Well, you’ve never heard of me, bob, even though I’ve written you 50 times.  (“What about Bob?”)

1) I did produce one Cindy Bullens show at the Stanford student union for Earthwise Productions. I Remember the radio promoter or the music Director of Alice 97.7 came to lunch with us.  I had no idea who she was, only that the agent was someone I did business with.  I Remember the thing about the child with cancer.  

2) I have a similar name to Mary Weiss, and I discovered The Donnas. 

I think I wrote to Mary Weiss once about The Donnas.  

I am Turning 60 in exactly 12 hours and 62 minutes— who knows maybe I’ll go to the Niners game as “Mary“ not Mark…. Not all the cards have been dealt.  

Mark weiss

In Palo Alto

Sent from my inner girl power

Coda: in fall of 1981 I was a stringer for the peninsula Times  tribune  covering high school football and Mike Nolan the sports writer had transitioned to Michelle Nolan…. They said that the other Sportswriters put a cucumber in their mail box — I got blackballed from the Greek system at dartmouth in ‘84 for writing about Gay rights —

What makes Sammy run?

This book was written by my fellow dartmouthian Budd Schulberg, who told a convention of journalists in Hanover circa 1999 that he was almost expelled by President Hopkins for  writing a sympathetic account of a miners‘ strike up in Vermont. 

On Jan 23, 2024, at 8:15 PM, Bob Lefsetz <bob@lefsetz.com> wrote:

”TransElectric: My Life as a Cosmic Rock Star”: https://rb.gy/s679py

You might not know who Cidny Bullens is, but you should read his book.

Yet if you were a rock aficionado back in the seventies, and devoured all the information you could lay your hands on, of course you know who Cindy Bullens is, she’s the backup singer who toured with Elton John and was going to break big with her powerhouse rock vocals.

But she didn’t.

Mary Weiss died the other day, you know, of the Shangri-Las. “Leader of the Pack” is what you hear most these days, but I always preferred its predecessor, “Remember (Walking in the Sand).” It was a hit during the summer of ’64, it battled the Supremes’ first Top 40 crossover hit, “Where Did Our Love Go?,” for chart dominance. Both great cuts, at the time I preferred the Shangri-Las tune, although now my preference has flipped. In any event, back then I saw the acts as equals, but they didn’t turn out to be. The Shangri-Las stalled out, and the Supremes became icons. But I’ll never forget seeing Mary Weiss with her long blond hair and boots on TV. But Mary didn’t write the songs, and therefore she rode out her days as an administrator at an architecture firm. You see you’ve got to earn a living.

So Cindy Bullens is plucked out of obscurity by Elton John