The Very Best Of Mrs Mills

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Mrs Mills Jubilee Party Vol 2, also released in 1977 has quite the worst Mrs Mills sleeve I've ever seen. What has the artist done to poor old Gladys?!

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EMI/Parlophone Records — singles (all mono) with the Geoff Love Orchestra [ edit ] Catalogue Number Unfortunately, the band's Saturday night slot at this year's Vintage Festival in Northamptonshire fell victim to the festival's late cancellation, so another show was scheduled at the Offline Club in Brixton, where the BBC came down to film the event Loughton Town Council commissioned a blue plaque to her memory on the house at 43 Barncroft Close, her home for many years. [14] Discography [ edit ]Perhaps one of her more bonkers covers is the fabuously crazed one for 'Look Mum - No Hands!' from April 1967, where she manages to look almost exactly like the equally wonderful Margaret Rutherford. Gladys Mills ( née Jordan; 29 August 1918 – 24 February 1978), [1] known as Mrs Mills, was an English pianist who was active in the 1960s and 1970s, and who released many records. Her repertoire included many sing-along and party tunes made popular in the music hall, using a stride piano technique. [2] Early life [ edit ]

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Mrs Mills' Crazy Party – German release, consisting of various selections from Mrs Mills Plays the Roaring 20s interspersed with traditional jazz tunes from The New Orleans Hot Dogs There's a curiously similar photo for the cover of 'My Mother The Ragtime Piano Player,' a US release of 'Mrs Mills Plays the Roaring Twenties'. Mrs Gladys Mills was remembered for her sense of fun, and her album covers were rarely serious affairs, as this collection testifies. The most successful album of all was, “Come to My Party”, which peaked at number 17 in 1964. And yes, I have a vinyl copy and it’s ace (thanks, Nicola!). While working as the superintendent of a typing pool in the office of the Paymaster General in London, Mills performed as a honky-tonk pianist in the evenings and weekends. [1] She was spotted by a talent scout while playing piano with a semi-professional band called The Astorians, at a dance at the Woodford Golf Club in Essex. [1]Mrs Mills Klimperkasten Potpourri" – German release of "Glad Today" and "Glad Yesterday" – 7inch 45rpm single She married Bert Mills in 1947; [3] they settled in Loughton, Essex, where she lived for most of her life. [1] Career [ edit ] 1960s [ edit ] A Best of CD was released by the EMI Gold imprint and another CD ( The Mrs Mills Collection) appeared on the HMV Easy label. A list of her UK output (according to a vast, now lost Parlophone listing from the web) is as follows: Her first single –“Mrs Mills Medley”– entered the UK Top Twenty, and was a piano medley of the songs, “I Want to Be Happy,”“The Sheik of Araby,”“Baby Face,”“Somebody Stole My Gal,”“Ma He’s Making Eyes at Me,”“Swanee,”“Ain’t She Sweet,” and “California Here I Come.” In October, we played a Day Of The Dead show with our friends the Dulwich Ukulele Club, and a couple of weeks later we were asked by TV's Mary Portas to play the Roman Road east end street market to be filmed for her Channel 4 TV show.

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Gor Blimey guv'nor! Beer-clutching Pearly Kings and Queens pose with Gladys for the cover of 'Mrs Mills Knees-Up Party' from 1975. Street Preachers of Brixton: We Are All Going To Die – Brixton Buzz on The Brixton Evangelist, Brixton tube, 2000 Over the following 15 years, Mrs Mills banged out nearly 40 albums (all recorded at Abbey Road Studios), with four charting in the U.K. between 1964 and 1971, all during the Christmas period.Piano Singalong" (released in Australia on Axis label, featuring a Straube player-piano as the album art) On Sat 9th June, the band played their first festival show on the main stage of the London Nocturne 2012 at Smithfield Market, Farringdon. Petridis, Alexis (7 October 2010). "The bizarre lost world of 1970s cabaret pop". The Guardian. London . Retrieved 16 April 2012.