Ruby Murray

Ruby Murray ( born March 29, 1935 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, † December 17, 1996 in Torquay, England) was a highly successful, especially in 1955, British pop singer. In March of that year, she managed the extraordinary feat of simultaneously placed five singles in the UK Top 20, including the number -one hit Softly, Softly.

Life

As an infant, she had an operation glands in the neck to go through, the basis of which developed their characteristic hoarse voice. Even as a child she went with vocal performances on tour; the age of twelve, she performed for the first time on television. As a teenager, she replaced Joan Regan as a singer in the BBC TV show Quite Contrary. At 19, she released her first single heartbeat that went in December 1954 in the charts and soon climbed to number 3. End of January, followed Softly, Softly, which took the top position on February 18. Five other top ten quotations completed the great success - posted a total of Murray in 1955 with seven hits 80 weeks in the charts, all of them produced by Norrie Paramor. 1956 played and sang it alongside Frankie Howerd in the film comedy A Touch of the Sun and received its own TV show.

Had started as fast as the career for the 19 -year-old, she was ( what the chart positions concerned) also almost over already. 1956 and 1958 she gave also to have one single in the Top 20; 1959 Goodbye, Jimmy, Goodbye was her last hit in 10th place.

In 1957 she had Bernie Burgess, a member of the vocal combo Jones Boys, married and settled down with him in England. Burgess became their manager, in the 1960s, toured the two temporarily as a duo. In 1970, she released the single Change Your Mind and an eponymous album with new recordings of their hits and cover versions of current songs.

With her ​​second husband Ray Lamar they later lived in Torquay (Devon). As recently as the early 1990s, she joined with other stars of the 1950s in clubs and in Oldie shows. In December 1996, Ruby Murray died after a long illness with liver cancer.

A stage play of Murray's life, entitled Ruby ( Marie Jones) was premiered in April 2000 in a Belfast theater.

Ruby Murray's name is entered into the English language, and since 2005 has an entry in the Oxford English Dictionary, as in Cockney Rhyming Slang Ruby Murray has naturalized as the rhyming word substitute for curry in the sense of Curry Court since the mid- 1950s.