The early 1960's girl group Raelettes -Ray Charles' Touring Group. Margie Hendrix is the second from the left, and the featured singer.
Margie wasn't the first or last background singer to be involved with her boss, the star of the show, and probably won't be the last.Excerpts from Ray Charles own memoir BROTHER RAY read on Overdrive e-book:
"So I didn't - and don't - have a policy against hanky-panky among the girls and boys in the band. How could I, as much as I loved to f-uck? I'd look like a fool and I'd be a hypocrite. The guys were adults and so were the women... 1279 -1280
HE SAYS HE DID HAVE SEX WITH RAELETTES.
"But I've never insisted that any woman sleep with me. When sex happens between me and one of the Raelettes it happens naturally. It doesn't concern her pay or her music. I never allow those two currents - lovemaking and music - to cross each other.
I'd never want to make love to a woman thinking the only reason she agrees is because I'm her boss. ... I have to feel she wants me as much as I want her... 1287-1288
I also have another personal sex policy. If a girl's with another guy in the band, I leave her alone. I don't want my cats thinking that I'm interfering with their business or their love life... 1289-1290
Finally everyone starts pairing off and the band gets hip to who belongs to who." 1293-1294
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