Which female singer recorded:

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Nobody's Child, When I Leave The World Behind and That's Life, probably in the 1950s/60s. My grandmother had a copy many years ago and my dad would really love to be able to get hold of a copy. If anyone can at least point me in the right direction I would be very very grateful, I've tried googling and ebay with no real success. Thank you very much.

[Alan2]

Karen Young, got to no 6 in Sept 1969

[rsd2525]

the lp nobodys child on ebay item no 4769237686

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thanks, my dad doesn't think it was Karen Young but I'm working on him as he's really bad with names - he forgot my brother's once!

[Alan2]

Karen Young Nobodys Child lyrics




I was slowly passing an orphan's home one day.
And stopped there for a moment just to watch the children play.
Alone a boy was standing and when I asked him why
he turned with eyes that could not see and he began to cry.

People come for children and take them for their own.
But they all seem to pass me by and I am left alone.
I know they'd like to take me but when they see I'm blind
they always take some other child and I am left behind.

(No) mother's arms to hold me or soothe me when I cry.
Sometimes it gets so lonely I wish that I could die.
I'd walk the streets of heaven where all the blind can see.
And just like all the other kids there'd be a home for me.

R E F R A I N :

I'm nobody's child
I'm nobody's child
I'm like a flower just growing wild.
No mommy's kisses and no daddy's smile

nobody wants me
I'm nobody's child.

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thanks alan2, my dad reckons it wasn't karen young so just who did record this?!

[SeaJayPea]

The only other recording that's in the Guinness Book of Hit Singles and Albums is by the Travelling Wilburys n 1990.

None of this means that your gran's album wasn't by somebody entirely different and there wasn't a single hit from it.

Just seen that Rose Marie had a minor hit with When I Leave The World Behind in 1983. She's an Irish balladeer who's had a number of hit albums. Try your dad with her name. Good luck

[Chessman]

Probably not what your after, but 'Lonnie Donegan' brought out 'Nobody's Child', in the sixties.

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thanks folks, Karen Young seems to be the favourite.

[Dudley]

How about Teresa Brewer back in the 1950s/60s?