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Imagine a small, dimly-lit club in Hollywood about six years ago. Amidst the clinking of cocktail glasses and the buzz of people talking, hardly anyone seems to notice as four attractive young women, dressed in outfits that seem more appropriate for the 1960s than the 1980s, stroll onto the stage and quietly plug in their instruments.

October 2, 1989
Sheila Standing

Imagine a small, dimly-lit club in Hollywood about six years ago. Amidst the clinking of cocktail glasses and the buzz of people talking, hardly anyone seems to notice as four attractive young women, dressed in outfits that seem more appropriate for the 1960s than the 1980s, stroll onto the stage and quietly plug in their instruments.

A short, dark-haired woman with a Rickenbacker guitar slung over her shoulder strums the first, ringing chord, steps up to the microphone and begins to sing in warm tones that suddenly have people paying attention. When the other guitarist and the drummer come in with sparkling harmonies the effect is chilling, and before the set is over, you'd be hard-pressed to find a person in the house who hasn't been thoroughly won over by this terrific female quartet.

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