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Monday, August 17, 2009

Never Never Leave Me - Geraldine Hunt


Jay here, G-Man got at me. asked me to help post up a donation from MANZIG13878. Sorry this took awhile G. Glad to help anytime.


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Hunt's parents are Rosie Lee Vickers and Frank Milligan. Her father was a one-man band, and her grandmother, Louella Reed was a singer on the Chitlin Circuit. In 1947 her family relocated to Chicago. While growing up on Chicago's south side Hunt discovered her musical talent. Living in that part of Chicago was not easy; recalls Geraldine. "On the weekends, we had to sleep on the floor, gangs were shooting through the house; I had been beaten up at gunpoint once, It was rough. We were living below middle class."

Despite the bleak living conditions of her childhood, there were bright spots also. A notable time in her life was her years at Hyde Park High School. Her classmate and best friend at school was the late American soul singer-songwriter Minnie Riperton. Besides Hunt and Riperton, the school also produced a girl group called Coffee who recorded the 1980 hit "Casanova".







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  1. Yvette MarieMarch 26, 2012 at 2:12 PM

    This is going to sound like a weird post, but I am trying to find a song that Manzig13878 had posted on Youtube before they took all his videos down. My bf said it's something about a girl who was on heroin and dies, or something like that. Please let me know if you know which song, I'm talking about. I'm trying to put a compilation together for his B-Day coming up on April 13. He is very deep into rare soul oldies.

    Thank you!

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