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Here’s a very interesting (and brief) interview from 2007. N.B. She looked great as an older woman, too. And she was from a Jewish family. https://youtu.be/SgQQy1U5aaE?si=5AujL3ItTPi6qgi8

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Mary Weiss is such an interesting character. So young and seemingly not especially educated when she was in the group and recording these strangely mature songs, but also possessed of a strange maturity herself, concurrently to her extreme youth. Also (sorry if it sounds cliché) from either a German or Jewish background, whereas you’d expect her to be of either Latino or Italian origin, growing up as rough as she did. Thanks for the insight into those early days in the Brill Building …

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