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Shirley Goodman: Good Times Roll Again

Bill Millar, Let It Rock, July 1975

JET-BLACK RINGLETS and bra-busting cuddliness; nothing about Shirley Goodman tells you that she used to resemble the waif-like teenager on the front of those old blue and red Vogue EPs by Shirley and Lee. Or that she was topping the R&B chart as half of the same duo over 23 years ago.

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