Kathy Kirby

Kathy singing "The Man I Love".

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• 60's

[Ianpbx]

Britain's most underrated and overlooked female singer. She was ripped off by her manager and ended up bankrupt. Now lives quietly alone in Hammersmith, West London. Ridiculous that modern mediocrities like Dido are millionaires when all she can do is twitter like a schoolgirl into a close microphone.

[tightshorts3]

kathy was one of the most breathtakingly exciting performers to watch, everyone stayed in to watch telly when she was on!

[29au81]

How good was Kathy,,?..What a performance....Sadly Missed

[MrAnglomania]

@AlanRM1000 Thanks for your comments.

As a child I adored female singers like Kathy and would sit in front of the B&W TV in awe of the likes of Alma Cogan, Peggy Lee, Shirley Bassey, Dinah Shore,Sarah Vaughan, Eve Boswell, Lena Horne etc etc - to this day I'm a sucker for a torch song and singer!

And you're right that Kathy had that quality to light up the screen, similar to Marilyn Monroe, you just couldn't take your eyes off her?

[AlanRM1000]

@MrAnglomania Very few present day singers could tackle old standards like this with such assurance and class.

In many ways Kathy was like Alma Cogan - she just seemed to light up the screen and her personality came over well on records

[MrAnglomania]

RIP KK, it's a sad day xxxx

[chairmanphil]

im sorry to hear that kathy was ripped off by her manager..and it does seem so sad that so called singers today can be millionairs at the drop of a hat..kathy was special..talented georgous attractive..a true star with an awesome voice...i love you kathy xxxx

[Hickey66]

lanpbx, I agree. I was in Cairo at the Hilton, penthouse. A Kathy Kerby lookalike with full orchestra, violins the lot. The audence was fat Egyptian buissiness men. Kathy could have had millions. But had to live with him. Money or love?

[WAGINOZ]

Another talent slaughtered by the filthy Pommy gutterpress, can't they find any real journalists.

[7Pines]

WOW!!!

What a beautiful singer and beautiful woman. I was directed to this video by a fellow watch enthusiast on a watch forum.

I live in the US (Minnesota) and hadn't heard of Kathy Kirby.

She is the bomb.

Dan

[sonicabounds]

This is great but really low volume. Any chance of re- postig it louder?

[MultiDJX]

love you Kathy Kirby x in hope that you read this x look out for Toni Bailey x Dad has gladley introduced me to how wonderful you are x loving lipgloss x dad say's your the best x both on the same page xx thanks for sharing your talent greatly appreciated x you rock! love the palm road household woohooo! :)