Lois Lane (singer)

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Lois Lane (actually Lois Ann Wilkinson , born April 3, 1944 in Sleaford , Lincolnshire ) is a British singer, guitarist and songwriter. She became known as one half of the duo The Caravelles . As a solo artist, she won the Knokke Song Festival on the British team in 1967 .

life and career

Born in Lincolnshire, the daughter of a Royal Air Force soldier moved with her parents to near London at the age of three . She went to school in Barnet ( Hertfordshire ). Her father taught her to play the banjo and guitar . Lois Wilkinson celebrated her first successes with her schoolmates, for whom she sang hits by Elvis Presley and Guy Mitchell . Regular visits to Django Reinhardt jazz evenings with her parents made her want to become a jazz guitarist. After school and training as a secretary, she worked during the day for a real estate agent and in the evening she played the strings next to her father Ted in a club in Soho , playing the rhythm guitar for an artist named Banjo George . A little later she changed jobs and became a secretary at the Lawson Piggots Motors dealership . Here she met, as she writes on her website, the two years younger Andrea Simpson know, who was also very musical; her parents were vaudeville artists .

Together with Simpson she recorded the song You Don't Have to Be a Baby to Cry under the band name The Caravelles , which rose to number six in the British charts in 1963 and number three on the Billboard Hot 100 . When the success could not be repeated in the next few years, the duo separated in 1966. While Andrea Simpson continued with other partners under the name The Caravelles , Lois Wilkinson tried her hand as a solo singer. As a stage name she chose Lois Lane , after the friend of the cartoon character Superman . Her first solo single One Little Voice on RCA Records (RCA 1570) was in February 1967 Record of the Week ("record of the week") on the pirate station Radio London . On February 26th, the song was listed at number 33 on the Field's Fab Forty charts. In the second half of the 1960s she could be heard on the BBC radio as a live singer of popular music. From July 7th to 13th, 1967, she took part with the British team at the Knokke Song Festival. The team put together by Brian Epstein's NEMS artist management and supervised by him - in addition to Lois Lane, Rog Whittaker , Dodie West , Oscar and Gerry Marsden sang for their home country - won the competition in the final against the French team, Whittaker was voted best individual artist by the jury .

Lois Lane turned away from the hit-parade-oriented music and moved towards jazz , got an engagement in Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club . In 1969 she made an appearance in the film Deadly Salute with Roger Moore ; she wrote the title Westminster Bridge for the singer she played. In addition, Lane was hired by the Disney Company to tell their stories from The Story of the Wizard of Oz to Ugly Duckling on vinyl. In the first half of the 1970s she released a few singles on DJM Records . In the mid-1970s she was the permanent singer of the theme song for the television series That's Life for six months , which was composed and written for the weekly program on Saturday evening. At this time, she also began working as a voice-over announcer for television, radio, and advertising. But she continued to make radio and vinyl recordings with well-known orchestras and jazz musicians, mainly in her home country, but also in the Netherlands. Many of these recordings appeared later on compilation albums.

Private

In 1971 Lois Lane married BBC-1 producer Roger Pusey. They have two grown children, a son and a daughter.

Discography (selection)

Singles
  • 1967: One Little Voice / Sing to Me
  • 1968: Punky's Dilemma / Lazy Summer Day
  • 1969: Lovin 'Time / Winds of Heaven
  • 1971: Old Toy Trains / You Were Looking My Way
  • 1972: You Are the Reason / Come Down in Time
  • 1975: River Deep - Mountain High (Part 1) / River Deep - Mountain High (Part 2)
  • 1976: Laurel & Hardy / Sleep My Little One
Albums

Web links

Notes and evidence

  1. ↑ a b entry The Caravelles at 45-rpm.org.uk
  2. ↑ Date of birth and full name according to entry The Caravelles in: Frank Laufenberg / Ingrid Laufenberg, Frank Laufenbergs Rock & Pop Lexikon 1 , Econ Taschenbuch, München 2000 5 , p. 232, ISBN 3-612-26206-8
  3. ↑ cf. Radio London - Fields Fab Forty web pages for February 19, 1967 and February 26, 1967
  4. ^ Radio London - Fields Fab Forty , February 19, 1967
  5. ^ Beatles history - 1967 year
  6. ↑ sic !, cf. Whittaker Sparks UK's song Victory; Beat France in Final , Billboard Magazine, July 29, 1967
  7. ↑ Lois Lane in the IMDb
  8. ↑ Format template of the German series How please ?!
personal data
SURNAME Lane, Lois
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wilkinson, Lois Ann (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British pop and jazz singer
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Sleaford , Lincolnshire, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland