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Today's edition of Mersey Beat pop music newspaper in Liverpool, England, UK, Europe, includes a feature about girl singers, which highly recommends young local vocalist Cilla Black, and tips her for stardom.Full article:
Bob Wooler (writing in Mersey Beat) : And of course there is Cilla. She has a voice which is vibrant, unusual, swingy, penetrating - and controversial. She could well make the grade on this score alone, as Johnny Ray (the harbinger of the hiccupers) once did. You either rave over her voice or it leaves you cold. There's no compromise. Talk of her, and you find on the one hand she is self-deprecating, and on the other she has aspirations of combining in her voice the qualities of Ella Fitzgerald and Della Reese. At least she is setting herself high enough standards. Let no one say she is misguided in her ambitions - not in this age of four-letter words when day is night and Black is White!
(Source : Mersey Beat, October 5, 1961)
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(Source : Mersey Beat, October 5, 1961)