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Betty Driver, who celebrates her 88th birthday today, is quite rightly celebrated as one of the lynchpins of Coronation Street over the years, as Betty "Yes, Luvvie?" Turpin (later Williams).

But not many people realise that long before her debut in Corrie in the 60s (and in fact from her early teens) Betty sang the lead in a number of big bands, including that of Henry Hall, and also performed alongside such "national treasures" as George Formby and Arthur Askey.

Indeed, I am the proud owner of a collection of her classics titled, unsurprisingly, The Girl From the Street. Here is a rare example of the young Betty Driver exercising a formidable pair of lungs:

Betty Driver yodels

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