Now I shout it from the highest hills

It may be a week off for me - I'm currently on a flying visit to the boys in Essex - but I haven't forgotten that it's a Tacky Music Monday!

Fitting the bill perfectly, here's a double dose of today's birthday girl (and bless 'er, she only died three years ago after giving a lifelong service to the gays of Britain) Miss Kathy Kirby!

[Both clips are from a 1983 Channel 4 show called Unforgettable. I don't remember it.]

Kathy Kirby - Let Me Go Lover

Kathy Kirby - Secret Love

Unforgettable, indeed.

Have a good week, one and all!

Kathy Kirby (born Kathleen O'Rourke, 20th October 1938 - 19th May 2011)

Let me go, lover

RIP Miss Kathy Kirby, the UK's highest paid girl singer of the swinging sixties, who died today aged 72.

In her long career - from performing with Ambrose and his Orchestra, through coming second in Eurovision, to a rather sad episode with a nervous breakdown and bankruptcy in the 70s - Miss Kirby never quite hit the international scene in the same way as British rivals like Petula Clark, nor similar US vocal stylists like Doris Day, but nevertheless always has a place in our hearts here at Dolores Delargo Towers...

Kathy Kirby - I Belong (Eurovision Song Contest 1965)

Kathy Kirby - Let Me Go Lover

RIP, a lovely lady.

BBC article

Kathy Kirby official website