Patrice Yvonne Holloway (March 23, 1951 – October 3, 2006)
[
] was an American
soul and pop singer, and songwriter.
Career
Patrice Yvonne Holloway was born on March 23, 1951 in Los Angeles, California, the youngest of three children born to Wade Holloway, Sr. (August 13, 1920 – June 24, 2001)
and his wife, the former Johnnie Mae Fossett.
[
] Patrice is the younger sister of
Motown artist
Brenda Holloway
Brenda Holloway (born June 26, 1946) is an American singer and songwriter, who was a recording artist for Motown Records during the 1960s. Her best-known recordings are the soul hits, " Every Little Bit Hurts", " When I'm Gone", and " You've Ma ...
. Holloway also had a contract with Motown, recording songs such as "The Touch of Venus" and "For the Love of Mike", none of which were released. She recorded a few minor singles for the
Capitol Records
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label during the mid-1960s, notably "Love And Desire", "Ecstasy" and "Stolen Hours", which became popular on the
Northern Soul scene in the 1970s. She sang background vocals with her sister on many records for other artists, including
Joe Cocker
John Robert "Joe" Cocker (20 May 1944 – 22 December 2014) was an English singer known for his gritty, bluesy voice and dynamic stage performances that featured expressive body movements. Most of his best known singles were recordings of son ...
and
the Grease Band
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's 1968
cover version
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of
The Beatles' "
With a Little Help from My Friends
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", later the theme song to the 1980s television series ''
The Wonder Years
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''. Patrice also recorded the soul classic, "Stay With Your Own Kind", which was noteworthy for its direct treatment of inter-racial relationships at a time when this was highly controversial. Patrice also co-wrote '
You've Made Me So Very Happy
"You've Made Me So Very Happy" is a song written by Brenda Holloway, Patrice Holloway, Frank Wilson and Berry Gordy, and was released first as a single in 1967 by Brenda Holloway on the Tamla label. The song was later a huge hit for jazz-rock ...
', which in 1969 rose to No. 3 on the
''Billboard'' Hot 100 when the band
Blood Sweat & Tears
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covered it, two years after it was co-written and originally recorded by her sister Brenda.
Holloway is most noted for her work as the singing voice of
Valerie
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People
* Saint Valerie (disambiguation), a number of saints went by the name Valerie
*Valerie (given name), a feminine given name
Songs
*"Valerie", a 1981 song by Quarterflash, from ''Quarterflash''
*"Valerie", a 1982 so ...
in
Hanna-Barbera's 1970 ''
Josie and the Pussycats'' television series and on the concurrent ''
Josie and the Pussycats'' album. Valerie was the first female African-American
cartoon
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character to star as a television series regular (and the first of any gender also voiced by Black artists, Barbara Pariot being her speaking voice), and was nearly cut from the show by nervous executives. Record producer
Danny Janssen
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People
*Danny Altmann, British immunologist
*Danny Antonucci, Canadian animator, director, producer, and writer
*Danny Baker (born 1957), English journalis ...
demanded that Holloway—and therefore Valerie—remain in the show, as he felt her voice was necessary to produce the
Jackson 5
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-esque
bubblegum pop
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that H-B had requested he produce. It is Patrice's voice that does lead on the series' theme song, "Josie and The Pussycats", amongst many other songs.
After the first season of ''Josie'', Holloway recorded a few solo singles, produced by Janssen, for Capitol Records. Neither she, nor Pussycats bandmates
Cheryl Ladd
Cheryl Ladd (born Cheryl Jean Stoppelmoor; July 12, 1951) is an American actress, singer, and author best known for her role as Kris Munroe in the ABC television series ''Charlie's Angels'', whose cast she joined in its second season in 1977 t ...
and Cathy Dougher, performed the songs for the second-season, which was titled ''Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space''.
Holloway died of a heart attack at the age of 55 on October 3, 2006.
Selected discography
Singles
* 1963: "Stevie" b/w "(He Is) The Boy of My Dreams" (V.I.P. 25001)
* 1966: "Stolen Hours" b/w "Lucky, My Boy" (Capitol)
* 1967: "Love and Desire" b/w "Ecstasy" (Capitol)
* 1967: "Stay with Your Own Kind" b/w "That's All You Got To Do" (Capitol 5985)
* 1971: "That's The Chance You Gotta Take" b/w "Evidence" (Capitol)
* 1972: "Black Mother Goose" b/w "That's The Chance You Gotta Take" (Capitol)
Backing vocal credits
* 1968:
Joe Cocker
John Robert "Joe" Cocker (20 May 1944 – 22 December 2014) was an English singer known for his gritty, bluesy voice and dynamic stage performances that featured expressive body movements. Most of his best known singles were recordings of son ...
– "
With a Little Help from My Friends
"With a Little Help from My Friends" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, from their 1967 album ''Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band''. It was written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney and sung by drummer Ringo Starr (as Sgt. Pep ...
"
* 1969: Diana Ross & the Supremes – "
Someday We'll Be Together"
* 1969:
Thelma Houston
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– ''
Sunshower
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''
* 1969: Joe Cocker – ''
Joe Cocker!
''Joe Cocker!'' is the second studio album by English singer Joe Cocker, released in November 1969. Following the template of his first LP, the album features numerous covers of songs originally performed by Bob Dylan (" Dear Landlord"), the ...
''
* 1970:
Kim Weston - ''Kim Kim Kim''
* 1970: Diana Ross – "
Reach Out and Touch"
* 1971:
Beaver & Krause
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– ''Gandharva''
* 1972:
Buffy Sainte-Marie
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– ''
Moonshot''
References
External links
*
Remembering Patrice Holloway*
{{DEFAULTSORT:Holloway, Patrice
1951 births
2006 deaths
Singers from Los Angeles
American soul singers
American sopranos
American voice actresses
20th-century American women singers
African-American women singers
20th-century American singers
African-American actresses
Capitol Records artists
Motown artists
Ike & Tina Turner members
The Blackberries members