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Diana Coupland
12+ albums
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Diana Coupland (5 March 1932 – 10 November 2006) was an English actress best remembered for her role as "Jean Abbott" on Bless This House, which she played from 1971 to 1976. Coupland was born in Leeds in 1932, and originally wanted to be a ballet dancer, but she could not fulfill this ambition due to a horse-riding accident. At the age of 11 her music career started when Barney Colehan, a BBC producer, heard Coupland sing and she sang on one of his radio shows. By the time she reached 14, she was singing full time at the Mecca Locarno in Leeds, and when she was 15 moved with her parents to London, where she became a resident singer at Mecca's Tottenham Court Road ballroom. During the 1940s and 1950s, she became a leading singer of the day, singing at the The Dorchester and The Savoy. Coupland also dubbed the singing voices of actresses who could not sing, namely Lana Turner in Betrayed and most famously in the James Bond film Dr. No, where she dubbed the singing voice of Ursula Andress. She gave up professional singing in the 1960s. In 1959, she was unexpectedly cast by Joan Littlewood as Sally in the Theatre Workshop musical Make Me An Offer, and she soon appeared in many West End plays including Gigi and Not Now, Darling. Her television appearances started in the 1960s, and early appearances included Dixon of Dock Green, The Wednesday Play, Softly, Softly and Z-Cars. However, after playing a mother in Please Sir! and the Siberian wife in Mel Brooks's 1970 film The Twelve
top songs
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Under the Mango Tree
4,1502Under The Mango Tree - Remastered 2003
7403Under the Mango Tree - 2003 - Remaster
6364Under the Mango Tree - From Dr. No
4005Kingston Calypso
3596Kingston Calypso (Three Blind Mice)
3047Under the Mango Tree (From Dr. No)
768Underneath The Mango Tree
539Under The Mango Tree [2]
3710Under the Mango Tree (2003 Remastered)
33albums
Dr. No
Best Of 50 Years James Bond
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James Bond! 007 - Dr.No
Best Of Bond...James Bond (50th Anniversary Collection)
Best of Bond...James Bond 50 Years - 50 Tracks
Dr. No (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Best Of Bond...James Bond
James Bond! 007, Dr.No (Original SoundTrack)
Best Of Bond… James Bond 50 Years – 50 Tracks
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James Bond! 007 - Dr.No (Original Soundtrack from "James Bond! 007 - Dr.No")
Best Of Bond... James Bond: 50 Years - 50 Tracks
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Best of Bond - 50 Years - Disc 2