Joe was badly in need of a replacement and remembered hearing Rose Brennan on radio during a visit to Ireland.
[3] In 1954, she was awarded third place by the New Musical Express for the best recording of the year; this was her cover of Leo Maguire's "The Whistling Gypsy".
It was not until 1961, now on the Philips label, that she reached the UK Singles Chart when "Tall Dark Stranger" made it to No.
Her own wedding day was 7 May 1956 when she married George Hirst, son of a Yorkshire businessman, at Wakefield Registry Office.
She gave up show business and retired to run a public house, the Norland Arms in West London, with her husband John Lamb, an ex-policeman.