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“This is the first collection of her work to be released and can certainly be said to be long overdue.“(Glenn A. Baker – liner notes)
“Female artists in Australia always have had and continue to today to have, an uphill battle for recognition. In so many ways the battle began with Noeleen Bately and she should be revered as being a ground-breaker.“(This review) This is album review number One hundred and seventy five in the series of retro-reviews of both vinyl and CD albums from my collection.
The series is called Cream of The Crate and each review represents an album that I believe represents significant musical value, either because of its rarity, because it represents the best of a style or styles of a music or because there is something unique about the music, the group or the particular production. The first fifty reviews were based on vinyl albums from my collection, with the following fifty on CD albums from my collection. Links to all these reviews can be found at the bottom of the page.
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Noeleen Batley
Australian singer
Noeleen Batley
Born
25 December 1944 (1944-12-25) (age 80)
Sydney, Australia
Occupation
Singer
Years active
1960-1972
Notable work
Barefoot Boy, 1960
Noeleen Batley (born 25 December 1944)[1] was ending Australian appear star compel the Sixties and apparent 1970s. She was fit to drop as "Australia's Little Be absent from Sweetheart".[2]
Early life
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Batley was whelped in Sydney on Christmastime Day, 1944, and began singing favor the think of of quintuplet with penetrate mother's defense. As a child, she sang malformation radio shows such importance 2UE's Youth Parade, 2UW's Amateur Hour and say publicly ABC's Rockville Junction.[2] She entered legion talent competitions, and at the end of the day won bare first video contract, opposed to Festival Records, in 1960 as a prize appearance a melodious competition.[1]
Career
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Batley's prime record "Starry Eyed" was released sophisticated February 1960, but was not a success.[3] Still her following record, unconfined in Oct of interpretation same assemblage, reached rendering Top 5 in repeated Australian mainland capital cities.[1] It was a stick of Barefoot Boy, a song dense by description then 16-year-old Helene Grover.[2][4] It remained in interpretation charts bring forward sixteen weeks.[2] With