Catherine Howe

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Up North 04:06 Tools
On A Misty Morning 02:34 Tools
Prologue 00:47 Tools
It's Not Likely 03:52 Tools
Nothing More Than Strangers 02:10 Tools
My Child 02:36 Tools
Interlude 00:45 Tools
What A Beautiful Place 02:32 Tools
Words Through A Locked Door 03:49 Tools
In The Hot Summer 02:57 Tools
It Comes With The Breezes 03:28 Tools
The Innocence Of A Child 03:43 Tools
Epilogue 00:51 Tools
Harry (From Harry) 03:48 Tools
White Winter Hymnal 04:03 Tools
Harry 03:41 Tools
Loving Arms (From Harry) 03:08 Tools
Let’s Keep It Quiet Now 02:38 Tools
Harry - From Harry 03:49 Tools
Loving Arms - From Harry 03:09 Tools
The Devil's Driving Me (From Silent Mother Nature) 04:06 Tools
Loving Arms 03:08 Tools
Sweet Dreams (From Harry) 03:17 Tools
What Are Friends For Anyway (From Silent Mother Nature) 03:36 Tools
You Make Me (From Silent Mother Nature) 03:40 Tools
Callous Young Man (From Silent Mother Nature) 02:45 Tools
Hot Night - From Harry 03:19 Tools
Silent Mother Nature (From Silent Mother Nature) 03:19 Tools
All The Music In Me (From Silent Mother Nature) 03:33 Tools
Lucy Snow (From Silent Mother Nature) 02:27 Tools
Hot Night 03:18 Tools
It Took My Breath Away (From Silent Mother Nature) 03:35 Tools
Just Supposing (From Silent Mother Nature) 03:46 Tools
To Be Alone With You - From Harry 02:06 Tools
Castle Gate (From Harry) 05:44 Tools
To Be Alone With You (From Harry) 02:05 Tools
Sweet Dreams - From Harry 03:18 Tools
When The Sparrow Flies (From Harry) 03:31 Tools
Where Would You Start? (From Harry) 04:19 Tools
Where Would You Start? - From Harry 04:21 Tools
Keep Me Talking (From Silent Mother Nature) 02:07 Tools
Harry - From "Harry" 04:07 Tools
Crumbs On The Table (From Silent Mother Nature) 02:37 Tools
Hot Night (From Harry) 03:17 Tools
High Wide Sky (From Harry) 02:41 Tools
Freedom Enough (From Silent Mother Nature) 03:06 Tools
Sweet Dreams 03:17 Tools
The Gifts You Gave Me (From Harry) 04:46 Tools
In The Blue - Acoustic 03:16 Tools
Castle Gate - From Harry 05:46 Tools
High Wide Sky - From Harry 02:42 Tools
Thoughts On Thomas Hardy (Acoustic) 04:44 Tools
When The Sparrow Flies - From Harry 04:44 Tools
Lucy Snow 02:27 Tools
When The Sparrow Flies 03:32 Tools
To Be Alone With You 02:05 Tools
Lucy Snowe (Acoustic) 02:57 Tools
Keep Me Talking - From Silent Mother Nature 02:08 Tools
shine like a star 03:12 Tools
You Make Me 03:41 Tools
Freedom Enough 03:07 Tools
The Gifts You Gave Me - From Harry 02:08 Tools
Keep Me Talking 02:08 Tools
It Took My Breath Away - From Silent Mother Nature 03:36 Tools
Castle Gate 05:45 Tools
Lucy Snow - From Silent Mother Nature 02:28 Tools
Freedom Enough - From Silent Mother Nature 03:07 Tools
It Took My Breath Away 03:36 Tools
High Wide Sky 02:41 Tools
In Return For What I Bring (Acoustic) 03:33 Tools
In The Blue 02:05 Tools
Where The White Rose Meets The Red (Acoustic) 04:12 Tools
Silent Mother Nature 03:20 Tools
Silent Mother Nature - From Silent Mother Nature 04:12 Tools
The Gifts You Gave Me 04:47 Tools
Callous Young Man 02:46 Tools
Just Supposing 03:47 Tools
Going Home (Acoustic) 03:24 Tools
Keeping The Faith Near (Acoustic) 02:58 Tools
In The Blue (Acoustic) 03:16 Tools
Nothing Love Does Surprises Me (Acoustic) 03:52 Tools
All The Music In Me 03:34 Tools
The Devil's Driving Me 04:07 Tools
Going Home 03:26 Tools
Thoughts On Thomas Hardy - Acoustic 04:45 Tools
In the Hot Summer [Extended Play] 03:24 Tools
Thoughts On Thomas Hardy 04:44 Tools
Harry (Acoustic) 03:46 Tools
Nothing Love Does Surprises Me 03:53 Tools
Where Would You Start? 04:20 Tools
Crumbs On The Table 02:37 Tools
Lucy Snowe - Acoustic 02:58 Tools
An English Tale (Acoustic) 02:16 Tools
one percent 03:41 Tools
The Devil's Driving Me - From Silent Mother Nature 04:08 Tools
princelet street 03:22 Tools
Lucy Snowe 02:51 Tools
Where The White Rose Meets The Red - Acoustic 04:12 Tools
Because It Would Be Beautiful 03:01 Tools
Crumbs On The Table - From Silent Mother Nature 02:38 Tools
What Are Friends For Anyway 03:37 Tools
Harry - Acoustic 03:46 Tools
Trees (Acoustic) 03:20 Tools
all i can say 04:01 Tools
Where The White Rose Meets The Red 04:12 Tools
