RIP Sugar Pie DeSanto.
Watch more of this colourised footage from American Folk Blues Festival at Manchester Free Trade Hall in 1964 here http://youtu.be/-3E5Rn2cXeo
And listen to a playlist of some of her mod, northern soul and funk faves at https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3L64516awkpPgZia1TaIXe
First LP I ever bought? I could pretend it was Elvis: 40 Greatest but that was 2nd. First I think was this in about 1973 when I was 8. Probably cost about 29p/49p. Played on my mum’s teenage Dansette which lasted until c1979 when I bought a stereo with my supermarket earnings.
