Back in the 1968, the California native released her self-titled debut to modest success. She appeared on Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show, in Newsweek and the L.A. Free Press, and at Shaffer Music Festival in NYC. Even Cher choose to use one of her song’s “Band of Thieves” or the soundtrack to her acting debut, the 1969 film Chastity. However, a string of bad luck — and the fact that Cher for some reason instead credited the song to Sonny