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Social History 1963 #16

Sunday 17 March 1963

Christine Keeler, the 21-year-old red-haired model whose name made headlines this week as the missing witness in an Old Bailey shooting trial, knew a number of distinguished men in public life. What is she like? Few know her better than Mr Stephen Ward (pictured), a leading society osteopath and artist. Exclusively, he tells the Sunday Pictorial of his friendship with Christine, a friendship which led to meetings with a Russian diplomat, and questions by MI5.

Stephen Ward: “Christine arrived in London filled with all sorts of wild ambitions. I thought she was a gay, brave sort of person, and extremely likeable. She was high-spirited and, at times, reckless. She wanted too much, too quickly, too easily. I asked nothing from her. I was only too pleased to listen and, when possible, help.”

Stephen Ward: “I took Christine to a psychiatrist to help sort out her problems. The social round is remorseless and unending, but Christine loved it all. She met many of my friends and was soon involved in romances. I became friends with a Soviet naval attaché, Captain Yevgenie Ivanov, a charming person. I introduced Ivanov to Christine.”

Stephen Ward: “I was questioned by MI5 concerning Christine and my friendship with Ivanov, and the authorities were completely happy about it. All sorts of rumours have been circulating about my friendship with Christine. Friendship can sometimes be a dirty word, it seems.”

Fashion model Marilyn (Mandy) Davies: “I don’t know where Christine is now or what will happen next, but it’s been tremendous fun.”

Television highlights: With a Fiddle and a Flute. Farming Diary. Saudi Arabia – A Land Awakening.

Radio highlights: Discussion on Broken Marriages. Spin Beat.

Weather: bright, sunny, warm with occasional showers.

Monday 18 March 1963

Britain and the Space Age. Research is ongoing for a manned space plane capable of going into orbit. A long series of wind-tunnel tests on models are being made at the Royal Aircraft Establishment. Also under consideration, the likely shape of planes to come.

Eight Britains who have been on holiday at the ski-resort of Zermatt, Switzerland during the past month have returned home with typhoid. Swiss health officials said that the infection had come from abroad, but they were unwilling to name the country.

How to get the Glad Look by Felicity Green. Wear a dress – the neckline can plunge to any depth you like. Shorten your hemlines to 34 inches from the floor. Buy one of the new Shift dresses in a size too small. Wear the latest Green-Light eye make-up. The Glad Look is swinging, zingy, far-out.

A woman locked in the “ladies” for 45 minutes at Hinckley, Leicester, was rescued on the weekend by PC Chambers.

Five television shows scheduled to close:

Dixon of Dock Green – after seven years of “non-pulse-raising low-powered drama”

Dancing Club – the BBC’s longest-running television ballroom dancing programme

Tales of Mystery with John Laurie

No Hiding Place – lasted forty-four episodes 

It Happened Like This – a sapper series

Television highlights: Panorama – the hijacking of lorries. The Scarlet Pimpernel. Look to Tomorrow – machines and man.

Radio highlights: Music for Dancing. Count Basie.

Weather: bright intervals with thundery showers. Outlook – changeable. 10c, 50f.

Tuesday 19 March 1963

The BBC consults its crystal ball tonight and takes a peep into the future in Time On Our Hands. Viewers will be asked to imagine it’s 1988 and that they are watching events from the past twenty-five years.

Some of the ‘facts’ from Time On Our Hands: the first Russian and American landings on the Moon in 1967. A traffic jam in London, also in 1967, which takes a week to clear, and leads to a car ban in central London. Factories controlled by robots. A 24-hour working week. Universal university education. For recreation, people take drugs instead of drinking alcohol. 

Two new cases of typhoid fever have been confirmed in Wales. This brings the total number of confirmed cases in Britain to ten, with three suspected cases. All thirteen recently returned from a holiday in the Swiss skiing resort of Zermatt.

A new range of trucks for the Motorway Age will be announced today by the British Motor Corporation. The trucks will have as many as ten forward gears and a top speed of 50mph, fully laden. The trucks will be powered by diesel engines and the cabs are comfortable and roomy enough for three people.

