The Little Sisters - Black Girl (1963)

b1. Black Girl from The Little Sisters - The Joys Of Love (1963) ************************************************************************** The Little Sisters were Mary and Patty Little '' Dear Robert, Thank you so much for your beautiful and kind words about our album. I'm Pat, the one laughing on the cover. I did the harmony. After all this time has passed, it touches my heart that you liked our songs. "Cuckoo" and "Black Girl" are my favorites too. And I always liked "House of the Rising Sun". We sang that alot in coffee houses and clubs around The Village, also in Washington D.C. and Philadelphia. One of our songs was banned from the radio for being too sad. It was a song called, "Go Tell Aunt Betsy" ( The ol gray goose is dead ). It was a song our Grandma used to sing to us when we were small children. The actor/ folk singer, Theodore Bitel broadcast a radio show from his Gramacy Park Apt. every Sunday night. He used to play our songs. When he played "Go Tell Aunt Betsy", The Radio Commission said it was too sad. The song "Gloomy Sunday" had people jumping out of windows during the Depression. They were concerned it would do the same. We were very surpised. When we started out in The Village our favorite coffee houses were: Folk City (Bob Dylan's favorite), The Bitter End, The Fat Black Cat, and Charlie's Cafe. At Charlie's we were singing waitresses. The coffee houses had a "Hootnanny" every Monday night. Folk singers, musicians, poets and comedians would get up on stage to perform their material, then pass a hat around for tips. We didn't get a salary, we just worked for tips. It was a hard time, but exciting. At the end of the night we would all jam together, sometimes for hours. 12 string guitars, banjos, flutes, fiddles and drums. We had the great pleasure of meeting Bob Dylan, Ramblin Jack Elliot, Tom Paxton, Dave Van Ronk, The Clancy Brothers (from Ireland), Theodore Bikel (from Israel), Dino Valente, Rosemary Clooney, Dorothy Danridge, and of course Johnny Carson. He was a really lovely man. Thanks again Robert and Dusty. I'll look forward to reading your book Robert, "Gone Tomorrow". I am a Grandma now, with two fine Grandchildren. Yours Truly, Pat Little" http://culturecatch.com/music/little-sisters-joys-love-mgm-records-1963