tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4011046654200721466.post6851250898385264930..comments2024-03-19T15:05:47.530-06:00Comments on Abq Jew ® Blog: Singer Norma Tanega Dies at 80Abq Jewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05790168328499207929noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4011046654200721466.post-26553754173509380762021-02-08T18:17:12.454-07:002021-02-08T18:17:12.454-07:00I found your page when Googling Norma Tanega somew...I found your page when Googling Norma Tanega somewhat randomly. I didn't realize she had passed away in 2019. I didn't see the comments section at first at the bottom of your post, so I wrote you under "Contact." I mentioned in that note that there was a tenuous connection between Norma Tanega and Judaism, in that I heard when I was a student at a yeshiva in Brooklyn in the 1960s that Tanega had taught at another one, Beth Jacob of Crown Heights. Though it seems like an apocryphal story and I can't confirm it, I did find upon further research just now, when Googling her song "You're Dead," apparently newly well known since 2015, that she also was a counselor in the Catskill Mountains all those years back. Those odd jobs go together! So I think my memory of the school story is just fine. There were so many good songs on her first album. She was so underrated, but I see upon research that she still has plenty of fans. I was perusing her Wikipedia article just now, and saw that, contrary to what I thought, she had quite a career beyond "Walking My Cat Named Dog." She had a relationship with Dusty Springfield, whom I also liked very much back then, wrote lots of songs for Dusty, and lived with her for five years. Norma also had plenty of other creative activities. I used to know a lot about pop music all those many years ago, but when I switched my allegiance to film, I stopped following music entirely, except for classical somewhat. Anyway, a link to Dusty Springfield, amazing.Lois Padawerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05331775646368005451noreply@blogger.com