The trio was even on the cover of "Rolling Stone" – that had not been done previously by any black pop group.Īfter the LaBelle, Dash also succeeded as a solo performer and recorded four studio albums, and worked with Rolling Stones, O-Jays, Stevie Wonder, Nile Rodgers, and Alice Cooper, among others, as a session and tour musician. The disk track was a global hit and gave the band a lot of popularity. The greatest hit of Labelle was labeled 'Lady Marmalade' in 1974. When the successful Motown band The Supremes left Cindy Birdsong, the Bluebelles gave up on the typical girl group pattern in the early 1970s and became the musically bold Trio Labelle. The R'n'B group Patti LaBelle and The Bluebelles were co-founded by Dash, a native of Trenton, Philadelphia. Although they had not been a band since the 1970s, the two friends stayed always close and celebrated great achievements individually. Patti LaBelle said goodbye to Sarah Dash with clips from joint appearances and pictures. The song "Lady Marmalade" has been an international smash. Since their adolescence, the two singers had been friends, established LaBelle in 1960. No cause of death has been given yet, however, although she reportedly notified her relatives in the past several days she was unwell. At the age of 76, the musician died completely unexpectedly. ''We were just on stage together on Saturday, and it was such a powerful and special moment," Patti LaBelle writes on her Instagram account, announcing the death of her close friend and former bandmate Sarah Dash. Sarah Dash, a soul-funk disco singer-songwriter, actress and co-founder of the 1970s R&B trio Labelle has died unexpectedly at the age of 76. Boehlert was also a member of the Republican Main Street Partnership and the Ripon Society, two national moderate Republican organizations. Time Magazine named Boehlert a "power center" on Capitol Hill because of his centrist views, and Congressional Quarterly named him one of the 50 most effective Members of Congress. Boehlert was a vocal supporter of raising the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) requirements for light trucks and cars, and he was the primary Republican proponent of several CAFE amendments.īoehlert was called the "Green Hornet" by National Journal because of his frequent struggles over environmental laws, which sometimes placed him at odds with his party's leadership, and featured Sherwood Louis "Sherry" Boehlert as one of the dozen "key players" in the House of Representatives. He was a significant contributor to the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990's acid rain provisions. Beginning with the acid rain disaster in the 1980s, Boehlert became a major voice for the environment in the Republican Party. Boehlert is most well-known for his environmental policy work.
From then until his retirement, he was re-elected to every Congress. Sherwood Louis "Sherry" Boehlertt served as Chief of Staff for two upstate Congressmen, Alexander Pirnie (Ap– June 12, 1982) and Donald Jerome Mitchell (– September 27, 2003), after which he was elected county executive of Oneida County, New York, where he served from 1979 to 1983.įollowing his four-year stint as county executive, he campaigned for Congress in 1982 and was elected. He served in the United States Army for two years (1956–1958) and then served as Wyandotte Chemical Company Public Relations Manager (PR) (acquired by the German company BASF in 1969). Sherwood Louis "Sherry" Boehlert, the son of Elizabeth Monica Champoux and Sherwood Boehlert, was born in Utica, New York, and graduated from Utica College (UC). Boehlert rose to prominence in the Republican Party as an advocate for the environment. From 2001 until 2006, he was the Chairman of the Science Committee. Boehlert, a Republican from the Utica area, was seen as a member of the party's moderate wing. Boehlert, an outspoken advocate for environmental policies, died just days before his 85th birthday.īoehlert, 84, covered a broad expanse of central New York in Congress for 24 years, serving 12 consecutive terms from 1983 until his retirement in 2007. Senator Joe Griffo confirmed that former New York Republican Representative Sherwood Boehlert, the chair of the House Science Committee from 1983 to 2007, died tragically.