In 1988, Keith Richards invited Dash to accompany him on tour: her association with him led to another world tour, a tour with Richards' X-pensive Winos, appearances on two of his albums, and on The Rolling Stones' Steel Wheels album in 1989. One song, for example, was a medley of psychedelic styled 'Something in the Air', a mixture of a Townshend inspired album of songs written by a roadie, John 'Speedy' Keen, who had written a track on his band's album, The Who Sell Out, and 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised' by African-American activist, Gil Scott-Heron. It also marked a political consciousness in the choice of cover songs and lyrics chosen on original compositions.

Dash also functioned as songwriter for several songs. Dash's strong vocals in the group provided for balance and stability when LaBelle and Hendryx occasionally went off on vocal tangents or were pulling audience members up onto the stage to dance. Dash was a major vocal force for the group. Dash sings with a sharp soprano.ĭuring this period, the group got notice by the mainstream after opening for blue-eyed soul singer-songwriter Laura Nyro and British rock group The Who during their tours, leading up to the 1973 release of Pressure Cookin', which featured more songwriting from Hendryx and a more unified group effort in which Dash sung co-lead on including the group's memorable ballad, 'Can I Speak to You Before You Go to Hollywood?', where Dash sings most of the song with Hendryx singing in the beginning and LaBelle bringing up the rear near the end of the song. Among the Bluebelles hits including the doo-wop classic, 'I Sold My Heart to the Junkman' and doo-wop-esque R&B ballads 'You'll Never Walk Alone' and 'Danny Boy', the top forty classic, 'Down the Aisle', the soul standard 'All or Nothing' and their now-legendary rendition of 'Over the Rainbow', which LaBelle later transformed into a tour-de-force in her 1981 solo cover. The group changed their name again to Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles after Holte was advised to adapt the stage name of Patti Labelle. In 1961, Tucker was replaced by Philadelphia-born Cindy Birdsong and the quartet became The Bluebelles in 1962. In 1959, following the break-up of a rival girl group, Hendryx and Dash joined Holte and Tucker in 'The Ordettes'. Born in Trenton, New Jersey, she moved to Philadelphia in the mid-1960s where she got reacquainted with fellow adopted Philadelphian Nona Hendryx and Philadelphia natives Patricia 'Patsy' Holte (AKA Patti LaBelle) and Sundray Tucker.

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