Ladybugs Albums and Songs

Save it for the Night (1963)

Save it for the Night was originally envisioned as a more sensual, traditionally female album, and while some of that was present, it became a showcase for the more complex melodies that Ep!phanee and Penny wanted to play. It also featured the first song penned by Steffie Sin. Long Day on the Road became the title track for the Ladybug’s first movie, which featured many of the songs from this and previous albums.

1. To Be or Not To Be (Ep!phanee)

Ep!phanee: vocals, guitar. Penny Dreadful: vocal, guitar. Steffie Sin: Bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

2. Long Day on the Road (Penny Dreadful) #1 on the singles chart.

Penny Dreadful: vocals (double tracked), electric guitar, acoustic guitar. Ep!phanee: harmony vocal, guitar, piano. Steffie Sin: bass, bongos. Ruth De Molay: drums, tambourine, cowbell.

3. The World’s a Stage (Ep!phanee)

Ep!phanee: vocals, piano. Penny Dreadful: harmony vocals, guitar. Steffie Sin: bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

4. Crying Waiting Hoping (Buddy Holly)

Ep!phanee: vocals, guitar. Penny Dreadful: guitar. Steffie Sinn: bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

5. True Love Ways (Buddy Holly)

Ep!phanee: vocals, guitar. Penny Dreadful: guitar. Steffie Sinn: bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

6. Midnight Shift (Buddy Holly)

Ep!phanee: vocals, guitar. Penny Dreadful: guitar. Steffie Sinn: bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

7. Beautiful Dreamer (Stephen Foster)

Ep!phanee: vocals, piano. Penny Dreadful: guitar. Steffie Sinn: bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

8. I Don’t Want to Lose You (Steffie Sin)

Ep!phanee: backing vocals, guitar. Penny Dreadful: guitar. Steffie Sinn: lead vocals, bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

9. One Long Night (Penny Dreadful)

Ep!phanee:, guitar. Penny Dreadful: vocals, guitar. Steffie Sinn: harmony vocals, bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

10. Leaving for the Enclaves (Penny Dreadful)

Ep!phanee: piano, tambourine. Penny Dreadful: vocals, guitar, harmonica. Steffie Sinn: bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

11. Save Me the Last Kiss (Ep!phanee)

Ep!phanee: vocals, guitar. Penny Dreadful: guitar. Steffie Sinn: bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

12. I’ll Try to Make a Cake (Penny Dreadful) #3 on the singles chart.

Ep!phanee: guitar. Penny Dreadful: vocals, guitar. Steffie Sinn: bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

13. Save it for the Night (Ep!phanee) #1 Single

Ep!phanee: vocals, dulcimer, guiro. Penny Dreadful: guitar. Steffie Sinn: bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

Ladybugs Albums and Songs

Intro (1963)

The introductory album of the Ladybugs was entitled Intro, and was released in early 1963. It featured four Buddy Holly covers and premiered titles by Ep!phanee and Penny Dreadful.

1. She’s My Dream (Ep!phanee) # 1 on the singles chart.

Ep!phanee: lead vocals, guitar. Penny Dreadful: backing vocals, guitar. Steffie Sinn: backing, bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

2. I’m Feeling Fine (Penny Dreadful)

Ep!phanee: backing vocals, guitar, harmonica. Penny Dreadful: lead vocals, guitar. Steffie Sinn: backing vocals, bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

3. Peggy Sue (Buddy Holly) First #1 on the singles chart.

Ep!phanee: vocals, guitar. Penny Dreadful: guitar. Steffie Sinn: bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

4. Drink to Me (Ep!phanee)

Ep!phanee: vocals, guitar. Penny Dreadful: guitar. Steffie Sinn: bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

5. (You’re So Square) Baby I Don’t Care (Buddy Holly)

Ep!phanee: vocals, guitar. Penny Dreadful: guitar. Steffie Sinn: bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

6. Love’s Made You a Fool (Buddy Holly)

Ep!phanee: vocals, guitar. Penny Dreadful: guitar. Steffie Sinn: bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

7. Heartbeat (Buddy Holly)

Ep!phanee: vocals, guitar. Penny Dreadful: guitar. Steffie Sinn: bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

8. Meet me Tonight (Penny Dreadful) #2 on the singles chart.

Ep!phanee: tambourine. Penny Dreadful: vocals, guitar. Steffie Sinn: bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

9. Squeeze Me (Ep!phanee)

Ep!phanee: guitar. Penny Dreadful: guitar. Steffie Sinn: vocals, bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

10. Betty Ann (Ep!phanee)

Ep!phanee: lead vocals, guitar, harmonica. Penny Dreadful: backing vocals, guitar. Steffie Sinn: backing vocals, bass. Ruth De Molay: backing vocals, drums.

