ALICE CLARK

An interesting post from the ubiquitous Aquarium Drunkard again this morning . . . about Alice Clark who despite a one off rare as hen's teeth single album deserved better and I don't say this lightly but should be acknowledged up there with Aretha and Irma Thomas to name but two and people know what I think about them. She crops up occasionally in some Northern Soul compilations and was vaunted there but apart from that she failed to register for reasons best known to someone else*
Check this voice!



*Google just has this

Little is known publicly of her life outside her brief music career between 1968 and 1972. She grew up in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighbourhood of Brooklyn, New York City. 

According to Billy Vera, who wrote and produced her first record, "I got the impression her life wasn't that great. She... had kids and belonged to a religious order that forbade either bathing or washing hair, I don't recall exactly which..."^[2]She retired from the music industry after the commercial failure of the album, and returned to family life in Bedford-Stuyvesant. She died from cancer in 2004, aged 57.^[5]

Alice Clark - From Aquarium Drunkard