The California Dream Girl
Michelle described what it was like being on stage, as she stood there with the other three, singing along and harmonizing beautifully with them. While it sounded great, she wasn’t enjoying it. “At first it was very, very hard. I was afraid… I would look around me to Cass, Denny, and John who were loving every minute of it, because this was what they had always wanted, and they had all performed a lot.”
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When Michelle first stepped into the studio at Western Sounds with Lou Adler (of Dunhill Records) and the rest of the group, she had never been in front of the microphone before. The beautiful blonde – the true “California Dreamgirl” – is from Long Beach, California. Her family often moved in her early years, and she grew up without a mother…