Articles: Sandy Hollis : The Lost Detroit Soulstress Found

[Chalky 15,472]

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Big Wheel recording artist Sandy Hollis contacts Dave Welding and her story is revealed some 50 years after her brief recording career.

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[Ficklefingers 693]

Another mystery solved !! Thanks for sharing Chalky.. Great Stuff !! And the sort of stuff I really like receiving at Xmas

[Davey S 77]

Thanks for posting that don't know how you do it great bit of detective work .

Good read cheers.

 

[Chalky 15,472]

3 hours ago, Ficklefingers said:

Another mystery solved !! Thanks for sharing Chalky.. Great Stuff !! And the sort of stuff I really like receiving at Xmas

Thank Dave Welding mate, I did the easy bit @Louise

Edited December 24, 2020 by Chalky

[Chalky 15,472]

Sandy at Graduation....

[purist 314]

That was a great read and a great story, thanks guys !
To think if she hadn't left The Wonderettes we would never have had the two sided Big Wheel gem  

[Ladymidnight 299]

Excellent read, thanks for posting.

[The Yank 2,062]

Record World ad from Nov. '66 - 

 

[Tlscapital 752]

TaStiK tale. Thanks a bunch. Beginning with a Doctor's orders to unveil that very angel's voice face and slice of life into music... A long-long time personal favorite record 'I'm tempted' that I can now "visualize" otherwise. Especially love that early black and white picture of a young 'witty' Barbara AKA Sandy.

[Robbk 2,481]

Thanks for that great article.  I always wondered what Sandy's story was, and didn't know she had been a member of The Wonderettes.

[cover-up 362]

Great article, always loved the Sandy Hollis 45!

[Andy Rix 728]

What a brilliant story ... I love this stuff

Well done Dave

Regards

Andy

[Andy Rix 728]

2 hours ago, Andy Rix said:

What a brilliant story ... I love this stuff

Well done Dave

Regards

Andy

Any help to find September Jones and Nancy Wilcox would be appreciated .... 20+ years looking has got me nowhere ! .... and I thought Sharon Scott would be the hardest one to find ... those girls need to feel how Sandy must feel . it must be an amazing thing to experience

Andy 

Edited December 27, 2020 by Andy Rix

[Louise 1,831]

9 hours ago, Andy Rix said:

Any help to find September Jones and Nancy Wilcox would be appreciated .... 20+ years looking has got me nowhere ! .... and I thought Sharon Scott would be the hardest one to find ... those girls need to feel how Sandy must feel . it must be an amazing thing to experience

Andy 

Asked the question with regard to September Jones many times too Andy, always drawn a blank. 

Sadly we might never know as each year that goes by we lose more and more of our musical hero's either too illness or that living death dementia.

But in this case Sandy a.k.a Barbara Weems is over the moon with the response to her life story on this and other social media sites half a century after she cut her solitary 45.

Many thanks for all your replies

Dave.

[Tlscapital 752]

9 hours ago, Andy Rix said:

Any help to find September Jones and Nancy Wilcox would be appreciated .... 20+ years looking has got me nowhere ! .... and I thought Sharon Scott would be the hardest one to find ... those girls need to feel how Sandy must feel . it must be an amazing thing to experience

Andy 

Hi Andy, my 2 cents; have you try to see with Gilles Petard from Paris who released the fantastic double 45 of September Jones in 2006 ? 

[Blackpoolsoul 1,094]

55 minutes ago, Louise said:

Asked the question with regard to September Jones many times too Andy, always drawn a blank. 

Sadly we might never know as each year that goes by we lose more and more of our musical hero's either too illness or that living death dementia.

But in this case Sandy a.k.a Barbara Weems is over the moon with the response to her life story on this and other social media sites half a century after she cut her solitary 45.

Many thanks for all your replies

Dave.

This is his site

http://www.franceinter.fr/personne-gilles-petard

[Chalky 15,472]

2 hours ago, Tlscapital said:

Hi Andy, my 2 cents; have you try to see with Gilles Petard from Paris who released the fantastic double 45 of September Jones in 2006 ? 

I remember the EP but never any biography.

 

[kenmidgley 3]

Brilliant read that. Keep um coming

[Andy Rix 728]

On 28/12/2020 at 08:22, Blackpoolsoul said:

This is his site

http://www.franceinter.fr/personne-gilles-petard

Thanks ... I can't find any contact details

Andy

[Blackpoolsoul 1,094]

8 minutes ago, Andy Rix said:

Thanks ... I can't find any contact details

Andy

Is this him ?

https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=it&u=https://jazzinphoto.wordpress.com/tag/gilles-petard/&prev=search&pto=aue

[Tlscapital 752]

10 minutes ago, Andy Rix said:

Thanks ... I can't find any contact details

Andy

That's a Radio link...  I'll dig on my side what Paris connections I can come up with and pass it on to you . 

2 minutes ago, Blackpoolsoul said:

Is this him ?

https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=it&u=https://jazzinphoto.wordpress.com/tag/gilles-petard/&prev=search&pto=aue

Oui !

Edited December 31, 2020 by Tlscapital

[Blackpoolsoul 1,094]

4 minutes ago, Tlscapital said:

That's a Radio link...  I'll dig on my side what Paris connections I can come up with and pass it on to you . 

Oui !

He seems to have disappeared ?

[imnokid 2]

Interesting article. In reading this thread, I can't seem to locate the question that you want to ask Giles Petard.

If you post the exact question, I will get it to him.

BTW, has anyone ever tracked down who has the Big Wheel masters?

KK

[Tlscapital 752]

20 minutes ago, imnokid said:

Interesting article. In reading this thread, I can't seem to locate the question that you want to ask Giles Petard.

If you post the exact question, I will get it to him.

BTW, has anyone ever tracked down who has the Big Wheel masters?

KK

To get in touch with September Jones...