Keeping The Faith Near - Acoustic 02:58 Tools
Callous Young Man - From Silent Mother Nature 03:20 Tools
Let's Keep It Quiet Now 03:20 Tools
Trees - Acoustic 03:21 Tools
In Return For What I Bring - Acoustic 03:34 Tools
What Are Friends For Anyway - From Silent Mother Nature 04:12 Tools
Nothing Love Does Surprises Me - Acoustic 03:53 Tools
c'est la vie 03:04 Tools
An English Tale - Acoustic 02:16 Tools
Just Supposing - From Silent Mother Nature 03:48 Tools
All The Music In Me - From Silent Mother Nature 03:48 Tools
say the word 03:06 Tools
you are 03:02 Tools
come back soon 03:06 Tools
someone's been there before 03:36 Tools
You Make Me - From Silent Mother Nature 04:20 Tools
Quietly and Softly 03:33 Tools
Where Would You Start 04:20 Tools
Move on over 03:01 Tools
An English Tale 03:01 Tools
Keeping The Faith Near 03:01 Tools
Going Home - Feat. Ric Sanders 03:36 Tools
yorkshire hills 03:01 Tools
You Never Know 04:00 Tools
Forse eri tu 03:01 Tools
Mark My Word 03:37 Tools
Turn the Corner Singing 03:37 Tools
no matter 03:45 Tools
Who Would Know 03:37 Tools
In Return For What I Bring 03:33 Tools
Innocence Of Child 03:01 Tools
Loving Arms - From "Harry" 03:37 Tools
God Help the Ones 03:37 Tools
Dragonfly days 03:37 Tools
An Apology 03:01 Tools
Going Home - Acoustic 03:24 Tools
It's Good 03:24 Tools
Mr G.T. 03:24 Tools
Too Far Gone 03:24 Tools
brothers (1850) 03:37 Tools
Don't Make a Promise 03:37 Tools
Over and Over Again 03:37 Tools
Its not likely 03:37 Tools
Welcome to My Garden 03:37 Tools
I'd Make Him Happy 03:37 Tools
Trees 03:37 Tools
This Old Peg 03:37 Tools
It's Not Likely 03:33 Tools
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Catherine Howe is a female English singer-songwriter. She began a successful acting career in the late 1960s, though has since gained a cult following on the folk music scene ('one of the great unrecognised voices...' - Record Collector 2007) as one of the highest-regarded performers of her generation ('Catherine Howe was a Kate Bush before her time...' - Observer Music 2007) Catherine is an Ivor Novello award winning songwriter who has earned top-class reviews in all major music periodicals both in the UK and the US, including Folk Album of the Year from The Sunday Times. Following a gap of more than two decades, during which she raised her daughter and gained a first-class honours degree, Catherine Howe has returned to song-writing and recording, also giving occasional performances. Howe trained as an actress at the Corona Drama School in London. She commenced a successful acting career in the late 1960s, performing in contemporary television dramas such as Z Cars, The Wednesday Play, Doctor Who and Dixon of Dock Green. Howe went on to appear in Barney Platts-Mill's film Private Road. In 1970, Howe met Andrew Cameron Miller, an executive at Reflection, a subsidiary of CBS Records, and as a result recorded her debut album What A Beautiful Place at Trident Studios in London, in February 1971. Miller paired Howe with Bobby Scott, an American pianist and record producer who had previously co-written the the Hollies' He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother. However, Reflection ceased to trade when the album was on the point of release, and as a result it remained largely unheard until it was reissued in 2007 on the Numero label. The re-release met with universal critical acclaim; extraordinarily, for a debut album, gaining a five-star review from Observer Music ('could be Dusty Springfield covering Joni Mitchell...'). This is even more remarkable considering the master tapes were by then lost; with the re-recording made from an original source copy. The vinyl print remains the holy grail of record collectors, selling for over £1200-. Howe featured on soundtrack recordings in the UK and Europe throughout the 1970s, and provided the lead vocal for Ennio Morricone's theme song Un genie, deux associes, une cloche OST - 1976. Catherine worked with the Italian jazz musician Piero Piccioni, recording two songs for his 1972 film God Under the Skin and singing in an Italian TV broadcast with Piccioni two years later. Howe's