The man Scotland Yard call ‘Diamond Jim’ was being hunted last night after a gang carried out another daring jewel raid. On Brompton Road, the gang cut open a safe with oxy-acetylene equipment and stole jewellery valued at £25,000. Police are certain that the haul has been taken to ‘Diamond Jim’, a fence who pays 20% instead of the usual 10%. He’s believed to have handled more than £250,000 worth of stolen jewellery this year.

Television highlights: Bookstand – the influence of Joyce. Emergency Ward 10 – Linda Stanley performs her first emergency operation. Play of the Week – Dangerous Corner starring Julie Christie.  

Radio highlights: Listen to the Band. String Beat.

Weather: sunny, then rain. Outlook – changeable. 12c, 54f.

NB: Christine Keeler featured in the newspapers again today. But, because I’m covering that story on a different thread, to avoid repetition, I will not include her items in the daily reports.

FA Cup draw

Wednesday 20 March 1963

A revolutionary research plane will make its first test flight from the Royal Aircraft Establishment field at Bedford today, if the weather is good. The plane is the Hunting 126, built on a new principle called jet flap, which will enable a short take-off.

Britain’s total of typhoid cases jumped to twenty-four yesterday when fourteen new cases were confirmed. The Health Ministry said, “There is no cause for public concern. All the patients have been isolated in hospital, or their homes.”

A new range of satellites are being planned by scientists. These satellites will collect information about wave heights, air and sea temperatures, track icebergs, and aid weather forecasting.

The number of people using cars and motor cycles instead of public transport more than doubled between 1951 and 1961. The number of people travelling by train remained about the same.

Castrol, who supply about half the oil used by British motorists, are to increase their prices on April 1. The firm said their oils would cost 2s 3 1/2d a pint, an extra halfpenny.

Electronic ticket collectors may be introduced on London Transport’s Underground railways to cut costs. It is one of the ideas being studied for London Transport by electronics experts.

Television highlights: Z-Cars with Brian Blessed. Your Life in Their Hands – Caesarian Section. The Sky at Night – Venus revealed.

Radio highlights: Ella Fitzgerald. Disc Club.

Weather: dull with rain, then brighter. Outlook – mainly dry, sunny spells. 6c, 43f.

Thursday 21 March 1963

Human life may be threatened by the growing use of chemicals in food production and domestic insecticides, a peer said last night. Lord Douglas of Barloch was particularly concerned about DDT. Lord Hailsham, Minister of Science, said, “I do not believe that there is any call for concern about the effects of these chemicals on human health.”

January’s bad weather caused a five percent drop in British industrial production. The Production Index (taking 1958 as 100) was 105, compared with 110 in December.

Sixteen clerks who staged Britain’s first bank strike on Monday were sacked yesterday. The clerks walked out of a bank in Finsbury Circus, London, after two union members were dismissed.

A clinic has been opened at the Ministry of Health headquarters at the Elephant and Castle, London, to advise staff who want to give up smoking.

Television highlights: Floodlit Football – England v Yugoslavia, under 23 international. This Week – is horse racing dying? Speed Skating.

Radio highlights: Your Date with Val. Lord Boothby Plays Records.

An Elvis Presley platter normally flies to the top of the pop perch. But his latest disc, One Broken Heart for Sale, limps up the sales ladder only one place this week, from 13 to 12. What’s gone wrong? One theory – not enough Elvis on this one and too much chorus.

Lonnie Donegan is bang in form with Losing by a Hair, while Mr Acker Bilk, with his jazzmen this time, breaks into welcome song with the gay Manana Pasado Manana, and the Springfields keep up the good work with Say I Won’t Be There.

Weather: mainly dry with sunny intervals. Outlook – little change. 10c, 50f.

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Social History 1963 #15

Tuesday 12 March 1963

Britain’s secret service agents – the real James Bonds – are costing the nation more money. The budget for the next financial year will increase from £7,000,000 to £8,000,000.

