Chiquita Banana's Voice Has Died

[JSngry]

http://variety.com/2015/music/people-news/monica-lewis-actress-singer-dead-dies-at-93-1201518835/

Briefly married to Bob Theile, dated Ronald Regan, so have many degrees of that is it from Pharoah Sanders to Ed Meese, and do you really want to think about that?

[johnblitweiler]

Reagan was surely not a conservative when she and he were an item.

A correction to the article: The full last line of the banana commercial was "No, no, no, nonono."

[JSngry]

[Late]

The full last line of the banana commercial was "No, no, no, nonono."

[Royal Oak]

Over here in the 1990s there was a famous (well, among those circles) racing greyhound of the same name.

Edited June 13, 2015 by rdavenport

[mjzee]

Another wild biography; thanks for posting.

https://youtu.be/JnlydZwr_84

[JSngry]

Not a bad singer, actually, although by the standards of the time, I can see how easy it would be to get lost in the shuffle.

[page]

I didn't know of her, what a gorgeous face! There is a picture of my mom with a similar hair due, unfortunately my brother has it. Ronald Reagan? Oh my! Good for him. I like her voice. She has a warm low, that's my kind.

Edited June 14, 2015 by page

[JSngry]

Good singer, unfortunate lip-syncer, although perhaps not her fault?

[page]

You mean, she didn't sing herself? Who was the singer then?

[JSngry]

No, that was her, but she was lip-synic to her own prerecorded vocal. I suspect some of the, uh,..."drama" in the staging was imposed by the TV people.

She sang pretty good for a bandanna!