| 词条 | Noeleen Batley |
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| name = Noeleen Batley | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = 25 December 1944 | birth_place = Sydney, Australia | death_date = | death_place = | nationality = Australian | other_names = | occupation = | years_active = 1960-1972 | known_for = | notable_works = Barefoot Boy, 1960 }}Noeleen Batley (born 25 December 1944) was an Australian pop star in the 1960s. She was known as "Australia's Little Miss Sweetheart".[1] Early lifeBatley was born in Sydney on Christmas Day, 1944, and began singing at the age of five with her mother's encouragement. As a child, she sang on radio shows such as 2UE's Youth Parade, 2UW's Amateur Hour and the ABC's Rockville Junction.[1] She entered numerous talent competitions, and eventually won her first recording contract, with Festival Records, in 1960 as a prize in a singing competition.[2] CareerBatley's first record "Starry Eyed" was released in February 1960, but was not a success.[3] However her next record, released in October of the same year, reached the Top 5 in all Australian mainland capital cities.[2] It was a recording of Barefoot Boy, a song written by the then 16-year-old Helene Grover.[1][4] It remained in the charts for sixteen weeks.[1] With its success, Batley became the first Australian female pop singer to have a national hit song, and began to appear on TV shows such as Youth Show, Bandstand and Six O'Clock Rock.[2] In 1961, Batley was voted Australia's Top Female Singer.[1] Her mother became her manager and together they completed a two-week tour of New Zealand in 1964.[3] She continued to record for Festival until 1969, when she went on a tour of Europe and England. She eventually settled in England, in 1970, and continued to perform there.[1] Her last recording, Seabird, was released in 1972.[1] Later lifeBatley married in 1975 and had a child in 1976. The family lived first in Essex, England, and then in Miami, Florida.[2] References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 {{Cite web|title = NOELEEN BATLEY {{!}} Biography {{!}} MusicMinder, the Premier Entertainers Directory|url = http://www.musicminder.com/scripts/entertainers/displayentertainer.asp?ID=006218|website = www.musicminder.com|access-date = 2016-01-17}} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Batley, Noeleen}}2. ^1 2 3 {{Cite web|title = MILESAGO - Groups & Solo Artists - Noeleen Batley|url = http://www.milesago.com/artists/batley.htm|website = www.milesago.com|access-date = 2016-01-17}} 3. ^1 {{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1301&dat=19640329&id=3PpjAAAAIBAJ&sjid=OOYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6222,8826690&hl=en|title=Smiling on to Success|last=Veitch|first=Jock|date=29 March 1964|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|publisher=Fairfax Media|accessdate=17 January 2016}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/rarecollections/helene-grover/6139308|title=RareCollections - Helene Grover|date=22 February 2015|work=ABC Radio National|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation|accessdate=17 January 2016}} 5 : Living people|People from Sydney|Australian pop singers|1944 births|Australian female pop singers |
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