You never know what you will find in eMoviePoster.com auctions! Consider
this jumbo window card from 1965, closing in hours at
http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=5941558
It
advertises Jerry Butler & His Revue. Jerry Butler was a very important
early black African American jazz and blues musician (his song "For Your
Precious Love" is ranked No. 327 on the Rolling Stone magazine's list of
The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time), and this very rare card is valuable
for that reason. But look at his co-singer billed on this card, "Tammy
Montgomery". She was born in 1945 (as Thomasina Winifred Montgomery) and
began singing backup for James Brown when she was just 15 (she used the
name Tammy as her first name because she loved the song "Tammy"). The next
year she founded the group called "The Sherrys". Two years later she left
the group and had a solo hit with "I Cried". She then quit singing, and
enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania where she majored in pre-med!
After two years in college, singer Jerry Butler asked her to sing with him,
telling her she could stay in school. At one of their performances she was
seen by Berry Gordy, and she signed with him, and in 1966, Gordy changed
her name to "Tammi Terrell" and she had many hits as a solo artist. In
1967, she sang a series of duets with Marvin Gaye, starting with "Ain't No
Mountain High Enough", and they were giant hits. Terrell had suffered from
migraine headaches for years, and tragically, Terrell collapsed in late
1967 and was diagnosed with a brain tumor. She had surgery and was able to
continue performing, but the tumors returned, and became more and more
sick, and she passed away early in 1970, and she was not yet 25.
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