The Very Best Of Mrs Mills

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In October, we played a Day Of The Dead show with our friends the Dulwich Ukulele Club, and a couple of weeks later we were asked by TV's Mary Portas to play the Roman Road east end street market to be filmed for her Channel 4 TV show. Piano Singalong" (released in Australia on Axis label, featuring a Straube player-piano as the album art) Her first single –“Mrs Mills Medley”– entered the UK Top Twenty, and was a piano medley of the songs, “I Want to Be Happy,”“The Sheik of Araby,”“Baby Face,”“Somebody Stole My Gal,”“Ma He’s Making Eyes at Me,”“Swanee,”“Ain’t She Sweet,” and “California Here I Come.”

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In 1961 she released her first record, "Mrs Mills Medley", a single that entered the Top Twenty of the UK Singles Chart. [4] Rolling out a barrel of irony-untroubled, hipster-free, good time entertainment, the Mrs Mills Experience is made up of an unlikely combination of Brixton-based dance DJs and punk musicians, united by their improbable love of piano-thumper extraordinaire, Mrs Gladys Mills. Mrs Mills Jubilee Party Vol 2, also released in 1977 has quite the worst Mrs Mills sleeve I've ever seen. What has the artist done to poor old Gladys?!After signing a management contract to Eric Easton (who later managed The Dave Clark Five and The Rolling Stones), Mrs Mills was snapped up by the Beatles’ record label Parlophone. Petridis, Alexis (7 October 2010). "The bizarre lost world of 1970s cabaret pop". The Guardian. London . Retrieved 16 April 2012. My Mother the Ragtime Piano Player – 33 rpm 12-inch album, US release of Mrs Mills Plays the Roaring 20s Street Preachers of Brixton: We Are All Going To Die – Brixton Buzz on The Brixton Evangelist, Brixton tube, 2000

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The Mrs Mills Experience tries to recreate something of the party atmosphere of the late, great Mrs Mills shows - if you like the sound of us, please like us on Facebook and look out for our forthcoming shows! Keen to bring the might of Mrs Mills to the masses, the band have embarked on a small tour of unconventional - some may say confrontational - slots at various venues around London. Over the following 15 years, Mrs Mills banged out nearly 40 albums (all recorded at Abbey Road Studios), with four charting in the U.K. between 1964 and 1971, all during the Christmas period. It's that same picture again for another version of the 'Everyone's Welcome At Mrs Mills Party' album, Loughton Town Council commissioned a blue plaque to her memory on the house at 43 Barncroft Close, her home for many years. [14] Discography [ edit ]Mrs Mills enjoying a tea party with two chimpanzees! We've no idea either, but she seems to be enjoying herself. The album was released in 1973. The most successful album of all was, “Come to My Party”, which peaked at number 17 in 1964. And yes, I have a vinyl copy and it’s ace (thanks, Nicola!). Gladys Mills (née Gladys Jordan) then embarked on a career that lasted well into the 1970s, with her jaunty pub piano renditions of popular and traditional songs like, “The Lambeth Walk,”“Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend”, “Hello, Dolly!”, “I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles” and “Yellow Submarine” making her a hit all around the country,

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Gor Blimey guv'nor! Beer-clutching Pearly Kings and Queens pose with Gladys for the cover of 'Mrs Mills Knees-Up Party' from 1975. A Best of CD was released by the EMI Gold imprint and another CD ( The Mrs Mills Collection) appeared on the HMV Easy label. A list of her UK output (according to a vast, now lost Parlophone listing from the web) is as follows: Such was the buzz behind this new outfit that a prestigious Saturday night slot at this year's Vintage Festival was secured - without the band even recording a demo!That Week On TV: Let’s Have a Party! The Piano Genius of Mrs Mills, BBC4; Nigellissima, BBC2, Radio Times, 29 September 2012