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The women of 1960's Rock'n'Soul!
Sharon Tandy escaped anti-semitic hatred in her native South Africa by moving to Swinging London in the mid-60's. Her sound was so soulful that she took the name "Tandy", which meant 'Black' back home, as a badge of proud solidarity. Backed by the crack Mod band, the Fluer De Lys (famed for their cover of the Who's "Circles"), she belted out soul strutters, epic ballads, and psychedelic monsters like "Hold On", "Daughter of the Sun", and "Gotta Get Enough Time". She even recorded four great songs in Memphis with the crucial Booker T & the MG's, a year before Dusty's great album. Though she never got enough acclaim for her work, an excellent retrospective CD called "You've Got To Believe...It's Sharon Tandy" brings it all together for the world to catch up.
http://www.acerecords.co.uk/content.php?page_id=59&release=1520

Here are the pioneers celebrated in this video: guitaristas Peggy "Lady Bo" Jones and The Duchess (Bo Diddley); Rockabilly queen Wanda Jackson; Folk activist Odetta; bluesy belter Etta James; songwriter Carole King; tough girl group Ronnie Spector & the Ronettes; Motown madames Mary Wells, Kim Weston, and Martha Reeves & the Vandellas; protester Joan Baez; chameleonic Jackie DeShannon; first signed female rock band, Goldie & the Gingerbreads; ubiquitous darlings Darlene Love & the Blossoms; Liverpool's own rockers The Liverbirds; French chanteuse Francoise Hardy; Brit soulster Sandy Shaw; the true 'Dreamgirls', the Supremes; gathering no moss, Marianne Faithfull; UK pop diva LuLu; session bassist extroidinaire Carole Kaye (Phil Spector, Brian Wilson, the Doors, etc.); the edgy Shangri-La's, featuring Mary Weiss; R'n'B guitarslinger Barbara Lynn; Garage and Psyche hellions, the Luv'd Ones; Ms. Sharon Tandy herself; Rock empresses Grace Slick (Jefferson Airplane) and Janis Joplin; agitator Nina Simone; street punks Mo Tucker and Nico (Velvet Underground); Soul tsar Aretha Franklin; Burt Bacharach's best luck, Dionne Warwick; English Soul sovereign Dusty Springfield; California dreamers 'Mama' Cass Elliott and Michelle Phillips (Mamas & the Papas); Soulrocker Tina Turner and the Ikettes; formet Ikette and Mod god P.P. Arnold; ever-fluid Julie Driscoll (Brian Auger Trinity); Brazilian Pysche-stress Rita Lee (Os Mutantes); songwriter supreme Margo Guryan; Motown's lamented Tammi Terrell and underrated Chris Clarke; Funkrockers Rose Stone and Cynthia Robinson (Sly & the Family Stone); Suzi Quatro's first band, the Pleasure Seekers; Dylan's counterpoint, Joni Mitchell; Soul shouter Merry Clayton (Rolling Stones); Sacramento's teen garage girls, She; Zappa's crazed accomplices, the GTO's ('Girls Together Outrageously'); Dutch Rock czarina Mariska Veres (Shocking Blue); and the approximately infinite universe of Yoko Ono.

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Tym Stevens