 In 1963, she began performing at the same club with Frank Traynor's Jazz Preachers, using her mother's maiden name of Durham.In that year she also recorded her first EP, "Judy Durham" with Frank Traynor's Jazz Preachers, for W&G Records.Durham was working as a secretary at the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency where on her first day of employment she met account executive Athol Guy.