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Recordings by Janette Scott

The Good Companions Film Soundtrack ('Round the World, *This Kind of Love, *If Only): Parlophone EP: GEP-8604 (Issued 1957)

(and * on Parlophone 78rpm GE: R-4282) (Arranged by Laurie Johnson, Conducted by Louis Levy) (Issued 1957). It is not certain whether Janette's singing voice was dubbed for this film (as reported in Daily Mirror column in 1957)

The Good Companions/Where There's You (with John Fraser, orchestra conducted by Tony Osborne): Pye 78rpm record: Nixa N-15085 (Issued 1957) (not from film Soundtrack)

"We Love Life" (LP Record: Fontana TFL-5102 (mono) featuring vocals by Janette Scott and husband singer/songwriter Jackie Rae, with Johnny Gregory and his Orchestra . Recorded c1960. Track Listing (12 Tracks, all with "Life" in the title): Life is just a bowl of cherries /There's a lull in my life /The best things in life are free/ Life upon this wicked stage/ All my life/ Life gets tee-jus don't it?/ Life's such a wonderful thing/ Life is nothing without music/ Be my life's companion/ Love of my life/ Life is a song/ Into each life some rain must fall.

"Sweet Talk" (EP Record: Fontana TFE-17203) (mono) featuring vocals by Janette Scott and husband singer/songwriter Jackie Rae, With Johnny Gregory and his Orchestra. Recorded c1960. Four Tracks: Makin Whoopee/ I like the likes of you/ Past my prime/ Without you I'm nothing.

Books by and about Janette Scott

Act One : Janette Scott  
Nelson, 1953- 88 pages. Autobiography of the child-star, daughter of actress Thora Hird. (Written when Janette was 14.......)  [out of print] 

Scene and Hird
Thora Hird
Paperback - 224 pages (22 May, 1995)
Fount; ISBN: 0006279295

Is It Thora? Vol 2: 1975 - 1995
Thora Hird  
Paperback - 240 pages (June 1997)
Fount; ISBN: 0006279872

Not in the Diary
Thora Hird 
Hardcover - 208 pages (20 April, 2000)
Hodder & Stoughton; ISBN: 034074619X    

It Wasn't All Velvet
Mel Torme Paperback (1989)
Zebra Books; ISBN: 0821728628  

David Frost: an Autobiography Part 1: From Congregations to Audiences
David Frost
Paperback - 512 pages (October 1994)
HarperCollins; ISBN: 0006380824

Thora Hird (Large format illustrated tribute book, pub 2001). Several photos of Janette Scott in the 1950s.

References in BFI Library- Articles in 'TV Times' (UK) : 20th Sept 1986 (v124,n39); 30th March 1985 (v119,n14); 21st Oct 1976 (v85,n44)

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