Andrea True Dead: 'More More More' Singer, Dead @ 58

[maxx2002]

http://www.spinner.com/2011/11/22/andrea-true-dies/

More, More, More
What's your name & Number
Party Line
NY, NY You Got me Dancing

Were some of my favorite songs by the late Andrea True

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[ykw]

Only porn star with a Billboard hit to her name. True story.

[maxx2002]

[DiscoKid]

[KingOfPain]

...and that guy "J" who had a few Billboard Club hits like "Without My One And Only" and "Rise And Fall". I still haven't figured out what porn he did but I remember Maxwell House mentioning it on BPM way back in the day.

[DiscoKid]

Fredrick Ford is another porn star turned dance chart artist.

[maxx2002]

[starchoice]

What I said in the subject.

[maxx2002]

I'm just messing w/ ya all, I don't really care about any porn-stars past or present , str8 or gay

[Thomps2525]

Here is the Los Angeles Times obituary. She was 68, not 58.

Andrea True dies at 68; porn star turned disco singer
Valerie J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, November 25 2011

Andrea True, a porn star turned pop singer who recorded a classic hit of the disco era, More More More, died November 7 at a hospital in Kingston, New York. She was 68. The Gilpatric-VanVliet funeral home announced her death but did not release a cause. She lived in Woodstock, New York.

Born Andrea Marie Truden on July 26, 1943, in Nashville, she moved to New York in 1968 to study acting. She shortened her last name to "True" to spare her family embarrassment when she began appearing in pornographic films in the early 1970s, she told the Times in 1976. "I had nothing better to do," True said in the interview, which carried the headline, "Porno's Loss Is Disco's Gain." "I had been turned down by an agent for a record deal and I was tired of working as an extra in pictures," she said. "Some of my friends asked me to join them in a porno film. I figured I could learn about films and acting that way, so I did it." But she recalled struggling with her choice: "For one thing, how do you go home and say, 'Mom, I'm in porno movies'?" She made about 40 such films in the 1970s and became a star of the genre. In 1974, she appeared in six movies, including Deep Throat Part II and Lady On The Couch.

Her music career began in 1975 when she filmed a commercial in Jamaica and was not allowed to leave the country with her earnings. She stayed and spent her money to finish a recording of More More More, an instrument-heavy track credited to the Andrea True Connection. Remixed and released in 1976, the record turned into one of the iconic songs of the disco era. The sensual hit reached the #4 spot on the pop charts. The single has been widely licensed for use in movies and commercials and sampled in many songs, including the 1999 single Steal My Sunshine by Canadian alternative rock group Len. She also had hits with such singles as What's Your Name What's Your Number?, Party Line and N.Y. You Got Me Dancing.

Her first album, also called More More More, was followed by another, White Witch. The sophomore effort largely failed to match True's earlier success, and her recording career was essentially over. Still, there would be no going back to porn. "I would be a waitress or a typist before I'd star in another" adult film, True told the Times in 1976.

[KingOfPain]

What's with all the groundbreaking female porn stars from the 70's dying so young (well if you call middle-age young)? Linda Lovelace and Marilyn Chambers both kicked the bucket in their 50's.. Andrea True dies at 68(?)...

Where's Kay Parker these days...

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[Thomps2525]

Kay Parker, star of the Taboo porn flicks, is 67. I wonder if she'll live two more years. Most female porn stars never make it to 69.

Oh wait...in a sense, I guess they do.

[DiscoKid]