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Music reverberated throughout Judith Placido’s childhood. She grew up in Detroit in the ’60s with a mother who sang at family functions, and an older brother who crooned with a doo-wop group on street corners. Hitsville U.S.A was a short trip to the other side of town and, crucially, there was a piano in her basement. Young Placido was soon obsessed music, and driven enough to write, record, and release two 45s before she finished high school. She enlisted her younger sister Joanne and two older girls from Regina, Louise Diegel and Sue Gardner, to form Judi & the Affections. They performed a repertoire of her original songs, which she’d written in the family basement. Eager to prove the strength of her material, Judi cold-called producer Ernie Stratton, and earned the group an audition for a record deal before they’d ever played a show. Stratton called on his local contacts to back the group on their debut 45. Central to the work was arranger Richard “Popcorn” Wylie, Motown’s first head of A&R and a pianist on many of the label’s early classics. Recorded at Detroit’s United Sound Studios, “Dum Dum De Dip” b/w “Marie, Give Him Back” was released on Stratton’s DoDe Records in 1964. A follow-up 45 in 1965, “Ain’t Gonna Hurt My Pride” b/w “Hey Pretty Girl” was recorded at Chicago’s RCA Studios and released on the Stratton-owned Top Ten Records. Though she continued to write songs, Judi never recorded again.
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