Shirley Brown
vocals (Detroit)
Detroit singer whom Barry met around the time he went to college and began spending time on the city’s West Side; her sister Christine became Barry’s wife.
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What Barry says
Working out his age, Barry says he finished high school in 1947, clerked in a grocery for a year and then saved enough for a year of college. Around then he met the singer Shirley Brown and West Side musicians such as the McKinney brothers, and started hanging out on the West Side.
Barry calls Shirley a good singer. Her sister Christine became his wife, and the couple have one child, Carol.
In his own words
Shirley could sing good, and Shirley had a sister, named Christine, you know. ... I ended up married to Christine, you know.
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Barry recalls meeting the singer Shirley Brown at about 19, when he also met the McKinney brothers and began spending time on Detroit’s West Side; he later married her sister Christine.