Betty Driver - I'll Take Romance

2016 collection from the British actress/vocalist. This 22 track album celebrates the early recording career of former Coronation Street actress Betty Driver whose 1949 recording of ‘Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday (I Love You)’ features in the UK’s Waitrose Pick Your Own Offers television advertisement. Although most audiences associate Betty Driver with her Coronation Street character Betty Turpin, a role that she played on screen for nearly 2800 episodes from 1969 to 2011, her career began nearly four decades before she first set foot on the cobbles of Weatherfield. In 1930 at the age of just 9, Betty began performing professionally in music hall variety and became one of Britain's best loved singing stars of the 1930s and ‘40s making countless records, hosting her own radio and television programs and starring in three feature films.