11. Put on the Brakes (Penny Dreadful)

Ep!phanee: piano. Penny Dreadful: vocals, guitar. Steffie Sinn: bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

12. Darkness Hides Your Face (Ep!phanee) #16 on the singles chart.

Ep!phanee: vocals, piano. Penny Dreadful: vocals, guitar. Steffie Sinn: bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

Ladybugs Albums and Songs

Alone (1963)

Alone (the title is sometimes listed as The Ladybugs Alone) was a quick follow up to Intro. Ep!phanee’s My Man and Penny’s I’m All Alone were new tracks, but the rest of the album consisted of songs originally recorded and then rejected for Intro.

1. My Man (Ep!phanee) #1 on the singles chart.

Ep!phanee: lead vocals, guitar. Penny Dreadful: backing vocals, guitar. Steffie Sinn: backing vocals,bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

2. Maybe Baby (Buddy Holly)

Ep!phanee: vocals, guitar. Penny Dreadful: guitar. Steffie Sinn: bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

3. Oh Boy (Buddy Holly)

Ep!phanee: vocals, guitar. Penny Dreadful: guitar. Steffie Sinn: bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

4. Taking Chances (Penny Dreadful)

Ep!phanee: backing vocals, guitar. Penny Dreadful: lead vocals, guitar. Steffie Sinn: backing vocals, bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

5. I’m Gonna Love You Too (Buddy Holly)

Ep!phanee: vocals, guitar. Penny Dreadful: guitar. Steffie Sinn: bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

6. Lying Awake at Night Alone (Ep!phanee)

Ep!phanee: guitar. Penny Dreadful: guitar. Steffie Sinn: vocals, bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

7. Words of Love (Buddy Holly) #1 on the singles chart.

Ep!phanee: vocals, guitar. Penny Dreadful: guitar. Steffie Sinn: bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

8. The Dance (Ep!phanee)

Ep!phanee: guitar. Penny Dreadful: guitar. Steffie Sinn: bass. Ruth De Molay: vocals, drums.

9. Regret (Penny Dreadful) #23 on the singles chart.

Ep!phanee: guitar. Penny Dreadful: vocals. Steffie Sinn: vocals. Ruth De Molay: drums. Others: bass.

10. Enough Enough (Penny Dreadful)

Ep!phanee: piano. Penny Dreadful: vocals, guitar. Steffie Sinn: bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

11. Reminding Me (Penny Dreadful)

Ep!phanee: piano. Penny Dreadful: vocals, guitar. Steffie Sinn: bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

12. Sad Days Happy Days (Ep!phanee)

Ep!phanee: lead vocals, guitar. Penny Dreadful: backing vocals, guitar. Steffie Sinn: backing vocals, bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

13. I’m All Alone (Penny Dreadful) #2 on the singles chart.

Ep!phanee: backing vocals, guitar. Penny Dreadful: backing vocals, guitar. Steffie Sinn: backing vocals, bass. Ruth De Molay: lead vocals, drums.

Ruth De Molay

Ruth De Molay is a native of the Virgin Islands, as is her mother. Her father was a British national. She has dark brown skin and black hair usually worn in dreadlocks. She was hired by the other three Ladybugs to fill the drummer spot after Ruth Rocksit was removed from the group. An excellent drummer, Ruth excels at few other instruments. Though she has written a number of songs, her one great hit was her first: The Science War song. Ruth is well-known as the nice Ladybug.

Steffie Sin

Most Ladybugs fans think of Steffie Sin as the bass player. On tour that is her usual position. In the studio however, she is a major force playing a wide range of instruments and writing some of the group’s most important songs such as Fall Asleep My Love, Beneath the Denim, Blue Science, and My Immortal Love.

