Day: September 17, 2008

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*Tammi Terrell*,Dr. Phil, Cree*

Thank you Lord! Today I was slow getting outta bed. I was kinda depressed or tired I dunno. I never sleep in the bed late, today it was after 3pm when I got outta bed. What got me up and moving was when my boy Dr. Phil came on. I love him. He is so honest and he means well. He\’s another person people just don\’t get. I think some people like to be lied too. N.E. way……. I was watching the show and they were talking about weight loss. Just what Ive been thinking about and probably feeling depressed. I jumped outta bed, wrote down goals, went on line and signed up with the people he had on his show today. I did the thang here at home. Even started my exercises. See I started a weight loss group on line with 22 people, and I lost 23 pounds……and gained all by 2 pounds back. After a while we all started losing interest and that was it. We were doing so well. Anyway….ain\’t gonna cry ova spilled milk. I\’m just ready to get started again. I learned a lot from when I lost the first time…… a whole lot. For me its about portions and being conscience of what I eat. I\’m excited, the more I participate, the better it is for me.

Neisha got me geeked on Wikipedia. I found out a lot about people on that site. Some very interesting facts as well. Every Wednesday night I\’m going to feature a new person. This week\’s person is Tammi Terrell. I just love her voice, and I had heard so many different stories on how she died. I\’m closing for now, take care, and Cree will talk to you all tomorrow.

Tammi Terrell

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Tammi Terrell
Background information
Birth name Thomasina Winifred Montgomery
Born April 29, 1945(1945-04-29)
Origin Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died March 16, 1970 (aged 24)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Genre(s) R&B, soul
Occupation(s) Singer
Years active 1961 – 1970
Label(s) Scepter/Wand
Try Me
Checker
Tamla
Associated acts James Brown, Marvin Gaye

Tammi Terrell (April 29, 1945 ��� March 16, 1970) was a Grammy Award-nominated American soul singer, most notable for her association with Motown and her duets with Marvin Gaye. As a teenager she recorded for the Scepter/Wand, Try Me and Checker record labels. She signed with Motown in 1965 and enjoyed modest success as a solo singer. Once she was paired with Gaye in 1967, her stardom grew, but later that year she collapsed on stage into Gaye\’s arms during a performance. She was then diagnosed with a brain tumor which eventually led to her death at the age of only 24.

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Tammi Terrell in her early years.

Born Thomasina Winifred Montgomery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she entered the music business at the age of 13, regularly performing live. In 1961 she was signed to the fledgling Scepter Records (later Wand Records), recording under the name \”Tammy Montgomery\”. After coming to the attention of James Brown she recorded one single apiece for Brown\’s own Try Me record label and, in 1964, Checker Records. The year after that, she was spotted by Berry Gordy Jr. while playing live, and signed to his Motown label. Attractive and talented, she became romantically linked with both James Brown and David Ruffin, who was in the award winning group The Temptations.

[edit] Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell

Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell

Initially Terrell recorded solo, with only moderate success (she had a pair of R&B Top 30 singles in 1966, \”I Can\’t Believe You Love Me\” and \”Come on and See Me\”) . However, from 1967 onwards she recorded a series of duets with Marvin Gaye, producing hits with Ashford & Simpson written tunes such as \”Ain\’t No Mountain High Enough\”, \”Ain\’t Nothing Like the Real Thing\” and \”You\’re All I Need to Get By\”.

However, Terrell\’s success was to be short-lived. On October 14, 1967, while in concert at the homecoming for Hampden-Sydney College, Virginia, outside of Farmville. she collapsed in Gaye\’s arms. She was rushed to the hospital, she was later diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor. From then on her health deteriorated. Gaye later told his biographer David Ritz that Terrell was no longer able to record and that Valerie Simpson recorded most of the female vocals on the final Gaye/Terrell duet album, Easy. (Simpson is quoted as denying this in a book written by Terrell\’s sister Ludie Montgomery.)

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Terrell died on March 16, 1970 at the age o
f only 24. Marvin Gaye reacted to her death by taking a two year hiatus from concert performance and went into self-isolation. In addition, in 1971 Gaye\’s classic album What\’s Going On, an introspective, low-key work which dealt with mature themes, was in part a reaction to Terrell\’s death[1].

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with Marvin Gaye

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(* – credited as Tammi Terrell, but allegedly sung by Valerie Simpson, see above)

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  • 1963: \”I Cried\” (as Tammi Montgomery) #99 US
  • 1966: \”I Can\’t Believe You Love Me\” #72 US
  • 1966: \”Come On and See Me\” #80 US
  • 1967: \”What a Good Man He Is\”
  • 1969: \”This Old Heart Of Mine (Is Weak For You)\” #67 US

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NAME Terrell, Tammi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Montgomery, Thomasina Winifred
SHORT DESCRIPTION Singer
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 1970
PLACE OF DEATH Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.

Here is a video of Tammi and Marvin Gaye. I just LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE THE CHEMISTRY THEY HAVE. GOODNESS! Please look at the look she give him starting at 36 and ending at 55. Ahhhhhhhh that is so sexy to me. Then she breaks out into her little SEXY dance, just after the rolling of the eyes look. I keep playing it over, and over, and over. See my husband betta watch out cause I love those sexy * only you know* what Im talking about baby LOOKS! Wow what a song! Find me a duet with this kinda Chemistry!!! Find me one PLEASE!

