Bradbury's first recorded broadcast for the BBC was in a General Forces Programme called I'll Play To You on Tuesday 9 August 1944,[2] alongside Stéphane Grappelly and Robin Richmond, but got a break on the BBC feature Songs From The Shows while deputizing for Anne Ziegler.

[3] The musician Harry Parry, who was present for the broadcast, thought her to be a potential vocalist for his sextet.

[2][4] In addition to a long-term residency at the London nightclub and restaurant Potomac at 40 Jermyn Street (today the location of Tramp), Bradbury sang with the Harry Parry Sextet in variety at the London Hippodrome, the Metropolitan Music Hall and throughout the English provinces.

In 1955 Parry filed for divorce in a highly publicized case,[6] citing Bradbury's infidelity with the left-wing writer Frederic Mullally—a prominent member of the inner-circle of Stephen Ward,[7] a central figure in the Profumo scandal which brought down the British government in 1963.

[1] Jeannie, whose career never recovered following the divorce scandal, married the shipbroker Michael Misroch in 1966, but died a year later from various forms of cancer.