Because Walk Away Like A Winner (released 18/03/66) became popular in Northern Soul circles, a mint-condition copy can command a price tag of £40 or more, but information about Robert Henry is scant. In November 1965, he had released a single I Need Me Someone (Philips BF 1450) (listed in the Record Collector Rare Record Price Guide as I Need Someone) using the less-formal name of Bob Henry. (Price tag circa £18). It failed to appear in the Fab Forty.

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Henry penned That's All I Want, the B-side of Walk Away Like A Winner, which was assigned to the Radio London-associated publisher, Pall Mall Music and was friendly with Radio London's original Programme Director Ben Toney (see Ben's Memoirs, Part 15). By 1967, after failing to set the charts alight with his singles, Henry had retreated to Italy to try and make his way in the movies. He arranged Ben's accommodation in Rome when Ben was also pursuing a celluloid career.

On their Raresoulman website in February 2011 John Manship Records offered for sale a 1965 Advision studio acetate (i.e. A-side only) of Walk Like a Winner (sic) by Robert Henry for £100. The webmaster speculates that Gene McDaniels' song and Henry's are so similar musically, that Henry's is probably based on McDaniels'. He describes the valuable find (right) as:

"British 60s power-ballad at its outermost brilliant. Inspired by Gene McDaniels' 'Walk With A Winner' this is Bob Henry's WALK AWAY LIKE A WINNER mistitled in the studio. Pre-Philips BF 1476 [pressing]."

The label's typist seems to have suffered from misinformation and/or a pre-release change of plan. Henry can clearly be heard singing 'walk away like a winner' and that is undoubtedly the correct title of the song. It's hard to decipher the original typing of the artist's name, which has subsequently been scratched out and replaced by a handwritten 'Robert Henry', but if it was simply a change of 'Bob' to 'Robert' it seems unnecessary for the entire name to have been obscured.

In the late Seventies, a singer/songwriter called 'Bobby Henry' released singles on Charlie Gillett's Oval label, but this was a different singer who came from Glasgow.