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Helen Shapiro is remembered today by younger pop culture buffs as the slightly awkward actress/singer in Richard Lester’s 1962 debut feature film, It’s Trad, Dad. From 1961 until 1963, however, Shapiro was England’s teenage pop music queen, at one point selling 40,000 copies daily of her biggest single, “Walking Back to Happiness,” during a 19-week chart run. A deceptively young 14 when she was discovered, Shapiro had a rich, expressive voice properly sounding like the property of someone twice as old, and she matured into a seasoned professional very quickly.
She grew up in London’s East End and was performing with a ukulele at age nine as part of a school group — supposedly called Susie & the Hula Hoops, whose members included a young Mark Feld (aka Marc Bolan) — that used to sing their own versions of Elvis Presley and Buddy Holly songs. She subsequently sang with her brother Ron Shapiro’s trad jazz turned skiffle outfit at local clubs before enrolling in classes at Maurice Burman’s music school in London. Burman was so taken with Helen Shapiro’s voice that he waived the tuition to keep her as a student. He later brought her to the attention of Norrie Paramor, then one of EMI’s top pop producers (re...
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Walkin' Back To Happiness
You Don't Know
Don't Treat Me Like A Child
Little Miss Lonely
Walking Back To Happiness
Fever
Queen For Tonight
Tell Me What He Said
Walk On By
Beyond The Sea (La Mer)
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Helen Shapiro at Abbey Road: 1961-1967
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