Wilma Reading
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Wilma Reading is a singer from Cairns, Queensland, Australia.[1]
Reading began her singing career in 1959 after singing for friends in a Brisbane jazz club.[2]
Reading performed on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, had a residency at New York City's Copacabana nightclub, and toured with Duke Ellington. Additionally, she made numerous appearances on The Morecambe & Wise Show in 1973 and 1974 and played Julie in a West End production of Showboat, taking over from Cleo Laine. She has performed with the national orchestras of Belgium, the Netherlands, Iceland, and Germany and toured with the Moscow Symphony Orchestra. She appeared alongside Jim Brown in the film, Pacific Inferno.[1]
Reading is of English, Irish, Torres Strait Islander, Jamaican, Afghan, Scottish, and Australian Aboriginal ancestry.[1] She is the daughter of Heather Pitt and niece of singer Georgia Lee.[3][4]
Select singles discography
- 1960: "In My Little Corner Of The World/If I Were A Bell" (Rex)
- 1960: "Nature Boy/Fool Fool Fool" (Rex)
- 1961: "I Only Came To Say Goodbye/That's How I Go For You" (Rex)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 The Cairns Post Looking at Wilma Reading
- ↑ Company, Johnson Publishing (12 Aug 1965). "Ex-softball pitcher set to toss vocal notes for Duke". Jet 28 (18): p62–63.
- ↑ Courier Mail Northern stars
- ↑ Walker, Clinton (2000). "Last of the Red Hot Mammas". Buried Country: The Story of Aboriginal Country Music. Pluto Press. pp. 61–62. ISBN 1-86403-152-2.
External links
- Official site
- The Wilma Reading Story ABC TV Message Stick documentary broadcast in May 2011 with video and transcript.