How many of you remember the Swingin' '60's? A familiar voice on British airwaves (and, to a lesser extent, American) at that time was a young lady stage-named Cilla Black. She was a close friend of the Beatles and many of their contemporaries, and they wrote several songs for her that became hits. She had a simple, unforced, almost little-girl-type voice that fitted the mood of the time.
To begin, here's my favorite of her songs: "If I Thought You'd Ever Change Your Mind".
Here's her second No. 1 hit in the UK, in 1964: "You're My World".
Paul McCartney wrote "The Long And Winding Road" for the Beatles, but he went on record as saying that Cilla's 1972 rendition was the definitive version of the song.
Finally, here's "Something Tells Me (Something's Gonna Happen Tonight)".
Cilla Black died in 2015, aged 72, after a fall at her villa in Spain.
Peter
2 comments:
She had a very pleasant down to earth personality which served her well as a television presenter. Her speaking voice never lost the thick scouse (Liverpudlian) accent.
She had a lot of power in that voice. An interesting association as well with the Beatles early on -- the British invasion was quite a thing in the US in the 60s, everyone wanted to see and hear what was coming from England. The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Chad and Jeremy, Herman's Hermits, The Dave Clark Five and many more.
An interesting story is that her real name was White, and due to a mistake was reported as Black, and she kept Black as her name.
I wonder if her Villa in Spain was the Cilla Villa?
Thanks for the memory, as I heard someone say somewhere.
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