Music Tracks — Patti Sommers

A 5 minute medley of some of my favourite live clips containing Ruby Tuesday, He Believes In Me, Lilac Wine, and The Way We Were.

A video of one of my singles - "Bill" - which was released in 1975 and Hit-Picked by Tony Blackburn.

Recently a lovely young girl called Kerith in Brisbane, Australia put two of my singles onto You Tube. Both of these were recorded by me as "Patti and The Patettes" and their titles are "Bill" and "Summer Heartbreak".

Because of the interest that has been sparked around my name, people have been asking "Who is Patti and The Pattettes?" So my husband Tony who is a great video editor has put this video together for me of my single "Bill". This is only the first video I will be adding loads more info, pictures, videos, audio tracks, press clippings and more as time permits.

We will be adding to this web site and updating the info on a regular basis for those folk who have a genuine interest in my career from the past through to the present day.

Thanks for watching!
Patti x

Here's my next single after "Bill" - "Summer Heartbreak". Written by the legendary Daniel Boon, Summer Heartbreak was released by United Artists in 1976. For reasons beyond my understanding the record company decided that a song about lost love from a summer holiday should be released in the spring!

We had a lot of fun putting the visuals together for this video, so I hope you enjoy it. If you do, I'd be thrilled if you told all your friends. Oh, and Linda -- you have a starring role!

Thanks for watching,
Patti x

My second single, Mouth - this time with Decca. It was written by Sandie Shaw and her then husband Jeff Banks (who later became famous in the 1980's with The Clothes Show). When I walked into the recording studio I was amazed to see Herbie Flowers (Blue Mink, T-Rex, Sky) on bass, Elton John's drummer Nigel Olsson (on drums, unsurprisingly), and the UK's most famous pedal steel guitarist, B J Cole completing the line up; all there to play for little old me!

BBC Midland Radio Orchestra

This is one of my favourite BBC Midland Radio Orchestra tracks. Not a great recording unfortunately, as it came off a damaged cassette, but still worth putting up here, I think.

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This comes from my album, and it's a track I enjoyed singing. I also performed it for television in full Top Hat and Tails regalia with 12 dancers on a BBC variety show recorded at the BBC's Shepherds Bush studios.

Norrie Paramor

Another BBC Midland Radio Orchestra track, conducted by the legendary Norrie Paramor (Cliff Richard). I love the unusual arrangement of this song, plus the meaningful lyrics and the gentle flow of the melody. This Bacharach and David composition was originally written as a promotional track for a 1963 film of the same name, and has been sung by many great singers over the ages. I like everything about it.

This somewhat obscure song was the B side of Sylvia Vrethammar's hit 'Y Viva Espana' in some countries. I heard Sylvia sing it when I worked with her and I asked if she'd mind me recording it. Once again, great lyrics and a beautiful melody.

The Hungry Years was a Neil Sedaka song from an album of the same name. I'm a sucker for poignant lyrics!

Another obscure song, this was written by the lovely Diane Solomon, and recorded with her permission, although my arrangement is quite different to her original. I loved the song so much that I made it the title song of my album.

I thought it was about time that I included an up-tempo number, and this Lerner and Lane composition is one that I just love to sing.

Too Much Love was the B side to Summer Heartbreak. Written by Brian Savin (BBC, BRMB, Saga, Savin Productions) and Ed Mathews, it's a happy, bouncy track which has proved quite popular on the Northern Soul circuit.