It's a little-remembered fact, but for a number of months in early 1964, white people in America firmly believed that black women only came in threes. This so-called "Supremes Syndrome" was almost completely dispelled when Lena Horne guest-starred on A Very Special Episode of The Lucy Show.Even today, however, isolated pockets of the upper Midwest are convinced that Dionne Warwick was a trio.
She was only one person??? Not anymore.
ReplyDeleteOh, but there *were* three. Dionne number 3 brutally murdered the last one (Dionne number 1) quite brutally sometime in the mid eighties.
ReplyDeleteA medium sized beige column from the set of Solid Gold was involved I've heard.
My goodness - the things one can find out on blogs these days!
ReplyDeleteWhat I really want to know, though, is: which one of them murdered her career? Rarely has a performer gone from the sublime to the cheese with such RobertGouletische finality.