Byrdie Green

"[5] Green performed at many popular venues, including The Apollo, Baby Grand, The Cookery and Pier 52, as well as Rutgers University, in Boston[1] and in Bermuda.

[1] Smith's The Stinger Meets the Golden Thrush was released in 1966, with Green singing on "They Call It Stormy Monday" and "If I Ruled The World.

[7] That same year Green released her first solo full-length The Golden Thrush Strikes at Midnight,[8] featuring Smith[1] on organ on "Goin' Out of My Head," "The Shadow of Your Smile" and "Hurt So Bad."

"[8] She released two more albums, I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good) in 1967, which featured Smith,[1] Houston Person, Thornel Schwartz and Jimmy Lewis, and Sister Byrdie!

"[10] The same year, she appeared on a Nipsey Russell TV show,[10] and, at a performance in New York, was asked by Frank Sinatra to sing an extra set of songs.

"[18] Another reviewer described her as having "strong, beautifully modulated voice" with "a command of dynamics which enables her to bathe a lyric in a running river of sound – soft, loud, gradations between.