Ramona Brooks

Ramona L. Brooks (January 8, 1951 – June 2, 2014) was an American singer and actress. A member of Lady Flash, Barry Manilow's backup group, she sang on his 1975 Album Tryin' to Get the Feeling. She also performed on Lizzy Mercier Descloux's 1979 album Press Color.^{[citation needed]} Tom Spahn was her vocal coach. Her 1977 solo single Skinnydippin hit 94 on what is now the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, and I Don't Want You Back reached 55 on the U.S. Dance Club Songs chart in 1981.^{[citation needed]} On Broadway, she appeared with Doug Henning in The Magic Show at the Cort Theater, and with Billy Dee Williams in I Have a Dream, at the Ambassador Theater in 1976. Her brief movie career included appearing as "Hooker #1" in the 1980 Frank Sinatra vehicle The First Deadly Sin and as "Hooker #2" in 1983's Vigilante.^{[citation needed]} Her brother Paul Stubblefield was the drummer for the 1970s Cleveland Jazz/Funk group Sounds of Unity and Love, her cousin is Hammond organ player Ike Stubblefield. She died of cancer in a hospice facility in Oregon.