A startling new look for Wales with seven counties instead of the present thirteen is proposed by the Local Government Commission for Wales. The proposed new counties would be Mid-Wales, Anglesey, Gwynedd, Flint and Denbigh, West Wales, Glamorgan, and Gwent.

Mr Peter Hunt, director of a London employment agency that supplies butlers: “Our national characteristics produce good butlers. If the house is on fire no British butler will rush into the dining room shouting Fire! Fire! He will enter quietly and whisper in his master’s ear.”

Stirling Moss, racing driver, has designed his ideal car – a high-performance four-seater, which will be completed in a few months. He also has plans for an all-electric house, a revolutionary bicycle and a ball-point pen that writes “up-hill”.

Mr Sidney Bernstein, Chairman of Granada Television: “What nonsense is talked about television. From the way people go on you would think it was a social disease. Some people won’t even have a television set in their home for fear of being infected. Why not live dangerously? Watch Coronation Street.”

Television highlights: The Cosmologists – the nature and origin of the universe. Racing from Cheltenham – four races. Tuesday Rendezvous with Bert Weedon.

Radio highlights: Conservative Party Political Broadcast. Time For Laughter.

Weather: sunny spells and showers. Outlook – changeable. 10c, 50f.

Stirling Moss doing the Twist

Wednesday 13 March 1963

The cold eyes of gunman George Frederick Thatcher blinked only once when Mr Justice Roskill told a hushed court, “You shot Hurden fatally and without pity, and for that crime the law prescribes only one sentence.” Placing a black cap on his head, the judge said, “The sentence of this court is that you suffer death in the manner authorised by the law. May God have mercy on your soul.”

A complete British-built Telstar space satellite is to be ordered by the government. It will be fired into orbit by a rocket being developed by Britain, Australia and a group of European nations, and should be operational in four or five years.

An American dairy process is now catching on in Britain. It’s called homogenised milk. However, housewives are angry. “I thought it had something to do with the bad weather,” a Kent housewife said. “The milk had no cream on top and a different taste. It just isn’t as fresh and farm-like as the old type. You can’t smack your lips and taste the cream.”

Psychiatrist Dr Joshua Bierer, a Harley Street specialist, has been called in by the Tories to help their candidates at the next General Election.

Television highlights: The Flowerpot Men. The Big Stride – building a bridge across the River Severn. Sportscast – sprinting, rugby and women’s cricket.

Radio highlights: On Your Farm. Get With It.

Summer Soccer: First Division Blackpool have suggested that next season should start on 6 July and end on 14 March with the FA Cup Final on 21 March. The 1964 season should start on 17 April and end on 27 November, the matches played on Friday and Monday evenings, or on Saturdays.

Weather: mainly dry with sunny intervals. Outlook – occasional rain. 10c, 50f.

Thursday 14 March 1963

Scotland Yard detectives investigating the shooting of a gambling club doorman  are hunting for a mystery man known as The Watcher. They believe that he is behind the violence that has hit the gambling clubs in the West End. The Watcher goes into gambling clubs, stays long enough to spot the big winners, then phones a gang of gunmen. When the winners leave the club, members of the gang are waiting to beat them up and rob them.

The outlook for Britain’s shipbuilders is bleak, says the annual report of Lloyd’s Register of Shipping. The report adds that many British shipyards only have enough orders to last them until the end of this year – and some of them may have to close.

Milk with cost 1/2d a pint more as a result of this year’s government farm price review. The winter price of milk will be 8 1/2d a pint for eight months of the year instead of seven. The summer price of milk, 8d, will commence in June and last for four months.

The Tornados get in the groove again with Robot, another Joe Meek song. He wrote Telstar and Globetrotter, and it sounds like an automatic hit.

Two members of Top Thirty’s the Beatles wrote Misery, Kenny Lynch’s new single. And it sounds much happier than its title.

Screenwriters’ Guild Awards: Alan Simpson and Ray Galton for Steptoe and Son.

John Hopkins, Troy Kennedy Martin and Alan Prior for Z Cars.

Ken Russell’s profile of Sir Edward Elgar.

David Mercer for A Suitable Case for Treatment.