Marvin is looking good too . They look so good together!

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*Lacrease\’s Ramblings*

Whats\’ up!!!

Thank you Jesus for waking me up this morning. Thank you for such a beautiful day.

This morning my best friend Charlene called me at 9 ish to make sure that we were still going to see Tyler Perry\’s movie. I saw it 2 times already, but it was her first time. One thing I learned today was that going in the mornings is so much betta. There were a lot of older people there, and it was packed too. I just minus well face it, I can\’t deal with those young kids in the show anymore. Yeah, yeah I know I use to be one of them walking in talking, laughing, and stuff. I can\’t deal with that no more. LOL I took my mom this past Saturday and we were doing fine before the lights went down, as soon as they did, 2 teenage couples sat behind us. The guys weren\’t talking that much, it was the dogone gurls. My momma blocked them out, because she\’s used to blocking out kids * it was 4 of us growing up* but they were getting on nerves. I\’m sitting there, making all kinds of mouth noises like huuhhhhhhhhhh, OMGOODNESS I CANT HEAR, we ain\’t coming here no more MOMMA, dang I can\’t even hear the movie OUTBURST. Till finally the Virgo in me was dying to come out. Begging me. I finally turned around , with my teeth shinning in the dark like flash lights, and gave them this look lolllllllllll and said \” Can yall Please, Please let us hear the movie\”? They said at the same time * yes ma\’am*. ROFL! Dayum kids!!! Guess what goes around comes around huh? *That\’s what I get for doing the same things once in my life.*

My best friend loves her some Tyler Perry just as I do. She\’s married for 13 years and love the mess outta her *Tyler Perry looking Husband*. He favors Tyler so much its funny. Her husband is 8 days older than Tyler, he\’s a workaholic, sweet as pie, very attentive, ask lots of questions, and has that thickness. Oh speaking of thickness. OOOOOOOweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee we couldn\’t stop talking about Tyler\’s thighs in the car!! I use to date this guy who had thighs like Tyler\’s. I love a man with thick thighs. I told my one friend years ago, if you ever ever ever, ever, ever, ever, ever lose your stomach, goatee and thighs, WE ARE THROUGH! You can be thick and still healthy…..boy don\’t play!!! He would say Cree you crazy!! I meant that, LOL LOL knew it. I just wanted to reach into the movie and cuff one of those babies. LOL LOL!

Yall pray for me. Tyler says that with the fame comes fans, and people acting crazy, climblng fences and thangs and. I agree. There are some people who off the chain. But with him comes the Media. I\’m a huge fan of his, and blogs ever a movie comes out I battle with my fingers not to * go off in those people blogs*. Sometimes I can over do it when I\’m trying to get people to see my point.They sit back and wait on Tyler\’s movies and then they have a field day on him. Its unreal to me how they write about him. So with Tyler Perry also comes some things. There are a lot of fans who read the articles and feel the same way. I said that I was going to read only the positive ones, and if not, I was going to click out of it. That\’s foolishness to me, and I\’m not going to be bothered.

And were moving right along………..

When I got home from dropping my best friend off at home from seeing the movie, we talked on the phone for hours about being married. I just love and admire her. I love how she loves her husband. She respects him, she loves him, she adores him. Its hard on her tho, because he drives a truck to different states, and she knows that I\’m that friend that\’s going to make sure she stays on track. I know she gets lonely for him, but see I know what its like to be single. I wish I had a husband, so I\’m living and learning through her eyes about marriage. I always said that when I do get married * if its the Lord\’s will* that the #1 thing will be communication. I see a lot of marriages fall apart because they don\’t talk. How can you even go to bed when you and your husband are not talking? I need peace in my house. I wont even be able to sleep. lol I\’m touchy feely too, so he must be as well. There is nothing like a good touch of a man. That\’s very important to me. I love a man who wears good Cologne. That just does something to me for real. When my best friend got married, she always said that he reminds her of me and till this day. He\’s a Virgo and he\’s a sensitive man. Our feelings can easily be hurt. In my early 20\’s I use to be so insecure. I don\’t even see how Neisha\’s dad dealt with me. OMGoodness. I think back on those days and just shake my head. LOL I desire the kinda man where if he\’s way on one side of the room, and I\’m on another, that I wont get jealous. I wont have to run behind him wondering *what you doing ova here*. I can\’t live like that. I\’m not a needy person. I gotta talk to my boo daily tho when he\’s away from home. But all that *what you doing* every hour stuff, I don\’t require. I know me. I love my space, he has got to have his. When my gurls come over, we will have our space, and he will have his for his boys. Then we have our separate rooms for our office, and oh yessssssssss we will have a family room.

You know when you get older and you start looking at whats important, you don\’t care about all that arguing and falling out. I cant live my life like that. If I\’m wrong about something, its sooo much easier for me to apologize and say boo I\’m sorry…..lets make up and forget about that mess, lets talk about it. I love you. Back in the day shoooooooooo, bump that LOL I wouldnt talk for at least 4 days. Don\’t touch me, don\’t call me, don\’t come over. LOL SMH @ myself. I always like to see what the other person like and feel about a certain situation. And I would want him to do the same for me. Ladies love your husbands, men love your wives.

Watch the videos below…talking about some good music!!! OOO wee!

This is bad chick. This the kinda music I LOVE.

Love ya, Cree

Me\’shell Ndegeocello – I\’m Diggin\’ You (like n old soul rec)

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