The group was formed after the disbanding of two rival girl groups in the Philadelphia / Trenton areas, the Ordettes and the Del-Capris, forming as a new version of the former group, later changing their name to The Blue Belles ( later Bluebelles ).

From 1963 until 1967, The Blue Belles, later Patti LaBelle and The Bluebelles, found relative success on the charts and were raved for their live performances.

Birdsong originally replaced Tucker in the group The Ordettes, later to be named Patti LaBelle & the Bluebelles, so it was ironic that Tucker's sister, Laurence took Birdsong's place as a backing vocalist.

Among the Bluebelles hits including the doo-wop classic, " I Sold My Heart to the Junkman " and doo-wop-esque R & B ballads " You'll Never Walk Alone " and " Danny Boy ", the top forty classic, " Down the Aisle ( The Wedding Song )", the soul standard " All or Nothing " and their now-legendary rendition of " Over the Rainbow ", which LaBelle later transformed into a tour-de-force in her 1981 solo cover.

In 1967, Birdsong left the group to join The Supremes and four years later, The Bluebelles changed their name to Labelle and began recording material that set them apart from other girl groups including songs of political, social and sexual matters transforming them into a " hard-rocking, sexually and politically-outspoken group ".

In 1965, Atlantic Records signed the Bluebelles to a contract, again altering their name to simply Patti LaBelle and The Bluebelles.

For years, Patti LaBelle had longed to return to the ballads she had enjoyed singing while the group was the Bluebelles.

As The Blue Belles ( aka Patti La Belle and Her Blue Belles ; Patti LaBelle and The Bluebelles ):

After the release of their debut hit, 1962's " I Sold My Heart to the Junkman ", their name altered again to Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles.

The show aired on June 28, 1965 and featured performances by many of the popular artists of the day like Jan & Dean, Mary Wells, the Dave Clark Five, Gary Lewis and the Playboys, Diana Ross & The Supremes, Patti LaBelle & the Bluebelles, The Drifters, Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, Ray Charles, Marvin Gaye, The Ronettes, The Righteous Brothers and Little Anthony & the Imperials That show also introduced the first music video-style programming, pre-dating MTV by 15 years.

Cynthia Ann " Cindy " Birdsong ( born December 15, 1939 ) is an American singer, most famous for singing with the legendary soul groups Patti LaBelle & the Bluebelles and The Supremes.

# Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles – " Down the Aisle "

* Patti LaBelle & the Bluebelles

Her first notable appearance on the music scene was as a member of Patti LaBelle & the Bluebelles.

The group changed their name again to Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles after Holte was advised to adapt the stage name of Patti Labelle.

Motown's entire roster, and occasionally non-Motown performers such as Dusty Springfield, The Shirelles and Patti LaBelle & the Bluebelles, were featured on the tours.

After almost signing with Frankie Crocker and Herb Hamlett as their managers, the group settled on Vicki Wickham, after Dusty Springfield, who was also managed by Wickham and was a fan of the Bluebelles insisted Wickham worked with them.

More inspired by Elton John, who they would be reacquainted with since Elton's band Bluesology had originally backed the former Bluebelles, and Bowie, the group wore more wilder outfits with each member adapting their own flamboyant style to their distinctive looks.

In 1961, Cindy Birdsong, from Camden, New Jersey became the fourth member of the group, who became the ' Bluebelles ' and signed their first deal with Newtown Records.

Birdsong's relationships with the Bluebelles healed and they came together again for the ceremony when the group won an R & B Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award in 1999.

In 1999, she reunited with the Bluebelles, who changed their name to Labelle after Birdsong's departure, for the first time in thirty-two years as the group accepted an R & B Foundation Award for Lifetime Achievement singing " You'll Never Walk Alone " together.

Birdsong said that the remaining Bluebelles were angry with her for not telling them about joining the Supremes and refused to talk to her for years.

When she died later that year, her youngest daughter, Patricia Gay Tate, known as Patti, continued her work.

Wickham advised the group to move to London and change their entire image and sound, something Patti LaBelle later admitted she felt real uncomfortable with, saying she was okay with the way things were going.

