The movie is notable for having two songs written and performed by Mary MacGregor, 'Love Light' and the ending theme 'Sayonara' of which her version, sung in English, was used for the film.
Macgregor admitted in The Billboard Book of Number One Hits by Fred Bronson that she hated her own chart-topper, chiefly because she had little sympathy for the narrator of "Torn Between Two Lovers", a woman who confesses to her husband that she is having an affair, but pleads with her husband to stay with her and accept the situation.
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At age 19 at the Annie Russell Theatre she played an 11-year-old stuttering Scottish girl, Mary Macgregor in Jay Presson Allen's popular play, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie for which she won Best Supporting Actress.