Jill Day
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Career
She was born in Brighton and found fame in movies, radio and television. She appeared in several films including Beat Up the Town and All for Mary and sung on the soundtrack of The Good Companions and Doctor At Sea. In 1957, she competed in the heats of the contest to represent the United Kingdom in the 1957 Eurovision Song Contest, eventually losing out to Patricia Bredin. In the early 1960s, Day had her own comedy sketch show on BBC Television, The Jill Day Show. She also appeared on Dee Time.
A Jill Day comic strip drawn by Denis Gifford was published in Star Comics (1954), edited by Gifford and Bob Monkhouse.
Day was well known for her long slim dresses with stiff petticoat under the below-the-knee hem which she wore in numerous television appearances.
She faded from public view as public tastes for pop music changed through the late 1950s and 1960s, eventually retiring to live in London.
Discography
In 2003, an album of her best-known songs was released, The Very Best of Jill Day:
- Sincerely
- Happiness Street
- I'm Old Fashioned
- Holiday Affair
- Quiet Man
- Mangos
- Tear Fell
- Little Johnny Rainbow
- I Dreamed
- Cinco Robles
- Give Her My Love When You Meet Her
- I'll Think About You
- I Hear You Knocking
- Hold Me In Your Arms
- Wherever You May Be
- Far Away From Everybody
- Snowy Snowy Mountain
- Somewhere In The Great Beyond
- Oh Daddy Can I Be Your Dolly Forever
- I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
- Ding Dong
- Lonely Nightingale
- Promises
- Way Of Love
- Chee Chee Oo Chee
- Whistlin' Willie
External links
- Jill Day at the Internet Movie Database
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