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GB No. 3 () 13 Weeks Joan Regan (born Joan Bethel or Siobhan Bethel; 19 January 1928 – 12 September 2013 was an English traditional pop music singer, popular during the 1950s and early 1960s. Regan was born Joan E Bethell or Siobhan Bethel in Romford, Essex, or West Ham, London, the youngest of six children to Irish parents. She had rheumatic fever as a child which left her with a damaged mitral valve, although this did not cause problems until she was in her seventies. Regan married an American serviceman, Dick Howell, a friend of her brothers who met in the Navy. She and Howell married on her 18th birthday in 1946. For a time they lived in Burbank, California. They had three children, one of whom died at an early age. The marriage eventually broke down. Regan, a Catholic, was able to obtain a legal dissolution, rather than a divorce. Before becoming a singer, Regan worked at a number of jobs, including re-touching photographs. Her successful singing career began in 1953, when she
