Re: a word or two

[dxc4@po.CWRU.Edu (David Condon)]

In a previous article, FRANCKSEN@CHEERS.gs.COM (Jane Francksen) says:

>[...]
>the marine girls were three sisters, and one of them grew up to be tracy thorn
>of everything but the girl. the marine girls and ben watt (the other half of 
>EBTG and, despite his socialist posturing, the recipient of a privileged 
>upbringing) were all on cherry red records in the UK and all feature on their
>excellent sampler "pillows and prayers". tracy broke up the band to spend more
>time studying. she and ben graduated from hull university (tracy got a first in 
>english), and then lived happily ever after as everything but the girl. the 
>last i heard of the other two sisters was that they continued making marine
>girls style music as "grab grab the haddock" but i've never heard or seen
>any of their records. if anybody knows any more, i'd love to hear about it.

I really like Everything but the Girl. I heard on the radio a couple of
years ago some things from a Tracy Thorn solo album, but I'v never been
able to find it in stores. I had them try to look it up and special order
it, but they couldn't find it in the catalogues. 
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