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Ellie Zavaroni:


Don't worry Mickey, still fighting now I've got power over all those doctors that tried to put us down. Plus I'm teaching them what is compassion. Your mission you sent me on was big but I'm getting there! But I know you live in me so I know you're still there pushing me on. Love Minnie xxxxxxxxx


I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR MESSAGES LEFT ON THIS GUESTBOOK BY OTHER PEOPLE, AND WILL DELETE ANY INAPROPRIATE MESSAGES AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.  I AM ALSO NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR MESSAGES LEFT ON OTHER LENA ZAVARONI GUESTBOOKS.  THANK YOU!!


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Reply Pete
10:18 AM on July 30, 2010

It is so clear to see who does the hard work on the Lena websites and who doesn't, this is amazing, and I thank you for taking the time to find all of this and put it up, I think it is wonderful!

Reply Jeff slominski
10:12 AM on July 30, 2010
Hi deb's , a wonderful website with everything you need and would want to know about lena, keep up the good work , jeff
Reply Debs
06:58 AM on July 30, 2010

I hope everyone enjoys the new photos, there are loads more to be added, but obviously I have to find the time, especially with one working computer, and two children fighting with me to use it now they are on their school holidays!!!  Bear with me, I will get them up asap, and thanks to Maurice Dale for sending them to me, he has worked very hard to do this for me!

Reply Gill Madew
07:58 PM on July 29, 2010

OMG Debs!!!  You never cease to amaze.  These pics are amazing.  Just what I needed to cheer me up.  Thank you for all your hard work. Cant wait to see the rest lol xx

Reply randallrandall
07:36 PM on July 29, 2010

Great work going on here and plenty to spend time with.  Thanks for all your time put in here.  It is a wonderful place to visit!

Reply Scott Madden
12:10 PM on July 29, 2010

Really enjoyed looking at those new pics just now. Been away for a while and catching up with the latest "goings on" etc. I especially like the ones with Lena and her guitar. Keep this great stuff coming!!

Reply Ronald beaton
11:20 AM on July 29, 2010

Always amazing!  Always fantastic!  Always a pleasure to visit.  The new photos are incredible!

Reply Jay Pemberton
10:20 AM on July 29, 2010

WOW....LOVE the new pix!  Keep them coming (PLEASE)!!  ;-)

Reply Marnie
07:07 AM on July 27, 2010

This is the best tribute to Lena ever!  NO-ONE will ever come close to this, no matter how hard they try!!  This website deserves some sort of award for the hard work put into it and the love and dedication shown, I am speechless!

Reply Sioux
06:21 AM on July 25, 2010

I worked with Lena at Skegness. It was a show at the theatre on the end of the pier. (destroyed not long after). (1976?)

She was so sweet. We wnet shopping together and she bought a 50p ring. She was SO proud of it. People kept calling out to her in the street she was so loved.

Anyway one of my acts then was illusions. Half way through a trick went badly wrong and I set fire to my arm. Lena was watching from the wings. I could see her jumping up and down saying come off..but having been a child in the business myself..discipline got me through and I finished the last 10 mins.

Leno was on then..they kept introducing her but she wouldn't go on. She was hugging me and laying quickies on my burns. She told her mother to get me to hospital. Eventually her dad practically threw her on stage. Straight after the show she came to A & E.

I will always love and remember her.

Reply Mathias
07:09 PM on July 23, 2010

Hello Debs,

thank you for commenting on my youtube channel (aka vonFalkenstein77) and thank you so much for this great site with all the beautiful music and information. I´m so glad that I found out about Lenda a couple of weeks ago, she was truly a great singer and I´m especially fond of her early recordings. How on earth could such a young girl sing the songs that way? Never before I´ve heard such a good performance of "Pennies from heaven", I´m not  native english-speaking but especially in this song the phrasing sounds  phanomenal to me and it outshines all versions of the song I´ve ever heard before. Thanks again for your hard work and the beautiful site. Yours sincerely

Mathias

Reply Debs
10:44 AM on July 18, 2010

Thanks Ronald!  There are more to come, so keep a look out! xx


Ronald beaton says...

Another great batch of photos!  This site is so big and just gets bigger, it takes a few hours to truly take in everything on it.

