Where is patience and prudence

Some Patience and Prudence merchandise. I magine being a former child star, famous for something over which you had almost no control. You didn't ask to be in the spotlight. It just sort of happened. Would you take pride in your former glory or would those years seem foreign and distant to you, as if your experiences had happened to someone else? In the summer of , when they were 14 and 11 respectively, their father Mark briefly turned them into a successful recording duo.

He was a musician himself, having worked with Frank Sinatra, and he thought his daughters' eerily pristine harmonizing -- imagine cheerier versions of the Grady sisters from The Shining -- could catch on with the general public. He was right. The McIntyre sisters kept trying to recapture their initial success off and on through , but the public was simply not interested.

After that, the sisters moved on with their lives, their brush with fame a distant memory. But nostalgia-meister supreme Dick Clark, longtime emcee of American Bandstand , remembered them! In , during a prime time special called Good Old Days , Clark aired a brief but fascinating interview with the McIntyre sisters.

The sisters, both in their 30s by this point, are seated in a lovely Hollywood garden, looking as though they are posing for an Impressionist painting. Many of us are retiring soon, and we'd like to sing this song at our retirement party.

Can you imagine a bunch of fat, bald-headed old men singing this in harmony? Thank you for sharing your knowledge with those of us who can only wish and remember our youthful days. Dalton, Athens, Ala. Answer: Your gang remembers this tune by the Fireballs, titled Bottle of Wine, because it was so popular, making the Top 10 in late Atco Don't fret, my aging friend, for very few retirement party participants are youthful-looking.

Subscribe Manage my subscription Activate my subscription Log in Log out. Regions Tampa St. Letters to the Editor Submit a Letter. Investigations Narratives Pulitzer Winners. Since the 's was basically a 45rpm market, it is no surprise that there was no Patience and Prudence album. Here is a little trivia for you folks- the Patience and Prudence version of "Tonight You Belong To Me" was the 34 song for all of , in addition to placing at among the top 5, songs of the rock era So, what happened to the two sisters?

On the internet I find nothing about the sisters after Who knows, maybe they decided that the "music thing" was just a lark and they faded into normal suburban bliss. Their "normal" life in the 's after their hit record would obviously be too boring for an installment of VH1's "Behind the Music". Where are they now? A reader sent us the following info:. Back in the early 90's I saw them on some television talk show that came on one day about 3 pm.

The girls looked to be about 44 to 48 years old. Their dad flatly refused, and the record company and others wanted them to tour.