Sunday 16 January 2022

Higher, higher, highest


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It's not that long since we bade a fond farewell to "hair-hopper" Wanda LaFaye Young of the Marvelettes, and now not one, but two of her contemporaries (and proud fellow mistresses of the beehive 'do) have departed for the great "Corny Collins Show" in the sky - Veronica Yvette Bennett, better known as Ronnie Spector of the Ronettes:

...and also Rosa Lee Hawkins of the Dixie Cups:

Perfect "Sunday Music"...

RIP, both.

8 comments:

  1. These things usually come in threes, I wonder who the next one is going to be.

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    1. If I were Martha Reeves, I'd be off for a check-up at the doctors. Jx

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  2. I play Chapel of Love in on of my sets. So much fun. Ronnie was a wonder. Such heartbreak in that voice. Tough, but with a tear. Kizzes.

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    1. She must have had a hard time of it, being married to a madman like Phil... Jx

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  3. Such a distinctive sound. Really tugs on my heartstrings.
    Sx

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    1. He may have been an ogre, but there was no sound quite like Phil Spector's Wall of Sound! Jx

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    1. You're "beehiving" your hair as we speak, I imagine. Jx

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