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Pickettywitch was a British pop group. Fronted by singer Polly Brown (also billed as Polly Browne), with Chris Warren as the secondary lead singer. The group became best known for its hit single, "That Same Old Feeling", which was written by Tony Macaulay and John Macleod. It reached number five in the UK Singles Chart in 1970.
That Same Old Feeling. "That Same Old Feeling" is the title of a pop song composed by John Macleod and Tony Macaulay which in 1970 was a Top Ten UK hit for Pickettywitch, an English band fronted by Polly Brown. [ 2][ 3] In the US the Pickettywitch single vied with a rival version by The Fortunes, with both versions scoring well-enough ...
A. Adams The top student David Copperfield 's class at Dr Strong's school in Canterbury. Aged Parent is the very old and very deaf father of John Wemmick in Great Expectations. Allen, Arabella is the sister of Benjamin Allen, and eventually Mr Winkle's wife, in The Pickwick Papers. Allen, Benjamin is a medical student and later a doctor in The ...
You've Got Your Troubles. "You've Got Your Troubles" was the inaugural composition by the prolific songwriting team of Roger Cook and Roger Greenaway in 1964. "You've Got Your Troubles" became a number 2 UK hit for the Fortunes in the United Kingdom in August 1965, [ 2] affording the group international success including a Top Ten ranking in ...
Polly Brown. Polly Brown ( née Polly Browne; born 18 April 1947) [ 1] is an English singer from Birmingham. A member of Pickettywitch and Sweet Dreams [ 2] - and with each group lead singer on a Top Ten hit, respectively "That Same Old Feeling" and "Honey Honey" - Brown had an international solo hit in 1975 with "Up in a Puff of Smoke".
Discs. " There She Goes " is a song by English rock band the La's, written by the band's frontman, Lee Mavers. First released in 1988, the song reached number 13 on the UK Singles Chart when it was re-issued in 1990. Predating Britpop by four years, [ 3] the band's self-titled album was named one of the 40 greatest one-album wonders by Rolling ...
Sarah Bernhardt (French: [saʁa bɛʁnɑʁt]; [note 1] born Henriette-Rosine Bernard; 22 October 1844 – 26 March 1923) was a French stage actress who starred in some of the most popular French plays of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils, Ruy Blas by Victor Hugo, Fédora and La Tosca by Victorien Sardou, and L'Aiglon by Edmond Rostand.
Miss Havisham. Miss Havisham is a character in Charles Dickens ' 1861 novel Great Expectations. She is a wealthy spinster, once jilted at the altar, who insists on wearing her wedding dress for the rest of her life. She lives in a ruined mansion with her adopted daughter, Estella. Dickens describes her as looking like "the witch of the place".