Another Suitcase in Another Hall singer Barbara Dickson in 1976 for the "Evita" concept album that eventually became the stage musical; Dickson did not appear in the musical itself. Rice and Webber had already enlisted actress Julie Covington to sing the part of Eva, hence they were on the look-out for other supporting vocal personnel. They found about Dickson who had recently starred in the Willy Russell musical, "John, Paul, George, Ringo ... and Bert", and had charted on the UK Singles Chart with her cover version of the David Whitfield and Frankie Laine song, "Answer Me" (1976). Dickson and her manager, Bernard Theobald, had
Another Suitcase in Another Hall chart at number 44 in its first week and peaked at number 18 in its fifth week. It was present for a total of seven weeks on the chart. Due to the high-pitch employed in the recording, Dickson reflected in later years that she "never liked the original [track] for that reason. The song has seasoned over the years with my singing of it." Dickson believed that she did not sound like herself on the song. While performing it later point of time on her concerts, Dickson sang it in her actual tone, saying that although the track "might have