Alan Lorber produced this stone classic for Earth Records in 1969, and although the names of the four voices are not all documented, one of the pairs of girls speaking is Sheila "Cleo" Odzer and Carol "Cookie" Tandy. Cleo's life in particular turned out to be a nutty ride: she was born in New York in 1950 and was already a busy groupie on the NYC music scene by 1968. She was either engaged and then not engaged, or never engaged, to Keith Emerson of the Nice; she spent most of the 1970s in Europe and the Middle East, ending up in the hippie communities of Anjuna in north Goa, India; and her involvement in international drug smuggling eventually led to her arrest. When she came back to the USA in the late 1970s, she went to college and graduate school, finally earning a PhD in anthropology; she wrote a book about prostitution in Thailand, and another book about Goa. She hosted her own show, "Cleo's Adventures", for Manhattan public access TV; she wrote another book, this one about cybersex; and she died in 2001.
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