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This is surely the best cross-over soprano to appear since the Norwegian Sissel.

This version sold well over a million records and was far and away the best interpretation of this haunting song. Turned down by Connie Francis for reasons that were never very clear, Merrilee Rush's recording reached #7 in the US and #1 in more than half a dozen other countries. The song was wri...

I heard her sing this in Brussels some time in the early 1980s. She was an excellent performer and covered some of the ABBA songs extremely well.

I remember when this was released in the UK and it was a massive cross-over hit for someone who was up till then thought of a country singer. In Germany it was just huge and I heard it everywhere through the whole of the Bavarian ski season in early 1971.

This much underestimated Welsh folk singer was only 19 when she recorded this fine cover of the one of the most poignant of all the Beatles songs. Her singles, "Those Were the Days" and "Temma Harbour" were hugely popular and many thought her performance of “Knock, Knock Who's There?" in 1970 Eur...

Ztheha may be correct but I remember at the time as a 17 year old teenager in the UK that Valens and Holly had certainly as much impact on us as Elvis. Of course Elvis’s phenomenal range later dominated the scene for a time before the Beach Boys and the Beatles came along but Elvis never really h...

What a wonderful version of this ever-popular, pre-war classic of love and regret.

Herb and the Brass made such wonderful, distinctive covers - this one really is a treat!!