Biography
Born in 1939 in Warrington, Lancashire, England, she died on 31 December 2000 in England. Local venues around her hometown provided her first childhood singing opportunities, and by the early 1950s she secured moderate success on records and television, including appearances on programmes such as Easy To Remember. Duets with Michael Holliday formed part of her work at that time, and she also took part in the qualifying heats for the UK’s 1957 Eurovision Song Contest entry. Several well-received solo singles followed in the late 1950s and early 1960s, among them “Candlelight”/“The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning”, “Every Day”/“All I Need”, “Maybe This Year”/“Beautiful Love”, “My Head’s In De Barrel”/“Five Oranges, Four Apples”, “Tell Me, Tell Me, Tell Me That You Love Me”/“Please”, “Stars Shine In Your Eyes”/“A Star Is Born”, “A Tear Fell”/“Something Old, Something New”, “Never Leave Me”/“Don't Ever Go (I Need You)”, and “Evermore”/“I'll Be There”. A 1956 version of “Arrivederci Darling” briefly entered the UK Top 20.
In the same year she appeared in a supporting role in the film It's Great To Be Young, additionally supplying the vocal for the song “You Are My First Love” that Dorothy Bromiley mimed on screen. A CSE show took her to various military bases, yet from the mid-1960s her career began to fade. Terry Dene, the pop singer, became the first of her four husbands.
In the same year she appeared in a supporting role in the film It's Great To Be Young, additionally supplying the vocal for the song “You Are My First Love” that Dorothy Bromiley mimed on screen. A CSE show took her to various military bases, yet from the mid-1960s her career began to fade. Terry Dene, the pop singer, became the first of her four husbands.