Steffie Sin is skilled on practically any instrument one can name, playing guitar almost as well as Penny Dreadful and playing the drums better than Ruth De Molay. On Ladybugs songs as well as her solo albums, she played guitar, keyboard, bass, drums, trumpet, saxophone, sitar, flute, and harmonica. After leaving the Ladybugs in 1970, she produced relatively few albums but wrote and directed both an opera and a symphony. She is the youngest of the four Ladybugs.

Penny Dreadful

Penny Dreadful, originally Penelope Dearborn, was produced through the vat process, replicating her mother’s cells without male fertilization. She is a clone, or in common usage a vat baby, as she so eloquently described herself in the song I’m a Vat Baby Baby. She is five feet eleven inches tall and while in her twenties graced the covers of many fashion magazines. Penny is famous for her large mane of red hair, though she is a natural brunette. Known for having started the body piercing craze, she has numerous piercings, including her nostril, lower lip, and tongue. Her only tattoo, one matching Ep!phanee’s parrot fish on her shoulder, was removed.

Many consider Penny the greatest guitar player who ever lived, and she has one of the largest guitar collections in the world. She frequently plays with young up and coming groups and sits in on jam sessions with other musicians. She is a role model to many young musicians and to the vat baby community at large.

Though perhaps not as complex as Ep!phanee’s, Penny has written a long string of hit records, the most famous being Long Day on the Road, Lonely Girl, Casanova, and Walking on Mars. She enjoys reading pulp adventure novels.

Technology

The world of the Ladybugs differs from ours due at least as much to a divergence of technology as to a divergence of history. Most technology is based on the works of Nikola Tesla, including the transmission of energy, wireless telephone, radio, and radio-vid. Electricity is produced by steam generators. In the United States, northern cities like New York and Chicago are under huge clouds of pollution. The mid-west is a wasteland caused by acid rain. Many smaller cities lie under large domes to protect their inhabitants. Much the same is true in northern Europe.

Giant airships or dirigibles are common in the skies, scores of times larger and many times faster than those known from our own world.

Rain beat against the wide windows of the promenade deck as the massive form of the S.S. Lady of Angels descended through the clouds. The dirigible, one of the largest in the air, had made the trip from Los Angeles to New York in just over twenty six hours, almost two full hours ahead of schedule. In a few minutes, the mooring team would have it fastened to the ground at LaGuardia, and its passengers would be debarking. The great golden craft was one of the latest generation of airships. Massive, as if someone had turned the Empire State Building on its side and launched it through the air; Fast, propelled by six huge steam powered propellers; but unlike the other two dozen gigantic vessels at the airport, the Lady of Angels had only a few passengers—the four members of the rock band the Ladybugs, their managers, staff, and crew.

Aeroplanes are known, but have largely been replaced by the small aircraft known as the airflivvers. Airflivvers are about as wide and tall as a good sized car though about two and a half times as long, and feature large dragonfly wings which flap at its side to provide lift and control. Airflivvers came into use in the early days of the Science War. Afterwards they became common for commercial use.

Communication around the world is made possible by a series of massive complexes where radio-vid, radio, telephone, and energy are all transmitted and received. Satellite communication is unheard of and spaceflight itself remains science fiction.

Ep!phanee

Born Theresa Maria Bergman, at the time of the story Ep!phanee (pronounced Epiphany) is thirty years old. She is world renowned not only for her musical genius, but for her flamboyant stage presence as well. Easily recognizable by her bright blue hair and extensive tattoos, all of which feature sea-life, Piffy as she is known to her friends, is considered by many to be the greatest living songwriter. She is justly famous not only for her works with the ladybugs, including the anthems Tesla’s Stepdaughters and Rotting Garden of Eden, but her greatest work may be her solo song Memories of Dust. All three are consistently listed in the top ten most influential songs of all times.

Ep!phanee is a gifted musician and plays guitar, keyboards, tambourine, and cowbell on the Ladybugs albums. She has also played keyboard, bass, and guitar as backup for many other musicians, usually using a pseudonym. She has published several books of poetry and her paintings and sculptures have been featured in major New York art expeditions.