BRITAIN’S best-known Big Band singer Rosemary Squires is joined by Radio 2’s celebrity pianist Brian Dee and his Music at the Westovian Theatre, South Shields, on Sunday.
Many will recall when Squires was a regular on Tyne Tees TV, although fewer will be aware that for almost 40 years her voice was behind the Proctor and Gamble jingle, Hands That Do Dishes. The show focuses on Squire’s reminiscences of her starstudded life, told in anecdotes and song.
Her long career has included her own radio and TV series, topping the bill at the Palladium and performing on both sides of the Atlantic, earning the nickname of Britain’s Doris Day. She has starred with such legends as Danny Kaye, Morecambe and Wise, Sammy Davis Jnr and Cliff Richard, and with all the major music-makers from Ted Heath to the BBC Concert Orchestra.
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