Mrs Mills
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Gladys Mills, née Gladys Jordan (1918 – 24 February 1978), better known as Mrs Mills, was a British
popular pianist
who was active in the 1960s and who released many records
. Her repertoire included many "sing-along
" and "party" tunes made popular in the music-hall.
player and her mother was a main influence in developing her musical ability. She took piano lessons from the age of three and a half until the age of seven.
After working as the superintendent of the typing pool in the office of the Paymaster General in London
, in December 1961 she made her first television appearance on The Billy Cotton Show
, having been spotted by a talent scout at a Woodford Golf Club dance near her home in Loughton
, Essex
, where she lived most of her life. She would become a household name by the end of January 1962.
during the same period as her stable-mates The Beatles
, with whom she shared space at Abbey Road Studios
(as mentioned in the Beatles Anthology DVD
bonus materials).
Mills was signed to a management contract by Eric Easton who later went on to manage The Dave Clark Five
and The Rolling Stones
. After signing
to Parlophone
, her first release - the "Mrs Mills Medley" single
- entered the Top Twenty of the UK Singles Chart
, and her career as an entertainer began - a career that would last well into the 1970s. She toured the UK
, making many appearances on TV
and radio
throughout this period. Mrs Mills was also a successful recording
artist
overseas in territories where there were large numbers of expatriates from the UK including Australia
, Canada
and Hong Kong
.
Her oeuvre consisted of standards
(British and international), plus cover version
s of contemporary hits
. A 2003 release (The Very Best Of Mrs Mills, on EMI Gold) includes such hits as "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend
", "Hello, Dolly!
", "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles
" and "Yellow Submarine
".
She appeared on two episodes of The Morecambe and Wise Show
in 1971 and 1974, where she performed a medley
of favourites with the studio
orchestra
. Another rare example of Mrs Mills' style of performance came in an edition of the BBC TV
's The Two Ronnies
. The sketch (Family Entertainment - John & Mrs Mills) occupied the end-of-the-show musical slot, with Ronnie Barker
as the silk-laden Mrs Mills at piano, and Ronnie Corbett
as a uniformed Sir John Mills (who was no relation). They performed a medley of Mills-style classics (on the theme of Mills' character in the 1969 film Oh! What A Lovely War
). (NB: The show (series 4; episode 4) was originally broadcast on BBC 2
on 23 January 1975.) In 1973 she appeared in an episode of The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club
.
In December 1974 she appeared as the subject of This Is Your Life
, hosted by Eamonn Andrews
, when it was revealed that the first record she had made had been "The Girl In Calico", cut in a make-your-own-record booth on Southend Pier
, for a half-crown
, with her girlhood pal Lily Dormer.
Little was seen of Mrs Mills on television in her final years. Mrs Mills died on 24 February 1978. Loughton
Town Council commissioned a blue plaque
to her memory on the house at 43, Barncroft Close, where she lived for many years.
A Best Of CD
was released by the EMI Gold imprint, another CD (The Mrs Mills Collection) appeared on the HMV Easy label, and a list of her UK output (according to a vast - now lost - Parlophone listing from the web) is as follows (catalogue number (month/year of issue) title):
EMI/Parlophone Records - Singles (all mono; *with The Geoff Love Orchestra
)
EMI/Parlophone Records - EPs (all mono)
EMI/Parlophone Records - LPs (PMC: mono, PCS: stereo)
EMI/Music For Pleasure Records - LPs (all stereo)
Other Recordings (all stereo)
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
popular pianist
Pianist
A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers.-Choice of genres:...
who was active in the 1960s and who released many records
Gramophone record
A gramophone record, commonly known as a phonograph record , vinyl record , or colloquially, a record, is an analog sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove...
. Her repertoire included many "sing-along
Sing-along
Sing-along, community singing, group singing, is an event of singing together at gatherings or parties, less formally than choir singing. One can use a songbook. Common genres are folk songs, patriotic songs, hymns and drinking songs...
" and "party" tunes made popular in the music-hall.
Early life
Mills' uncle Henry was a harpHarp
The harp is a multi-stringed instrument which has the plane of its strings positioned perpendicularly to the soundboard. Organologically, it is in the general category of chordophones and has its own sub category . All harps have a neck, resonator and strings...
player and her mother was a main influence in developing her musical ability. She took piano lessons from the age of three and a half until the age of seven.
