The Tera Shirma Story
Patti Young 

(label scan coutesy of Fred Saxon)

I first met Patti a few years beforehand, when I was still with The Sunliners.

I was interested in doing a little managing at the time and
Patti was singing with a trio of girls known as The Young Sisters. 

I ended up losing out to a couple of young hot-shots who promised them the moon but were never able to deliver.

Patti was a white girl, pretty close to my age, so she would have been somewhere in her twenties at the time of 'Head and Shoulders'. 

She was also very pretty, rather tall if I remember correctly...maybe 5'8" with black hair and a fair complexion.

I don't think anything but 'Head and Shoulders' was recorded on her. This was when I first joined Ernie, so he was handling most of this. 

I don't remember what happened to her after all this.

Notes thanks to Ralph Terrana

 


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