";s:4:"text";s:4038:"Estelle Bennett 2/2009 February 11, 2009 – Estelle Bennet (The Ronettes), born in New York City on July 22, 1941, became along with her sister Ronnie Spector and cousin Nedra Talley the Rosettes. Estelle was the quieter of the two Bennett sisters, Ronnie being more the extrovert. Let's go! In the mid-1960s, Estelle had married as well, to road manager Joe Dong. She quit the music business and was rarely seen afterwards. At the end of the show, the lights were turned off except for that black light. Described as gentle, intelligent, and really into fashion, she played a critical part in the development of the group's style. V Festival, often referred to simply as V Fest or VF, was an annual music festival held in the United Kingdom during the third weekend in August. Bennett attended George Washington High School in Manhattan where she was valedictorian. One night in 1961, a trio of pretty teenagers were waiting in line and eventually got inside the nightclub. In 1960, the Starliters were noticed by agent Don DavisThis being in print the next morning by columnists Earl Wilson and Cholly Knickerbocker, it took barricades and mounted police to keep the crowds in line, which had backed to Broadway, the next night. John Lennon, Estelle Bennett, George Harrison, and Nedra Talley Estelle Bennett and Paul McCartney The Ronettes and The Beatles - Candid airplane tour pics of these artists who influenced one another’s music. I study the characters through these aging eyes of mine. “We went to my hotel suite, and we must have drank a gallon of whiskey each,” Joey Dee recalls. They were children of an Irish-American father and African-American/Cherokee mother; they said they were bullied at school because of being light-skinned African Americans. What a head of hair!Jimi Hendrix was inducted into The Rock N’ Roll Hall of Fame in 1992.“With Joey Dee, I got a taste of what it was like to be a professional musician, and I guess I got stung by it,” says Cavaliere, who did two European tours with the Starliters, as well as a year in the Starliters house-band at Joey Dee’s Manhattan nightclub. Although the show was in black and white, I imagined her pucker to be blood red.I also thought that Angelique (Lara Parker) was about the prettiest woman I had ever seen.Barnabus Collins, one of my first childhood heroes.Imagine my delight last month when Charlie announced that we could now access all episodes of I am hooked once again. This was the only time any recording of “1962 ~ Joey Dee – Voted the #1 Best Newcomer Male Vocalist ♫ Annual Year End Cash Box Poll ~ “Baby You’re Driving Me Crazy” ~ “Help Me Pick Up The Pieces”Later in 1962, Joey Dee & The Starliters® starred in their second motion picture, “In 1963, Joey Dee recorded an album entitled Dance, Dance, Dance, with The Beatles made their “First” International appearance in Stockholm as the ‘OPENING’ act for Joey Dee! I write fewer blogs and have even put reruns of Judge Judy on pause.I bought a book chronicling the recollections of Kathryn Leigh Scott (Maggie Evans) and a fabulous biography of the Bennett sisters by Brian Kellow. It is well researched and an easy read.
When they were in school, Estelle did her homework and kept up with her grades. Their grandmother would put the three of them in a room and encourage them to harmonize.
We found 650+ famous people with disabilities during our recent research on neurodiversity. For several years, the craze would continue at the World Famous Peppermint Lounge® Night Club. By 1961 they were being featured in a dancing and singing act a New York’s Peppermint Lounge during the “twist” dance-craze. Bennett recorded a single for Laurie Records, "The Year 2000/The Naked Boy". Estelle was valedictorian at her George Washington High School graduation in Manhattan.
Rock and Roll drove our culture and the musicians, singers and songwriters who gave us the soundtracks to our lives cannot be forgotten.