He then won a recording contract with
Decca Records. His first recording for the label, "
Well I Ask You"—written by
Les Vandyke,
arranged by
John Keating, and produced by
Bunny Lewis—reached
No. 1 on the
UK Singles Chart in August 1961. It was followed by three more top ten hits in the UK over the next year, "Get Lost" (No. 10), "Forget Me Not" (No. 3) and "I Don't Know Why" (No. 7). Together with a backing band, the Downbeats, which comprised Roger Retting, Ben Steed, Roger St. Clair and Bugs Waddell, he toured widely around the UK with stars such as
Cliff Richard,
Billy Fury,
Marty Wilde and
Helen Shapiro. His brother Peter was the band's road manager, later joining on bass, with brother Clive joining on guitar. His fifth single for Decca, "House to Let", failed to chart, and later releases for the label were equally unsuccessful. He left Decca and joined
Philips subsidiary
Fontana in 1963. Some momentum was lost when his next release, originally titled "Do You Love Me" (c/w "Comeback"), had to be reissued with a new title, "Like I Love You", to avoid confusion with the UK hit
covers of
the Contours' US hit
of the same name by
Brian Poole &
the Tremeloes and
the Dave Clark Five. Kane's third single for Fontana, "Boys Cry" (No. 8), returned him to the charts in January 1964, but it was to be his last hit. ==TV appearances and touring==