* Patti Page becomes the first artist to use the technique of multi-track overdubbing ( later popularized by Les Paul & Mary Ford ).

" In her later teenage years, she became a fan of American indie rock bands including Pixies, Television and Slint, though not as many critics have suspected, Patti Smith ; a frequent comparison that Harvey dismisses as " lazy journalism.

Loud regrouped his band, called Mumps, along with Santa Barbara High School friend Kristian Hoffman ( also featured in An American Family ), Rob Duprey ( later of the Iggy Pop Band ), high school alumnus Jay Dee Daugherty ( later of the Patti Smith Group and The Church ), and Aaron Kiley.

Whaley left, and later rejoined Help Yourself, and in December 1972, the Ducks recorded two tracks at Man's Christmas party, one of which ," Boogaloo Babe ", was released on a double 10 " album Christmas at the Patti, their first appearance on a record.

The Black Patti logo ( an art deco peacock ) in the late 1960s has been adapted by Nick Perls for his Belzona, later Yazoo label.

The original nine Beanie Babies launched in 1993 were Legs the Frog, Squealer the Pig, Spot the Dog, Flash the Dolphin, Splash the Whale, Chocolate the Moose, Patti the Platypus, Brownie the Bear ( later renamed " Cubbie "), and Pinchers the Lobster ( with some tag errors with " Punchers ").

Three years later he teamed up with former Snatch vocalist, Patti Palladin, and The Only Ones guitarist John Perry to record " Copy Cats ", a covers album.

Page would later have her own series, beginning with Scott Music Hall on NBC in the 1952-53 season, and a syndicated series for Oldsmobile in 1955 titled The Patti Page Show.

Stephens also created and produced another highly rated television program called, " Eye on Arkansas ," which led him to negotiate with The Vapors nightclub in Hot Springs ( Garland County ) to publicize the club in exchange for appearances by the headliner acts, resulting in him interviewing such entertainment icons as Liberace, Patti Page, the Four Aces, Angie Dickinson, Bob Crosby, Mickey Rooney, the casts of the popular TV ’ s series, " Ponderosa ," and " The Beverly Hillbillies ," actors Roy Rogers, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Ronald Reagan ( while touring as the host of GE Theatre, prior to becoming governor of California, and later as President ), as well as numerous other notables.

In his later years, Pendergrass ' “ Wake Up Everybody ” has been covered by a diverse range of acts from Simply Red to Patti LaBelle and was chosen as a rallying cry during the 2004 Presidential campaign by Kenneth " Babyface " Edmonds to mobilize voters.

Other IMT identities included Joff Ellen, Val Ruff, Panda Lisner, Mary Hardy, Rosie Sturgess, Patti McGrath ( later Patti Newton ), Toni Lamond, Philip Brady, Johnny Ladd, Noel Ferrier, Elaine McKenna, Bill McCormick, Ted Hamilton, The Tune Twisters and the Channel 9 Ballet.

During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Roxon became close friends with critic and rock manager Danny Fields, Village Voice journalist Blair Sabol, musician and writer Lenny Kaye ( later the guitarist in Patti Smith's band and compiler of the original Nuggets LP ), photographers Linda McCartney and Leee Black Childers and Australian academic, author and feminist Germaine Greer.

Born Patti Woodard to William Robert Woodard, a railroad president, and Ellen Booth in Palmyra, Missouri, she originally intended to become a circus rider, then later an opera singer.

Dylan's idea of forming his own band, who would later be known as the Rolling Thunder Revue, came when he saw Patti Smith and her group play at The Other End ( formerly, and currently renamed The Bitter End ) on June 26, 1975.

* In 1970 New York, he married Patti Hemingway, from whom he was later divorced.

Laurie's daughter Patti is played in the later stages of the movie ( once time lapses to her being five years old ) by Kaleena Kiff, who retains the role in Love, Sidney.

The song was later recorded in the United States by Patti Page.

Growing up with a Pentecostal minister father, Ronnie Wilson formed the Greenwood, Archer, and Pine Street Band in 1967, with Tuck Andress ( later of Tuck and Patti ), Roscoe " Toast " Smith and Chris Clayton.