Women of Music Volume 4

 

Shirley Serban on cover
and some labels too...

A lumber truck hitted Frances Cannon in 1979, an event which was not without consequences : she soon began to levitate objects spontaneously over hundreds of miles. And this was not the least of the wonders accomplished by Frances. For example, she predicted Marie Osmond's remarriage on The David Letterman Show.  Star’s Ghost is from from Frances Cannon and The Extraterrestrials « The Singing Psychic » issued by Crystal Ball Productions, out of Dallas, Texas.
More on her prodigies at https://worldsworstrecords.blogspot.com/2017/06/the-singing-psychic.html

Also from Texas (Ft. Worth) came Pam Norton who issued at least three singles on the Stargo label operated by Charles E.  DeFrance (1929-2019). Charles started investing in real estate when he was in his early 20s and worked for Bell Helicopter in 1963 and retired in 2002. He enjoyed recording music in his spare time.

Spare time, Shirley Serban had quite a few. While bored during covid pandemic lockdowns, one middle-aged New Zealander school principal took to creating parodies of popular songs and sharing them to her YouTube account. Shirley Serban wanted to use some comedic relief to spice things up during an otherwise dark and desolate time around the world.

Around the world, that's where the Duncan Sisters (Los Angeles-born Vivian and Rosetta)  took their show Topsy and Eva when it closed in New York, playing England, France, Germany, and much of South America. In 1923, the Duncan Sisters had created that show a musical adaptation of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. On December 11, 1959, while driving home from a nightclub engagement at Mangam's Chateau in Lyons, on the outskirts of Chicago, Rosetta Duncan's car struck a bridge; she died three days later.

From California were Westphal Records (in Fontana, Jeannie Emerson), Far-Dell (in Riverside, Jolene) and Toppa (in Covina, Nancy Kaye). 

And Ohio was the home of Perry (Linda Burnette), Arizona was the home of LHI, (Linda Owens), from Louisiana came Margaret Lewis, while Shirley Faye hailed from Georgia and Tena Quick from Arkansas.
 

Women of Music Volume 4