Mrs. Mills

The sort of entertainment that Mrs. Mills became famous for in the 1960s had been performed for centuries. Ever since the invention of the piano, people would join in with songs played on the "Old Joanna." During the '50s, Winifred Atwell and Russ Conway had made successful chart careers out of it, and then in the early '60s along came Mrs. Mills. Gladys Jordan was born in Beckton, East London, on the 29th of August, 1918. After marrying Bert Mills, she moved with him to Loughton in Essex. Her day job was as the superintendent of the typing pool in the Paymaster General's offi...