if they in fact had a happy ending, all of them, as stars.

They called her The One. She was followed by The Two and The Three.

They were former inmates at Sing Sing.

Not the prison, but the song. They were backup singers. They did stints in the 60s. Two week runs, six nights a week, five hours straight with forty minutes on and twenty minutes off.

They were last in Boston. A lot of mob bosses owned the clubs. They particularly liked the swing music and being an r&b combo, their group only knew one. So they played Sing, Sing over and over, five times a night, six nights a week.

The band had no horns. And that's when the singers stepped in to mimic the parts, hand motions and all. 1 = Gladys, trumpet. 2 = Ethel, clarinet/ alto sax 3 = Josephine, trombone.

Otherwise, they sang back up for Aretha type songs while Fats McGee played piano and sang, all the way from New Orleans to country western to cool jazz. Rogers on bass, Timmy on drums, Leroy on guitar.

Fats & His Tummy Rubs was the billing for they way they sang and presented the tunes in nightclubs across the northeast and down south.

At first the girls liked the gig. They were fresh-faced, had heard of Fats through the same church circles in which they themselves met; few times a year at pageants and youth conferences.

But you know how these things go. No? Well, I got to get back to practicing so without having to throw anything crazy in the mix, lets just say they all got along and became stars. All of them. They are remembered today as the Pointer Sisters (I'll have to go on wikipedia, read their bio and see if they in fact had a happy ending, all of them, as stars. But for now, lets go with it).