I didn't even recall being on the DB sessions until Herbie Flowers reminded me a couple of years ago.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?
Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
Nearly every season, I make the acquaintance of one or more new flowers. It takes years to exhaust the botanical treasures of any one considerable neighborhood, unless one makes a dead set at it, like an herbalist.
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
I think we did our first session in 1958. There were no black background singers - there were only white singers. They weren't even called background singers; they were just called singers. I don't know who gave us the name 'background singers,' but I think that came about when The Blossoms started doing background.
The Blossoms were actually the first black background singers that did recording sessions in California, but we had to start giving work away. We just couldn't do it all.
I remember starting out and covering songs.
I love the fact that 'Flowers for Algernon' is doing its part to get people reading.
I've had the honor to be in sessions with great artists.
I enjoyed every minute of what I was doing with sessions, because The Blossoms, the group that I was singing with, they were the first black background singers. There weren't any.