasgow]] in Scotland. Originally from [[Shettleston]] in the city's East End, he was educated at [[Eastbank Academy]].
'''Clifford Leonard Clark "Cliff" Hanley''' (28 October 1922 – 9 August 1999) was a [[journalist]], [[novelist]], [[playwright]] and [[Television presenter|broadcaster]] from [[Glasgow]] in Scotland. Originally from [[Shettleston]] in the city's East End, he was educated at [[Eastbank Academy]].


During the late 1930s, he was active in the [[Independent Labour Party]]. During the [[Second World War]] he was a [[conscientious objector]].<ref>Hanley, Cliff ''Dancing in the Streets''</ref>
During the late 1930s, he was active in the [[Independent Labour Party]]. During the [[Second World War]] he was a [[conscientious objector]].<ref>Hanley, Cliff ''Dancing in the Streets''</ref>


He also wrote a number of books, including the classic ''Dancing in the Streets'', an account of his early life in Glasgow (in its contemporaneous serialisation in [[The Evening Times]], retitled ''My Gay Glasgow''), ''The Taste of Too Much'', a [[bildungsroman|coming-of-age]] novel about a secondary schoolboy, and ''The Scots''.
He also wrote a number of books, including ''Dancing in the Streets'', an account of his early life in Glasgow (in its contemporaneous serialisation in [[The Evening Times]], retitled ''My Gay Glasgow''), ''The Taste of Too Much'', a [[bildungsroman|coming-of-age]] novel about a secondary schoolboy, and ''The Scots''.


During the 1960s and 1970s, he published thrillers under the pen-name Henry Calvin. They were more successful in the US and Canada than in the UK. A collection of his humorous verse in Scots, using the pseudonym 'Ebenezer McIlwham', was published by Gordon Wright Publishing of Edinburgh. He also wrote the words of what some still feel is Scotland's unofficial national anthem, ''[[Scotland the Brave]]'', and both wrote and recorded ''The Glasgow Underground Song'' - a humorous anecdote on the pre-modernisation era [[Glasgow Subway]]. A recording of this was made famous by [[Francie and Josie]].
During the 1960s and 1970s, he published thrillers under the pen-name Henry Calvin. They were more successful in the US and Canada than in the UK. A collection of his humorous verse in Scots, using the pseudonym 'Ebenezer McIlwham', was published by Gordon Wright Publishing of Edinburgh. He also wrote the words of what some still feel is Scotland's unofficial national anthem, ''[[Scotland the Brave]]'', and both wrote and recorded ''The Glasgow Underground Song'' - a humorous anecdote on the pre-modernisation era [[Glasgow Subway]]. A recording of this was made famous by [[Francie and Josie]].


He wrote a number of film and TV scripts, including ''Between the Lines'', an episode of which was described by [[Mary Whitehouse]] as the "filthiest programme" her family had seen on TV "for a very long time" at the first public meeting of the 'Clean-Up TV' campaign in May 1964.<ref>Joe Moran [https://books.google.com/books?id=sfZEAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT124 ''Armchair Nation: An intimate history of Britain in front of the TV''], London: Profile Books, 2013, p.124</ref> Hanley's other scripts include ''[[Seawards the Great Ships]]'', ''[[The Bowler and the Bunnet]]'',<ref name="SSF">{{cite web|title=Scottish Studies Foundation, The Bowler and the Bunnet|url=http://www.scottishstudies.com/100bowlerandthebunnet-part2.html|website=scottishstudies.com|publisher=Scottish Studies Foundation|accessdate=1 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180302163820/http://www.scottishstudies.com/100bowlerandthebunnet-part2.html|archive-date=2 March 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> and ''[[The New Road]]''. His son was artist Clifford G. Hanley.
He wrote a number of film and TV scripts, including ''Between the Lines'', an episode of which was described by [[Mary Whitehouse]] as the "filthiest programme" her family had seen on TV "for a very long time" at the first public meeting of the 'Clean-Up TV' campaign in May 1964.<ref>Joe Moran [https://books.google.com/books?id=sfZEAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT124 ''Armchair Nation: An intimate history of Britain in front of the TV''], London: Profile Books, 2013, p.124</ref> Hanley's other scripts include ''[[Seawards the Great Ships]]'', ''[[The Bowler and the Bunnet]]'',<ref name="SSF">{{cite web|title=Scottish Studies Foundation, The Bowler and the Bunnet|url=http://www.scottishstudies.com/100bowlerandthebunnet-part2.html|website=scottishstudies.com|publisher=Scottish Studies Foundation|accessdate=1 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180302163820/http://www.scottishstudies.com/100bowlerandthebunnet-part2.html|archive-date=2 March 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> and ''[[The New Road]]''. His son is artist Cliff Hanley (born 1948).

