- Singer of light popular music whose signature song was 'By a Babbling Brook'.
- At the height of his fame he was receiving 3,000 fan letters a week. In the early 1960s Peers was given his own television programme, Donald Peers Presents, and, in that programme, he introduced Tom Jones and also scientist and writer Brian J. Ford, this time playing boogie piano.
- Donald travelled around the country working as a house painter and, for a time, went to sea as a mess steward on ships.
- His memorial tablet in the Garden of Remembrance is weather-beaten and reads, 'Donald Peers, August 1973, Loved by Kates, "In a Shady Nook by a Babbling Brook"'.
- Donald's family were hoping he would become a schoolteacher, but he had other ambitions and left home at the age of sixteen.
- He met his wife in 1930 in Richmond, North Yorkshire and they had a daughter Sheila in 1931. He joined a dance band as a singer and continued his day job as a painter.
- In 1940 Donald enlisted in the Royal Army Service Corps as a clerk, where he served until D-Day in 1944, when he was invalided out. When in service, he entertained his fellow troops in shows.
- After several years at the top Peers left for Australia, where he stayed for two years. When he returned to the UK, his fans had all but forgotten him and he had to work back to stardom via the club circuit, which had taken over from the variety theatres. He made a comeback with "Please Don't Go", which reached #3 in the UK Singles Chart in 1969.
- His father was a colliery worker and a prominent member of the Plymouth Brethren who disapproved of the variety theatre, and never heard or saw his son work.
- His first BBC Radio broadcast took place on 17 December 1927, with the popular comedy duo, Clapham and Dwyer. One of his songs he sang was, "In a Shady Nook by a Babbling Brook", which became his most requested song and, later, his signature tune.
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