After working as the superintendent of the typing pool in the office of the Paymaster General in London
London
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, in December 1961 she made her first television appearance on The Billy Cotton Show
Billy Cotton Band Show
The Billy Cotton Band Show was a popular Sunday afternoon radio programme on the BBC Light Programme from 1949 to 1968.The band leader, Billy Cotton, was a larger-than-life Cockney character who started each show with the cry “Wakey-Wake-aaaay!”, followed by the band’s signature tune “Somebody...
, having been spotted by a talent scout at a Woodford Golf Club dance near her home in Loughton
Loughton
Loughton is a town and civil parish in the Epping Forest district of Essex. It is located between 11 and 13 miles north east of Charing Cross in London, south of the M25 and west of the M11 motorway and has boundaries with Chingford, Waltham Abbey, Theydon Bois, Chigwell and Buckhurst Hill...
, Essex
Essex
Essex is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East region of England, and one of the home counties. It is located to the northeast of Greater London. It borders with Cambridgeshire and Suffolk to the north, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent to the South and London to the south west...
, where she lived most of her life. She would become a household name by the end of January 1962.
Career
She shot to fameCelebrity
A celebrity, also referred to as a celeb in popular culture, is a person who has a prominent profile and commands a great degree of public fascination and influence in day-to-day media...
during the same period as her stable-mates The Beatles
The Beatles
The Beatles were an English rock band, active throughout the 1960s and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Formed in Liverpool, by 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr...
, with whom she shared space at Abbey Road Studios
Abbey Road Studios
Abbey Road Studios is a recording studio located at 3 Abbey Road, St John's Wood, City of Westminster, London, England. It was established in November 1931 by the Gramophone Company, a predecessor of British music company EMI, its present owner...
(as mentioned in the Beatles Anthology DVD
DVD
A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....
bonus materials).
Mills was signed to a management contract by Eric Easton who later went on to manage The Dave Clark Five
The Dave Clark Five
The Dave Clark Five were an English pop rock group. Their single "Glad All Over" knocked The Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand" off the top of the UK singles charts in January 1964: it eventually peaked at No.6 in the United States in April 1964.They were the second group of the British Invasion,...
and The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones are an English rock band, formed in London in April 1962 by Brian Jones , Ian Stewart , Mick Jagger , and Keith Richards . Bassist Bill Wyman and drummer Charlie Watts completed the early line-up...
. After signing
Recording contract
A recording contract is a legal agreement between a record label and a recording artist , where the artist makes a record for the label to sell and promote...
to Parlophone
Parlophone
Parlophone is a record label that was founded in Germany in 1896 by the Carl Lindström Company as Parlophon. The British branch was formed in 1923 as "Parlophone" which developed a reputation in the 1920s as a leading jazz label. It was acquired in 1927 by the Columbia Graphophone Company which...
, her first release - the "Mrs Mills Medley" single
Single (music)
In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...
- entered the Top Twenty of the UK Singles Chart
UK Singles Chart
The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...
, and her career as an entertainer began - a career that would last well into the 1970s. She toured the UK
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
, making many appearances on TV
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
and radio
Radio
Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...
throughout this period. Mrs Mills was also a successful recording
Sound recording and reproduction
Sound recording and reproduction is an electrical or mechanical inscription and re-creation of sound waves, such as spoken voice, singing, instrumental music, or sound effects. The two main classes of sound recording technology are analog recording and digital recording...
artist
Musician
A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....
overseas in territories where there were large numbers of expatriates from the UK including Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
and Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...
.
Her oeuvre consisted of standards
Standard (music)
In music, a standard is a tune or song of established popularity.-See also:* Blues standard* Jazz standard* Pop standard* Great American Songbook-Further reading:* Greatest Rock Standards, published by Hal Leonard ISBN 0793588391...
(British and international), plus cover version
Cover version
In popular music, a cover version or cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording of a contemporary or previously recorded, commercially released song or popular song...
s of contemporary hits
Hit record
A hit record is a sound recording, usually in the form of a single or album, that sells a large number of copies or otherwise becomes broadly popular or well-known, through airplay, club play, inclusion in a film or stage play soundtrack, causing it to have "hit" one of the popular chart listings...
. A 2003 release (The Very Best Of Mrs Mills, on EMI Gold) includes such hits as "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend
Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend
"Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" is a song introduced by Carol Channing in the original Broadway production of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes , which was written by Jule Styne and Leo Robin...
", "Hello, Dolly!
Hello, Dolly! (song)
"Hello, Dolly!" is the title song of the popular 1964 musical of the same name. Louis Armstrong's version was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2001....
", "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles
I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles
"I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" is a popular song which debuted in 1918 and was first published in 1919.-Creation:The music was written by John Kellette. The lyrics are credited to "Jaan Kenbrovin", actually a collective pseudonym for the writers James Kendis, James Brockman and Nat Vincent...
