![]() She was absolutely desperate so we agreed. Once back in London, three or four years went by with nothing much happening the girls were beginning to lose interest when their lucky break happened, “One day we got a call from Lesley Duncan who asked us if we’d help her do a session. ![]() We had to sing all the old standards and they didn’t really suit a couple of teenagers. But once again we felt the work wasn’t right. They came to London in the early 60s and began working with Kenny Lynch who suggested they change their name to The Stockingtops, but they didn’t like that and moved on.īefore they settled permanently in the UK, they played in Europe as Sunny explained, “We went to Germany to play the air force bases, only this time we put on a more girlish act. Our work in those days consisted of cabaret dates, but after three years of doing them, we both realised they were too old for us – the audiences.” They briefly changed their names to Sue and Sunshine before setting with Sue and Sunny. Then when I was 15, I teamed up with my sister, and turned professional. “It was called Just Let Me Cry and was released by Oriole Records. “I cut my first record when I was 12,” Sunny recalled in an interview with Michael Benton. Sue and Sonny were real sisters who were born Yvonne and Heather Wheatman respectively in Madras in India and began singing professionally in 1963 under the name The Myrtelles. This week’s suggestion concentrates on one half of the latter duo’s only solo UK hit, Sunny. In the 1960s and 70s, there were an elite bunch of session musicians on both sides of the Atlantic, the Wrecking Crew, as they were known, are probably the most famous in the US but in the UK, there were more groups of individual session people, Clem Cattini and Bobby Graham were the most sought after drummers, Big Jim Sullivan, Vic Flick and a pre-Led Zeppelin Jimmy Page were much in demand guitarists and Madeline Bell, Merry Clayton, Lesley Duncan, Darlene Love, Joe Brown’s wife Vicky, a pre-famous Luther Vandross and the sisters Sue and Sunny all had their services requested for backing singers.
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