The Blossoms had gotten so we were working seven days a week, three or four sessions a day, which was literally killing us, physically. With the instruments that the musicians play, they can do that, but not with us using our voices.

The Blossoms were actually the first black background singers that did recording sessions in California, but we had to start giving work away. We just couldn't do it all.

I like to work for four or five hours a day. I aim for seven days a week.

It's a little ginger. It's gotten better every week. There's been no issues in the last three or four weeks at all.

We've been out of Super for about a week, out of Plus for about three or four days, and we had a half-day yesterday where we had no gas at all. From what my supplier is telling me, I understand the problem seems to be at the refinery level.

If that's the case, why did it take seven years? It would have been three years or four years into it that they found out what we're doing offensively and defensively. I think that has more to do with our play. You have to put two and two together.