" and "Yellow Submarine
Yellow Submarine (song)
"Yellow Submarine" is a 1966 song by The Beatles, written by Paul McCartney , with lead vocals by Ringo Starr. It was included on the Revolver album and issued as a single, coupled with "Eleanor Rigby". The single went to number 1 on every major British chart, remained at number 1 for four weeks...
".
She appeared on two episodes of The Morecambe and Wise Show
Morecambe and Wise
Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise, usually referred to as Morecambe and Wise, or Eric and Ernie, were a British comic double act, working in variety, radio, film and most successfully in television. Their partnership lasted from 1941 until Morecambe's death in 1984...
in 1971 and 1974, where she performed a medley
Medley (music)
In music, a medley is a piece composed from parts of existing pieces, usually three, played one after another, sometimes overlapping. They are common in popular music, and most medleys are songs rather than instrumental. A medley which is a remixed series is called a megamix, often done with tracks...
of favourites with the studio
Recording studio
A recording studio is a facility for sound recording and mixing. Ideally both the recording and monitoring spaces are specially designed by an acoustician to achieve optimum acoustic properties...
orchestra
Orchestra
An orchestra is a sizable instrumental ensemble that contains sections of string, brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments. The term orchestra derives from the Greek ορχήστρα, the name for the area in front of an ancient Greek stage reserved for the Greek chorus...
. Another rare example of Mrs Mills' style of performance came in an edition of the BBC TV
BBC Television
BBC Television is a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation. The corporation, which has operated in the United Kingdom under the terms of a Royal Charter since 1927, has produced television programmes from its own studios since 1932, although the start of its regular service of television...
's The Two Ronnies
The Two Ronnies
The Two Ronnies is a British sketch show that aired on BBC1 from 1971 to 1987. It featured the double act of Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett, the "Two Ronnies" of the title.-Origins:...
. The sketch (Family Entertainment - John & Mrs Mills) occupied the end-of-the-show musical slot, with Ronnie Barker
Ronnie Barker
Ronald William George "Ronnie" Barker, OBE was a British actor, comedian, writer, critic, broadcaster and businessman...
as the silk-laden Mrs Mills at piano, and Ronnie Corbett
Ronnie Corbett
Ronald Balfour "Ronnie" Corbett, OBE is a Scottish actor and comedian of Scottish and English parentage who had a long association with Ronnie Barker in the British television comedy series The Two Ronnies...
as a uniformed Sir John Mills (who was no relation). They performed a medley of Mills-style classics (on the theme of Mills' character in the 1969 film Oh! What A Lovely War
Oh! What a Lovely War
Oh! What a Lovely War is a musical film based on the stage musical Oh, What a Lovely War! originated by Charles Chilton as a radio play, The Long Long Trail in December 1961, and transferred to stage by Gerry Raffles in partnership with Joan Littlewood and her Theatre Workshop created in 1963,...
). (NB: The show (series 4; episode 4) was originally broadcast on BBC 2
BBC Two
BBC Two is the second television channel operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It covers a wide range of subject matter, but tending towards more 'highbrow' programmes than the more mainstream and popular BBC One. Like the BBC's other domestic TV and radio...
on 23 January 1975.) In 1973 she appeared in an episode of The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club
The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club
The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club was a British television variety show produced by Granada Television from 1974 to 1977. It was set in a fictional working men's club in the North of England and was hosted by comedian Colin Crompton. Also regularly featured was comedian Bernard Manning...
.
In December 1974 she appeared as the subject of This Is Your Life
This Is Your Life
This Is Your Life is an American television documentary series broadcast on NBC, originally hosted by its producer, Ralph Edwards from 1952 to 1961. In the show, the host surprises a guest, and proceeds to take them through their life in front of an audience including friends and family.Edwards...
, hosted by Eamonn Andrews
Eamonn Andrews
Eamonn Andrews, CBE , was an Irish television presenter based in the United Kingdom.-Life and career:...
, when it was revealed that the first record she had made had been "The Girl In Calico", cut in a make-your-own-record booth on Southend Pier
Southend Pier
Southend Pier is a major landmark in Southend-on-Sea. Extending into the Thames Estuary, it is the longest pleasure pier in the world. Sir John Betjeman once said that "the Pier is Southend, Southend is the Pier". The pier is a Grade II listed building....
, for a half-crown
Half crown (British coin)
The half crown was a denomination of British money worth half of a crown, equivalent to two and a half shillings , or one-eighth of a pound. The half crown was first issued in 1549, in the reign of Edward VI...
