Editing Lucia Pamela (section)

==Biography==
Pamela was born in [[St. Louis, Missouri]]. She traveled to Germany to study at the [[Beethoven Conservatory of Music and Voice]], and joined [[Florenz Ziegfeld|Flo Ziegfeld]]'s "[[Ziegfeld Follies|Broadway Follies]]" after her return to the United States. She was voted Miss St. Louis in 1926.<ref name="Strauss_2002"/>

She was featured in ''[[Ripley's Believe It or Not!|Ripley's Believe It or Not]]'' for memorizing 10,000 songs.<ref name="Strauss_2002"/> She led the all-girl orchestra and Odeon Theatre house band the Musical Pirates, said by some to be the first all-female orchestra, and hosted radio programs including ''The Encouragement Hour'', Kansas City, and ''Gal About Town'', Fresno.<ref name="Strauss_2002"/>

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| name         = Into Outer Space with Lucia Pamela
| type         = studio
| artist       = Lucia Pamela
| cover        = Lucia_Pamela_Into_Outer_Space.jpg
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| released     = {{Start date|1969}}
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| studio       = Moontown<ref name="Strauss_2002">Strauss, Neil (August 18, 2002). [https://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/18/nyregion/lucia-pamela-98-a-musician-to-the-moon.html?_r=0 ''New York Times'' obituary]. Retrieved September 17, 2016. [http://www.keyofz.com/lpobit.htm Copy at ''KeyofZ.com''].</ref><ref>Adinolfi, Francesco (2008). ''Mondo Exotica: Sounds, Visions, Obsessions of the Cocktail Generation'', p.151. Translated by Pinkus, Karen. Duke University. {{ISBN|9780822389088}}.</ref>
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| length       = {{Duration|m=35|s=55}}
| label        = Gulfstream
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She produced only one album, ''Into Outer Space With Lucia Pamela'' (circa 1969, Gulfstream and later on L'Peg), whose songs are mostly about an imaginary trip to the moon. Described by Neil Strauss as having "the feel of a warped bebop children's album, it features Ms. Pamela on all instruments – piano, [[accordion]], drums, [[clarinet]], and probably various household appliances – accompanying herself as she tells, with gee-whiz glee, tales of amiable lunar roosters, trips to Mars and blue winds."<ref name="Strauss_2002"/> "She played fifteen instruments, including the piano, clarinet, drums, cymbals and what sounds like a [[theremin]]."<ref>Levitt, Aimee (March 10, 2010). "[http://www.riverfronttimes.com/2010-03-10/news/moon-lady-wondrous-life-lucia-pamela/ Moon Lady: The long, wondrous life of Lucia Pamela]", ''RiverFrontTimes.com''. Accessed: October 7, 2016.</ref>

{{columns-list|colwidth=30em|
#"Moontown"
#"Walking on the Moon"
#"Flip Flop Fly"
#"Dear Me"
#"You and Your Big Ideas"
#"What To Do Is the Question"
#"Hap-Hap-Happy Heart"
#"Indian Alphabet Chant (a-i-iddy-i-o-o-o)"
#"Why? Because I Want To"
#"In Love, In Love"
#"I've Got a Song"
#"Blue Wind"
#"In the Year 2,000!!!"
}}

The song "Flip Flop Fly" was featured on the radio by [[Bob and Ray]] in 1973, but the album was all but forgotten before being reissued in 1992 (record label: Arf! Arf!, recorded from a vinyl source and produced by [[Irwin Chusid]], catalogue #AA-037) to greater acclaim. According to Chusid, "Lucia's performances are spirited and energetic, without an ounce of self-consciousness."<ref>Chusid, Irwin (2000). ''[[Songs in the Key of Z]]'', p.119. Chicago Review. {{ISBN|9781556523724}}.</ref>

She also produced a cartoon coloring book, ''Into Outer Space with Lucia Pamela in the Year 2000''.<ref name="lambiek.net"/> In 1994, the pop group [[Stereolab]] recorded a tribute to her, "International Colouring Contest", on their album ''[[Mars Audiac Quintet]]''; the intro of the song includes a voice sample of Pamela herself.<ref>{{AllMusic|class=song|id=mt0007810764|last=Mason|first=Stewart|label='International Colouring Contest'|accessdate=October 8, 2016}}</ref>

She died in 2002, age 98, in Los Angeles. Later that year, [[Tony Kushner]] wrote a short play about Lucia Pamela called "Flip Flop Fly".<ref>Kushner, Tony (December 29, 2002). "[https://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/29/magazine/the-lives-they-lived-flip-flop-fly.html The Lives They Lived; 'Flip Flop Fly']", ''NYTimes.com''. Accessed: October 7, 2016.</ref>  The play imagines Pamela meeting [[Géraldine Apponyi de Nagyappony|Queen Geraldine of Albania]] (who also died in 2002) on the Moon.