Following updates added by his daughters, February, 2024.

== Highlights ==
Pseudonyms: Henry Calvin, Ebenezer McIlwham (The Bard of Whifflet West)

Nationality: Scottish

Born: Glasgow, Scotland, October 28, 1922

Died: Glasgow, Scotland, August 9, 1999

Wife: Anna Hanley, married January 1948

Children: Clifford G. Hanley, Jane Hanley, Joanna Hanley

Education: Eastbank Academy, Glasgow

Conscientious Objector in WWII

Reporter, Scottish Newspaper Services, Glasgow 1940-1945

Sub-Editor, Scottish Daily Record, Glasgow, 1945-1957 (Columns/features also under pseudonym Andrew Bonar)

Features Writer, TV Guide, Glasgow, 1957-1958

Director, Glasgow Films, Ltd., 1957-1963

Columnist, Glasgow Evening Citizen, 1958-1960

Television Critic, The Spectator, London, 1963

Visiting Writer in Residence, Glendon College, York University, Toronto, Canada, 1979-1980

== Awards ==
Oscar Award for 1961’s Seawards the Great Ships

== Memberhips ==
Close Theatre Management Committee, Glasgow 1965-1971

Inland Waterways Amenities Advisory Council, 1967-1971

Scottish Arts Council, 1967-1974

Scottish PEN, Vice-President 1966-1973, and President 1974-1977

Writers’ Guild of Great Britain, Scottish President 1968-1973

Glasgow Philological and Literary Society (Ours Club),1956-1999, President 1962-1963 and 1996-1997

== Comments on Cliff Hanley’s Work by Cliff Hanley in 1972 ==
''Dancing in the Streets'', my first published book, was written at the suggestion of my publisher, who wanted a book about the city of Glasgow. At the time I thought it a rather pedestrian recital of childhood memories and was taken aback by its critical and commercial success (it is still used as background reading in schools of social studies and urbanology).

My first novel, ''Love from Everybody'', written previously but published later, was frankly intended as a light entertainment, to make money, and was later filmed as ''Don't Bother to Knock.'' Having then retired from journalism, I wrote what I considered my first serious work, ''The Taste of Too Much'', as a study of "ordinary" adolescence, without crime and adventitious excitement, and it may well be my most successful book in the sense of fully achieving the author's original conception.

In the subsequent novels under my own name, I think my intention was to look at some areas of life—a businessman's troubles, the family situation, the agonies of work in the theater—simply in my own way, without reference to fashionable literary conceptions. I have often been surprised when people found the novels "funny" because their intention was serious; but an author can't help being what he is. I do see the human condition as tragic (since decay and death are the inevitable end), but I don't distinguish between comedy and tragedy. Funerals can be funny too, and life is noble and absurd at the same time. I also insist on distinguishing between seriousness and solemnity, which are opposite rather than similar.

On looking back, I realize that the tone of the novels tends to be affirmation rather than despair. This may be a virtue or a fault, or an irrelevance—a novelist should probably leave such judgments to critics and simply get on with what he must do. Maybe they also betray some kind of moral standpoint of which I was unconscious. This was explicit, in fact, in my first professionally produced play, ''The Durable Element'', which was a study of the recurrent urge to crucify prophets. It was also deliberate in ''The Chosen Instrument'', a pseudonymous Henry Calvin ten years later, in which a contemporary thriller mode was used to do a sort of feasibility study on the New Testament mythology. (The intention was so well disguised that no critic noticed it).

