Jill Day was a successful pop

Pop music

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 singer and actress in Britain

United Kingdom

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 in the 1950s and early 60s.

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

All for Mary

All for Mary is a 1955 UK Comedy Film brought to the screen by Paul Soskin Productions for The Rank Organisation. It was based on a play written by the English husband and wife team of Kay Bannerman and Harold Brooke. It was directed by Wendy Toye, produced by Paul Soskin with the screenplay by...

 and sung on the soundtrack of The Good Companions

The Good Companions

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 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

United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 1957

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, eventually losing out to Patricia Bredin

Patricia Bredin

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. In the early 1960s, Day had her own comedy

Comedy

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 sketch show on BBC Television

BBC Television

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, The Jill Day Show. She also appeared on Dee Time

Simon Dee

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.

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

Pop music

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 changed through the late 1950s and 1960s, eventually retiring to live in London.

Discography

In 2003, an album of her most well-known songs was released, entitled The Very Best Of Jill Day.

Track List:
1. Sincerely
2. Happiness Street
3. I'm Old Fashioned
4. Holiday Affair
5. Quiet Man
6. Mangos
7. Tear Fell
8. Little Johnny Rainbow
9. I Dreamed
10. Cinco Robles
11. Give Her My Love When You Meet Her
12. I'll Think About You
13. I Hear You Knocking
14. Hold Me In Your Arms
15. Wherever You May Be
16. Far Away From Everybody
17. Snowy Snowy Mountain
18. Somewhere In The Great Beyond
19. Oh Daddy Can I Be Your Dolly Forever
20. I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm

I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm

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21. Ding Dong
22. Lonely Nightingale
23. Promises
24. Way Of Love
25. Chee Chee Oo Chee
26. Whistlin' Willie

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