Comments on: RUBY MURRAY - “Softly, Softly” http://freakytrigger.co.uk/popular/2003/09/ruby-murray-softly-softly/ Lollards in the high church of low culture Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:33:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: wichita lineman http://freakytrigger.co.uk/popular/2003/09/ruby-murray-softly-softly/#comment-432219 wichita lineman Sat, 31 May 2008 10:40:52 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/popular/2003/09/ruby-murray-softly-softly/#comment-432219 Mild, comforting, a chicken korma of a single. Ruby's incredible 1955 (7 Top 10 hits, 85 weeks in the chart) is hard to explain - no previous form, and only three lesser hits and one week in the Top 10 afterwards. Five hits in the Top 20 in March '55... she could've bigger than the Beatles. Wait a minute, she was! The following year this Northern Irish superstar made the logical step up to the silver screen, when she starred with Dennis Price and Frankie Howerd in A Touch of the Sun. Anyone seen it? Another singer who hit the bottle, unfortunately. Mild, comforting, a chicken korma of a single. Ruby’s incredible 1955 (7 Top 10 hits, 85 weeks in the chart) is hard to explain - no previous form, and only three lesser hits and one week in the Top 10 afterwards. Five hits in the Top 20 in March ‘55… she could’ve bigger than the Beatles. Wait a minute, she was!

The following year this Northern Irish superstar made the logical step up to the silver screen, when she starred with Dennis Price and Frankie Howerd in A Touch of the Sun. Anyone seen it?

Another singer who hit the bottle, unfortunately.

]]> By: rosie http://freakytrigger.co.uk/popular/2003/09/ruby-murray-softly-softly/#comment-428529 rosie Mon, 26 May 2008 15:14:22 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/popular/2003/09/ruby-murray-softly-softly/#comment-428529 This is another one I first heard in a version by Kathy Kirby, I think. I haven't anything else to say. It's pleasant but unexciting and it's hard to imagine it with extra chilli. This is another one I first heard in a version by Kathy Kirby, I think. I haven’t anything else to say. It’s pleasant but unexciting and it’s hard to imagine it with extra chilli.

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