Sue and Sunny

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Sue and Sunny were a British

The Brotherhood of Man
.

Career

Born Yvonne Weetman ('Sue') in 1949 and Heather Weetman ('Sunny') in 1951 in Madras, India,[1] they made their recording debut together in 1963 under the name The Myrtelles, with their cover version of Lesley Gore's "Just Let Me Cry" on the independent Oriole record label.[1] The single was not commercially successful.[1] The girls then released two singles under the name of Sue and Sunshine before settling on the name Sue and Sunny.[1] Whilst recording with songwriter and producer Kenny Lynch the girls changed their name to The Stockingtops at his request, but decided it was not for them and reverted to Sue and Sunny.[citation needed] In 1965, they sang backing vocals on Alex Harvey's single, "Agent OO Soul" / "Go Away Baby" (Fontana – TF 610), produced by Chris Blackwell of Island Records.

In 1966, when Sunny (the younger of the pair) was still only 15, the two turned professional doing the cabaret circuit. After three years they decided that their audiences were too old for them, and went to Germany to play the airbase circuit, where, despite releasing two German singles, they still felt out of place and returned to London.

Whilst in London they were asked to do a session as

hit single, "United We Stand".[1] In March 1972, they just missed the UK top 30 with the single "Third Finger, Left Hand", released under the name The Pearls, a group name that was more successful with the personnel of Lyn Cornell
and Ann Simmons.

Sue and Sunny themselves are a little unsure of how many

The Nirvana Orchestra. They also recorded an album for CBS
which was, confusingly, also released – with a different cover – on the CBS subsidiary, Reflection.

Sunny finally had a hit record with "

Song for Europe
competition fronting the group 'Unity' with the song "For Only A Day", but failed to find favour with the voting juries, finishing in last place.

Sue and Sunny joined forces again to sing backing vocals for

Vikki Watson's UK entry "Love Is..." in Gothenburg
at the 1985 Eurovision final. This song was placed fourth.

The sisters also toured regularly with popular German orchestra leader, James Last, during much of the 1970s.

Katie Kissoon. Sue, Sunny and Bell contributed backing vocals for three albums by Donna Summer
during the later part of the decade.

In 1979, Sue Glover appeared in the debut TV play from

Talent
, playing the part of club singer 'Cathy Christmas'.

On

Sodor Island Fansite (SiF), a Thomas the Tank Engine fan site, Mike O'Donnell, the composer, said that there were talks to providing the theme song on record. However, the show never took off because of TVS
going bankrupt.

See also

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 0-85112-939-0
    .
  2. ^ "Sunny". Alwynwturner.com. 20 April 1974. Retrieved 31 December 2012.
  3. ISBN 1-904994-10-5
    .

External links
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