Maureen Evans

b. 23 March 1940, Cardiff, Wales. Evans began her singing career on the Embassy label in 1958, which made budget-priced recordings of contemporary hits for the UK's Woolworths chain-store. A year later she moved to Oriole Records and enjoyed chart success with ‘The Big Hurt' in 1960, and peaked two years after with ‘Like I Do'. This perky offering, more teen-orientated than Evans' normal fare, reached the UK Top 3, but later releases failed to emulate its success. She continued to release singles into the late 60s but issued just one EP, 1963's Melancholy Me. In 1965, she chan...