We are here with actor, singer, and entertainer Roslyn Kind. You Might Know Her From: The Look of Love/The Island, 3 From Brooklyn, The Nanny, I'm Going to Be Famous, Ladies of the House, Gimme a Break, and her over 50-year illustrious recording career. We talked to Roslyn about signing to RCA Records as just a 17-year-old girl, lampooning her famous sister Barbra Streisand in an iconic episode of The Nanny, and her latest projects that retells two of her signature songs into a short film. Roslyn also gave us the goods on blood harmony with her mother and Babs, her British invasion influences, the challenge of making “People” hers in her Broadway debut, and set the record on her theatrical credits because you know You Might Know Her is always going to dig some old shet up. This was just a beautiful Roslyn Kind-shaped bow to close out 2024, our year of Barbra, after reading her 900-page magnum opus. Rozzie, we love you.
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Slide moment in “So Long Dearie” with “Don’t try to stop me, Horace. PLEASE”
The Look of Love/The Island
Tracie Thoms is a mutual friend with Sargon Yoseph
Signed to RCA at 17 and first album is Give Me You
Roslyn loved Motown and the English Invasion (Shirley Bassey, Cilla Black, Petula Clark, Marianne Faithful)
“Fool on the Hill”
guested on 1969 Charles Azenvour special with Dusty Springfield
Played the same stage as Louis Prima
“Meadowlark” from The Baker’s Wife
“Mamaloshen” by Mandy Patinkin
Joel Grey’s father, Mickey Katz
Blood Harmony is when siblings/relatives blend together seamlessly
3 From Brooklyn Review in Times
Ferguson the Tailor at the Beverly Hills Playhouse
Was NOT in the Bill Finnn Elegies, she sang the song “I Don’t Know How to Help You” from Elegies for Punks Angels and Raging Queens
Played Ellie Greenwich Leader of the Pack in Calgary, CA at Stage West with Andrew Stevens
Episode of “The Nanny” s4, ep10
Musical special, “Ladies of the Nightclub” never got released
Brooks Arthur was in studio doing Happily Ever After and You’ll Never Know
Was Elliot Gould’s guest on his 1975 episode of SNL
Peter Chase helped Roslyn pick her SNL dress
Tamara de Lempicka painting in her Zoom background was Barbra’s and
Bette describing as working with Shelley Long as “pretty rough”
Roslyn was too ethnic to play the Shelley Long role in the pilot, “Ghost of a Chance” of so she got the best girlfriend role instead
Ladies of the House with Donna Mills, Pam Grier and Florence Henderson
NYC dance class with Luigi had Richard Chamberlain, Bernadette Peters, Loni Ackerman
Interviewed by Skip E. Lowe, who was famously lampooned by Martin Short as Jiminy Glick
5 episodes of Gimme a Break: (s3 ep8, 22; s5 ep 12, 22; s6 ep 9)
Jennifer Hudson maybe sang every time she went on set for Respect
Tyne Daly’s “Rose’s Turn” On Broadway (almost replaced with Michele Lee or Lainie Kazan)
Anne: Judy Garland’s “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” but also “I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas”
Damian: Ronnette’s “Sleigh Ride” Phil Spector Christmas Album
Lempicka was filmed for Lincoln Center archive but Tammy Faye did not
Here’s Love is the musical based on Miracle on 34th Street
