Norma Jean Darden

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93 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 4 Aug

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The Moth · All Dressed Up: The Moth Radio Hour · 4 Aug 2026 podcast

And quit.

And no one was getting along.

It was a terrible thing.

And the show started.

And the Paris went first.

And they went on for about two hours with one show after another.

And we had absolutely nothing but our wonderful music from Barry White.

And ourselves.

And we had been working in churches, most of us, before we were able to work on Seventh Avenue and make the magazines.

So we had only our own exuberance.

And when we hit the stage, they were astonished to see that kind of energy because the French models were very stiff.

and they just sort of moved around slowly and we were just dancing and cavorting and at the end just posing everywhere and they got so excited they threw their programs in the air and they were stamping their feet and they were yelling and the Americans were successful.

Well, I came back to America.

And not much was going on.

No one seemed to have carried our wonderful success over here.

And I managed to get the

the cover of Essence Magazine, and for us, that was a very big deal.

And the day before I was disjointed, all of a sudden, I felt a terrible pain.

And I took myself to the hospital, and they said, oh my God, you're green.

And they said, this is an awful time for you to be ill, because all of our surgeons are in a seminar in California.

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