‘Sweet, sweet’ Connie Hamzy, subject of Grand Funk Railroad song, dead at 66

Cox Media KIRO 7 ^ | August 21, 2021 | Bob D'Angelo

[rightwingintelligentsia]

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Connie Hamzy, immortalized in a No. 1 rock ‘n’ roll hit by Grand Funk Railroad in 1973, died after a brief illness, KARK-TV reported. She was 66.

Hamzy was the subject in the opening verses of Grand Funk Railroad’s hit, “We’re An American Band,” which spent 17 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100”S. "Sweet, sweet Connie, doin’ her act/She had the whole show and that’s a natural fact,” sang drummer Don Brewer, who also wrote the song.

“I was determined to become a famous groupie,” Hamzy told KTHV in 2019. “I really was.

Beginning in the late 1960s, Hamzy attended dozens of shows at Barton Coliseum in Little Rock, KARK reported.

She also traveled to shows around the country, the television station reported.

[rightwingintelligentsia]

[mewzilla]

Meet Connie Hamzy — Rock And Roll’s “Most Notorious Groupie” And Bill Clinton’s First Sex Scandal

[EEGator]

I just looked up some pics, she did not look well in her pictures. She looked like she was a decade older, and extremely frail.
RIP

[SamAdams76]

Sounds like she had a fun life.

[4yearlurker]

I used to read Creem magazine. That gal has a can of Boy Howdy Beer.

[x]

Wow! The big kids all got really old all of a sudden.

Not like us. 😁

[Bratch]

[NetAddicted]

Rd later.

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.

[Reily]

There are artists and then there are “artists” !

[AppyPappy]

She had the whole show

[sit-rep]

Not guilty!

[The Louiswu]

[LouAvul]

Sounds like she had a fun life

No. It was not fun. I was in that era and knew many people like her. For those dumb enough to subscribe to that lifestyle (sex, drugs and rock and roll) it was a degrading, dehumanizing and miserable time.

She was a whore. Nothing "fun" about that.

[KosmicKitty]

She was ridden hard and put up wet according to that picture

[Jolla]

She had some fun doing what she liked to do, good for her.

[fieldmarshaldj]

That’s Bebe Buell in the photo (Liv Tyler’s mother).

[hecticskeptic]

Sounds like she had a fun life.
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Well, as an old time preacher that I heard many times while still a youngster used to say, “there’ll be a payday someday....”.

[mozarky2]

True story:
I took an asbestos abatement course from the same instructor Sweet Sweet Connie did. Upon completing the course, she replied, “I guess I’m a Master Abater now”!

[LouAvul]

You know nothing of which you speak. Whores are the most miserable people on earth. Their entire value is reduced to a single available orifice.

You must be libertarian.