Fanny: Charity Ball
Lenny Kaye, Rolling Stone, 14 October 1971
WELL, LET'S SEE...first there was Goldie and the Gingerbreads and the UFO's. Then Cake, who were merely New York's answer to the Ronettes, and the Girls, who did a great Turtles medley when they played the old Cheetah on Broadway.
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