Linda's Gone Crazy At The Bake-Off (The Musical)

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Restored via ai music magic, enjoy the climax to the musical The Rise and Fall of Linda Ferrari - the tragic tale of the downfall of one of the 1960s Ok-est performers/psychopaths. The obscure single saw a limited vinyl run for promotional purposes and was thought lost to time.
Ferrari (born Betty Dauphine), grew up along the California beach, attending high school with eventual surf rock/pop legends Jim Luvdaine and Freddy and The Shore Trotters. But after a series of unfortunate events (including a near drowning and a teen drag race that led to one death) and a bitter divorce ruined her local reputation, Dauphine would use a name change as a reset and hop around record labels trying to strike a deal.
The rebrand worked, and soon Ferrari found herself paired with two other women named Linda, culminating in minor hits like their cover of Liza Bordeau’s 50s hit “Everyone Hates My Guts.” However, Ferrari - unable to fully outrun her past - refused to go on tour, instead hiring a stand-in with a similar beehive hairdo to keep the other Lindas in line. This led to tragedy all its own, as the other 2 Lindas would take their frustrations out on said stand-in, who was discovered in a grisly state in a car by the side of the highway. Neither Linda was ever seen again.
Blackballed from the music industry, Ferrari would take up the culinary arts. She petitioned local access TV stations to give her a spot for a baking program. Producers, entranced by her treats but mostly her looks, gave her a Sunday morning timeslot on one condition: She needed some kind of marketable credential before she went to air. Therefore, in June 1969, Linda Ferrari entered a local baking competition - itself sponsored by the very TV station she aimed to work on.
It was a slam dunk.
Until it wasn’t. Daphne Potter, a spritely upstart fresh out of school, bested Ferrari in the eyes of the judges, leading to what court psychologists called a complete and utter mental breakdown. All in all, Ferrari claimed the lives of six people that afternoon, with Daphne Potter almost the seventh.
Ferrari was sentenced to life in prison and entered CIW Frontera immediately after the verdict, where she would seduce and take the warden hostage, only agreeing not to kill him after she was allowed to sing backup during Johnny Lee Tuppard’s performance at the prison a few weeks later.
News of Linda/Betty’s imprisonment reached Freddy and The Shore Trotters while on the stage in Long Beach. “It’s over,” Freddy said, having fallen to his knees. “It’s finally over.” The Trotter brothers said it was the happiest they’d ever seen Freddy since the brief moment between when Betty had told him she wanted to go steady and when she said they were going swimming. They dedicated the rest of their set that night to their deceased frenemy Jim Luvdaine.
The unauthorized musical encompassing Ferrari’s entire life annoyed the imprisoned singer until her eventual death in the early 90s.
Check out Freddy and The Shore Trotters here:
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