| LUCIA PAMELA
(1904-2002)
"You can't live life going backwards. You must go forward."
-- Lucia Pamela
Entertainer, singer, songwriter, radio & TV star, multi-instrumentalist, all-girl orchestra leader, Ziegfeld Follies beauty, Miss St. Louis 1926, and lunar explorer LUCIA PAMELA Angelo passed away in Los Angeles on Thursday July 25, of cardiac arrest. She was 98.
In 1969, she recorded her only album, INTO OUTER SPACE WITH LUCIA PAMELA, on the moon. You can look it up. The CD reissue was produced by Irwin Chusid, author of Songs in the Key of Z: The Curious Universe of Outsider Music, for Arf Arf Records in 1992. Lucia was also profiled in a chapter entitled "Interstellar Overdrive" in Songs in the Key of Z.
Miss Pamela enchanted patrons at St. Louis' Odeon Theater as "Venus in Spookyland," and played Mother Goose at Fresno Storyland. She kept her Christmas tree decorated and glowing all year 'round.
A magical matron, sui generis. Sweet, enigmatic, an inspirational sorceress. She will be missed, always. But her music and art survive, as does her spirit.
Lucia left 2 children, 12 grandchildren, 27 great-grandchildren, and millions of past, present and future fans on numerous planets.
Stereolab's song "International Colouring Contest" (on the album MARS AUDIAC QUINTET) is about Miss Pamela, and begins with a voice sample.
Danielle Lemaire's Lucia Pamela tribute page:
http://home.iae.nl/users/jada/innerlandscapes/inmemoriam.html
"The last time I saw Lucia," recalled Kirk Biglione, "she was trying to raise funds to build an amusement park, with a ride that would actually take visitors to another planet. Not such a strange proposition when you consider that she's also convinced her pink Cadillac can fly."
"Why? Because I want to."
-- Lucia Pamela |
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