The Very Best Of Mrs Mills

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Over the following 15 years, Mrs Mills banged out nearly 40 albums (all recorded at Abbey Road Studios), with four charting in the U.K. between 1964 and 1971, all during the Christmas period. In 1961 she released her first record, "Mrs Mills Medley", a single that entered the Top Twenty of the UK Singles Chart. [4]

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On Sat 9th June, the band played their first festival show on the main stage of the London Nocturne 2012 at Smithfield Market, Farringdon. Rolling out a barrel of irony-untroubled, hipster-free, good time entertainment, the Mrs Mills Experience is made up of an unlikely combination of Brixton-based dance DJs and punk musicians, united by their improbable love of piano-thumper extraordinaire, Mrs Gladys Mills.Petridis, Alexis (7 October 2010). "The bizarre lost world of 1970s cabaret pop". The Guardian. London . Retrieved 16 April 2012. It's Party Time! (reissue). Also released in Scotland, with album art showing Mrs Mills with various cute puppies. Mrs Mills' Crazy Party – German release, consisting of various selections from Mrs Mills Plays the Roaring 20s interspersed with traditional jazz tunes from The New Orleans Hot Dogs The cover is strongly reminiscent of Pink Floyd's ' The Piper at the Gates of Dawn' album from three years earlier.

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She was signed to a management contract by Eric Easton, who later went on to manage The Dave Clark Five and The Rolling Stones, and then signed a recording contract with Parlophone. That Week On TV: Let’s Have a Party! The Piano Genius of Mrs Mills, BBC4; Nigellissima, BBC2, Radio Times, 29 September 2012

Mrs Gladys Mills was remembered for her sense of fun, and her album covers were rarely serious affairs, as this collection testifies. Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19thed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p.371. ISBN 978-1-904994-10-7.

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In 1975, her distinctive style of performance was satirised in an edition of BBC TV's The Two Ronnies, originally broadcast on BBC Two on 23 January 1975. The sketch, titled "Family Entertainment – John & Mrs Mills", occupied the end-of-the-show musical slot in episode 4 of the fourth series. It featured Ronnie Barker as a silk-laden Mrs Mills at piano and Ronnie Corbett as a uniformed Sir John Mills (who was no relation to Mrs Mills). Barker and Corbett performed a medley of Mills-style classics revolving around John Mills' character in the 1969 film Oh! What a Lovely War. In December 1974, she appeared as the subject of This Is Your Life, hosted by Eamonn Andrews, when it was revealed that the first record she had recorded was " A Gal in Calico", cut in a make-your-own-record booth on Southend Pier for a half-crown, with her girlhood pal Lily Dormer.Gladys settles down for an exceptionally large feast on the cover of Party Pieces from November 1968.

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A Best of CD was released by the EMI Gold imprint and another CD ( The Mrs Mills Collection) appeared on the HMV Easy label. A list of her UK output (according to a vast, now lost Parlophone listing from the web) is as follows: Gor Blimey guv'nor! Beer-clutching Pearly Kings and Queens pose with Gladys for the cover of 'Mrs Mills Knees-Up Party' from 1975. The Mrs Mills Experience tries to recreate something of the party atmosphere of the late, great Mrs Mills shows - if you like the sound of us, please like us on Facebook and look out for our forthcoming shows! Mrs Mills Plays The Roaring Twenties", also released in 1962 by The World Record Club in Great Britain, on their label, number ST994, showing a portrait cover artThere's a curiously similar photo for the cover of 'My Mother The Ragtime Piano Player,' a US release of 'Mrs Mills Plays the Roaring Twenties'. Garner, George (11 February 2022). "Album review: Eddie Vedder – Earthling". Kerrang! . Retrieved 15 February 2022. The most successful album of all was, “Come to My Party”, which peaked at number 17 in 1964. And yes, I have a vinyl copy and it’s ace (thanks, Nicola!).