, with her girlhood pal Lily Dormer.
Little was seen of Mrs Mills on television in her final years. Mrs Mills died on 24 February 1978. Loughton
Loughton
Loughton is a town and civil parish in the Epping Forest district of Essex. It is located between 11 and 13 miles north east of Charing Cross in London, south of the M25 and west of the M11 motorway and has boundaries with Chingford, Waltham Abbey, Theydon Bois, Chigwell and Buckhurst Hill...
Town Council commissioned a blue plaque
Blue plaque
A blue plaque is a permanent sign installed in a public place to commemorate a link between that location and a famous person or event, serving as a historical marker....
to her memory on the house at 43, Barncroft Close, where she lived for many years.
Discography
A Best Of CD
Compact Disc
The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...
was released by the EMI Gold imprint, another CD (The Mrs Mills Collection) appeared on the HMV Easy label, and a list of her UK output (according to a vast - now lost - Parlophone listing from the web) is as follows (catalogue number (month/year of issue) title):
EMI/Parlophone Records - Singles (all mono; *with The Geoff Love Orchestra
Geoff Love
Geoff Love was a British easy-listening, and disco orchestra leader. He was born in the industrial town of Todmorden in the West Riding of Yorkshire. His father was a mixed race American-born guitarist and dancer, and his mother an actress. As a child, Love began to learn to play the violin but...
)
- R 4856 (00/61) “Mrs Mills Medley” parts 1&2
- R 4863 (00/62) “Popcorn”/”Bobbikins”
- R 4933* (00/62) “Entry Of The Tradiators”/”South Rampart Street Parade”
- R 4975 (00/63) “Mrs Mills Hoe-Down Party” parts 1&2
- R 5008 (00/63) “Bubblin’ Over”/”The First Waltz”
- R 5081 (00/63) “We’re Gonna Throw A Little Party (Y’ All Come)”/”Ten Green Bottles”
- R 5214 (00/64) “Mrs Mills’ Party Medley” parts 1&2
- R 5238 (00/64) “Mrs Mills’ Minstrel Medley” parts 1&2
- R 5367 (11/65) “Mrs Mills’ Party Medley” parts 1&2
- R 5399 (01/66) “Newsboy”/”Someone Like You”
- R 5549 (12/66) “Glad Today Medley”/”Glad Yesterday Medley”
- R 5599 (04/67) “I Was Queen Victoria’s Chambermaid”/”Thank You Everybody”
- R 5653* (11/67) “Party Hit Parade” parts 1&2
- R 5678 (00/68) “Candy Floss”/”Indian Summer”
- R 5748 (00/68) “Glad’s Party” parts 1&2
- R 5822 (11/69) "Battle Of Britain Medley"/"A Wee Drop Of Scotch"
- R 5834 (00/70) “The Champs Elysees”/”Kiss Curl Caper” (listed as Mrs Mills And Her Happy Piano)
- R 5877 (11/70) “Mrs Mills’ Minstrel Medley” parts 1&2
- R 5950 (04/72) “Sunshine”/”Bobbikins”
EMI/Parlophone Records - EPs (all mono)
- GEP 8861 (00/62) “The Happy Piano Player” (released in NZ as MGEP 8861)
- GEP 8865 (00/62) “Mrs Mills Plays The Roaring Twenties”
- GEP 8918 (00/64) “Everybody’s Welcome At Mrs Mills’ Party”
- GEP 8935 (00/63) “Any Time’s Party Time With Mrs Mills”
- GEP 8943 (00/65) “It’s Party Time!”
- GEP 8958 (00/66) “Mrs Mills’ Party”
EMI/Parlophone Records - LPs (PMC: mono, PCS: stereo)
- PMC 1178 (00/62) Mrs Mills Plays The Roaring Twenties, also released in 1962 by The World Record Club in Great Britain, on their label, number ST994, showing a portrait cover art
- PMC 1212 (11/63) Everybody’s Welcome at Mrs Mills' Party
- PMC 1234 (00/64) It's Party Time!
- PMC 1254* (09/65) Music For Anytime
- PMC 1264 (11/65) Mrs Mills' Party
- PCS 3030 (00/62) Mrs Mills Plays The Roaring Twenties
- PCS 3049 (11/63) Everybody's Welcome at Mrs Mills' Party
- PCS 3070 (09/65) Music For Anytime
- PCS 3074 (11/65) Mrs Mills' Party
- PMC/PCS 7002 (04/66) Especially For You
- PMC/PCS 7010 (00/66) Come To My Party
- PMC/PCS 7020 (04/67) Look Mum - No Hands!
