Biography
Born in 1944 in Thurnscoe, Yorkshire, England, to a singing miner father, the clean-cut pop singer relocated to London at 16. Following a 1961 appearance on the Joan Regan television show, HMV quickly signed her. Within a single 12-month stretch she placed four cover versions in the UK Top 50, though none climbed inside the Top 20: the John D. Loudermilk compositions ‘Sad Movies (Make Me Cry)’ and ‘Norman’, both previously US hits for Sue Thompson; ‘Johnny Get Angry’, a US hit for Joanie Sommers; and ‘Some People’, first performed by UK act Valerie Mountain And The Eagles in the film of the same name. In 1962 she hosted her own Radio Luxembourg series as a disc jockey and took a role in the Acker Bilk film Band Of Thieves. Subsequent singles on Columbia Records in 1966, CBS Records in 1968, Conquest in 1969 and Pye Records in 1970 all failed to chart, yet she resurfaced in the late 1970s on the Koala and Rim labels.