What was the name of Reparata's backing group
Reparata and the Delrons Tich, Otis Redding and Tommy James. In 1969 the group provided backing vocals for the Rolling Stones' single "Honky Tonk Women", recorded at Olympic Studios in London, and for the Ox-Bow Incident cover of The Four Tops' "Reach Out". Reparata married in 1969. She took her husband's name and became Mary O'Leary. She decided to stop doing live shows and to concentrate on starting a family and on her separate career as a schoolteacher. Reparata agreed that Lorraine Mazzola and Nanette Licari would carry on without her doing live shows as The Delrons. They recruited Helaine Tobias, who performed as
Reparata and the Delrons Barry Manilow's backing group Lady Flash, staying with them until 1979. After losing the 1975 court case to Mary O'Leary over the sole right to the stage name Reparata, Mazzola formally changed her given name to Reparata. She co-wrote the book "Mafia Kingpin: the True Story of Sonny Gibson" (1981), and she wrote and acted in a film with Gibson called "Dark Before Dawn" (1988). More recently, she has been developing the book into a movie. She was nominated for an Emmy as writer-producer of an informational series for WCBS-TV in New York. In May 2001 she pleaded guilty to