[8][9] The songwriting/production team of Gerry Shury and Ron Roker had admired Brown's voice from her Pickettywitch recordings.
Shury, who had arranged Brown's Pye album release, described her as a cross "between Diana Ross and Dionne Warwick"[10] and in 1974 had her record "Up in a Puff of Smoke" in a session which also produced a cover of the ABBA song "Honey, Honey", on which Roker sang the male vocal.
"Up in a Puff of Smoke" was also a hit in Canada, reaching even higher in the RPM 100 national chart (No.
In 1976, Brown took part in A Song for Europe, the national preliminary round to determine the UK entrant for Eurovision 1976.
while Sweet Dreams featuring Brown and Tony Jackson performed "Love, Kiss And Run".
Brown remains unique in competing in the same UK pre-selection round for Eurovision as both a soloist and group member.
[citation needed] According to the 5 May 1979 issue of Music Week the group Happy People that Polly Brown was part of were to have their single as the third release on Mike Collier's new Flamingo label which had kicked off with "Get Dancin'" by The Bombers.
[15][16] In 1980, Brown began recording for her own label Witches Brew, the name a reference to Pickettywitch: her singles included a cover of the Christopher Cross song "Never Be the Same".