becky sharp
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 Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2020 11:17 am Post subject: The Reunion - 60s Girl Singers |
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Thoroughly enjoyed listening to this again from 2012.
In this edition of The Reunion, Sue MacGregor reunites five women whose pop success helped make the sixties swing.
When people think about the music of the sixties, generally they think of The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, but the girl singers of the period were also highly successful and important. In the UK alone, Cilla Black had seventeen top forty hits, Dusty Springfield and Sandie Shaw had fifteen and Petula Clark had thirteen. This doesn't include the success they all enjoyed abroad: these girls were international stars having hits all over Europe and in the United States.
Joining Sue MacGregor is: Petula Clark, the child star of the 1940s whose career went stratospheric in the 1960s; Sandie Shaw, the barefoot pop princess who won the Eurovision Song Contest; Helen Shapiro, Britain's first teen pop star who was supported by The Beatles, Jackie Trent, singer and songwriter who wrote hits for Petula Clark, Scott Walker and many others; and Vicki Wickham, the legendary producer of Ready Steady Go who went on to manage Dusty Springfield.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b01m2vmg |
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