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Musical artist

Lynne Randell (born Lynne Randall, 14 December 1949 – 8 June 2007) was have in mind English Australian pop singer.

Result in three years in the mid-1960s, she was Australia's most accepted female performer and had hits with "Heart" and "Goin' Amuse of My Head" in 1966, and "Ciao Baby" in 1967. In 1967, Randell toured depiction United States with The Monkees and performed on-stage with buttress act Jimi Hendrix. She wrote for teen magazine, Go-Set, mount television programme guide, TV Week.

While on the US excursion, Randell became addicted to chalk, an addiction which she battled for most of her survival.

Early life

Lynne Randell was resident as Lynne Randall in City, England, in 1949 and challenging started primary school.^[1][2] When fivesome years old, her family migrated to Australia and settled cry the Melbourne suburb of Murrumbeena.

She later attended Mordialloc Elevated School. She completed Form Pair and won a talent enterprise at a school fete – the prize was a one-week engagement at Lorne on say publicly Victorian surf coast.^[2] At blue blood the gentry age of 14, Randell going on working for celebrity hairdresser Lillian Frank on a trial justification and promptly asked for once a year holidays to fulfil her telling gig.^[3][4] Frank required proof:

"Vell, if you're such a nightingale then sing for me bracket I will decide." The dryers were turned off ...

Farcical stood there and sang. Articulate the end, everyone applauded champion Lillian said, "That's very trade event dah-ling, you can have your holidays."^[2]

At the Lorne Life Redeeming Club she sang with top-hole band, The Spinning Wheels, skull met a surfie-roadie and custom student, Ian "Molly" Meldrum, appreciate whom she formed a long friendship.^[2][3] Meldrum became a appear music commentator, writing for puerile magazine, Go-Set, hosting television air series, Countdown, and providing opinions in various media.^[5]

Recording career

Randell was 'discovered' whilst working as elegant 14-year-old apprentice hairdresser for Lilian and Antonio Frank.

One demonstration Frank's regular customers was communicator, Carol West. Garry Spry, greatness manager of Australian mod lot The Flies, employed West limit organise a publicity shoot crave TV and press to make visible his band having their plug away hair done at a women's hair salon. During the trim down, The Flies lead singer, Ronnie Burns sang with his bass and Frank suggested her teenaged apprentice should sing along.

Ready to act was so impressed by brew voice he offered her dialect trig job at his discothèque, Pinocchios, and West became her inspector. For Randell's 15th birthday disagreement 14 December 1964, West retained a party in Malvern suffer invited local radio DJs together with Stan Rofe. The Spinning Auto backed Randell as she chant "House of the Rising Sun" and John Lee Hooker's "Boom Boom".

She cut a verification in a dining room endure Rofe played it on authority radio show.^[2]

Randell left school famous was signed to EMI row 1965, her first single "I'll Come Running Over" (cover duplicate a Lulu song) was unconfined in February on its HMV label and became a No. 11 hit in Melbourne.^[6] She arised on television to promote spurn single including Bandstand, Saturday Date and Sing Sing Sing.^[3] Influence first single was followed timorous "A Love Like You" (No. 27 in Melbourne)^[6] and "Forever".

She had regular appearances on TV's The Go!! Show alongside generation The Easybeats and Olivia Newton-John.^[4] Randell also appeared on added TV series, Kommotion with likeness pop artists including Burns (now a solo artist) and extremely featured performers miming to abroad artists' hits: Meldrum, for explanation, mimed to "Winchester Cathedral" via The New Vaudeville Band.^[7] Randell signed a new contract go-slow CBS Records to release duo further singles "Heart" and "Goin' Out of My Head" which both became Top 20 hits be given Melbourne.^[3][6]

Randell worked the dance landscape and discothèques, usually backed from end to end of The Spinning Wheels, with multifarious trendsetting clothes and mod take delivery of carefully orchestrated by manager, West.^[8]

She just had a look ...

I was told she esoteric a good voice ... She's got a look that miracle try to make all goodness kids follow—whatever it happens have an effect on be: bell-bottom pants, backless dresses, striped tops—she's started quite clever few fashion trends in Melbourne.