Reply Ronald beaton
10:01 AM on July 18, 2010

Another great batch of photos!  This site is so big and just gets bigger, it takes a few hours to truly take in everything on it.

Reply Jay Pemberton
03:17 AM on July 15, 2010

CVActor1 says...

I remember seeing Lena  on - I think it was The Tonight Show, singing Mama He's Makin' Eyes At Me when she was - maybe 7 years old, I think. I have that first album of hers on vinyl. I happened to run across a video of her singing All That Jazz with Elaine Stritch tonight and found this site. I always wondered what happened to Lena, and I'm sorry to hear she died so young. You're doing a great job here in what can be a very thankless thing called cyberspace. I know from experience. Keep up the good work! One question. In her biography you say she had ill health and died atter an operation. Can you tell me what she actually died from? I'm curious, Thank you! :-)


Actually what she died of was complications from bronchial pneumonia.  The operation she'd undergone was a leucotomy, an operation on the brain related to a lobotomy, which, it was hoped, would relieve the depression she'd suffered for many years.  Lena was so weak after the surgery that her immune system was not up to task, and that's how the pneumonia took over.

 

Reply CVActor1
01:35 AM on July 15, 2010

I remember seeing Lena  on - I think it was The Tonight Show, singing Mama He's Makin' Eyes At Me when she was - maybe 7 years old, I think. I have that first album of hers on vinyl. I happened to run across a video of her singing All That Jazz with Elaine Stritch tonight and found this site. I always wondered what happened to Lena, and I'm sorry to hear she died so young. You're doing a great job here in what can be a very thankless thing called cyberspace. I know from experience. Keep up the good work! One question. In her biography you say she had ill health and died atter an operation. Can you tell me what she actually died from? I'm curious, Thank you! :-)

Reply Sandra Keeley
06:12 AM on July 14, 2010

8)Fantastic website. The best I've seen and a truely genuine tribute to Lena. Great opportunities to see old videos - happy and sad times - and lots fo info. Marvellous job, Debs!

Reply Rob Randall
06:03 AM on July 14, 2010

Hi Debs

Yes I am still interested in getting involved will all tributes to Lena I am looking foreword to it.


From Rob     

Reply Debs
11:14 AM on July 11, 2010

Hi Rob Randall!!


Have emailed you about a project that Jay Pemberton and I have been working on for a while, and would like to know if you would like to contribute to it?


Debs.

Reply Susan Reynolds
05:05 PM on July 02, 2010

New photos and film clips are brilliant, this is THE website for any Lena fan.....keep up the excellent work Debs xxx

Reply desmond oakley
08:28 AM on July 02, 2010

hi debs how are you.wot a great collection you have got of lena.i will send you those blank discs if you could please do me somethings on them.thank you.

Reply Charles 1cut1
06:55 PM on June 29, 2010

Good website,

I can relate to the interesting comments.

Reply Charles 1cut1
05:52 PM on June 29, 2010

Good website!!!

Reply Rob Randall
04:11 AM on June 25, 2010

Hi 

I Have been a fan of Lena since I was a little boy.

i am looking foreword the the film.

i love to do a tribute to her am i am a DJ.

she will always be in our hearts.

her music will live on. 

Reply steve
11:30 AM on June 23, 2010

Hello

What a wonderfull web site you have created,

I have spent 2  enjoyable nights looking at it and have  been totally engrossed with the videos and interviews.

I look forwrd to keeping up to date in future I have save you to my Favorites.

I Have been a fan of Lena since I was 8 and she apperred on Opp Knocks.

Jump down jimmy was the last thing I got and of hers andthen she wasn`t on tv so much after that, They did not have the internet or dedicated people like you to spend so much time and effort praising her memory

Thanks agin Debs

Kind regards

steve  

 

Reply Debs
09:37 AM on June 21, 2010

Thank you everyone!  Look out for more photos soon, Maurice has many, many negs of photos of Lena, he is scanning them a  bit at a time, will put them on here as soon as I get them, he isn't even sure what he has!!!  None were used in the fan club, so you are in for a treat, it is nice as well that all photos Maurice took he has given the right to me for them, it is touching.

