Catherine Howe

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Catherine Howe
Born
Catherine Howe

(1950-05-17) 17 May 1950 (age 73)
Halifax, West Yorkshire, England
NationalityBritish
Known forSinger-songwriter, actor, television presenter
Websitecatherinehowe.co.uk

Catherine Howe (born 17 May 1950,

Ivor Novello Award winner who has earned critical acclaim in dozens of music magazines both in the UK and the US, including Folk Album of the Year from The Sunday Times
.

Howe began an acting career in the late 1960s, and has since gained a following in folk music: Record Collector in 2007 called her "one of the great unrecognised voices". Observer Music in 2007 said "Catherine Howe was a Kate Bush before her time".

1960s–1970s: early career

Howe trained as an actress at the Corona Drama School in London. She commenced an acting career in the late 1960s, performing in contemporary television dramas such as

Bobby Scott, an American pianist and record producer who had previously co-written The Hollies' "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother". However Reflection ceased to trade when the album was on the point of release, and as a result it remained largely unheard until it was reissued in 2007 on the Numero label. The re-release met with critical acclaim, gaining a five-star review from Observer Music.[1]
The master tapes were by then lost, and the re-recording was made from an original source copy.

Howe featured on soundtrack recordings in the UK and Europe throughout the 1970s, and provided the lead vocal for

record not reissued on CD. Howe also contributed vocals to two tracks for an album by Michael Giles of King Crimson, Progress, recorded in 1978 but unreleased until 2002. In 1979, the BBC transmitted Rhythm on 2: Catherine Howe and Judie Tzuke, a live concert at Ipswich's Corn Exchange.[2] The following year, again for the BBC, Howe featured on both the Jeremy Taylor[3] and Sacha Distel[4]
shows.

1980s–present: respite and return to music

None of Howe's albums sold in large quantity in their time, and after Dragonfly Days, she decided to retire from the

Prince Harry).[citation needed] A year later, Howe contributed two songs to the Sounds of Yorkshire LP: a re-recording of "Lucy Snow" ("Lucy Snowe") from the Silent Mother Nature album; and a new piece in a traditional vein, "Yorkshire Hills". In 1989 Howe had a daughter, Jenny, and later earned a first class degree in History and Religion from the Open University.[citation needed
]

In 2002, the Michael Giles album Progress was released on CD: Howe contributed vocals for tracks Sunset and Arrival. In the same year, Howe returned to solo recording: producing a new CD, her fifth, Princelet Street. It coincided with the launch of an official website and preceded the re-issue of her 1970s albums What a Beautiful Place (with the Numero label), Harry (with BGO) and Silent Mother Nature (with BGO). Of Princelet Street, Howe wrote:

My great-grandmother Susannah Constantine was born on Princelet Street in 1851, her mother worked as a silk winder, her father as a fancy comb maker. Lots of my family lived in or near the City of London in the early 1800s, and even before I knew this I used to go city walking there as a girl because it felt like coming home. Princelet Street the album is inspired by the street and a sense of family, past and present, and as I enjoyed writing and recording its songs I hope you'll enjoy hearing them....

[citation needed]

Catherine Howe continues to work on new recordings, also giving occasional live performances. As an author, Howe's book on the life of the 19th-century

secularist George Holyoake was published by History into Print in 2012. A second book focused on the radical history of her home town of Halifax. In 2020, London Story 1848 was published. Catherine Howe has also contributed verse and lyrics for publication in themed editions of Playerist Poetry Magazine
.

Discography

Studio albums:

  • What a Beautiful Place – 1971
  • Harry – 1975
  • Silent Mother Nature – 1976
  • Dragonfly Days – 1979
  • Princelet Street – 2005
  • English Tale – with Vo Fletcher, 2010
  • Because It Would Be Beautiful – 2015

Original soundtracks, compilation albums and re-releases:

  • Il dio sotto la pelle OST – 1972
  • Un genie, deux associes, une cloche OST – 1976
  • Sounds of Yorkshire (compilation) – 1985 (Contributes two tracks)
  • Progress (Michael Giles album, 1978) – 2002 (Vocals for two tracks)
  • Harry / Silent Mother Nature Re-mastered CD – 2006
  • What a Beautiful Place Re-mastered CD, with previously unreleased demo track – 2007
  • What a Beautiful Place Re-mastered LP, with previously unreleased demo track – 2010

Singles and EPs:

  • "Nothing More Than strangers" / "My Child" – Reflection, 1971
  • "Firestar Express" / "Forse eri tu" / "St. Francis in Katmandu" – CBS, Italian release with Piero Piccioni, 1974
  • "Harry" / "When The Sparrow Flies" – RCA, 1974
  • "What Are Friends for Anyway?" / "Keep Me Talking" – RCA, 1976
  • "Freedom Enough" / "Lucy Snow" – RCA, 1976
  • "Until The Morning Comes" / "Lucy Snow" – RCA, 1976
  • "The Truth of the Matter" EP – "Until The Morning Comes" / "Harry" / "Silent Mother Nature" – RCA, 1977
  • "Sit Down and Think Again" / "Someone's Got to Love You Sometime" – Ariola, produced by Mike Batt, 1978
  • "Move On Over" / "Too Far Gone" – Ariola, 1978
  • "Turn The Corner Singing" / "Too Far Gone" – Ariola, 1979
  • "Quietly and Softly" / "Daylight" – Ariola, 1979
  • "Switchboard" (April Love) / "Quietly and Softly" (Catherine Howe) – Ariola, 1979
  • "When The Night Comes" / "How Does Love Feel?" – Ariola, 1980
  • "Goin' Back" / "How Does Love Feel?" – Ariola, 1980
  • "Almost Love" (vocal version of Inside Moves theme) / "Inside Moves" theme (instrumental) – Breeze, 1981
  • "Harry" / "When The Sparrow Flies" – RCA, reissue in blue and gold sleeve, 1984
  • "In the Hot Summer" / "Let's Keep it Quiet Now" – Numero, 2010
  • "Going Home" EP / "Nothing Love Does Surprises Me" / "White Winter Hymnal" – with Vo Fletcher, Proper Music, 2010

Theme songs

  • "It's Possible," title track from God Under the Skin [Il dio sotto la pelle] (1972)

Composer: Piero Piccioni / Director: Folco Quilici

  • "Firestar Express" from an Italian TV show, with Piero Piccioni (1974)

Composer: Piero Piccioni

Composer: Ted Dicks and Hazel Adair / Director: Jim Atkinson

  • "Glory, Glory, Glory," theme song from A Genius, Two Friends and an Idiot [Un genio, due compari, un pollo] (1975)

Composer: Ennio Morricone / Director: Damiano Damiani

Selected film and television appearances

Bibliography

  • George Jacob Holyoake's Journey of 1842 (Howe, C, 2012) History into Print
    ISBN 978-1-85858-340-2
  • Halifax 1842: A Year of Crisis (Howe, C, 2014) Breviary Stuff Publications
    ISBN 978-0-9570005-8-2

References

  1. ^ "Observer Music Guardian.co.uk". The Guardian. 21 January 2007. Retrieved 27 September 2014.
  2. ^ BBC Genome listing originally from Radio Times, 10 December 1979
  3. ^ Genome listing, 5 June 1980
  4. ^ Genome listing, 11 January 1980

External links

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