Television highlights: Roving Report – the strength of France. The White Heather Club with Andy Stewart. This Week – the gift stamp boom.

Radio highlights: Concert – Top of the Pops. German Cabaret.

Weather: dull, rain, drizzle, windy. Outlook – changeable. 10c, 50f.

Friday 15 March 1963

Model Christine Keeler, pictured, was being sought by police last night. Miss Keeler, 20, was wanted as chief prosecution witness in the Old Bailey trial of a man who is accused of shooting at her with intent to commit murder. But the jury heard from the prosecution that Miss Keeler had disappeared.

Salesman John Edgecombe, accused of shooting at twenty-year-old model Christine Keeler, told an Old Bailey jury yesterday that he fired half-a-dozen pistol shots at the door of a flat where Miss Keeler was visiting her actress friend eighteen-year-old Marilyn Davies. But, Edgecombe said, he did not mean to hit Miss Keeler, only frighten her. The trial was adjourned. The police are still trying to find Miss Keeler.

Independent television companies are to have as much freedom as the BBC in screening satirical sketches. So, from next year, they will be able to broadcast programmes like That Was The Week That Was. Tory MP Arthur Tiley was not happy. He said, “These beatniks do not appreciate what is offensive to all of us.”

Mr Justice Cairns yesterday refused a husband’s plea for a blood test on his wife and her baby – whose paternity he disputes. The judge believed that this was the first time that such a plea had been made in an English court. He added that the court had no power to order tests.

Champagne flooded into Britain last year. We were France’s best champagne customer, taking nearly 4,300,000 bottles, or 28% of French export sales.

Television highlights: Indoor Athletics. Still Life – play about a nightclub vocalist and a pop singer. Comedy Playhouse – Impasse with Bernard Cribbins and Leslie Phillips.

Radio highlights: Go Man Go. Lena Horne.

Weather: sunny intervals and showers. Outlook – little change. 11c, 52f.

Saturday 16 March 1963

Rejected lover John Edgecombe, who went after red-haired model Christine Keeler with a loaded gun, was jailed for seven years yesterday. And last night 21-year-old Miss Keeler, who should have been the prosecution’s main witness at the two-day Old Bailey trial, was still missing. 

Miss Keeler, friend of millionaires, film stars and other well known people, disappeared before the trial. During the incident, she was visiting her blonde model friend Marilyn Davies in a flat owned by high society osteopath Stephen Ward. 

The mystery remains – where is Miss Keeler? Miss Davies said last night, “I have no idea where she is. Christine likes a gay time. She has very influential friends who mix in diplomatic and political circles in European capitals.”

In Parliament, MPs discussed the possibility of putting their debates on television. Many spoke in favour, some against. Those in favour agreed that only highlights should be broadcast – they were against continuous coverage.

The Rev Christopher Courtauld has decided to give most of his £500,000 inheritance to charity. He said, “I want to put the money to constructive use.” Mr Courtauld’s first gift will go to the Freedom From Hunger campaign.

Television highlights: Dixon of Dock Green – 200th edition. Boxing – Cassius Clay v Doug Jones. Ice Hockey – Sweden v Canada.

Radio highlights: Saturday Club with Susan Maughan and the Beatles. Honey Hit Parade.

Weather: bright and showery. Outlook – chance of showers increasing. 11c, 52f.


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Social History 1962-63 #1

Saturday 1 December 1962

Actor Sean Connery, 32, married actress Diane Cilento, 25, in a secret ceremony at a Gibraltar registry office. Witnesses were two local taxi drivers. The couple spent their wedding night at the Rock Hotel, Gibraltar, before leaving to honeymoon in Spain.

Jellied eels are to go up in price, from 2s a bowl to 2s 6d. The last increase was in 1942 when the price leapt from 1s to 2s.

A rear-engined mini-car being built by the Rootes Group in Paisley, Scotland will be called the Imp, it was announced yesterday.

Two young beatniks were married yesterday, Linda Ellis and Richard Wardell. They borrowed the wedding ring and have no money. After the wedding, Richard said, “We intend to carry on our beatnik way of life.”

