Posted on 08/02/2015 6:28:10 AM PDT by PghBaldy
Showbiz legend Cilla, who also had two number one singles at the start of a career stretching over 50 years, died in Spain.... She was championed by The Beatles and enjoyed eleven top ten hits including chart-toppers Anyone Who Had a Heart and You're My World.
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I don’t recall having heard of her. I’ll listen on youtube this afternoon and see if I recognize any of the music.
May she rest in peace. I remember her mainly for “Blind Date”. She will be missed.
I think everyone in Britain knows her, not so much for her music which was way way back, but for her hosting the ITV program “Blind Date” for a very long time.
I used to hear her version of “Your’re My World” on oldies radio stations. I instantly recognized the name when I saw it at top of Twitter trending words, (which is not a good sign for people of certain age).
Well, RIP. But I won’t speak ill of the dead.
Almost completely unknown here.
Well, RIP. But I won’t speak ill of the dead.
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Which, of course, you just did, simply without details.
Oh. Right. I forget. Some words in British English are pretty much reverse in American English.
Fer instance, private schools in England are what we call public schools here in the Colonies and vice versa.
Was it Winston Churchill who said, "America and Britain are two peoples separated by a common language."?
Cilla Black was on one of the Ed Sullivan shows featuring The Beatles. I did not see the original telecast. I bought the DVD a few years ago. And there was Cilla wearing a bizarre space helmet hairdo that I’d seen ONCE in real life, as 6 yr old, and never forgotten. Think about thst; a hairdo so weird that a 6 yr old who has no interest at all in style or hairdressing NEVER forgets it. Nice voice, too.
There are a lot of performers who truly are “legendary” in their home countries but may not strike more than once or twice here. She was OBE.
This one was pretty good, too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDBYe7IO1dU
Did you notice that John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote that song? I don't recognize it as one of The Quarrymen's hits. Did they sing it?
Also, did you notice that record? Vinyl records were so cool. I miss them.
No, she sang it. The story I read is that she was a coat check girl at the Cavvern Club and that’s how they became friends. I just read another article where she said about a year ago that she was totally deaf, and blamed it on the volume level of her early career.
Cilla Black sang three of Burt Bacharach’s blockbusters: “Anyone who had a heart,” “You’re my World,” and “Alfie.”
She sold more UK records than any other British female singer, including Petula Black. Her forte was the fragile, wounded wisp barely whispering at the start who rose to a righteous fury and ending in a crescendo.
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I meant no malice. I'm sure she was a fine woman and she had plenty of fans. I wish her a peaceful afterlife.
She was the woman in a famous photo with many of the British singers in 1964 just before they all got big.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2872004/Jagger-Cilla-snapshot-surprisingly-smartly-dressed-dawn-pop-Stars-pose-rehearsals-1964-s-Ready-Steady-Rave-Mad-Mod-Ball.html
One of the top female performers of the Brit invasion. She was on the Ed Sullivan show when the Beatles performed.
You must be fun at parties.
Hmmmmm.
Never heard of her.
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