Name Lynne Hamilton Role Singer | Albums Let It Be Jesus | |
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Similar People Allan Caswell, The Caravelles, Kathryn Rollins, Archie Roach | ||
Lynne hamilton on the inside music video
Lynne Hamilton (born 1953) is an English-born singer, notable for her career in Australia, having recorded the single On the Inside, the theme to the enormously popular cult series Prisoner, which became a Number #1 locally, and the quickest for a female artist to reach Gold status and a Number #3 in the UK, it also amassed an following in the USA, so much so, that it was recorded as a cover by Patti Page. Hamilton, now works as an Evangelist Minister.
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- Lynne hamilton on the inside music video
- Lynne Hamilton On The Inside totp2
- Early life and career
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Lynne Hamilton - On The Inside [totp2]
Early life and career
Hamilton was born in 1953 in Lancashire, the eldest of four children. Her career as a singer began as a teenager when she joined a backing group The Desperadoes. They appeared on the same bill as acts such as The Who, Freddy and the Dreamers and The Animals. She knew the Beatles personally, having been signed with the same record labels and having been on the same TV shows and at the same parties and social promotional events for the record label for four years. She later had a four-year stint as a singer with The Caravelles, who successfully toured in the UK and across Europe. In 1971 Hamilton moved to Australia where she variously owned and operated a car hire company and restaurants.
In 1979 Lynne Hamilton was given the opportunity to sing a song titled On the Inside, the theme tune for a new soap opera set at a women's prison: Prisoner.
The song, "On the Inside" was written by Allan Caswell and was released as a single in Australia. It reached number one in the singles chart and sold in excess of 80,000 copies. A follow up album also named "On The Inside' was released on the Summit label in 1979.
Ten years after this initial success, the song was issued in the UK for the first time. To coincide with the series' first broadcast on UK television the single was rush-released and reached No. 3 instantly in the UK singles charts in 1989. Hamilton then performed "On the Inside" on Top of the Pops and similar TV programmes throughout the UK. On the Inside was re-released as a digital download and CD Single in March 2012.