RUBY STARR - SMOKEY PLACES - TWO ORIGINAL PRESS KIT 8" X 10" PHOTOS & ARTIST BIO

Singer Ruby Starr was best-known as a backup singer for '70s macho man rockers Black Oak Arkansas, but also issued several recordings as a solo artist as well. Born Constance Henrietta Mierzwiak in Toledo, OH, in 1949, the future rock singer got her start at the age of nine (performing renditions of Brenda Lee songs) before changing her stage name to Connie Little and forming the Phil Spector-esque Connie & the Blu-Beats. Following stints in such obscure outfits as the Downtowners and the Blue Grange Ramblers (aka BGR), the latter of which mutated into the outfit Ruby Jones (a name that the singer was going by at the time). Signed to Curtis Mayfield's Curtom label, the recording of Ruby Jones' 1971 self-titled was even supervised by Mayfield. Shortly after the album's release, Black Oak Arkansas frontman Jim Dandy spotted Starr singing in an Evansville, IN, club and persuaded her to join his band, as she assumed her best-known stage name Ruby Starr. Starr toured with the band for several years (appearing on the albums Street Party and Balls of Fire, as well as their lone hit single "Jim Dandy") 

These original press kit photos and artist bio were provided to record reviewers to promote the release of Ruby Starr's  "Smokey Places" album in 1976. In the 1970s, I was a record reviewer, interviewer and writer for music publications in Southern California and Florida. I've been the only owner of these press kit photos and biography since then. These 8 inch by 10 inch photos have been scanned low-res but the photos you will receive is sharp and in excellent condition. 

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