Holly Golightly
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- This article is about the singer, Holly Golightly. It is also the name of the protagonist in the Truman Capote novel Breakfast at Tiffany's, played by Audrey Hepburn in the film version. Holly Golightly is also the name of the comic book artist, known as Fauve in her early years.
Holly Golightly (born Holly Golightly Smith) is an English singer-songwriter.
She is a former member of the all-girl garage band Thee Headcoatees, the female incarnation of Billy Childish group Thee Headcoats. For her solo career, she draws from rhythm and blues, rockabilly, and sounds of the 1960s or earlier. She has released thirteen studio albums of her own and has collaborated with other artists, most notably The White Stripes; she is featured on the track "It's True That We Love One Another" from their album, Elephant. She performed two songs on the soundtrack of the Jim Jarmusch movie Broken Flowers.
She is also a collector of rare old songs which she often covers. She released her newest album, Down The Line, in May 2006.
[edit] Discography
[edit] Albums
- The Good Things (1995)
- The Main Attraction (1996)
- Laugh It Up (1996)
- Painted On (1997)
- Up the Empire (1998) (Live)
- Serial Girlfriend (1998)
- In Blood (1999) (with Billy Childish)
- God Don’t Like It (2000)
- Desperate Little Town (2001) (with Dan Melchior)
- Singles Round-Up (2001) (compilation)
- Truly She Is None Other (2003)
- Down Gina’s At 3 (2004) (live)
- Slowly but Surely (2004)
- My First Holly Golightly Album (2005) (compilation with 8 new songs)
- Down The Line (2006)
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