Biography
During the 1940s and 1950s this Irish vocalist began a two-week audition alongside Joe Loss, frontman of one of Britain’s longest-running dance orchestras, yet remained with the ensemble for fifteen years. Loss’s practice of spotlighting his singers proved advantageous to her career, resulting in a New Musical Express readers’ poll victory that named her Top Girl Singer. Her many recordings made with the band, several featuring the vocal quintet known as the Loss Chords, encompassed “Tulips And Heather,” “Then I’ll Be There,” “Somewhere Along The Way,” “The Isle Of Innisfree,” “Why Don’t You Believe Me?,” “Got You On My Mind” (with the Kordites), “Seven Lonely Days” and “The Spinning Wheel.” Appearing under her own name throughout the 1950s, she issued covers of Edith Piaf’s “If You Love Me - I Won’t Care (Hymn A L’Amour),” “Let Me Go, Lover”—already a hit for Joan Weber, Dean Martin and Teresa Brewer—and Don Cherry’s “Band Of Gold.” Her own 1961 single “Tall Dark Stranger” reached the UK Top 40.
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