Jingle taps on the majorette boots were an important part of a little girl growing up in the South.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I was known as the little girl with the big voice.
I didn't just want to be Frank's daughter who sang Boots. I take my music very seriously and studied very hard. It's not a joke to me.
There was a period of time in America where the advertising world actually went to the housewives of America and had them write jingles that would appeal to them. It was actually brilliant marketing.
I know every line to 'The Little Rascals.'
I used to sing in the church choir. People would say it was unusual for such a small girl to have such a big voice. They would say, 'She sounds like she's grown.'
'Baby's Got Her Blue Jeans On' was my anthem as a child. It was about me. I was Baby.
I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive.
As I remember my grandfather and those Christmas mornings he gave for a little girl's pleasure, I know that often a big life starts with doing small things.
When I was 12, my feet were so small, I wore my sisters' glitter shoes. My dad would whoop me: 'You're not going to school now, you'll embarrass us!'
The ones the listeners loved most of all in those early years were the four Lennon girls who became the whole nation's little sisters.
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