![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The follow-up, "I Gave My Wedding Dress Away," was also a huge hit, and led to the recording of a debut LP entitled The Cadets. And Reid was as astonished as anyone when the song topped the national charts in Ireland in the spring of 1964. #EILEEN SINGE CRACK#They later reached the Top 10 in Dublin with "Fallen Star," the first Irish showband with a female lead singer to crack that summit of the sales charts. Even more astonishing, in early 1964 - a time when, admittedly, any five guys from that side of the Atlantic with mop-top hair and a beat could be brought to the United States as potential stars - the Cadets got a month-long tour of the United States. The Cadets were good enough to rate a spot on Johnny Cash's and June Carter Cash's tour of Ireland in the fall of 1963, and got a special introduction to the Beatles when the Liverpool group made their first Irish tour later the same year. From 1962 through 1966, Reid was voted the top vocalist in Ireland, and the group's fortunes reflected this string of honors. From two nights a week, Reid was now working six nights a week, often up to five hours at a stretch, and she became a star - female lead vocalists were unusual to star with among the showbands, and with her good looks and outsized beehive-style hair, she cut an enticing visual as well as musical figure with the group. The other members of the band were Patrick Murphy on harmonica, Paddy Burns on vocals and trumpet, Jas Fagan on trombone, Gerry Hayes on piano, Brendan O'Connell on lead guitar, William Devey playing drums, and Jimmy Day - whom Reid would later marry - on tenor saxophone and guitar. Reid passed the audition and joined the band, whose look was unusual, to say the least - they wore naval uniforms, in keeping with their name. She broke into Dublin's booming showband scene at an event sponsored by her employer, which included a performance by the Blue Clavons, one of the more popular groups of the period - they were persuaded to allow her to sing a couple of numbers with them, and one of the members helped lead her to an opening for a singer's spot with a rival band called the Cadets. By then, Reid was having trouble juggling her musical commitments with her day job at the biscuit-makers. By age 16, she'd tripled this figure, and soon moved up to a group called the Melody Makers, whose engagements took her outside of Dublin for the first time. Soon Reid was fronting a local Dublin band, singing two nights a week for a few dollars' remuneration. While working for the clothes manufacturer, she was asked by a friend to sing at a concert he'd organized, and proved impressive enough to get other invitations. Bridget's Holy Faith School from ages 4 to 15 - upon leaving school, Reid worked for a time at a clothing factory, and later for a biscuit factory. Born in Dublin during 1943, the fourth oldest of seven children, she was the daughter of Charlie Reid, an international-level football player for Ireland. Her recordings credit her mononymously as Eileen.Irish singer Eileen Reid has had a career that might've made a wonderful movie, or a mini-series, except for the fact that no one would believe the story of a career that took her from singing in Irish showbands in the early 1960s, turning her into one of the most popular singers in Ireland while scarcely in her twenties to the theatrical stage in Dublin during the 1970s and 1980s and into a Carmelite religious order in the 1990s, even as she also did filmwork. Eileen Goldsen (born May 16, 1941) is an American-born former pop singer, songwriter and music publisher, who has mainly worked and lived in France since the 1960s.Singer, songwriter, music publisher (en).dbr:University_of_California,_Los_Angeles.Her recordings credit her mononymously as Eileen. Sie veröffentlichte in den 1960er Jahren französische Coverversionen englischsprachiger Hits und führt in Paris den Musikverlag French Fried Music. Mai 1941 als Eileen Goldsen in New York City) ist eine US-amerikanische Sängerin und Songwriterin. ![]()
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