Inspirational Album Covers

[_Maksutov]

[_MeDotOrg]

Ah The Faith Tones. I was about to post something snarky about how all three perished in an Aquanet Hairspray fire, but there was something so eerily poignant about those beehived countenances that I had to google them. Found a blog with some information.

This is a bit of bio on Marie Samuels:

The eldest of 18 children born to Southern Baptist parents from Springfield, Missouri, who were influential in creating the “Quiverfull” notion of multiple offspring that would infiltrate society with like-minded conservatives.

Although Marie was the eldest child of eighteen siblings in a family of fundamentalist Baptist parents who espoused an insular, almost cult-like devotion to the familial cloister, she somehow obtained a full music scholarship to North Carolina State University, probably against the will of her parents. Though she was the eldest of eighteen, she was the youngest of The Faith Tone members at nineteen years of age.

During the next seven years of The Faith Tones’ heyday, Marie worked at a minimum-wage night-job supervising children with Down syndrome while working toward her Master’s and Doctorate degrees in Music Composition at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Both degrees, she eventually obtained.

...In 1974, she signed a lease with a young product engineer employed by 3M, apparently having fallen in love. Two months later, she sought medical treatment suspecting complications from a possible unexpected pregnancy.

Marie died from complications during surgery when a parasitic twin, a fetus in fetu, was discovered in her abdomen and surgeons attempted to remove it. She died from trauma and blood loss at the age of twenty-nine.

Quite a life.

[_Blixa]

Ah The Faith Tones. I was about to post something snarky about how all three perished in an Aquanet Hairspray fire, but there was something so eerily poignant about those beehived countenances that I had to google them. Found a blog with some information.

This is a bit of bio on Marie Samuels:

The eldest of 18 children born to Southern Baptist parents from Springfield, Missouri, who were influential in creating the “Quiverfull” notion of multiple offspring that would infiltrate society with like-minded conservatives.

Although Marie was the eldest child of eighteen siblings in a family of fundamentalist Baptist parents who espoused an insular, almost cult-like devotion to the familial cloister, she somehow obtained a full music scholarship to North Carolina State University, probably against the will of her parents. Though she was the eldest of eighteen, she was the youngest of The Faith Tone members at nineteen years of age.

During the next seven years of The Faith Tones’ heyday, Marie worked at a minimum-wage night-job supervising children with Down syndrome while working toward her Master’s and Doctorate degrees in Music Composition at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Both degrees, she eventually obtained.

...In 1974, she signed a lease with a young product engineer employed by 3M, apparently having fallen in love. Two months later, she sought medical treatment suspecting complications from a possible unexpected pregnancy.

Marie died from complications during surgery when a parasitic twin, a fetus in fetu, was discovered in her abdomen and surgeons attempted to remove it. She died from trauma and blood loss at the age of twenty-nine.

Quite a life.

hmmmm...I was so moved I had to read the link.

With this in fine print "(Please note: The preceding article was an exercise in fictional creative writing.)"

[_Doctor Steuss]

I still remember when I discovered that the Righteous Brothers were white.

When I listened to their music, I imagined them to be a different kind of "righteous," and "brothers."

[_MeDotOrg]

I still remember when I discovered that the Righteous Brothers were white.

When I listened to their music, I imagined them to be a different kind of "righteous," and "brothers."

According to [Bill] Medley, they then adopted the name The Righteous Brothers for the duo because black marines from the El Toro Marine base started calling them "righteous brothers". At the end of a performance, a black U.S. Marine in the audience would shout, "That was righteous, brothers!", and would greet them with "Hey righteous brothers, how you doin'?" on meeting them.

When I do an old Soul mix, it usually includes Little Latin Lupe Lu. Where else are you going to put it?

[_Some Schmo]

Ah The Faith Tones. I was about to post something snarky about how all three perished in an Aquanet Hairspray fire...

LMAO

You didn't have to. What you said was enough to crack me up.

[_Some Schmo]

They made that into an album?

Wouldn't that be just like sampling porn music?