- PCS 7035 (12/67) Let's Have Another Party
- PCS 7046 (04/68) Summer Party
- PCS 7066 (11/68) Party Pieces
- PCS 7080 (07/69) Back To The Roaring Twenties
- PCS 7087 (01/70) Party Mixture
- PCS 7117 (11/70) Bumper Bundle Party
- PCS 7129 (07/71) More Music For Anytime
- PCS 7143 (01/72) Music Hall Party
- PCS 7152 (07/72) Anytime Is Party Time
- PCS 7153 (10/72) Another Flippin’ Party
- PCS 7166 (06/74) Hollywood Party
- PCS 7167 (11/74) It's Party Time Again
EMI/Music For Pleasure Records - LPs (all stereo)
- MFP 5225 (00/66) I'm Mighty Glad
- MFP 1406 (00/67) Your One and Only Mrs Mills
- MFP 50009 (00/74) Piano Singalong (released in Australia on Axis label, featuring a Straube player-piano as the album art)
- MFP 50220 (00/75) Glad with Love (Mrs Mills and Geoff Love Singalong Together)
- MFP 50230 (00/75) Mrs Mills Knees-Up Party
Other Recordings (all stereo)
- Regal Starline Records: SRS 5029 (00/70) Party Sing-Along (released in Australia on EMI Parlophone label)
- Regal Starline Records: SRS 5089 (00/71) All Time Party Dances (released in Australia on EMI Parlophone label)
- EMI/Encore Records: ONCR 508 (00/71) All Time Party Dances and Other Favourites (released in Australia on Axis label, comprising All Time Party Dances LP, plus selected tracks from other Parlophone albums)
- EMI/One-Up Records: OU 2076 (00/7?) It's Party Time! (reissue) (Also released in Scotland, with album art showing Mrs Mills with various cute puppies)
- EMI/One-Up Records: OU 2197 (00/77) Glad Tidings - Mrs Mills Christmas Party
- EMI/Sounds Superb Records: SPR 90012 (00/73) Non-Stop Honky-Tonk Party (blue or purple background)
- EMI/Double-Up Records: DUO 108 (00/7-) What A Wonderful Party (double albumDouble albumA double album is an audio album which spans two units of the primary medium in which it is sold, typically records and compact discs....
- chimps cover) Selections from this double album were released in Australia as Parlophone SPMEO 10164 "What A Wonderful Party", with a cartoon-style piano cover - EMI/Double-Up Records: DUO 122 (00/76) Jumbo-Party (double album - elephant cover) These albums were released separately in Australia as Jumbo Party Volume 1 and 2, EMI EMB 10383 and 10384 respectively
- My Mother The Ragtime Piano Player - 6 track, 33rpm 7" EP - Liberty LST-7359, USA (consisting of selections from Mrs Mills Plays The Roaring 20s)
- My Mother The Ragtime Piano Player – 33rpm 12” album – Liberty LRP-3359 (mono) or LST-7359 (stereo) – US release of Mrs Mills Plays The Roaring 20s
- Auld Lang Syne / Happy Birthday (distributed in South Africa)
- "Smile Smile Smile" / "Da-Dar Da-Dar" - 7 inch single (EMI 2228) UK
- For Your Party - Mrs Mills Sings And Plays - EMI Records - EMC 3092 (1975)
- Piano Party Time - Music For Pleasure DL 41 1058 3 - double album, a 1984 re-release of Music For Anytime and Mrs Mills Party
- Mrs Mills & Russ Conway - Let's Have A Party - Capitol Canada ST6082 (Mrs Mills content consists of various singles such as Entry Of The Tradiators and Ten Green Bottles, plus two tracks from Mrs Mills Plays The Roaring 20s
- Another Party With Mrs Mills - Capitol Canada ST6151 (Canadian release of Mrs Mills Party)
- Mrs Mills - Am Schräger Klavier (At The Diagonal Piano) - Deutscher Schallplattenclub H-044 (German release of Mrs Mills Plays The Roaring 20s)
- Candy Floss / Someone Like You – Telemark Dance Records 892 (USA) 7 inch single
- Mrs Mills Crazy Party - German release, on S*R International label, number 74989-P12, consisting of various selections from Mrs Mills Plays The Roaring 20s interspersed with traditional jazz tunes from The New Orleans Hot Dogs
- Mrs Mills Klimperkasten Potpourri - EMI Odeon O 23 390 - German release of Glad Today and Glad Yesterday - 7 inch 45rpm single