Catherine announces : “I first heard Vo sing Going Home about 15 years back when my girl and I attended one of his concerts. It is an extremely piquant song for me as it makes me think of the times when, at the end of term, my pop used to choose me up in the family auto from the Corona Stage College in London. We’d then start the long trip from Chiswick to join the old A1 and then home to Halifax. I loved going home!” Her talent for singing had taken her from the home she shared with her ma and pa and her elder siblings and sisters at a tender age.
As a 10-year-old pupil at Salterhebble College , she had run excitedly home after a British teacher told her : “Go home and tell your mom and pop you could have your voice trained.” Within months 2 days before her 12th birthday she turned up at Corona Stage College in Hammersmith where educational work in the mornings was followed by afternoon drama sessions. Catherine recalls : “We composed a very engaging group of teenagers, including Judy and Sally Geeson and Susan George. But infancy dreams turn into what’s real : my folks was in Yorkshire, I was twelve years old in London and homesick to a wicked degree.” Her time at the stage college led on to acting work in the 1960s.
She is saying : “To tell the truth I needed to be a librarian however having escaped an educational schooling by the point I was eighteen, it was too late for that.
She is saying : “To tell the truth I needed to be a librarian having escaped an educational schooling by the point I was eighteen, it was too late for that. Instead I liked a shockingly successful start as an actor with roles in Theatre 625, Wed. Play, Dr Who, Dixon of Dock Green and Z Automobiles . In 1969, aged nineteen, Catherine confirmed a publishing and recording cope with Reflection Records which ended in the 1971 release of the album What A Attractive Place, which was re-released in 2007 and earned her a completely new military of suitors. After retiring from the music scene she returned to Halifax, married and had her child Jenny, now 21.
She studied for an Open Varsity degree in history and faith and her short book on the early life of George Jacob Holyoake, 19th century secularist, socialist, propagandist and champ of a free press, is now at editing stage. But having written songs from the age of 5, tunes and words continued to come to her. “Yorkshire Hills is a song that came to me in the ’80s in Halifax,” she asserts. “I needed to express what I feel about the history of Yorkshire, my family’s adoptive county, which you can feel permeate your bones and spirit when you walk there particularly in cities like Halifax and Huddersfield. “I love Halifax and am entranced by it and its history.” the tune Harry was written when her folks lived in Fixby, but wasn’t electrified by any one of that name.
“I had had the tune for a considerable time and the words were terribly simple,” she is saying. “It is awfully tricky to write an easy song with straightforward lyrics and keep it interesting.” Having produced no recorded music for twenty years, Catherine released an album called Princelet Street in 2006, produced and organized by guitar strummer Kevin Healy. She is saying : “The album is galvanized by the street and a feeling of family, past and present. Generations of my folks lived in or close to the Town of London. My great-grandmother Susannah Constantine, was born in Princelet Street in 1851, her mother worked as a silk winder, her dad as a fancy comb-maker. As a young man my dad used to work as a sales rep for Geo Glanfield