The Starlets

The Starlets contains two ex-Gems — Minnie Ripperton and Theresa Washburn — alongside Dorothy Martin and Jessica Edmund. Ripperton became a member of following the Gems disbanded, along with a single recording, “Lonesome Lady” (1966) as Andrea Davis, flopped. A debut released in Apr 1967, “My Baby’s Actual” b/w “Caring You Is usually Something New,” didn’t perform very much, though both edges were compiled by Billy “Roquel” Davis, guitarist Gary Jackson, and blind pianist Raynard Miner; nor do a final solitary, “I Wanna Become Good for you” b/w “Watered Down” (1968). Ripperton remaining and installed with Rotary Connection; if they known as it quits, she proceeded to go single once again under her genuine name, scoring strikes and sketching rave testimonials before tumor tragically lower her lifestyle and career brief in 1979.