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lemonade kid
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DaveyTee
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lemonade kid
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DaveyTee
Fourth Love
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 Posted - 13/01/2016 : 20:04:13
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I bought this cover of "Eight Days a Week" when it was released back in 1965 and i still like it, though the sound quality of the YouTube video isn't up to much: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG2biWJojgc
Poor tragic Alma was at one time the highest paid female recording artiste in Britain and topped the annual NME reader's poll as "Outstanding British Female Singer" four times between 1956 and 1960. Like so many of her generation her popularity declined in the 60s but the Beatles were good friends and it has been strongly suggested that although eight years his senior she had a "strong romance" with John Lennon. Paul McCartney first played the melody of "Yesterday" on Alma's piano and indeed she subsequently covered the song. In 1966, in failing health, she collapsed during a tour of Sweden and later died from ovarian cancer.
DT
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lemonade kid
Old Love
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Posted - 13/01/2016 : 20:58:27
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Originally posted by DaveyTee
I bought this cover of "Eight Days a Week" when it was released back in 1965 and i still like it, though the sound quality of the YouTube video isn't up to much: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG2biWJojgc
Poor tragic Alma was at one time the highest paid female recording artiste in Britain and topped the annual NME reader's poll as "Outstanding British Female Singer" four times between 1956 and 1960. Like so many of her generation her popularity declined in the 60s but the Beatles were good friends and it has been strongly suggested that although eight years his senior she had a "strong romance" with John Lennon. Paul McCartney first played the melody of "Yesterday" on Alma's piano and indeed she subsequently covered the song. In 1966, in failing health, she collapsed during a tour of Sweden and later died from ovarian cancer.
DT
Scottish, not British.
Sounds as if she was as brilliant as Dusty, but her rise into the rock genre was sadly cut short...
A better audio ....of her cover of Ticket To Ride..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0X_OXndwl8
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stewart
Old Love
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lemonade kid
Old Love
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stewart
Old Love
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Posted - 01/02/2016 : 21:50:37
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Originally posted by DaveyTee
I bought this cover of "Eight Days a Week" when it was released back in 1965 and i still like it, though the sound quality of the YouTube video isn't up to much: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG2biWJojgc
Poor tragic Alma was at one time the highest paid female recording artiste in Britain and topped the annual NME reader's poll as "Outstanding British Female Singer" four times between 1956 and 1960. Like so many of her generation her popularity declined in the 60s but the Beatles were good friends and it has been strongly suggested that although eight years his senior she had a "strong romance" with John Lennon. Paul McCartney first played the melody of "Yesterday" on Alma's piano and indeed she subsequently covered the song. In 1966, in failing health, she collapsed during a tour of Sweden and later died from ovarian cancer.
DT
Scottish, not British.
Crikey I saw her live in the early 60s at some theatre in Blackpool where she was doing a summer season |
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lemonade kid
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Great Song Covers....share some more faves
