Wendy Rene Raer Sides
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Shingaling
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By the way, "What Will Tomorrow Bring" is definitely not to be slept on.
The side with "She's Moving Away" is the first version featuring her brother on backing vocals. The track is almost slower sounding. It sold well so they recut/overdubed the back vocals with all girls and put "What Will Tommorow Bring" on the flip. "She's Moving Away" is my favorite.
(Monkey & Cadillac-related)
OK...when 16 year old Mary aka Wendy made some loot off this track, she did what any 16 year old would do...she blew it. She followed in the footsteps of a Memphis trend made popular by Johnnie Taylor. You were hot shit in Memphis around the mid-sixties if you had a Cadillac convertable and a pet monkey. JT would drive around town in his Caddy with his monkey (who was wearing a tuxedo) riding shotgun. Wendy did the same. I read about this online somewhere and I asked her brother about it. He said "Oh yeah, that damn monkey tore up the house and shit and pissed on everything! Momma made her get rid of it after a month. I thought I was gonna have to kill that monkey!"