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Several female singers and a few duos also contributed to and benefited from the British Invasion, such as:

• Dusty Springfield (born Mary O' Brien)-“I Only Want To Be With You”
• Cilla Black (born Priscilla White, she was working as a hat-check girl at Liverpool's Cavern when Brian Epstein discovered her.)- ”You're My World”
  
• Sandie Shaw- "There's Always Something There To Remind Me" -(She doesn't appear to have charted in the U.S., but she was a HUGE star everywhere else. She had many hits and could sing;  don't know why she wasn't a huge star in the States as well)
• Shirley Bassey, from Wales, who had a HUGE hit in 1965 with the fantastic "Goldfinger", (Like Shaw, she was a bigger star everywhere else, but at least you did see her more often on several variety shows here.)
• Marianne Faithfull- ”As Tears Go By”
• Millie Small, a British act by way of Jamaica-”My Boy Lollipop”,
• And probably the best known, Petula Clark, who first hit with ”Downtown”.

Duos included:

• Chad (Stuart) and Jeremy (Clyde) with their first U.S. hit, ”Yesterday's Gone”
• Peter(Asher, the brother of actress Jane Asher, who was dating Paul McCartney at this time) and Gordon(Waller), who had a no. 1 smash, ”A World Without Love”, which McCartney wrote or co-wrote.

And there were numerous one-hit wonders, at least they were in the U.S. Many went on to great international fame throughout the rest of the world (like Sandie Shaw) or became renowned again for discovering or producing future legendary talent (like Jonathan King, who actually had two or three other releases Stateside, but is best known for ”Everyone's Gone To The Moon” (1965). He's had quite a career!)

During 1964, these rock bands and singers sold more than $76 million worth of records in the U.S. alone.(A few of the British acts were so-so, but overall, most were very talented and innovative.) If you combine this with international sales and merchandising of related and commercial products, that's a lot of moola!

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