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16-11-2018, 01:52 AM
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RIP Babs Beverley

One of the Beverley Sisters.
The Spice Girls of the fifties but talented.
Condolences to Teddy the only one left.
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16-11-2018, 04:45 AM
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Re: RIP Babs Beverley

Were they a wartime act or was that the Andrews Sisters?
I'm far too young to remember them. Bananarama anyone?
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16-11-2018, 05:23 AM
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Re: RIP Babs Beverley

They came after.Probably influenced by the Andrews Sisters.
One of them was married to an England footy captain.Spooky or what?
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16-11-2018, 08:08 AM
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R.I.P. babs
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16-11-2018, 10:47 AM
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i remember them on Tv quite a bit in the seventies. Good at that sort of thing if you liked it.

R.I.P.
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16-11-2018, 10:50 AM
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I remember meeting two of them years ago, I can't remember for life of me which two, they were funny kept talking over each other and finishing each others sentences.

RIP Babs one of my grandads favourite singing combos as he used to say.
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16-11-2018, 12:07 PM
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Still a great age but am sad of her death.

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Babs Beverley, one of the twins in the Beverley Sisters, has died aged 91.

Her death, along with that of her older sister Joy in 2015, leaves Teddie Beverley as the sole surviving member of the vocal harmony trio.

Born Babette Chinery in 1927, Babs was brought up with her siblings in Bethnal Green, east London.

The group were one of the most popular acts of the 1950s and '60s, enjoying chart success with such records as I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.

Their other hits included Little Drummer Boy, Bye Bye Love and the Irving Berlin standard Sisters.

They had their own BBC TV show in the 1950s and were made MBEs in 2006.

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-46209959

Born to George and Victoria Beverley, aka music hall duo Coram and Mills, the sisters initially had modest ambitions. They all trained as typists and Babs had hopes of becoming a policewoman.

But that all changed when they secured a contract to become "Bonnie Babies" in an advertising campaign for bedtime drink Ovaltine.

With support from bandleader Glenn Miller, they became professional singers, renowned for their close harmonies and glamorous lifestyles.

After the war, the siblings were given their own TV show, initially called Three Little Girls In View and later retitled Those Beverley Sisters. It ran for seven years.

In 1951, the trio signed a recording contract with Columbia Records that helped them become the highest paid female act in the UK.

The group effectively retired after Joy married Billy Wright, then captain of the England football team, in 1958.
"Close harmonies and glamorous lifestyles" that brightened a dull post-war Britain .....
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Originally Posted by Psmith ->
One of them was married to an England footy captain.Spooky or what?
Not just any England footy captain:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_...ler,_born_1924)

William Ambrose Wright, CBE (6 February 1924 – 3 September 1994) was an English footballer, who spent his whole career at Wolverhampton Wanderers. The first footballer in the world to earn 100 international caps, Wright also holds the record for longest unbroken run in competitive international football. He also made a total of 105 appearances for England, captaining them a record 90 times, including during their campaigns at the 1950, 1954 and 1958 World Cup finals.
 

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