But I suppose cheerfulness keeps breaking through. I am an entertainer as well as novelist, and the two may be compatible. My first commandment as a writer is not at all highfalutin. It is Thou Shalt Not Bore. ''A Skinful of Scotch'' is an irreverent guide to one man's Scotland and was written for fun. So, originally, were the Henry Calvin thrillers. I enjoy reading thrillers and I adopted the pen-name simply to feel uninhibited. The thriller too is a morality, but the morality is acceptable only if it has character and pace. These are not intellectual mysteries but tales of conflict between good and evil.

My later work for the theater was exclusively devoted to calculated entertainment and I am glad that people were actually entertained. I find now that I see life in more somber terms, but whether this will show in future novels is hard to tell. It may even be a temporary condition.

(Addendum 1991) Self-assessment has always struck me as a futile exercise, in the sense that we can study a bug through a microscope, but we can't study the microscope through itself. I wrote my novels for fun or from internal compulsion (the two are the same, maybe) but have always seen myself as an entertainer, so they were intended for the reader's fun, which could include laughter, fear, enlightenment, puzzlement, and any other response.

They are not bad, probably. I did feel I hit the target with ''The Taste of Too Much'' (a committee title I don't like too much) in picturing the pangs of teenage love. School pupils agreed, especially girls, and it seems nothing has changed in 30 years. ''Nothing But the Best'' was partly stolen from life, and when I myself was widowed in 1990 I was interested in how my own responses followed those of the hero.

''Another Street, Another Dance'' was compulsive. The heroine, Meg, came into my mind fully formed, I was back in the time and place of my autobiographical first book ''Dancing in the Streets.'' It went onto the typewriter at the rate of 4, 000 to 7, 000 words a day with no hesitation because Meg was in the room with me. A very strange experience.

The Henry Calvin thrillers were entirely for fun, and I can only hope readers have shared it. (Odd, how many Scottish writers have hidden under pseudonyms). Henry was my father's name, and I picked Calvin because in these light tales virtue would triumph over vice, and to hell with some of the grim realities.

Not sure if I'll produce any more. I am now lazy, and comfortably fixed—a serious disincentive to work. But I am being nagged by an idealistic young New Yorker on a voyage of discovery through working-class and academic Glasgow, and I fear I shall have to let him right into the brain to dictate his misadventures and revelations. He is taking over, and I mildly resent that, but life is real and life is earnest, and the gravy is our goal, still.

== Known list of books written by Clifford Hanley, giving pseudonyms and coworkers where relevant. ==
{| class="wikitable"
|'''Dancing in the Streets'''

|1958

1960

1972

1972

1978

1979

1983

1985

1986
|London, Hutchinson (+2 x 1958, 1x 1966)

London, Arrow (reprint 1966)

London, Corgi

Glasgow, UR Books

Colchester, The Book Service

London, White Lion

Edinburgh, Mainstream

London, Magna

Boston, G.K. Hall (Large Print)
|-
|'''Love From Everybody'''

aka '''Don't bother to Knock'''

(filmed in 1961 as Don’t Bother to Knock, Warner Brothers)
|1959

1961
|London, Hutchinson

London, Digit
|-
|'''The Taste of Too Much'''
|1960

1964

1967

1977

1979

1989

1990
|London, Hutchinson

Hammondsworth, Penguin

Glasgow, Blackie

London, White Lion

Glasgow, Blackie

Edinburgh, Mainstream

London, Corgi
|-
|'''The System (as Henry Calvin)'''

|1962
|London, Hutchinson
|-
|'''It's Different Abroad (as Henry Calvin)'''

|1963

|London, Hutchinson

New York, Harper & Row
|-
|'''The Wall: What Stands Between Catholic and Protestant in Scotland'''
|1963
|Scotland, Daily Mail
|-
|'''Nothing But the Best'''

