![]() ![]() ![]() She found out about Lynne but learned even more about Sherrick's other world at the hospital, when she met Rita, who had made recent plans to marry Sherrick. It got plug-ugly one night when he was beaten and shot in the pelvis. Raynoma often got frantic calls from Sherrick begging her to bring money to destitute parts of Los Angeles to pay off dealers who often held her car (which he took off with) as collateral for debts. Sherrick's problem only grew, bringing on speculation that someone at Motown knew about the singer's illness hence, the reason for the cooling towards Kagny, Sherrick's solo project, and Raynoma's dismissal, because as long as she was around he would be close by. Through Benny Medina (ex member of Apollo), then working at Warner Bros., she got WB interested in the project. Raynoma persevered on until 1985 when Jay Lasker fired her and killed the prospect of Sherrick's career with Motown. Acting as mentor and occasional lover, she finagled the strong tenor gigs as backing vocalist on Motown sessions and began cutting tracks for a solo album.īut the project became a time bomb and the relationship stormy as Sherrick's habit of disappearing, unnoticed at first, became an issue. What she didn't know at the time was his thirst for cocaine and his involvement with other women Lynne, for one, had children by Sherrick. James Brown, the Godfather of Soul, was rumored to be producing Kagny, but the deal never got done and after one album, Kagny & the Dirty Rats (1983), the company dropped them.īut Raynoma was smitten by their silky voiced lead singer's 6' 4" handsome looks and his even bigger potential as a recording artist/entertainer. Liles, Thompson, and Dunlap were ex-members of Apollo who cut one album for Gordy Records in 1979 before the axe fell. Raynoma worked a deal for them with Motown. He joined the Motown family by hooking up with Kagny & the Dirty Rats, whose other members were Michael Dunlap, Jerry Thompson, and Cliff Liles, the son of Raynoma Gordy-Singleton. A gorilla-ish cocaine addiction aborted Sherrick's, a native of Sacramento, CA promising career. ![]()
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