Events: an international caravan exhibition at Olympia and Bertram Mills’ Circus.

Cinema: West Side Story, The Longest Day, Lawrence of Arabia.

Television highlights: Grandstand, Dixon of Dock Green, Juke Box Jury.

Radio highlights: Sports Parade, Ted Heath Bandstand, Let’s Take a Spin.

Weather: early fog and frost. Outlook: little change.

Sunday 2 December 1962

Britain’s first ever 1 1/2 pint milk containers were delivered to doorsteps in London this morning.

Morphy Richards spin dryer £24 3s 0d (HP terms available).

“Put your favourite discs on the fabulous new Fidelity Duet Ampligram (pictured), pick up the mike and sing. From the loudspeaker comes the recorded vocal and your voice mixed!” No price-tag, but a booklet was available.

A new type of stingless aftershave lotion in the form of a jelly-like paste will be available soon – 5s 6d.

Television highlights: The Saint, with Roger Moore, Pinky and Perky, Perry Mason, with Raymond Burr; The Sudden Silence, a play starring Barry Foster (who later starred as Van der Valk).

Radio highlights: Pick of the Pops, 4pm – 5pm on the Light Programme.

Pop charts: 1. She Taught Me How to Yodel – Frank Ifield 2. Swiss Maid – Del Shannon 3. Let’s Dance – Chris Montez

Football highlights: Manchester City 2 – 4 Arsenal. The top two in the league, Tottenham Hotspur and Everton, played out a goalless draw in front of 60,000 fans.

The weather: fog and a heavy frost.

Monday 3 December 1962

Pictured, the Commonwealth Games medal table. The event finished on 1 December 1962 in Perth, Australia.

Mirror Group Newspapers Christmas Appeal: they requested funds for blind children, the deaf, orphans, plus money to buy coal for the elderly.

Stars threatened to take strike action against the BBC over pay. The BBC offered £18 18s, an increase of £10 10s minimum wage for a performance.

Cabbie drivers in Paris wanted to carry guns – bandits had killed nineteen drivers since 1945.

The Trades Union Congress was concerned about the spread of automation and the ‘robot peril’ with machines making more people unemployed.

Table Tennis: a dispute over a plan to ditch players aged 27 and over in favour of younger players. The newspapers carried county results alongside the football scores.

Television highlights: Blue Peter, Top of the Form, and Maigret.

Radio highlights: Listen With Mother, Desert Island Discs (BBC), and Hit Parade (Radio Luxembourg).

The weather: sunny, less cold.

Tuesday 4 December 1962

Harold MacMillan may become a pop star. His spoken version of the old song She Didn’t Say Yes, She Didn’t Say No was recorded at the Tory conference and given a rock and roll backing and chorus. Sales to date – 2,000.

More people are now injured in British industry each month, 16,000, than the average total of our servicemen during World War Two, 10,667.

Chimneys cleaned for 10 1/2d. Simply drop Imp onto a bright fire and in minutes your chimney is clean and soot-free.

Motor Racing: Ferraris (pictured) may be the only threat to British cars in 1963, but watch out for Hondas. 

Television highlights: This Is Your Life, University Challenge, The Wall – a drama-documentary about the Berlin Wall.

Radio highlights: Housewives’ Choice, Workers’ Playtime, Pop to Bed 11.31 pm – 11.55pm.

Weather: cold with fog, 5c, 41f

Wednesday 5 December 1962

Nightmare Britain – Smog, Fog, Ice! Visibility nil. That was the grim report from most parts of freezing, fog-bound Britain last night. In London, the dense fog was officially smog. And grimmer weather is forecast for today.

One of the worst things about being a working wife is coming home to a cold house at night. This is where the new timer switches come in. They can switch on the electric fire before you get in. You can also buy multi-socket timers to switch on your radio and electric blanket.

Football: longest current undefeated run – Stoke, 17 games (third in Division Two). Longest run since a win – Raith Rovers, 14 games.

