Posted by Fred Clemens on July 19, 2008 at 16:44:16:
In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Re: Another Brain Teaser posted by Ronnie Allen on July 19, 2008 at 12:24:29:
I thought that the clue might help it along. :-)
Thanks for sharing your memory of her, Ronnie!
And to think I would have never had such a Teaser if I hadn't picked up a batch of her Coral releases 10 years ago at a record convention. I had previously never heard of her before, but seeing the discs all in one place like that let me know that somebody out there knew of her and liked her. One was even signed by Tina herself:
"to Ray
My #1
fan.
Love
Tina"
That was good enough for me to take a chance on them and check her out. One or two of the Mercury discs was in the batch too, while I picked up the balance on line over the next couple of years. I wasn't disappointed. I had only picked up her album (THE FOUR SEASONS) in the last six months, trying to find out more about her. On-line sources were relatively nil. That would lead to finding an old TV Guide-type of magazine (out of the St. Louis Dispatch) from the July 20th, 1958 issue featuring her on the cover and a story on her on page 7.