'''As Second Time Round'''
|1964

1964

1969

1964
|London, Hutchinson

London, Mayflower

London, Mayflower

Boston, Houghton Mifflin
|-
|'''A Skinful of Scotch'''

Illus. by Hartley Ramsay
|1965
|London, Hutchinson

Boston, Houghton Mifflin
|-
|'''The Italian Gadget (as Henry Calvin)'''
|1966
|London, Hutchinson
|-
|'''The Hot Month'''

|1967

1968
|London, Hutchinson

Boston, Houghton Mifflin

London, Arrow
|-
|'''A Nice Friendly Town (as Henry Calvin'''
|1967
|London, Hutchinson
|-
|'''The D.N.A. Business (as Henry Calvin)'''
|1967
|London, Hutchinson
|-
|'''Miranda Must Die (as Henry Calvin)'''

'''As Boka Lives'''
|1968

1969
|London, Hutchinson

New York, Harper & Row
|-
|'''The Red-Haired Bitch'''
|1969
|London, Hutchinson

Boston, Houghton Mifflin
|-
|'''The Chosen Instrument (as Henry Calvin)'''
|1969
|London, Hutchinson
|-
|'''The Poison Chasers (as Henry Calvin)'''
|1971
|London, Hutchinson
|-
|'''Take Two Popes (as Henry Calvin)'''
|1972
|London, Hutchinson
|-
|'''Selected Poems'''

'''(as Ebenezer McIlwham)'''
|1975
|Gordon Wright, Edinburgh
|-
|'''Burns Country: The Travels of Robert Burns'''
|1975
|Newport, J. Arthur Dixon
|-
|'''The Unspeakable Scot'''

Illus. by John Mackay
|1977
|Blackwood, Edinburgh
|-
|'''Prissy'''
|1978

1979
|London, Collins

London, Fontana
|-
|'''The Biggest Fish in the World'''

Verse only. Idea & Illus. by Eric Marwick
|1979
|Chambers, Edinburgh
|-
|'''The Scots'''
|1980

1982
|Newton Abbot, Devon, David & Charles

New York, Times Books

London, Sphere
|-
|'''Another Street, Another Dance'''
|1983

1984
|Edinburgh, Mainstream

New York, St. Martin’s Press
|-
|'''Glasgow, a Celebration'''

Editor
|1984
|Edinburgh, Mainstream
|-
|'''The History of Scotland'''
|1986
|London, Hamlyn

New York, Lomond
|-
|'''The Sheer Gall of it! Cartoons by Willie Gall'''

Commentary
|1988
|Edinburgh, Mainstream
|-
|'''Gall in the Day's Work.  Cartoons by Willie Gall'''

Commentary
|1989
|Edinburgh, Mainstream
|-
|'''Rab Ha<sup>t</sup> the Glasgow Glutton'''

Verse only, Illus. by Dorothy Whitaker
|1989
|Glasgow, General District Libraries
|}

== Known list of plays written by Clifford Hanley, with coworkers where relevant ==
{| class="wikitable"
|'''The Durable Element'''
|1961
|Dundee, Dundee Repertory Theatre
|-
|'''Saturmacnalia'''

Music by Ian Gourlay
|1962
|Glasgow, Citizens Theatre, Pantomime
|-
|'''Oh! For an Island'''

Music by Ian Gourlay
|1963
|Glasgow, Citizens Theatre, Pantomime
|-
|'''Dick McWhittie'''

Music by Ian Gourlay
|1964
|Glasgow, Citizens Theatre, Pantomime
|-
|'''The Hero of a Hundred Fights or The True McGonagall'''
|1969
|Perth, Perth Repertory Theatre
|-
| colspan="3" |Commissioned by Perth RepertoryTheatre; this play incorporated the first public performance of "Jock o' the Cudgel" by William McGonagall
|-
|'''Oh Glorious Jubilee'''

Music by Ian Gourlay
|1970
|Leeds, Leeds Playhouse
|-
| colspan="3" |Commissioned for the opening by the Prince of Wales, of Leeds Playhouse
|-
|'''The Clyde Moralities'''
|1972
|Glasgow Festival
|-
|'''The Mountain People'''

