Als "noch Fünfzehnjährige" passierten ihr folgende Aussagen.
Wink Martindale war der Moderator der TV Show " The P.O.P. Dance Party",
die lokal lediglich im Großraum Los Angeles ausgestrahlt worden ist.
„The broadcast and performances went out live, and one oft the most telling ´things-to-come` moments happened when Chicano rock ´n´roll group Rosie & the Originals performed. Their hit “Angel Baby” reached its peak position of #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the second week of January 1961. When “Angel Baby” hit #1 locally on KFWB, the group appeared on P.O.P. Dance Party. Rosy with her first royalty check from the success of the record, went right out and bought a big, expensive fur coat for that occasion. She came out, looking amazing, and sang live …beaming out across the entire greater Los Angeles area, from Santa Barbara to San Clemente and all the way inland to San Bernadino/Riverside. With the cameras running and broadcasting live with no delay, Wink asked Rosie, after she had performed the song `That was great… so I hear you wrote that?` Rosie shyly replied, `Well, yes`. Wink then asked, “ ´How did you come up with something like that?` Rosie coyly responded, ´Well, you now … we were just fucking around, me and the guys at the house, and then …`
Quickly, the KCOP-Channel 13 director switched to a ´please stand by` placard. ´That sure did happen` Wink confirmed. ´I thought that was the end of my career! `
(Die Passage habe ich entnommen aus dem Buch: Pacific Ocean Park,
von Christopher Merritt und Domenic Priore, U.S.A. 2014, Seiten 168 – 170)
