Allison Durban "Bright Eyes" 1979

...And the bad luck continued – two days after she was discharged from rehab, she was involved in a car accident, breaking her jaw in two places. Durbin married her second husband, police detective Ray Giles, in 1986. She continued to work as a country singer throughout the late 1980s but never regained her preeminence...
...An attempt at a comeback career in the early 1990s produced the album Reckless Girl, aimed at a broader audience. She toured and appeared on TV talk shows but failed to reignite her career. Then in 2006 and now named Allison Giles, she was arrested in conjunction with Melbourne crime kingpin Giuseppe Barbaro. She would plead guilty to trafficking, cultivating cannabis, and stealing electricity. Sentenced to a year’s imprisonment, she went to jail “fretting for her pet dog, Tessa”, as the newspapers put it, “worried how her 94 year old father would receive the news”. She remains missing in action. Whether Durbin was a victim of changing trends in music or bad choices is irrelevant. She was one of the finest voices to emerge from New Zealand in the 1960s. Her legacy of exhilarating recordings is the highlight of Kiwi pop. The voice, the layered peppy arrangements, the mixing and engineering, are all still standout. Durbin caught a moment in music and was its mistress. The Queen of Pop might have turned into Sad-eyed Lady of the Lowlands, but Allison, don’t give up. We love you. - audioculture
trax:
01 Lotta Love 02 Sharing The Night Together 03 If I Said You Had A Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me 04 Some Girls 05 Darlin' 06 Sweet Dream People 07 You Make Me Feel Like Dancing 08 Bright Eyes 09 My Eyes Adored You 10 Behind Closed Doors 11 You Needed Me 12 You Are So Beautiful 13 On The Inside 14 Lost In Love
…served by Gaius…