Lena Martell is one of over 200 artists who recorded versions of the Kris
Kristofferson/Marijohn Wilkin song One Day At A Time. Bizzarely, when Martell
released the song in 1979, a version by the Irish singer Gloria Smyth was in the
middle of a record-breaking 90-week spell in the Irish Charts. This didn't
prevent Martell's version from becoming a hit and the song spent three weeks at
number one in the UK. It proved to be the only hit in the Singles Chart for the
Glasgow-born singer. Lena Martell was already a TV personality by the time she
had her hit, having hosted a BBC produc...