{"artistName":"Polly Browne","artistId":9172,"artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/cca/cca05beee22f8f116d1ff639cab75bfe_xl.jpg","srcset":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/cca/cca05beee22f8f116d1ff639cab75bfe_sm.jpg 50w,https://artist99.cdn107.com/cca/cca05beee22f8f116d1ff639cab75bfe_md.jpg 80w,https://artist99.cdn107.com/cca/cca05beee22f8f116d1ff639cab75bfe_lg.jpg 200w,https://artist99.cdn107.com/cca/cca05beee22f8f116d1ff639cab75bfe_xl.jpg 340w","artistBio":"\u003cp\u003ePolly Brown (aka Polly Browne) (born 18 April 1947, Birmingham, England) is an English singer. A member of Pickettywitch and Sweet Dreams - and with each group lead singer on a Top Ten hit, respectively \"That Same Old Feeling\" and \"Honey Honey\" - Brown had a solo hit in 1975 with \"Up in a Puff of Smoke\".\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrown recorded with Pickettywitch from 1969 until 1972, when she cut her first solo album for Pickettywitch's label Pye Records. The songwriting/production team of Gerry Shury and Ron Roker had admired Brown's voice from her Pickettywitch recordings - Shury flatteringly described her as a cross \"between Diana Ross and Dionne Warwick\" - and in 1974 had her record \"Up in a Puff of Smoke\" in a session which also produced a cover of the ABBA song \"Honey, Honey\" on which Roker sang the male vocal.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Honey Honey\" reached the Top Ten in August 1974 assisted by a Top of the Pops appearance by Brown accompanied by Tony Jackson miming Ron Roker's vocal. Jackson would become Brown's regular partner in the Sweet Dreams duo who had five post \"Honey Honey\" singles, but none of them charted. As a member of Sweet Dreams, Brown was billed as 'Sara Leone' - a pun on the name of African nation of Sierra Leone - and even performed in black face, although she did not do so on Top of the Pops.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConcurrent with her Sweet Dreams recordings, Brown's solo career began with the August 1974 release of \"Up in a Puff of Smoke\" as the inaugural single release on the GTO label. The track fell short of the UK Top 40 with a #43 peak However, in the US the song became a Top 20 hit in America breaking in the discos - it reached #3 on the U.S. disco chart - to reach #16 on the Billboard Hot 100 in March 1975. \"Up in a Puff of Smoke\" was also a hit in Australia and New Zealand respectively reaching #22 and #13 that summer. The follow-up single, \"You're My Number One\", just missed the UK Top 50 peaking at #52; in New Zealand the track reached #30.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1976, Brown took part in the A Song for Europe competition, becoming the first singer (in a multi-singer format contest) to sing two of the songs being considered for that year's Eurovision Song Contest. As a soloist, she performed \"Do You Believe In Love At First Sight?\" and teaming up with Tony Jackson as Sweet Dreams, they performed \"Love, Kiss And Run\". These entrants finished at respectively #10 and #4 with Brotherhood of Man's \"Save Your Kisses For Me\" becoming that that year's UK Eurovision entrant and eventual Eurovision winner.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrown also recorded the original version of \"Dance Little Lady Dance\", which became a Top Ten hit for Tina Charles who was given it after Brown requested her own version not be released. Brown's 1976 single \"Love Bug\" was eventually recorded by Charles whose version - in medley with \"Sweets For My Sweet\" - reached #26 in 1977.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1980 Brown began recording for her own label Witches Brew, the name a reference to Pickettywitch: her singles included a cover of the Christopher Cross song \"Never Be the Same\".\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrown continues to write and record music including blues material. There is a misconception that she died in 2006, this being due to the death that year of Sheila Rossall who had been the lead singer of a latterday edition of Pickettywitch who - as New Pickettywitch - had worked the club circuit. Rossall had attracted some publicity in 1981 as a sufferer from total allergy syndrome and Brown often faced questions about the illness as a result.\u003c/p\u003e","musicPath":"/music/Polly+Browne","playStationPath":"/stations/117153969/play","stationId":117153969,"bioPath":"/music/Polly+Browne/_full_bio","similars":[{"musicPath":"/music/Mally+Page","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/622/6225038ecb646e043c450927f0847f3a_md.jpg","artistName":"Mally Page","artistId":132810,"station_id":285650776},{"musicPath":"/music/Julie+Grant","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/bc6/bc6d1e6e6325451f3a8735a65a695a07_md.jpg","artistName":"Julie Grant","artistId":116228,"station_id":283090503},{"musicPath":"/music/Jeannie+the+Big+Guys","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/b31/b31d195c42d86cebb1369cb87d3f9bcd_md.jpg","artistName":"Jeannie \u0026 the Big Guys","artistId":94107,"station_id":275673126},{"musicPath":"/music/Dean+Friedman","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/851/8518f5c6ca3cd590eddf6ff4ad02cb22_md.jpg","artistName":"Dean Friedman","artistId":9184,"station_id":113360274},{"musicPath":"/music/Dave+Sampson","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/2b3/2b3add1e11365ea578a00c5b0877b854_md.jpg","artistName":"Dave Sampson","artistId":425774,"station_id":400279310},{"musicPath":"/music/P+J+Proby","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/07f/07fcc021162612943291866b841b5cb7_md.jpg","artistName":"P.J. 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