I’m researching the career of musician Cherry Wainer and the 1950s-1960s music scene.
In January 1956, the media reported that Cherry owned 25 pairs of shoes, and loved collecting them. In January 1959, however, the Birmingham Weekly Post revealed that Cherry now owned more than 120 pairs of shoes. Success, it seemed, had gone to her feet…
This advertisement from April 1959 highlights Cherry’s career at that time, sharing a bill with Cliff Richard and the Shadows (then billed as the Drifters) and other regulars from the television series Oh Boy!
In 1959, Cherry featured in the Royal Variety Performance, at the Palace Theatre, Manchester. A year later, she appeared in a musical, Girls of the Latin Quarter. Her career in Britain had reached an apex and, ever ambitious, she looked for new challenges.
In the 1960s, Cherry released several solo albums and singles. However, with the Beatles and the “new sound” dominating the British charts, Cherry’s records struggled to find an audience.
Along with drummer Don Storer, Cherry moved to Germany where she appeared as a regular in a television series, Beat! Beat! Beat! That was in 1967. A year later, Cherry and Don settled in Las Vegas where they performed in cabaret.
Cherry made Las Vegas her home. After a long and varied career in music, she died there on 14 November 2014.
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