Well, I’m really scraping the bottom of the back catalogue here, though I actually like both of these songs, and both of them were giant hits back in the long ago. They seem similar, in a way. Arrived at through some youtube stream of consciousness browsing. I always wrote these women off as one hit wonders, but at least according to youtube they went on to post one-hit careers of a sort. In fact, Merrilee Rush is apparently still at it, or was recently, singing the (for its time) risqué Angel in the Morning. I’m informed by Wikipedia that this song was offered to Connie Francis, who turned it down because she was afraid it would hurt her image, and since Merrilee’s first hit version, it’s been recorded countless times. My recollection is that it spent a lot of time on the charts. Looks like she’s still having a good time singing it.
The video quality on this one is poor, and it may be lip synced (against the rules, normally), but it’s the best I could find. Gale Garnett singing We’ll Sing in the Sunshine.
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