Happy Birthday, Shelley!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                              As long as we are talking of Sixties icon, darlings, it can not be forgotten that today is Shelley Plimpton's birthday.

                              Shelley, original child of the Aquarian Age, who introduced my favorite song, "Frank Mills," in the musical "HAIR," turns 69 today!!!!!!!!!!!!  Can you believe it??????????  Which means that next year she will be..............GASP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                Of course generations beyond mine may have no idea who she is, beyond being the mother of that wonderful actress, Martha Plimpton.

                                  I am sure Martha is happy for her mother. And so we wish Shelley another happy birthday, a great year, and then on to a new decade!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                    Let The Sunshine In, dolls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                    And for real, early Shelley, listen to this!  This was at the Public Theatre, the way Shelley introduced the song to the world, on October 7, 1967, when she was only 20.  The tempo is faster, but the sweetness, as always, belongs to Shelley!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                     It set a role model for me, darlings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!