Football scores: Friendly: Ipswich 1 – 0 Vejle Boldklub (Denmark), abandoned after 27 minutes, fog. Cambridge University 0 – 0 West Ham, abandoned after 15 minutes, fog. Poole v Cambridge United, postponed, fog.

Television highlights: Z-Cars, Rawhide and Sportsview.

Radio highlights: Morning Story, Parade of the Pops, David Jacobs Plays the Pops.

Weather: foggy and cold, 7c, 45f

Thursday 6 December 1962

Grey Killer Claims First 40 Victims. The Smog Heroes. Give them all a cheer! Give them your thanks! Give them a medal! The railmen and bus workers of Britain are the heroes of the Big Smog. Half a million heroes! Due to the smog, the elderly and people with health problems are advised to stay indoors.

More and more patients are getting tranquillisers on the NHS. One reason why more people are taking “calm pills” these days is the increasing tension of modern living.

Britain’s cigarette smokers, especially women, are turning to tips. Last year, sales of tipped cigarettes soared by 4,600 million. Untipped dropped by 2,100 million. 

A man believed to be a top Nazi war criminal was arrested in Chile yesterday. The man was named as Walter Raus aka General Walter Rauff, who has been on the run for eighteen years, and is blamed for 90,000 deaths.

Television highlights: Rin Tin Tin, Crackerjack, Double Your Money.

Radio highlights: Alan Freeman Show (fifteen minutes on Radio Luxembourg), Round Britain Quiz, The Jazz Club: Humphrey Lyttelton.

Miss King, Queen of the Hits. She is blonde, she is twenty, and married with two children. She is Carole King. And she is fast becoming the Queen of Tin Pan Alley on both sides of the Atlantic. 

Weather: mainly foggy. No sign of the fog clearing. 7c, 45f.

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Social History 1963 #3

The compact cassette, launched by Dutch company Philips at the Berlin Radio Show on 28 August 1963.

The audio cassette first appeared in 1888 when Oberlin Smith invented a method of recording sound by magnetising wire. Fritz Pfleumer invented magnetic tape in 1928 and this led to the first reel-to-reel tape recorders, in 1935.

Lou Ottens and his Philips team miniaturised the initially bulky and expensive system and made it commercially viable. Although designed for dictation, music lovers soon realised that they could use the compact cassette to compile their own albums, and a new way of listening to music was born.


The Mercedes-Benz W 113 was introduced at the 1963 Geneva Motor Show. The company produced 48,912 W 113s and sold 40% of them to the American market. 

At the car’s launch, technical designer Fritz Nallinger said, “It was our aim to create a very safe and fast sports car with high performance, which despite its sports characteristics, provides a very high degree of travelling comfort.”

My narrator, enquiry agent Elinor Mansfield, will drive a Mercedes-Benz W 113 in my forthcoming novel, Songbird.

📸 Wikipedia

As listed by the Office of National Statistics, the most popular names in Britain in 1963

Susan

Julie

Karen

Jaqueline 

Deborah

Tracy

Jane

Helen

Diane

Sharon 

David

Paul

Andrew

Mark

John

Michael

Stephen

Ian 

Robert

Richard

🖼️ My Howe ancestors in 1911

The coins we used – the halfpenny. Originally minted in copper, from 1860 until decimalisation in 1969, the halfpenny was minted in bronze. 

Along with an image of the monarch, the halfpenny featured an image of Britannia, from 1672 until 1936, and an image of the Golden Hind, from 1937 until 1969. 

Halfpenny was colloquially written as ha’penny, and it’s a rare example of a word in the English language containing a silent f. 

Apparently, you could buy sweets like white mice, fruit salad and liquorice for a halfpenny – a small coin with a big appeal.

La Planète des singes, known as Planet of the Apes in America and Monkey Planet in Britain, was published in 1963. Written by Pierre Boulle, the novel was adapted into a film in 1968 and launched an ongoing media franchise.

La Planète des singes is a story about three human explorers who visit a planet orbiting the star Betelgeuse. On Betelgeuse great apes are the dominant, intelligent and civilized species, whereas humans are IQ-challenged savages. It’s total fiction, of course.

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Cherry Wainer #6

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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