An even longer season, 24 weeks, followed in 1959, this time in Glasgow. One major touring show was Harold Fielding's Music for the Millions (1957); she appeared with the classical pianists Rawicz and Landauer, the television comic Arthur Haynes, and pop stars Micki and Griff. Returning to open The Big Show at Blackpool Opera House, she co-starred with the American comedians George and Bert Bernard, who mimed to gramophone records dressed up as the Andrews Sisters. She made her entrance in a well-staged circus scene, bursting through a paper hoop and juggling, a hitherto unknown talent that surprised the audience. In fact they didn't know who she was until she started to sing.Unhappily another breakdown followed, then the work continued non-stop; pantomimes, summer shows, records, and her first LP, on which she sang 10 songs in nine different languages It was called Sugar and Spice (1956).

Intended as the "B", to the long-forgotten "Blue Star", this lively number shot to No 9 on the British hit parade.In June 1956 she visited America to promote her new release deal with Capitol Records, appearing on radio and television. This was "Pickin' a Chicken", a South African tune with new words composed by Paddy Roberts. Her song hits continued with the Afrikaans "Skokiaan" for which she invented a "New Sound", a combination of low-blown clarinet and vibraphone; and in October 1955 her one and only major hit. Once again Derek Roy and Tommy Cooper were her co-stars.More variety followed, both in South Africa and England, plus a number of shows for television. These included Hit Parade, Commonwealth Cavalcade, and Off the Record, in which the former bandleader Jack Payne tried to adapt his radio disc-jockey format for television. Two weeks later she was back on tour and that Christmas made her pantomime debut in Humpty Dumpty at Dudley. Just as an edition of The Forces Show was about to go on the air (Sunday 3 October) she collapsed and a doctor in the house diagnosed nervous exhaustion.

More than a year later, still billed the same way, she appeared in the Royal Variety Performance at the London Coliseum.She was back double-billed with Derek Roy and supported by the newcomer Tommy Cooper ("TV's Mad Magician"), in a Southport summer season show, Happy and Glorious (1954), but the continuous work proved too much. She was so thrilled with its success that she named her pet poodle Bush, and added her first caption to her variety billing: "Eve Boswell the Bush Girl". This featured Philip Green and his Orchestra and was sponsored by Marshall Ward, the catalogue company.Her first true hit came in August 1952, "Sugar Bush", with its chorus of "Oh we're never not gonna go home, we won't go" and the extra gimmick of the closing chorus being sung in Afrikaans. This was compered by Alan Dell, who had by now come to England to further his own radio career. She also crossed the Channel via recordings to star in a Radio Luxembourg series called Family Album. A cover version of an Arthur Godfrey disc, it failed to make the hit parade.Many radio appearances during this time included The Forces Show, a 60- minute spectacular starring Richard Murdoch and Kenneth Horne - the Much Binding in the Marsh pair - as hosts; Workers' Playtime, the midday series for factory hands; Henry Hall's Guest Night; and finally in 1954 her own series, Time To Dream.