Nancy Whiskey

b. Anne Alexandra Youthful Wilson, 4 March 1935, Glasgow, Scotland, d. 1 Feb 2003, Leicester, Leicestershire, Britain. Whiskey began her profession playing and performing traditional tunes but later, through the skiffle music growth within the 50s, she relocated south with her enthusiast, jazz pianist Bob Kelly, and her repertoire of Scottish traditional tunes. She was presented with the surname Whiskey having become from the music ‘The Calton Weaver’, whose chorus contains the collection ‘Whiskey, Whiskey, Nancy Whiskey’. An EP documented for Topic Information, Nancy Whiskey Sings, included the Irish rebel music ‘The Daring Fenian Males’ within the monitor list, but this monitor did not show up on the record, having been substituted. Her main claim to popularity arrived in 1957, once the Chas McDevitt Skiffle Group, offering Nancy Whiskey, produced the UK Best 5 and US Best 40 with ‘Freight Teach’. That they had a amount of success having a following single, ‘Greenback Buck’, which produced the UK Best 30 exactly the same yr. In 1958, Nancy remaining the group to become changed by Shirley Douglas. She loved a brief profession within the Oriole label, documenting some singles using the studio room group the Skifflers. Her romantic relationship using the still wedded Kelly also produced the webpages of the united kingdom tabloids. She continuing to perform like a folk designer and sometimes reunited with McDevitt, showing up on UK tv in 1991 and six years later on in a significant celebration from the skiffle period in the Royal Albert Hall in London.