From: henrychalder@gmail.com   
      
   On Tuesday, 18 May 2004 at 07:09:39 UTC+1, vaiben wrote:   
   > > > Does anyone know what became of Polly Brown? Last I heard (and I mean   
   > > about   
   > > > 20 years ago) she was extremely ill with a form of total allergy   
   > > syndrome...   
   > No, Polly never had Total Allergy Syndrome. That's another urban myth!   
   > I think it was Maggie Farran (who briefly fronted a band in the mid   
   > '70s called New Pickettywitch) who had that illness, certainly not   
   > Polly. I don't know what came of Maggie, but last I heard (a year or   
   > two ago), Polly was alive and well. She released solo recordings well   
   > into the 80s on the independent Witch label. Some of these (together   
   > with 'Puff of Smoke' and some Pickettywitch hits) appeared on an RPM   
   > compilation CD in 1995 - 'Bewitched: The Polly Browne Story', and more   
   > recently Polly had some involvement in the release of the Sanctuary CD   
   > compilation 'That Same Old Feeling: The Complete Recordings' which   
   > features all Pickettywitch's self-titled 1970 album as well as all   
   > their A & B sides. Sleeve notes are great, and feature recent comments   
   > from Polly. In fact both CDs are a must for Polly fans. There was talk   
   > of Sanctuary releasing more of her solo recordings on CD for the first   
   > time, but nothing's happened yet.   
      
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