Thursday,
September 27, 2007
As I worked late last night, I was
listening to a 1960s singer, Joanie Sommers. She did a few Pepsi jingles back
then that were popular, became one of early "Tonight Show" host Steve Allen's pet projects, made a few
albums--then dropped off the face of the earth. She had a sweet voice, a little
tinny on some tracks, but she was capable of a soft and sexy torch-song effect
too--like "Heart and Soul" on her album Positively the Most.
Listening to her again in the wee hours last night made me wonder what had become of her, so when I finished working, I Googled her but found nothing much of interest until I found a posting by an ex radio DJ, who also had liked Joanie Sommers back in his own salad days. When I tried to log on to his site in order to say I liked her too, I got prompted from screen to screen until I had created an early version of this blog, something I called "From the Slow Lane." It happened almost by accident.
Blogging is not something I had been thinking about, certainly, or secretly longing to begin, but now that I am here, let me ask out loud and to the world at large, Whatever happened to Joanie Sommers?
Listening to her again in the wee hours last night made me wonder what had become of her, so when I finished working, I Googled her but found nothing much of interest until I found a posting by an ex radio DJ, who also had liked Joanie Sommers back in his own salad days. When I tried to log on to his site in order to say I liked her too, I got prompted from screen to screen until I had created an early version of this blog, something I called "From the Slow Lane." It happened almost by accident.
Blogging is not something I had been thinking about, certainly, or secretly longing to begin, but now that I am here, let me ask out loud and to the world at large, Whatever happened to Joanie Sommers?
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