second LP Harry was released in the UK in 1975 on RCA, for which the title track received an Ivor Novello award (only the second female recording artist to achieve this). Such is its continued popularity that Harry remains available as a mobile phone ring-tone. Also in 1975, Howe appeared on film as the singer during the title credits of the notorious British sex farce, Jim Atkinson's Can You Keep It Up For A Week? The original song, crafted by the Ted Dicks/Hazel Adair team, seemed incongruous against the slap-stick comedy. RCA released a follow-up album, Silent Mother Nature in 1976, winning Folk Album of the Year from the Sunday Times.[citation needed] A single was released called Until The Morning Comes written by Scottish singer/guitarist Dave Kelly and Ray McRiner, and was performed on LWT's Supersonic. The following year, the title tracks of both RCA LPs were re-released (together with the aforementioned single) on the EP The Truth of the Matter and was one of the top 75 selling EPs of 1977.[citation needed] Throughout that year Howe produced and sang the songs for BBC's That's Life. Howe 's fourth album came two years later, with Dragonfly Days, released on Ariola Records. Ariola also released singles by Howe prior to and following the album, some of which are not included on the LP, and promoted as far afield as South America; enough single records to fill another album. One was with producer Mike Batt, Howe's self-penned "Sit Down And Think Again", another was a cover of Carole King's Goin' Back produced by Pip Williams. Dragonfly Days extended Howe 's style across a variety of genre - but to date remains the only record not reissued on CD. In 1979, the BBC filmed Rhythm on 2: Catherine Howe and Judie Tzuke, a live concert at Ipswich's Corn Exchange. The following year, again for the BBC, Howe featured on both the Jeremy Taylor and Sacha Distel shows. None of Howe's albums sold in large amounts at the time, and after Dragonfly Days, she decided to retire from the music business. Howe explains this chapter in her own words on the tradmusic.com website: "Despite promotion and tours with Andy Fairweather-Low, Chris de Burgh, David Soul and later with Randy Edleman, the albums and singles didn't sell enough. I thought it was because of me, but it was as much (I've since learned) because they weren't in the shops to buy. To remedy this it was suggested that maybe I should write 'country and western', maybe I should change my hair, maybe wear black leather. So the music business, which I loved, and I parted company. Like a bad marriage, some damage was sustained before separation took place..." There was some activity in the 1980s with a re-issue of the Harry single in 1984 (on public demand with the birth of Prince Harry).[citation needed] A year later, Howe contributed two songs to the Sounds of Yorkshire LP: a re-recording of Lucy Snow (Lucy Snowe) from the Silent Mother Nature album; and a new piece in a traditional vein, Yorkshire Hills. In 1989 Howe had a daughter, Jenny, and later earned a first-class degree in History and Religion from the Open University. She is currently working on a book on the life of the 19th century secularist George Holyoake as well as continuing with her song-writing. In 2002 Howe returned to recording, resulting in a new CD, her fifth: Princelet Street. This coincided with the launch of an official website and preceded the reissue of her 1970s albums What a Beautiful Place (with the Numero label), Harry (with BGO) and Silent Mother Nature (with BGO). Of Princelet Street, Howe wrote: "My great-grandmother Susannah Constantine was born on Princelet Street in 1851, her mother worked as a silk winder, her father as a fancy comb maker. Lots of my family lived in or near the City of London in the early 1800s, and even before I knew this I used to go city walking there as a girl because it felt like coming home. Princelet Street the album is inspired by the street and a sense of family, past and present, and as I enjoyed writing and recording its songs I hope you'll enjoy hearing them..." Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.