Noeleen Batley - 1964 - Forgive Me FLAC

Forgive Me/Surfer Boy/Between Two Trees/My Cathedral



During the early 1960s, pop singer Noeleen Batley (born in 1944 and dubbed `Australia's Little Miss Sweetheart') was a regular on television pop shows like Six O'Clock Rock and Bandstand. She scored a hit single for Festival's Rex label with `Barefoot Boy'/`When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again', which reached the Top 5 in most states during November 1960. Her debut single was actually `Starry Eyes'/`Soldier Soldier Won't You Marry Me' in February 1960.

She recorded two more moderately successful singles for the Rex label, `Rendezvous'/`Fickle Fingers' (February 1961) and `Tammy'/`Little Sir Echo' (August 1961), and then signed direct to Festival for `Ice Cream Man'/`Over in that Happy Land' (September 1961). Throughout that time, Batley toured with artists like Johnny O'Keefe, Col Joye and the Joy Boys, Johnny Chester, Lucky Starr and The Allen Brothers. She was named Australia's Top Female Vocalist of 1961.

 Following four more singles, `Steady Johnny'/ `Letter Full of Tears' (March 1962), `Don't Play No. 9'/`Crying Fool' (June), `Ten Lonely Weekends'/`My Boy' (March 1963) and `Surfer Boy'/ `Forgive Me' (February 1964), Batley scored her second biggest hit with `My Little Treasure from Japan' (#24 in October 1964). The original Japanese version of the song, `Kon Nichi Wa Akachan', had already sold over a million copies in Japan. Batley's version was issued in Japan and sold over 60 000 copies. When Batley toured there during 1965, she was well received. `Tears Of Farewell' also sold 60 000 copies in Japan.
 

Batley began to move into cabaret, and recorded seven more singles for Festival in Australia before travelling to the UK in 1969. She recorded one single in England (`Seabird'/`Let It Stay this Way'), toured throughout Europe and represented Australia at the Brazil Popular Song Festival held in Rio de Janeiro. Batley later settled in the USA and retired from regular performing.