Holly Sherwood

Holly Sherwood

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Holly Sherwood is an American rock vocalist, best known for her work with Jim Steinman, providing both lead and backing vocals.

Acting career

At the age of three, Holly Sherwood began her professional career as the star of Procter and Gamble's "Rosemary's Reflects" Ivory Soap commercials. As she grew, she and four of her sisters were cast in a production of Richard Rodgers' The Sound of Music, which led to appearances in no less than eighteen other productions of the show. In 1966, she was cast in the Broadway revival of Annie Get Your Gun, where her talent was noticed by the show's composer Irving Berlin, who added a new song tailored to her abilities. This was followed by an appearance in the Los Angeles premiere of Leonard Bernstein's MASS.

Later in her career, she appeared on television in Steven Bochco's Cop Rock for ABC, and was at one point part of the musical support for Saturday Night Live, performing comical jingles; she also provided background vocals for Olivia Newton-John's performance of "Let's Get Physical."

Recording career

In March 1972, she embarked on a solo career with her first single, "Day by Day," a cover of a song from the popular Broadway musical Godspell (which also incorporated a medley of two other numbers from the show), produced by Tony Orlando for Rocky Road Records (a subsidiary of Columbia Records). Her version went to #104 on the Billboard Bubbling Under the Hot 100 chart, and also charted in the UK.[1] In 1973, she released the song "Yesterday and You," a Top 30 single on the Easy Listening chart and #117 on the Bubbling Under chart.

In the late 1970s, she performed a duet with Leonard Coleman Boone called "There's No Me Without You," and was a part of the musical group Wondergap with Jim Ryan and Andy Goldmark, signed to A&M Records. Later in her career, she recorded background vocals for Billy Joel and Kenny Loggins, sang with Cindy Bullens on the MCA release "The Touch," and performed with Joe Cocker, Arlo Guthrie, and Pete Seeger (on his Hudson Valley Sloop tour, singing with the Rooster River Boys).

Jim Steinman

In 1983, Sherwood began an extended association with Jim Steinman when she performed background vocals for Bonnie Tyler on the hit Total Eclipse of the Heart and other tracks on her album Faster Than the Speed of Night, produced by Steinman. She became part of a group of regular background vocalists, including Bat Out of Hell veteran Rory Dodd and Eric Troyer, who appeared frequently on Steinman product during the Eighties, including tracks recorded by diverse artists such as Barry Manilow, Barbra Streisand, and Tyler, both performing and arranging background vocals.

Fire Inc.

Among other credits, Dodd, Sherwood, and Troyer formed the nucleus of the impromptu band Fire Inc., created by Steinman to perform two songs he had written for the Walter Hill "rock and roll fable" Streets of Fire. Sherwood's performances on the songs "Nowhere Fast" and "Tonight Is What It Means To Be Young" were dubbed over Diane Lane's in the movie.

Pandora's Box

Steinman formed another group, Pandora's Box, which released one album, Original Sin, in 1989. In addition to background vocals, Sherwood sang lead on the track "Good Girls Go To Heaven (Bad Girls Go Everywhere)," later covered by Meat Loaf on his album Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell. According to Steinman, she also recorded a demo of "It's All Coming Back to Me Now," later a hit for Celine Dion in 1996, in connection with this album, but her take was passed over in favor of fellow vocalist Elaine Caswell's.

Current whereabouts

Now retired from the entertainment industry, she owns the Sherwood Gallery, a seller of fine gold and silver designer jewelry and art, in Bernalillo, New Mexico.[2]

See also

References

  1. Top 40 Hits of Early March 1972
  2. A Picasso in Bernalillo? Sandoval Sign Post.

External links

  • Holly Sherwood at the Internet Movie Database
  • A Blood Relation at JimSteinman.com
  • Related Artists
  • Holly Sherwood at the Sandoval Arts
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