Reply Michael
01:41 PM on June 18, 2010

Great website, great photos, great videos, great content, great presentation, need I say more?!!  Well done, this is the best website in existence!

Reply andrew
05:55 PM on June 17, 2010

your site is getting better and better . keep up the good work xxx

Reply Ronald Beaton
10:37 AM on June 16, 2010

I think the new photos are truly amazing! 

Reply Jay Pemberton
10:02 AM on June 16, 2010

Hilary says...

The photos from Maurice are magnificent.

Lena really looks so happy in these photos.


I agree!

Reply Hilary
09:17 AM on June 16, 2010

The photos from Maurice are magnificent.

Lena really looks so happy in these photos.

Reply brianscales@live.co.uk
03:22 AM on June 15, 2010

Debs, Your doin a gr8 job, the site keeps getting better!We just need to be able to get Lena on CD & DVD!

Reply Joergen
12:21 PM on June 13, 2010

Debs, keep hanging on. The other website is not worth getting upset over, and niether is the sites owner. Forget about it, and do what you love most - be with your family and run this Lena site.

Reply Martin Kilroy
09:03 AM on June 10, 2010

What a fab website

Reply bev195000
03:17 PM on June 08, 2010

Wow Debs just love the rare vids of Lena you have on your website you must be so pleased to have permission to use them it makes this wonderful website you are doing top notch above the rest

Cannot wait for the next vids to come on ,,keep up the top notch number one website Debs

x

Reply Anon
09:06 AM on June 07, 2010

We are supporting you Debs!!  Well done in putting up the new Lena clips, and a big thank you to Maurice as well!!

Reply Debs
07:22 AM on June 07, 2010

Hi Francis!  Yes that is right, although the correct information would be that the fifth time Lena won, she actually tied with another act, and they asked her to step down, as no-one else was getting a chance!!  I remember it very well, having watched ALL of Lena's Opportunity Knocks appearances, and remember them saying that, so she would have won more than 5 times, if they had let her!!! - Debs. xx

Reply Francis
07:06 AM on June 07, 2010

Hi!  Just read on another guestbook that Lena won Opportunity Knocks 5 times, is that right?  I thought it was 4.  Hoping you can help!

Reply ann mccarthy
05:41 PM on June 04, 2010

Debs you are so devoted big pat on the back for what you have done, fantastic  ann xx

Reply Jay Pemberton
05:35 PM on June 04, 2010

I love the new clips too....magic!

Reply shelpek
04:52 PM on June 04, 2010

These rare films are brilliant.

Debs, you deserve a medal, for all your hard work. this site is wonderful. xxx

Reply Hilary
03:30 PM on June 04, 2010

I've just seen the new Lena videos and thoroughly enjoyed watching them both.  Lena really looked comfortable behind the scenes.

Reply Ronald Beaton
02:46 PM on June 04, 2010

I would just like to say how much I really enjoyed the small vidoes of Lena.  So often we see her on stage and TV.  What an absolute delight to see her behind the scenes.  Fantastic!

Reply Midge Yapton
06:21 AM on June 04, 2010

Absolutely LOVE the radio shows page, a bit of nostalgia!!  I can't wait to hear more, well done for keeping Lena's memory alive, what a sad, sad shame that Lena's family haven't contributed here. 

Reply ann mccarthy
08:11 PM on June 03, 2010

Debs your site is fab you must have worked so hard on it

Reply Susan Reynolds
03:22 PM on June 03, 2010

Hi Debs, great website keep it up xx

Reply Bev
01:44 PM on June 03, 2010

fantastic website keep up all the good work X

Reply Johnl
12:46 PM on June 03, 2010

Thanks Debs, Great to be able to enhace my memories of Lena here and on youtube. John

Reply Jane Young
11:25 AM on June 03, 2010

Great Web Site Debs!

keep up the good work

Reply Jay Pemberton
10:58 AM on June 03, 2010

It's a shame none of Lena's original OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS tapes survive so far as is known, they'd be most instructive as to what talent is!

Reply Scott Madden
10:36 AM on June 03, 2010

When I looked at the rubbish on Britain's Got Talent (???) this week it served as a reminder to me of what we are sadly missing these days. Had Lena still been here and on any of those so-called talent shows there would have been no contest and only one winner by a country mile.

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