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November 11th, 2011 | Audio Stuff, MOTHER 1, Uncommon Knowledge
Many MOTHER/EarthBound fans already know that the official MOTHER 1 soundtrack CD is really cool and not just tunes straight from the game – most of it is music from the game rearranged to sound like pop music of some sort. A couple of these were sung by a girl named Catherine Warwick:
If you don’t have a copy of the MOTHER 1 CD, here’s Pollyanna, one of the handful of songs she did:
Anyway, every so often the question pops up, “Did she go on to do anything else? Where is she now?” So a good while back ShadowX did some digging around and found she had done another record at around the same time called Marine Boy, which has two songs on it – Marine Boy and Taxi Driver.
You can give the songs a listen here:
Marine Boy
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Taxi Driver
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Other than that it was like she had vanished, but then a few days ago MrNameless posted on the Starmen.Net forums that she had apparently done some albums in the mid-90s, this time going by the name “Cathy Warwick”:
Anyway, turns out CW was half of a duo called “Those 2 Girls”, who had an excruciating hit called All I Want, which reached #36 on the UK charts in 1995. Her partner was Denise Van Outen, who it transpires is actually rather famous now (she’s the narrator for The Only Way Is Essex – the UK’s Jersey Shore, I guess).
That’s pretty cool, I’m glad her career continued on. Dunno where she’s at now or if she knows she has a small fanbase resulting from a niche game fanbase, but I do know many EarthBound/MOTHER fans still appreciate work she did way back when.
Anyway, that’s pretty much all I know – but now whenever the topic comes up I can just link to this page 
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12 Comments to Catherine Warwick & MOTHER
 | Zoom! said on Nov. 11, 2011 |
Wow something similar appeared on starmen. Coincidence?
 | Mato said on Nov. 11, 2011 |
It’s mentioned in the post: “but then a few days ago MrNameless posted on the Starmen.Net forums”
 | MrSaturn03 said on Nov. 11, 2011 |
I also saw a forum post on Starmen.net talking about FINDING Catherine Warwick today. They’ve only found about a handful of people…but it’s really amazing how people love her music so much they want to find her!
Great article as always Mato! 
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| MrSaturn03 said on Nov. 11, 2011 |
Scratch that!
The post your talking about is the same post 
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| Anonymous said on Nov. 11, 2011 |
For anyone interested, I translated that pink flyer something like two years ago. It doesn’t reveal anything amazing, but here:
http://local-static2.forum-files.fobby.net/forum_attachments/0020/6182/ost_ad.JPG
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| kenisu said on Nov. 11, 2011 |
Oh, sorry, forgot to leave a name… the above post is me, kenisu
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| TheMr.SaturnGuy said on Nov. 13, 2011 |
” Why should’nt I belive the same in you… ”
Good luck trying to get that out of my head for the next week.
 | Sweet-Michiko said on Nov. 14, 2011 |
I found this item on ebay, a single on vinyl called Wanna Make You Go.
Thought this was worth sharing.
 | LucasTizma said on Nov. 20, 2011 |
!!! OMG, how did I miss this post?! Anyone who vaguely knows anything about me knows that I’m obsessed (literally) with Pollyanna. I have only 70 different versions in an iTunes playlist. I tried really hard to find more about her, but I failed. 
Maybe someone can get in touch with her and ask for an interview?
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| BertInc said on Nov. 23, 2011 |
I’m not gonna lie, Taxi Driver is my new favorite song.
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| TheMrSaturnGuy said on Mar. 26, 2012 |
I wish I could find the CD with Catherine singing Pollyana. It would be a mirace if I could actually buy it though. Please help me find the CD.
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Denise Van Outen also used to be a host on ‘The Big Breakfast’ which was a big thing in the 90s. Her departure from that was met with great sorrow. Gotta love morning TV…
The meeting of the two worlds in my head, blows my mind.