My music has been a labor of love. When I first started recording, it was another way of expressing myself. I was infatuated with art but when I started singing and recording, music became my favorite expression. I was a shy kid and not very popular, so I spent lots of time at both arts.<\/p>\n
After Angel Baby my guitar player Noah and I were asked to go to New York by Jackie Wilson to record there. We only had a few songs written and we were asked if we could be at the studio at 8 am the next morning to record. They assumed we had a whole album but actually we only had a few. We stayed up all night till about 4am writing the rest of the music for the Lonely Blue Nights album. Noah was about 18 and I was now 16. The album is out of print but thanks to technology and my dear friend Brian Lee who helped me remaster, it is available.<\/p>\n
In 1996 my manager and long time friend Gene Davidson and his wife, my dear friend Barbara, kept asking me why didn’t record something. I thought about it some. I was getting a new band together and after we had been working for a while, we felt we were ready so we went to Pat Woertink’s studio in West Covina and just started writing and laying down tracks. Then we all took a break for Thanksgiving and Christmas. I broke my leg at a darn Christmas Parade and that held up the recording till I was at least in a cast. My manager Gene came to the airport to get me and I was in a wheel chair. That took some doing I’ll tell you. Well, my keyboardist and bandleader James Bentley wrote some nice tunes plus together we wrote a few and that’s how Steppin’ Out came together.<\/p>\n
I had some tunes that were written way back and a few that were more recent, but they’d never really been heard so I put them together along with some of the Lonely Blue Night music, a few from Steppin’ Out, and called it the Ultimate Collection. I’m surprised but it’s turned out to be a favorite for collectors everywhere. Thank you everybody!<\/p>\n
It’s funny but one day I get a call from Ace Records and they asked if they could put most of the songs on the Ultimate Collection on a CD and include some others they thought I’d recorded. It was my song, Angel Baby and Dedicated To The One I Love but in acapella. I said no I didn’t do those; a gal in NY recorded them pretending to be me! Dr. Stallberg of the Los Angeles Doo Wop Society brought it to my attention after he’d been back east for a conference and actually interviewed her. I had forgotten that completely until Ace brought it up again. I just laughed over it when they asked me to record it for the CD. I did those two and then I recorded a nice remake of a real old popular song called Confessing A Feeling in Spanglish for the CD also.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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