Her act also included comedy and she took her professional name from her father’s forename and added “Lee” because of the actors’ union, Equity already had a member called Carol Scott.
In 1974 she recorded an album, In Time, to sell to fans at her gigs. Two of the tracks, That Little Bit of Love and You Gotta Believe, were re-released as a single in 2005 by Licorice Soul Records, adedicated to giving new life to obscure dance-floor music. “Carol’s vocal talents were bold and sassy and the record is an essential purchase for anyone into classic 70s funk,” wrote one reviewer.
Scott, who was also a regular in pantomime, married Bill Ling in 1967. He died in 2013. Carol Lee Scott, singer and actor, born 20 December 1942; died 4 July 2017