Libretto for workshop performances
|
|Scottish Opera
|}

== Known list of Film scripts/work by Clifford Hanley ==
{| class="wikitable"
|'''The Prosperous Path'''
|1959
|Films of Scotland
|-
|'''Pleasure Island'''
|1960
|Films of Scotland
|-
|'''Seawards the Great Ships'''

1962 Oscar for Best Short Live Action
|1961
|Templar Films
|-
|'''Young in Heart: Scottish Industry in Action'''
|1963
|Films of Scotland
|-
|'''The Big Mill'''
|1963
|Films of Scotland
|-
|'''Fibre Web'''
|1964
|Films of Scotland
|-
|'''The Bowler and the Bunnet'''
|1967
|STV Studio Films
|-
|'''Sinful Davie'''

As language consultant
|1969
|Mirisch/United Artists
|-
|'''The Duna Bull'''
|1972
|Films of Scotland
|-
|'''The Great Mill Race'''
|1974
|Films of Scotland
|-
|'''The Boat'''
|1975
|Films of Scotland
|-
|'''Sea City: Greenock'''
|1975
|Films of Scotland
|}

== Known list of Television works by Clifford Hanley ==
{| class="wikitable"
|'''Dear Boss'''
|1962
|ITV Films
|-
|'''Dr. Finlay’s Casebook'''

Various episodes
|1962-1971
|BBC Scotland
|-
|'''Between the Lines'''

Revue Series – called the “Filthiest programme on television” by Mary Whitehouse
|1964
|BBC Scotland
|-
|'''High Living'''

Various episodes
|1968-1971
|ITV Scottish Television
|-
|'''Down Memory Lane'''
|1972
|ITV Scottish Television
|-
|'''The New Road'''

Five episodes
|1973
|BBC Scotland
|-
|'''Late Night Drama'''
|1974
|Granada Television
|-
|'''Sula'''

series
|1975
|BBC Scotland
|-
|'''Wax Fruit'''
|1975
|BBC Scotland
|-
|'''Alas, Poor Derek'''
|1976
|BBC Scotland
|-
|'''Return to Sula'''

series
|1978
|BBC Scotland
|-
|The Spirit of Scotland.'''  1. A Hypnotic Trance'''
|1980
|BBC Scotland
|}

== Known List of Song Lyrics by Clifford Hanley ==
Several of these are integral to shows and as such would not be performed as 'stand alone' numbers
{| class="wikitable"
|Abroad is Nice

Affluent Society

Alexandra all Forlorn

Anything can Happen

As Long as I've Got Fiona

As long as the Sun Shines (UK Song for Europe Runner up 1966)

Auld Coo Shed

Balmoral Waltz

Beautiful April Day

Bongo Beat

Bonjour Tristesse

Broken Hearted Twist

Bruce and the Spider

Bruce's Hornpipe

Camlachie

Chips with Everything

Cockles and Mussels

Come a Fishin' Isabella

Come to Bonnie Scotland

Crows in the Corn

Dick McWhittie

Do You Come Here Often

Down With the Jones

Duke McCash we Salute You

Empire Oh Empire

Fain Would I Fly

Faraway Isle

Fate Worse Than Death

Fireman

Follow The Sun

Future Belongs to You

Glasgow

Glasgow Smiles Better

Glasgow, Glasgow

GO GO GO

Gone Away

Granny

Great Scotland

Happy English Family

Heigh Ho For Murdering

Hero's Goodbye

Holiday Fair

How Can They Have a Coronation

I am the Music Man

I Like a Man

I Like You Fine

I Saw It In The Crystal Ball

I Should Have Listened to Granny

If You Were A Seagull

I'm Glad That I Was Born In Glasgow

Independence

Kitty Brewster

Land Full of Song

Land of The Free
|Land of the Rising Sun

Life

Long Long Story

Lord Love a Duck

Madrigal

Man Eating Mona

Marching Through The Heather

Money is Bad for People

Monster Monster

My Bonnie Lassie

My Life For The Flag

My Sister, My Sister

My Song

Nobody Ever Listens

Oh Glorious Jubilee

Oh My Jock Mackay

One Is British After All

One Upon a Time

Piano In The Parlour

Point of no Return

Raven Haired Maiden

Royal Scots Fusiliers

Saint Andrew

Saturmacnalia

Scotland is the Place

Scotland the Brave (5 versions)

