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Betty Davis, Boundary-Smashing Funk Singer, Dead at 77
Billboard ^ | 02/9/2022 | Joe Lynch

Posted on 02/10/2022 8:30:19 PM PST by nickcarraway

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She basically took up where Sly Stone left off when he left his band. Really underrated.
1 posted on 02/10/2022 8:30:19 PM PST by nickcarraway
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????


2 posted on 02/10/2022 8:36:35 PM PST by doorgunner69 (Let's go Brandon)
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?


3 posted on 02/10/2022 8:38:44 PM PST by nickcarraway
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You aren’t thinking of the actress Bette Davis?


4 posted on 02/10/2022 8:39:21 PM PST by nickcarraway
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W8b4hPEN05I


5 posted on 02/10/2022 8:39:24 PM PST by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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Mariah Carey just remarked: “I don’t know her.”


6 posted on 02/10/2022 8:43:15 PM PST by lee martell
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Maybe at first, but then realized I still had no idea who this was.


7 posted on 02/10/2022 8:45:40 PM PST by doorgunner69 (Let's go Brandon)
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Most people don’t know who she is.


8 posted on 02/10/2022 8:47:09 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: gundog

GeezusHcrist!

No wonder this was a mystery with a familiar name.


9 posted on 02/10/2022 8:47:55 PM PST by doorgunner69 (Let's go Brandon)
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Game is My Middle Name

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SN3OU5g55F0

10 posted on 02/10/2022 8:56:49 PM PST by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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Ive heard worse.

Did anyone understand what she was saying...

“...you can crush my belt, dont rub on my feather speed butt”?

I listened to that line 2 dozen times and thats what Im hearing but that doesnt make any sense.


11 posted on 02/10/2022 9:40:19 PM PST by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
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Never heard her music.

Guess she has Betty Davis eyes . . .


12 posted on 02/10/2022 9:43:45 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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Just watched her in an episode of perry mason . There was a moment where Burger seemed to be really awe struck at the whole thing and was trying to hold his delight

All of the leads of perry mason died of cancer except maybe della street


13 posted on 02/10/2022 9:47:55 PM PST by RummyChick
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I remember that one.

William Hopper had a stroke.

Ray Collins died of Emphysema.

14 posted on 02/10/2022 10:03:33 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: gnarledmaw

“...don’t you crush my velvet, don’t you ruffle my feathers, neither...”


15 posted on 02/10/2022 10:04:10 PM PST by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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She basically took up where Sly Stone left off when he left his band.

Tasty track, gunddog

16 posted on 02/10/2022 10:11:13 PM PST by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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Sounds like she had been around the block quite a few times. And that was before she was old enough to drive.
Must have loved the hard living to have done so much of it.
Sassy songs and sassy style. Uh huh


17 posted on 02/10/2022 10:54:39 PM PST by Honest Nigerian
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The warm conversation came to an abrupt end when one of them asked her “what happened” that made her walk away from entertainment; her reply was simply, “Well, it was nice talking to you.”

Hate tight-lipped people. (I suspect that, in most cases, it conceals a profound haughtiness.) Her bandmates deserved an honest answer.

Regards,

18 posted on 02/10/2022 11:14:00 PM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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I have an aunt named Betty Davis but she died a long time ago. This is old news I think.


19 posted on 02/11/2022 4:57:27 AM PST by vespa300
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jC-ZK-lxws4


20 posted on 02/11/2022 6:25:43 AM PST by Disambiguator
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