June Pointer RIP

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June Pointer, the youngest of the Pointer Sisters died from cancer today in LA. She was 52 years old. The Pointer Sisters are kind of negelected when there's talk about the 80's but they pretty much owned that decade.

― Jeff K (jeff k), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 22:20 (twenty years ago)

"Automatic" is one of my favourite songs ever.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 22:34 (twenty years ago)

I grew up with The Pointer Sisters. My mom played the "Black & White" and "Break Out" cassettes all the time.

Jed OTM about "Automatic". One of the greatest singles from the early 80s.

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 22:39 (twenty years ago)

Major suck. :-( RIP.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 22:47 (twenty years ago)

"Yes We Can Can" the best thing that Blue Thumb "printed".

― Eric Harvey (eric marathonpacks), Thursday, 13 April 2006 00:58 (twenty years ago)

"How Long" changed my life as a kid. One of the first funk/disco epics I ever heard -- still to this day. My mom always dug the "betcha gotta chick on the side, sho you gotta chick, i KNOW you gotta chick on the SIIIIIIIIIIIDE" and we used to repeat that line to each other all the time. That album, Steppin' (1975), also featured Herbie Hancock and Stevie Wonder. All those early albums are grossly overrated.. even the more standard That's A Plenty.

This is very terrible indeed, given it was the youngest of the three, during their 80s success. :(

― DOQQUN (donut), Thursday, 13 April 2006 02:30 (twenty years ago)

overrated or underrated, donut?

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Thursday, 13 April 2006 03:11 (twenty years ago)

I remember as a 4-year-old thinking that June looked so pretty on the Break Out cover art.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 13 April 2006 03:17 (twenty years ago)

overrated or underrated, donut?

My bad. Underrated... duh.

― DOQQUN (donut), Thursday, 13 April 2006 05:59 (twenty years ago)

A heroine falls.

― BARMS, Thursday, 13 April 2006 09:45 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, there are only a handful of 80s singles as absolutely, luxuriantly joyful and un-hateable as "Jump! For My Love." And "I'm So Excited." And their version of "Fire" is still definitive. Damn, what a loss.

― phil d. (Phil D.), Thursday, 13 April 2006 11:22 (twenty years ago)

the youngest one, sheesh...

my first exposure to the Pointer Sisters was the background vocals they provided (along with Liza Minelli) for Alice Cooper's "Teenage Lament '74"...

RIP

― hank (hank s), Thursday, 13 April 2006 11:52 (twenty years ago)

even earlier than that:
http://daddytypes.com/archive/sesame_st_pinball.JPG

youtube video.

― queen's square hammer (queen's square hammer), Thursday, 13 April 2006 12:03 (twenty years ago)

wow! the above is from Sesame Street, right? that really takes me back—had no idea it was them, but it makes perfect sense…

her verses on "I'm So Excited" are really poignant…RIP.

― veronica moser (veronica moser), Thursday, 13 April 2006 12:14 (twenty years ago)

that's a great video there...I also have an early memory of "Yes We Can Can" being used in PSA's for some anti-pollution campaign...

― hank (hank s), Thursday, 13 April 2006 12:15 (twenty years ago)

RIP June.

― Dan () Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 13 April 2006 12:41 (twenty years ago)

Sad news indeed - what a terrible month April has been. A Pointer Sisters collection is among the last CDs I bought, and one of the most effortlessly enjoyable.

I always found it surprising that there was no thread devoted to the Sisters. Someone more qualified than myself will likely do so, now.

R.I.P.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 13 April 2006 14:04 (twenty years ago)

Also xpost - I know I'm gonna spend a huge portion of the day mentally counting to 12, over and over...

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 13 April 2006 14:07 (twenty years ago)

My first exposure was "Cloudburst," back when I knew nothing about Lambert, Hendricks and Ross. That first LP on Blue Thumb ("Yes We Can Can," "The Way I Feel" etc.) is a longtime favorite. They also do amazing backup vox on Kathi McDonald's "Insane Asylum," another personal fave.

― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Thursday, 13 April 2006 16:27 (twenty years ago)

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