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- The Frances Farmers Revenge Web Portal writes:
- "Meet the all-girl band that hailed from New Jersey in the mid-1960's."
- They also spelled the band's name as The Ladybyrds.
- Their promo pix called them:
- The World's First And Only Topless All-Girl Band
I found lots of mentions of the band on the web:
- They toured with the Yardbirds in 1968:
- New Yardbirds Scandinavian Tour
- Apparently without playing their instruments, as the argenteumastrum.com website writes:
- " SEPTEMBER 8 - FJORDVILLA CLUB PARAMOUNT, ROSKILDE, DENMARK (SUNDAY, LATE SHOW). Support from The Ladybirds, an all girl topless go-go dancing team. "
- I think it's safe to say these are NOT the same Ladybirds group that appeared regularly on the Benny Hill show although I am sure he would have enjoyed them.
- Newsday magazine did an interview about noted golfer Raymond Floyd, June 15, 2004, and it mentions that :
- "Raymond Floyd has been a lot of colorful things during his 40-year golf career - big-time PGA Tour winner and high-stakes hustler, playboy/bar owner and backer of an all-female topless band called the Ladybirds during his hell-raising bachelor days."
- The Ladybirds appeared in the film THE WILD, WILD WORLD OF JAYNE MANSFIELD (1968)
- Review quote on the Bijou Cafe site:
- "Lots of nude and semi-nude women, including the Ladybirds, an incredible all-topless band." -- Paul Petroskey
- More about that film--http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0063809/usercomments:
- "thing to look for, is the female band, The Ladybirds. They built their reputation by playing Nude, and appear in several versions of this, buck naked. The most common tape removes them entirely, though the first release has all the footage. I have been told that other, unauthorized re-issues, fall somewhere between these extremes. but if your copy doesn't have a naked band, it is cut."
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- The photo is from (title unknown) magazine -- some pages have the date October 1970 -- photo is part of an article about a "Sex Fair" in Copenhagen. The caption on the opposite page from the photo reads:
- "The boys in the band are completely clothed; but, for the buyer who's seen everything, 'The Lady Birds' out front perform partly undraped to add more spice to a fair already top-heavy with titillation."
- All that I could find online about said SEX FAIR was that there was one held in Copenhagen in 1969 (Sex-69, the first porn trade show hosted in Copenhagen after the legalization of adult pornography there) followed by one in 1970 in Odense.
If anyone saw them perform, I'd love to hear from you...
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