On Sat, 5 Jan 2013 Sacha wrote:

On 2013-01-05 16:30:23 +0000, David Rance said:

On Sat, 5 Jan 2013 Martin wrote:

Didn't Cleo Laine also sing on TW3?

I saw her at the Beaulieu Jazz Festival in 1961

I saw her in July 1966 in the Royal Festival Hall reciting, together
with Alvar Lidell, the poems in Façade. The music was conducted by
the composer himself (William Walton).

Now those are very famous names not often seen together!

And if I may name-drop further, Cleo, as you all know was married to
John Dankworth. John's sister, Avril, was a music teacher and, for a
time, taught at Kendrick School, Reading. That's where I was head of
music until my retirement in 1994. I believe she's still alive, though
suffering from Alzheimer's.

There was a horrid episode when a woman named Cleo in a divorce even
though Cleo had never even met the husband! Iirc, the wife said her
husband was so obsessed/smitten by Cleo Laine that the wife regarded
her as 'the other woman'. It was a very bizarre situation!

I'll ask my eldest daughter, who is a divorce lawyer, if she knows about
that. She often tells us of some quite bizarre divorce situations but
nothing quite as bizarre as that!

David

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