Now It’s “Switched On”

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30769, 5 June 1965, Page 2

Now It’s “Switched On”

“I like it. I think it’s great,” said Dinah. So did her advisers. Mr Christopher Phipps, promotion representative of Island Records, Ltd, which has just issued a Lee disc, “I’ll Forgive You Then Forget You” (backed by “Nitty Gritty”), said: “Her hair is smashing now! It is really switch ed-on!” I met Dinah Lee at the i press reception given for her by the Island Records Ltd, a new company. She had just finished recording three more numbers for them: “Pushing a Good Thing,” “I’m Moving On,” and “I can’t Believe What You Say.” The best two of these will be cut on a single disc which should also be released later in Australia and New Zealand. “I think that it is good that. I am recording with a new company over here,” said Dinah. “It means that they

will be trying a lot harder to get successes.” Her first record has been played on the pirate radio ships anchored off Britain, and she has appeared on “Pop Inn,” a 8.8. C. radio programme. Her disc is also to be played later this week on “Pick of the Pops.” Wants TV Shows “We are plugging hard for TV appearances,” said Dinah. So far she has not been able to “break” into any of the major national pop shows, but has some minor bookings, such as in “Scene at 6.30” on Granada Television at Manchester.

Over a lunch in Soho, the grey-eyed brunette told me of her four weeks in the United States —only two of them working, weeks, due to the limitations of a job permit. She spent three weeks in Hollywood, and appeared on eight television shows—-

“Hollywood Go Go,” “Shindig," “Hollywood Palace.” “Jimmy Rodgers Show,” “Hullabaloo” and others. There were four days in New York before flying to Britain. She will return tq the United States in September for an appearance in “The Ed Sullivan Show.” Return to N.Z.? If successful in Britain, she will stay until then. Otherwise she will return to New Zealand and Australia for concerts in July. Meanwhile Miss Lee hopes to find time to do a lot of shopping in London, where she likes “the way people dress and the way the boys do their hair.” She is mainly eyeing dresses and shoes, and hopes that her “£7 a day” funds will stretch far enough (“It’s not much when you're travelling and staying in hotels.”)