Hill's own success started immediately after he quit the Raindrops, when The River's Run Dry proved a minor hit in summer 1962. He was unlucky not to triumph in the U.K. qualifiers for the 1963 Eurovision Song Contest (where he performed A Day at the Seaside), and the next few years proved fallow as a succession of 45s failed to chart. January 1966, however, brought the number 13 hit Take Me to Your Heart Again, an English-language version of Edith Piaf's La Vie en Rose. Heartaches followed it into the Top 30 in March 1966, followed by Merci Cherie, an English version of another Continental smash, Udo Jürgens' 1966 Eurovision Song Contest winner. Hill's biggest-ever hit arrived in 1967, when a version of the +Sound of Music chestnut Edelweiss rose to number two. Further hits Roses of Picardy, Love Letters in the Sand, Gilbert Bécaud's The Importance of Your Love, Doesn't Anybody Know My Name, and Little Bluebird kept Hill in the charts throughout the remainder of the decade, but his chart returns were diminishing and 1971 brought his final hit, a number 12 slot for Look Around and You'll Find Me There, from the movie #Love Story. Despite this, Hill remained a regular guest on British TV through the 1970s, and continued to perform live for many years. ~ Dave Thompson, Rovi