Autographs of Freda Payne

Freda Charcilia Payne (born September 19, 1942) is an American singer and actress. Payne is best known for her career in music during the mid-1960s through the mid-1980s. Her most notable record is her 1970 hit single "Band of Gold". Payne was also an actress in musicals and film as well as the host of a TV talk show. Payne is the older sister of Scherrie Payne, a former singer with the American vocal group the Supremes. She also acted on Living Single.
Payne was born in Detroit, Michigan, and grew up listening to jazz singers, such as Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday. As a teenager, she attended the Detroit Institute of Musical Arts; she soon began singing radio commercial jingles and took part in (and won many) local TV and radio talent shows. In 1963, she moved to New York City and worked with many entertainers, including Quincy Jones, Pearl Bailey, and Bill Cosby. The next year, her debut album, a jazz recording with arranger Manny Albam titled After the Lights Go Down Low and Much More!!! was released on the Impulse! label. (This album was re-issued on CD in Japan in early 2002 and again in the United States in 2005.) In 1965 she toured Europe for the first time, recording an album in Sweden with Don Gardner and Bengt-Arne Wallin. In 1966, she released her second American album, again in the jazz idiom, How Do You Say I Don't Love You Anymore, for MGM Records. She also made occasional guest appearances on television shows including The Merv Griffin Show and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
She added theatrical credits to her repertoire: she understudied Leslie Uggams for the Broadway show Hallelujah Baby in 1967, and appeared with the Equity Theatre in a production of Lost in the Stars. In 1969, her old friends back home in Detroit, Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, and Eddie Holland, persuaded her to sign with their newly formed record label Invictus. During that same year, her first Invictus single, "Unhooked Generation" (a minor R&B hit), was released. Shortly thereafter, Eddie Holland offered her a song titled "Band of Gold", which he wrote along with Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, and Ronald Dunbar. In early 1970, the song became an instant pop smash reaching No. 3 in the US and No. 1 in the UK for six consecutive weeks; it also gave Payne her first gold record. Global sales were estimated at two million. An album of the same name proved to be fairly successful as well. Other Invictus singles included "Deeper and Deeper", which reached No. 24 in the US and No. 33 in the UK at the end of 1970; "You Brought the Joy", and the Vietnam War protest song "Bring the Boys Home" (U.S. Billboard Hot 100 No. 12, 1971), her second gold record. Her other Invictus albums were Contact (1971), The Best of Freda Payne (1972, a compilation which included four new, unissued songs), and her last Invictus album Reaching Out (1973).
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Traded items with a signature of Freda Payne

The most expensive item with a signature of Freda Payne (Freda Payne Signed Autograph Photo Picture + 7” Single Professionally Mounted) was sold in April 2024 for £89.99 while the cheapest item (Freda Payne 'Nutty Professor' signed - COA - 99p start) found a new owner for £0.99 in March 2019. The month with the most items sold (5) was October 2015 with an average selling price of £2.20 for an autographed item of Freda Payne. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in April 2024 with £89.99 and the month that saw the lowest prices with £0.99 was December 2013. In average, an autographed item from Freda Payne is worth £12.99.

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Picture	Item Title	Price	Store
	BKR/MS Freda Payne Signed LP Autograph Payne & Pleasure	£47.36
	FREDA PAYNE (BAND OF GOLD) GENUINE ORIGINAL HAND SIGNED IN PERSON AUTOGRAPH.	£8.73
	FREDA PAYNE - CHART TOPPING SINGER - SIGNED WHITE CARD	£15.45
	Freda Payne - Let There Be Love CD 2021 Duets Jazz Vocal Isola SIGNED	£37.91
	FREDA PAYNE [ BAND OF GOLD] AUTOGRAPHED 8 X 6 ALBUM PAGE.	£24.87
	FREDA PAYNE BAND OF GOLD 1960S POP SINGER AUTOGRAPH Signed POW#99	£9.88
	Freda Payne Band Of Gold 7" Signed Copy VG+ First Press very rare.	£51.12
	Freda Payne CD. On The Inside 2007 New In Box Autographed By Freda	£22.02
	FREDA PAYNE Come See About Me AUTOGRAPHED CD Signed By Freda 2001	£33.21
	Freda Payne Singer Signed 7 x 5 Photograph **With COA**	£17.75
	Freda Payne – Come See About Me CD 2001 Hand Signed Autographed	£53.88
	Freda Payne-8X10" Freda Payne Black & White Photo (SIGNED AUTOGRAPH WITH COA) 12	£25.42
	Freda Payne-8X10" Freda Payne Colour Photo (SIGNED AUTOGRAPH WITH COA) State	£25.42
	SIGNED Freda Payne - Greatest Hits (CD, 1990) Band Of Gold AUTOGRAPH	£30.86
	signed/autographed FREDA PAYNE "Band of Gold" LP - invictus ST-7301 - A09	£21.43