She Shall Have Music

Sorrow And The Pity And The Pain

Sourocks And The Heather

Spaceman ( I Want to Be a)

Standing In The Sink

Story Behind The Song

Strike A Light

Suddenly It's Summertime

Sweet Morning Time

The Cameronians

The Gathering of the Clans

The Glasgow Underground

The Noo

There's Going to be a Dance

Thingummy Cowboy

Trouble With Women Today

Two Note Blues

Vote For Emelina Brown

Wachlin Hame

What Are We Gonna Do

What Does a Fella Do

Whatever Will Become Of Sylvia

When Will It All Begin

White Heather

Wye Valley

Yo Ho Ho

You Were There
|}
(2024) While the copyright to Scotland’s first and we feel, true, “National Anthem” is still held by the Estate of Clifford Hanley, we have not attempted to list the innumerable instances where Scotland the Brave has been featured in film, television, sound and media of all sorts.

== Other Work by Clifford Hanley ==
Sleeve Notes for John Laurie’s album '''The Great McGonagall''', 1969

'''Cliff Hanley’s Notable Scots''', a 52 week compendium collection produced by the Daily Record in 1988

And countless columns, appearances, presentations

== As a Broadcaster ==
Hanley's light and humorous touch, and sharp observations on Scottish life, saw him much in demand as a commentator on radio and television, not only in Scotland but on UK-wide programmes. Very much a 'professional Glaswegian', he was often called upon to comment on issues affecting the city.

When Radio 4 Scotland re-launched its morning radio programme, Today in Scotland, in April 1970, Hanley was hired as a presenter.  


==References==
==References==

Latest revision as of 02:01, 7 May 2024

Clifford Leonard Clark "Cliff" Hanley (28 October 1922 – 9 August 1999) was a journalist, novelist, playwright and broadcaster from Glasgow in Scotland. Originally from Shettleston in the city's East End, he was educated at Eastbank Academy.

During the late 1930s, he was active in the Independent Labour Party. During the Second World War he was a conscientious objector.[1]

He also wrote a number of books, including Dancing in the Streets, an account of his early life in Glasgow (in its contemporaneous serialisation in The Evening Times, retitled My Gay Glasgow), The Taste of Too Much, a coming-of-age novel about a secondary schoolboy, and The Scots.

During the 1960s and 1970s, he published thrillers under the pen-name Henry Calvin. They were more successful in the US and Canada than in the UK. A collection of his humorous verse in Scots, using the pseudonym 'Ebenezer McIlwham', was published by Gordon Wright Publishing of Edinburgh. He also wrote the words of what some still feel is Scotland's unofficial national anthem, Scotland the Brave, and both wrote and recorded The Glasgow Underground Song - a humorous anecdote on the pre-modernisation era Glasgow Subway. A recording of this was made famous by Francie and Josie.

He wrote a number of film and TV scripts, including Between the Lines, an episode of which was described by Mary Whitehouse as the "filthiest programme" her family had seen on TV "for a very long time" at the first public meeting of the 'Clean-Up TV' campaign in May 1964.[2] Hanley's other scripts include Seawards the Great Ships, The Bowler and the Bunnet,[3] and The New Road. His son is artist Cliff Hanley (born 1948).

References[edit]

  1. ^ Hanley, Cliff Dancing in the Streets
  2. ^ Joe Moran Armchair Nation: An intimate history of Britain in front of the TV, London: Profile Books, 2013, p.124
  3. ^ "Scottish Studies Foundation, The Bowler and the Bunnet". scottishstudies.com. Scottish Studies Foundation. Archived from the original on 2 March 2018. Retrieved 1 March 2018.

External links[edit]

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