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Peggy March
March in 1967
Born
Margaret Annemarie Battavio
March 8, 1948
(age 73)
Lansdale, Pennsylvania
, U.S.
Other names
Little Peggy March
Occupation
Singer
Years active
1962−present
Peggy March (born March 8, 1948, in
Lansdale, Pennsylvania
) is an American
pop
singer
. In the United States, she is primarily known for her 1963
million-selling
song "
I Will Follow Him
".Although she is sometimes remembered as a
one-hit wonder
(despite many strong and promising singles), she continued to have success in Europe well into the 1970s.
Career
Born to an Italian-American family, March was discovered at age 13 singing at her cousin's weddingand was introduced to record producers
Hugo & Luigi
. They gave her the nickname Little Peggy March because she was only 4 ft 10 in (1.47 m) tall, she was only 13, the
record
she did with them was "
Little Me
," and her birthday was in March.
On April 24, 1963, her single "
I Will Follow Him
" soared to
number one
on the United States
charts
. She recorded the song in early January 1963 and it was released on January 22, when she was only 14. March became the youngest female artist with a number one hit, at 15, in late April 1963, a record that still stands for the
Billboard
Hot 100
. The recording also reached number one in
Australia
,
New Zealand
,
South Africa
,
Japan
, and
Scandinavia
. It failed to chart in the
United Kingdom
. It was a translation of the French song "Chariot" recorded a year earlier by
Petula Clark
.March also became the first white female solo artist to hit #1 on the
Billboard
R&B chart
.
March's success also came with financial trouble. She was a
minor
and the "
Coogan Law
" prevented her parents from managing her money. The responsibility was placed on her manager, Russell Smith. It was discovered in 1966 that he had squandered the fortune, leaving her with 0. March graduated from
Lansdale Catholic High School
in 1966.
Although she is remembered in the United States by some as a
one-hit wonder
, her singles, "I Wish I Were a Princess" and "Hello Heartache, Goodbye Love". made the
Top 30
in the United States, with the latter also reaching #29 on the
UK Singles Chart
.
[5]
As with many American artists, March's career in her native United States was derailed in part by the
British Invasion
, which at the time was pushing many American acts out of popularity, and she had no hits there once the Invasion began in 1964. Recording for
RCA Victor
, March made 18
singles
from 1964 to 1971. She also cut several albums, none of which sold well in the
United States
.
[1]
She began having a strong presence in the
European
and
Asian
music markets and moved to Germany in 1969. She won the
Deutscher Schlager Contest
in 1965 and her song "Mit 17 hat man noch Träume" ("At 17 you still have dreams") placed No. 2 in the German Singles Chart. This was followed by German songs like "In der Carnaby Street", "Einmal verliebt — immer verliebt", "Hey, Romeo und Julia" ("On Carnaby Street, Once in Love-Always in Love, Hey, Romeo and Juliet" ... No. 1 in German Charts), "Der Schuster macht schöne Schuhe" ("'The Cobbler Makes Beautiful Shoes"), "Telegramm aus Tennessee", "Die Maschen der Männer" and "Das sind die Träume, die man so träumt". Her commercial success in Germany continued through much of the 1970s;
[1]
she tried her luck in representing Germany in the
Eurovision Song Contest
in 1969, only to be placed second in the national final with the song "Hey! Das ist Musik für mich". March made another Eurovision attempt in 1975, when she performed the
Ralph Siegel
composition "Alles geht vorüber" in the German national contest. Again, she was placed second.
In 1979, she experimented with
disco
on the album
Electrifying
, but it failed to achieve commercial success. By 1981 record companies did not renew her contracts, and she moved back to the United StatesIn 1984, however,
Jermaine Jackson
and
Pia Zadora
achieved a major European hit single with the track "
When the Rain Begins to Fall
", co-written by March. Although not a hit in the UK or in the US, it went to #1 in Germany, France, the Netherlands and Switzerland. In 1998, the song entered the German Top 10 again when covered by rapper Pappa Bear. The
cult
film
Hairspray
featured "I Wish I Were a Princess" in 1988, and a retro fad in Germany brought her some continuing success starting in the mid-1990s with the album
Die Freiheit Frau zu sein
(1995). Her song "I Will Follow Him" was featured in the 1992 movie
Sister Act
.
March currently works largely in Germany and in the
Las Vegas
music scene and has also performed at
Dick Clark
's American Bandstand Theater in
Branson, Missouri
. In 2004 she was the headliner in
Riff Markowitz
's
Fabulous Palm Springs Follies
at the
Plaza Theater
in
Palm Springs, California
.In 2005, she released an album of standards,
Get Happy
, followed by the album
Meine Liebe ist stark genug
(2008).
In March 2010, March went into the recording studio to record her first album of new, original material in English in over 30 years. A collaboration with Scandinavian songwriter and producer Soren Jensen, the album
Always and Forever
was released on October 13, 2010. It was followed by a special edition for the German-speaking countries in April 2012, including two duets with the Dutch singer
José Hoebee
, one of them being a
cover version
of "I Will Follow Him"; which had also been a #1 single in the Netherlands and Belgium for Hoebee in 1982 (March further recorded a subsequent recording in 2012 for a 2013 release to commemorate the song's 50th anniversary). March also recorded another version of "When The Rain Begins To Fall", as a duet with the German singer Andreas Zaron.