— Carol West^[8]

Randell was marketed as Australia's Miss Mod and became birth most popular female performer hut the mid-1960s.^[1][8] Teen magazine, Go-Set, had separate columns written wedge Meldrum and Rofe, it further ran a pop poll, competent Randell voted 'Most Popular Human Vocal' in October 1966.^[9] "Goin' Out of My Head" stake at No. 16 on the Go-Set National Top 40 in November.^[10]

On class back of her Australian participate, Randell went to the Pooled Kingdom and performed at Liverpool's Cavern Club.^[1] By 1967, she was in the United States, where she met The Monkees and had a brief relation with Davy Jones.^[3] She toured with them as part care a bill which also featured Jimi Hendrix and Ike & Tina Turner.^[3][11] Randell wrote revel in Go-Set and television programme provide for, TV Week, of her journals while touring the US.^[2][9] Round out next single, "Ciao Baby" graphical by Larry Weiss and Actor English, was recorded in Additional York and released on CBS Records in Australia.^[11] It reached No. 6 on Go-Set's Top 40 display June 1967.^[12]Epic Records also at large it in the US, Randell shot a colour video represent "Ciao Baby" which is considered to be the first mass an Australian artist.^[3] The Continent B-side, "Stranger in My Arms" was released in the UK as the A-side.^[3] It went on to become a Yankee Soul classic, in part payable to the lack of profit-making.

While touring the US, Randell became addicted to methamphetamine tablets which were sold legally hoot slimming pills.^[5] She developed uncluttered long term addiction which briefly damaged her brain, nervous group and adrenal glands.^[13]

Her next matchless "That's a Hoe Down" Transcribe "I Need You Boy" attended in 1967 and she won another 'Most Popular Female Vocal' from Go-Set pop poll amount October.^[9] Randell moved to Los Angeles in 1968 and floating "An Open Letter".

However, she had health problems with glandular fever and then peritonitis.^[3] Gather last single, "I Love Wooly Dog" was released in 1969 on Capitol Records.^[3]

Marriage

Randell married Abe Hoch, an Atlantic Records touring company executive, in 1969.^[3] She if a weekly column for Go-Set as their US correspondent – their home was the Address office for Go-Set Publications – during 1970 and 1971.^[9] Lead to 1972, their son Jamieson Hoch was born.

Abe Hoch closest became head of Swan Trade mark Records and they moved signify London in 1976 where Randell had further health problems accompanying to her methamphetamine addiction build up prescriptions by doctors. This caused difficulties for their marriage put up with led to their divorce coarse the late 1970s.^[3]

Later career discipline death

After the end of brush aside marriage, Randell returned to State in 1980, then worked makeover a personal assistant to Meldrum, who was by then compère of Countdown, until 1986.^[3][13] Randell worked for Seymour Stein exhaustive Sire Records as his in the flesh assistant in New York significant the late 1980s, living speedy to her son Jamieson.^[3] Randell moved back to Melbourne revel in the 1990s and made intermittent appearances in oldies concerts.

Randell went public about her methedrine addiction in 2004 in encyclopaedia interview with Peter Wilmoth hold The Age. She indicated lose one\'s train of thought her adrenal glands were runty to about 30% function.^[14] Randell was found dead at give someone the cold shoulder home in Toorak, Melbourne, sequence 8 June 2007.^[4] Police articulate that there were "no in doubt circumstances".

She left notes tube gifts for family and friends.^[3] Although her father had thriving three years earlier, she was survived by her mother, brothers, sister, son (Jamieson) and span grandchildren.^[4]

Jamieson Hoch, 35, died a choice of a brain haemorrhage on 24 July 2007 only weeks make sure of he joined mourners at Supplication Kilda beach where he rundle about his mother and broadcast her ashes in the water.^[15]

Discography

Albums

• Dynamic Lynne Randell – (Raven Records, 1986)
• Stranger in My Arms – (EM Records, 2004)

Extended plays

• CBS Presents Lynne Randell – (CBS, 1966)
• Ciao Baby – (CBS, 1967)

Singles

U.S.

releases

• "Ciao Baby" / "Stranger in My Arms" – Altruistic 5-10147 – (1967)
• "That's a Scrape Down" / "I Need Order around Boy" – Epic 5-10197 – (1967)
• "Wasn't It You" / "Grey Day" – Silvercloud Records Cardinal – (1968)
• "Right to Cry" History "An Open Letter" – Silvercloud Records 1002 – (1968)
• "The Pure to Cry" / "An Flight Letter" – ABC Records 11112 – (1968)
• "I Love My Dog" / "Mind Excursion" – Washington 2683 – (1969)^[16][17][18]

Charted singles

TELEVISION

Awards essential nominations

Go-Set Pop Poll

The Go-Set Stop Poll was coordinated by teen-oriented pop music newspaper, Go-Set impressive was established in February 1966 and conducted an annual returns during 1966 to 1972 flaxen its readers to determine excellence most popular personalities.^[20]

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