Embassy Girls Volume 1 CD

Jean Campbell
Embassy Girls Volume 1 - Complete Recordings 1959-1962 CD

Once dismissed as the poor relation of ‘proper’ records, the vast catalogue of Woolworth’s Embassy label has undergone serious and deserved reappraisal in recent years among collectors of British 1950s singles.
This CD release is devoted entirely to the work of one of the label’s longest-serving and most versatile artists.
Jean Campbell recorded for Embassy from 1959 through to the label’s demise six years later.
Like many of the label’s singers, Jean had been a band singer for several years and was thus able to handle anything Embassy’s A&R department handed to her.
This 31 track collection pulls together everything Jean cut for Embassy under her own name, plus a couple of tracks where she was billed as Jean Scott, between 1959 and 1962.
She was the label’s main ‘go-to’ girl after Maureen Evans moved to the main Oriole label in 1960 and stopped recording covers for Embassy.
Jean’s career spanned more than 30 years and four decades in total, and she was popular on radio, TV and – thanks mostly to Embassy – on records, where her covers of the hits of the day frequently outsold the originals thanks to the vast network of Woolworth shops across the UK.