Lydia MacDonald was born in Edinburgh, to an Italian mother and Scottish father, and went to Italy circa 1944, where she become the favoured vocalist of Piero Piccioni, one of the great composers of the Italian cinema. She also recorded an album with Ted Heath and his Orchestra in 1958 of Scottish traditional songs called WILL YE NO COME BACK AGAIN.

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