Zager and Evans..........geeziz........Thanks for the link JP. I don't think "Zager String Science" caught on any more than they did after 2525. 10G's ??? What an ultra-maroon!

Zager and Evans belong to a select group. Their FIRST release became a Number One Hit and nothing they ever did following it ever made the Top 100!! Joining them with the same distinction is a bit of a folkie, sorta'.......The Singing Nun. She ain't playin' nowhere:

CAREER IN THE '60s: Born Jeanine Deckers, in the '50s she took the name Sister Luc-Gabrielle and became a Dominican nun at the Fichermont Convent in Belgium. She entertained the locals with her charming guitar-backed songs, and had to pay a recording studio to cut a record for her so that she could hand out the songs as gifts. Soon, however, the Philips Record Company realized how novel a "singing nun" was, so they signed her to a contract, with her profits being donated to her order, and she reluctantly took the stage name Soeur Sourire. Uncomfortable as a live performer, she did knock out a rendition of the song that was pre-taped and broadcast on "The Ed Sullivan Show" in '64, though her Mother Superior initially wouldn't allow it to be shown. Intervention by the Archdiocese was required before this early Sister Soeur video was allowed to be seen on Sullivan's show. In '65 the Singing Nun abruptly quit performing and retired to the convent, there to concentrate on her studies. However, a year later she announced that she was leaving the convent to resume her singing career, still religious but now decidedly modern. She changed her name once more, this time to Luc Dominique and recorded I Am Not a Star in '67. By the end of the decade she was writing controversial songs in which she criticized the church.

CAREER OUTSIDE THE '60s: Gabrielle and Lucien Deckers, her parents, were married in 1932. Jeanne-Paul Marie Deckers had three siblings -- Hubert, Edgard, and Madeleine. During World War II the family lived in France while the father, Lucien, joined the resistance against the Nazi occupation. At war's end the family moved Belgium, near Brussels. Jeanne returned to Paris to go to art school in the early '50s. She was never close to her family and felt the convent was more of her home than the house where she'd lived. Her stardom came in the '60s; then after the '60s, away from the convent, her life took some bizarre twists. Her use of pills increased, and she teamed up with a woman, Annie Pescher, who may have been her lover. In Belgium they owned a school for autistic children, but in the '80s the Belgian government threatened to close the school because they claimed that the Singing Nun owed over $60,000 in back taxes. These were taxes for the money she earned during her heyday in the early and mid-'60s. She had donated all her proceeds to the convent, but she was still held accountable, some twenty years later, for the taxes. In 1985 she and Annie Pescher killed themselves in a suicide pact. Her life, and the journals she kept, have inspired several books: Soeur Sourire: A Faceless Voice, Passions and Death of the Fichermont Singing Nun by Henry Evearet in '88, and Soeur Sourire by Florence Delaporte in '96.

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