Hi , I just discovered someone named Joyce Bryant aka the bronze blonde bombshell or black marilyn monroe here she is :

I lisitined to some of her songs such as love for sale ( it got banned from radios)

http://www.youtube.com/wa...5bMg8bnetw

She has her own unique voice and I'm glad I found her. Here is another song that also got banned from radio : http://www.youtube.com/wa...QmF9ye9HyI

She also toured with Jospehine Baker

I think she was mentioned in this book, but don't really remember as it was years ago I read it.

MickyDolenz said:

I think she was mentioned in this book, but don't really remember as it was years ago I read it.

I viewed a little of it online , it seems like she had it very hard. What I've read she was raised in a strict religious house , she lived her dream but it seems like it came to an end , drugs , men and her background she was raised in haunting her decision. Thanks for the book too , I'm gonna view some more of it.

SimpleSoul said:

I viewed a little of it online , it seems like she had it very hard. What I've read she was raised in a strict religious house , she lived her dream but it seems like it came to an end , drugs , men and her background she was raised in haunting her decision. Thanks for the book too , I'm gonna view some more of it.

This must be a new edition, because I don't remember Beyonce in the one I read. I don't think Destiny's Child had even came out yet.

MickyDolenz said:

SimpleSoul said:

I viewed a little of it online , it seems like she had it very hard. What I've read she was raised in a strict religious house , she lived her dream but it seems like it came to an end , drugs , men and her background she was raised in haunting her decision. Thanks for the book too , I'm gonna view some more of it.

This must be a new edition, because I don't remember Beyonce in the one I read. I don't think Destiny's Child had even came out yet.

probably so and destiny's child came out about 5-7 years later.

SimpleSoul said:

MickyDolenz said:

This must be a new edition, because I don't remember Beyonce in the one I read. I don't think Destiny's Child had even came out yet.

probably so and destiny's child came out about 5-7 years later.

I looked it up and it says the first edition came out in 1980, and then it was updated in 1990 and 2007. I must have read the 1990 edition, I doubt it was the 1980 version.

I read that someone is working on a documentary about her.

I don't think anything was going on that deserved to go home for, musically. She and Lola falana after her were mostly cabaret attractions and black magazine pin-ups.

And I agree, that Donald Bogle book is VERY entertaining & informative.

Harle, what do you mean:

"I don't think anything was going on that deserved to go home for, musically."

I don't think her voice was good or distinctive IMO. She could carry a tune, but that was that.

Harle, you're right. She sounds like just another cafe singer from that period, with the typical inflections they all had back then

Harlepolis said:

I don't think her voice was good or distinctive IMO. She could carry a tune, but that was that.

Others did her song love for sale like Carmen McRae and Eartha kitt. I think it depends on who you're with meaning (business relations)

Wow, thanks for that info. I have never heard of her.

SimpleSoul said:

Harlepolis said:

I don't think her voice was good or distinctive IMO. She could carry a tune, but that was that.

Others did her song love for sale like Carmen McRae and Eartha kitt. I think it depends on who you're with meaning (business relations)

"Love For Sale" wasn't her song, it was a popular standard for 25 years long before she appeared.

She had the potential to make it big in hollywood, but Dorothy Dandridge was around and enough, given the "one negro/negress at a time" policy

Harlepolis said:

SimpleSoul said:

Others did her song love for sale like Carmen McRae and Eartha kitt. I think it depends on who you're with meaning (business relations)

"Love For Sale" wasn't her song, it was a popular standard for 25 years long before she appeared.

She had the potential to make it big in hollywood, but Dorothy Dandridge was around and enough, given the "one negro/negress at a time" policy

I didn't know that. I might sound crazy but I think some of the reasons she didn't make it was mainly her religon(well religous background)tugging at her , business relations and colorism. I also think she did work overseas too.

What was her religion?

scriptgirl said:

What was her religion?

seventh day adventist