Black Is Beautiful b/w Remember Me

Since the rediscovery of the Trinikas pleading “Remember Me” at the turn of the century, rumor held that the song had been written as an elegy, after the tragic 1969 passing of original Trinikas tenor Marsha Bratton. But songwriter and singer Debbie Sheffield authoritatively sets that record straight: “The song’s about an intense relationship. Me and my boyfriend kept breaking up over and over. Nothing more. It’s interesting that she would be linked to that song, ‘cause Marsha didn’t really like me at first. When we all got to high school, we became great friends.” Before adopting the Trinikas name, Bratton, Sheffield, Georgetta Dixon, and Lenise “T-Bird” Morgan candy striped at hospitals as part of their junior high school’s Paramedical Career Club, singing to patients when appropriate. When Bratton, Dixon, and Morgan graduated to Oklahoma City’s Douglas High, they kept up singing with the younger Sheffield, daughter of unsung jazz pianist Leslie Sheffield. Sheffield had been a pionee