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Judy Dyble
Biography
Judy Dyble was the original female singer in Fairport Convention, singing with the group from around mid-1967 to mid-1968, and appearing on their first album and single. (She was actually not in the very first incarnations of Fairport Convention, which had no female singers, but joined only a few months after their first performance.) Dyble's reputation has suffered somewhat in light of her replacement by one of the finest folk-rock singers of all time, Sandy Denny, before Fairport's second album. In fact, though, she was a perfectly adequate and respectable vocalist, if somewhat chaste, particularly in comparison to Denny. With Fairport, she sang harmony and the occasional solo lead, as on the cuts "One Sure Thing" and "If I Had a Ribbon Bow," and also played autoharp.

Fairport got Sandy Denny into the band to replace Dyble, partly out of dissatisfaction with Dyble's more genteel style, and partly to add a vocalist with a power that Dyble didn't possess. Dyble's career, though, didn't end there. She played a still-overlooked role in the genesis of King Crimson, who, despite their pompous prog rock image, actually had some folky roots. In June 1968, Dyble advertised in Melody Maker for a band, getting a response from Peter Giles, then playing with future King Crimson members Michael Giles and Robert Fripp in the trio Giles, Giles & Fripp.
Selected Discography