Patrice Holloway(1951-2006)
- Actress
- Soundtrack
After the Holloway family moved from Atascadero, California, where her
older sister, Brenda was born, to Los Angeles, Patrice was born in
1948. Patrice did a lot of work as a vocalist in the early 60's, and had success from her songs, including Do the Del Viking (Pt. 1/Pt.
2; in which her sister was the backup singer), Black Mother Goose, For
the Love of Mike, Love & Desire, Ecstacy, Stolen Hours, Keep On
Rolling, Those D.J. Shows, He's the Boy of My Dreams (a song about
Stevie Wonder), Stay With Your Own Kind, That's All You Got to Do, &
Come Into My Palace (the only song her & her sister, Brenda, sang that
was a duet). She then was called in by Hanna-Barbera Prod. originally to just do the
singing voice of Pussycat member, Valerie Brown, in their new cartoon series, Josie and the Pussycats (1970) , but she was then asked to do the on-camera voice, as well, making her the only member of the on-screen cast to actually sing during the inimitable chase scenes.
it's debut on the 12th of September that year, on CBS's new fall Saturday morning cartoon line-up. The series made
wonderful bubblegum music, with such hits as; Stop, Look & Listen, I
Wanna Make You Happy, You've Come A Long Way Baby, and Lie, Lie, Lie. The
series then ended on September 2, 1972. Ms. Holloway reprised her role (but just as
the singing voice) of Valerie Brown, in H-B's new series - a follow-up, entitled Josie and the Pussy Cats in Outer Space (1972), which premiered just 7 days after the
cancellation of the original series, "Josie and the Pussycats." Sadly, after 16 episodes the second
series was canceled, as well, and ended production on 1 September, 1973, but, was in reruns for decades, afterwards.