Glen Mason was born in
Stirling, Scotland,
UK, on 16 September 1930. After three years in the
mines, Mason spent eleven months at the Forth Vale Rubber Works, six months in the
Army and fifteen months with a dry-cleaning firm. He appeared on the stage for the first time in a local amateur revue,
The Shipmates, singing "
You Made Me Love You". In the spring of 1951, he was offered his first professional engagement, with a three-month summer show at
St. Andrews. After that, Glen had several appearances at Scottish theatres and in 1952 sang in another summer show at
Montrose, also doing Sunday-night concerts in
Arbroath. He headed next to
London where, after some months, got a job in
cabaret and sang for two weeks at the Churchill Club.
Norman Newell, manager for the
Philips recording company noticed Mason and after an audition recorded Mason's first two tracks, "The Whistling Kettle and the Dancing Cat" and "Dixieland Tango". Mason later appeared many times on radio and TV, in shows such as
Mid-day Music Hall and
Variety Parade. In 1960, he appeared, along with
Jack Jackson and Jackson's son Malcolm, in the
Michael Winner-directed
musical-variety film
Climb Up the Wall, and worked with Winner again on his 1962 films
Behave Yourself and
The Cool Mikado. Mason came third in a national
competition to represent the United Kingdom in
Eurovision in 1959. ==Personal life and death==