Search - Jackie Lee :: End of a Rainbow: Pye Anthology

27 track PYE Records anthology. In common with many other female singers from the 1960s, Jackie Lee recordings are now collected by fans of '60s girls and Northern Soul who are knowledgeable enough to look beyond the world famous White Horses. Although Jackie had little commercial success - just two hits in Britain - this is a poor indication of her stature in the British music business, particularly during the 1960s. Having lived and breathed music from her childhood in Ireland to her early retire-ment in 1973, Jackie made many marvellous recordings over a twenty-year career, with her name cropping up in some unlikely places: Cliff Richard! Jimi Hendrix! Fyffita the Banana! And you will certainly have heard Jackie in session on two British chart-toppers: Tom Jones' Green Green Grass Of Home, and Englebert Humperdinck's Release Me. Pye would keep Jackie gainfully employed until she called time on her career and her Pye debut was an uptempo Alan Moorhouse gem - Love Is A Gamble, and was followed by Everybody Needs A Little Loving, which originally featured in a TV commercial for Campbell's Soups! Following numerous fine recordings, Jackie's return to the charts would be with another children's TV favourite. Rupert - the theme of course to ATV's animated series The Adventures of Rupert the Bear, and like White Horses, it spent several weeks in the UK Top 10. Having worked with Christopher Gunning on the movie soundtrack - 'Goodbye Gemini', Jackie recorded One More Mountain To Climb also with Christopher and Pye selected it as their entry into the Polish Inter- national Song Festival, held in Sopot in September 1971; the song was runner up to the USSR.