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Walking on Mars continued Penny Dreadful’s rise as a solo artist. Many popular musicians worked on this album, happy at the chance to collaborate with the Ladybug. All songs were written by Penny Dreadful.
1. Walking on Mars :#1 on the singles chart.
2. Stalagmite
3. Colubus’ Second Voyage
4. The Art of Love :#2 on the singles chart.
5. Daily Life
6. Claims on my Body :#1 on the singles chart.
7. Church and State
8. Provocation
9. Sandstone
10. The Union of the Mind :#6 on the singles chart.
11. Space and Time
12. The Visit
13. Timeline
14. My Journey
Whetstone (1973)
Whetstone harkened back to the Ladybugs with several covers of Ladybugs songs, including the one by Ep!phanee. Interestingly, Ep!phanee was the only member of the Ladybugs not to perform on this album.
1. Adam without Eve (Penny Dreadful) :#1 on the singles chart.
2. Drink it Up (Penny Dreadful)
3. Box Garden (Penny Dreadful)
4. Amaze Me (Penny Dreadful)
5. Amateur Cosmetologist (Penny Dreadful)
6. Friend of Mine (Penny Dreadful)
7. Enemy of Mine (Penny Dreadful) :#17 on the singles chart.
8. Saratoga Twist (Penny Dreadful & Ruth De Molay)
9. Chopin’s Rock Song (Penny Dreadful)
10 One Under the Bridge (Penny Dreadful)
11. Power Station (Penny Dreadful)
12. Valley of Songs (Penny Dreadful
13. Rotting Garden of Eden (Ep!phanee) :#1 on the singles chart.
Mercury (1974)
Mercury was completed just before the official reunion of the Ladybugs, though they all worked together to greater or lesser degrees in the studio on the album. This album also without a doubt featured Penny Dreadful’s most sexually explicit lyrics. Carpetmuncher in particular was banned on radios worldwide and the Science Police registered 4,063 death threats on the singer as a direct result of this one song.
1. Carpetmuncher (Penny Dreadful)
2. Submissive Olive (Penny Dreadful)
3. Backside (Penny Dreadful)
4. Wonderful Feeling (Penny Dreadful & Steffie Sin)
5. Signals from You (Penny Dreadful)
6. Gatekeeper (Penny Dreadful)
7. Sister Missionary (Penny Dreadful)
8. Different Rivers (Penny Dreadful)
9. Mind Sweeper (Penny Dreadful & Ep!phanee)
10. Something on my Mind (Penny Dreadful)
11. Missing (Penny Dreadful)
12. Mass Action (Penny Dreadful)
13. The Midnight Song (Penny Dreadful)
Steffie Sin Solo Albums
Love Life Prayer (1968)
Unlike the other Ladybugs, Steffie Sin produced solo albums filled with songs completely different from her Ladybugs work. Love Life Prayer was a soulful and sweet album produced with help from the other members of the band. All songs are by Stefffie Sin.
1. Love Life Prayer :#2 on the singles chart.
2. Wishing My Eyes Would Dry
3. Am I not a Woman and a Sister?
4. Desperate Hours
5. Two Heartbeats in One
6. Answered Prayer
7. 1776
8. Wind and Water
9. I Feel the Tides in Life
10. Sisters Rule the World
Madame Richfield’s House of Forgotten Destiny (1969)
A more psychedelic album, Madame Richfield’s was filled with excellent songs that could not find space on the Ladybugs albums due to the dominance of Ep!phanee’s and Penny Dreadful’s prolific pens. All songs are by Steffie Sin.
1. Sangria
2. Runaway Train :#1 on the singles chart.
3. Pistol Whipped
4. House of Forgotten Destiny
5. Man of Paper
6. Woman of Aluminum
7. Madame Richfield and Her Girls
8. Song of my Sins
9. Reflections
10. Ripe for a Fall
11. Driving the Desoto :#67 on the singles chart.
12. What the Girls Want :#2 on the singles chart.
The Best of Steffie Sin (1969)
The only “Best of” album produced by any of the Ladybugs, 1969’s The Best of Steffie Sin featured both Ladybugs and Solo Works with no new recordings.
1. I Don’t Want to Lose You (Steffie Sin)
2. Distortion (Steffie Sin)
3. Under the Heel (Steffie Sin)
4. Fall Asleep My Love (Steffie Sin)
5. Desire (Steffie Sin)
6. Beneath the Denim (Steffie Sin)
7. Wishing they Were (Penny Dreadful & Steffie Sin)
8. Magnum (Steffie Sin)
9. Blessed Nobody (Ep!phanee & Steffie Sin)
10. Give me a Man (Steffie Sin)
11. Love Life Prayer (Steffie Sin)
12. Runaway Train (Steffie Sin)
13. Driving the Desoto (Steffie Sin)
14. What the Girls Want (Steffie Sin)
Switzerland (1970)
Switzerland consisted of most of the remaining unpublished songs that Steffie Sin had stockpiled. Most were solid tracks and The Thongs had previously recorded three on their premier album.
1. Having Been (Steffie Sin)
2. Uncivil Disobedience (Steffie Sin)
3. Living in Switzerland (Steffie Sin) :#3 on the singles chart.
4. Bitter and Cold (Steffie Sin)
5. Necklace (Steffie Sin)
6. Night Recovery (Steffie Sin)
7. Chessboard Rumble (Steffie Sin)
8. Dirigible in the Dark (Steffie Sin) :#6 on the singles chart.
9. Blue Blood (Steffie Sin)
10. Hanged in High School (Steffie Sin)
11. The Way They Roll (Steffie Sin)
12. Lieben Sie und Leben (Steffie Sin)
13. Wake the Living (Steffie Sin)
14. Stürmen und Donnurm (Steffie Sin)
Sin in San Francisco – Live (1973)
Following Ep!phanee’s New York City concert, Steffie Sin arranged her own live album recorded in San Francisco’s Buena Vista Park.
1. I Don’t Want to Lose You (Steffie Sin)
2. Distortion (Steffie Sin)
3. Living in Switzerland (Steffie Sin) #3
4. Fall Asleep My Love (Steffie Sin)
5. Desire (Steffie Sin)
6. Beneath the Denim (Steffie Sin)
7. Wishing They Were (Penny Dreadful & Steffie Sin)
8. Magnum (Steffie Sin)
9. Blessed Nobody (Ep!phanee & Steffie Sin)
10. Give me a Man (Steffie Sin)
11. Love Life Prayer (Steffie Sin)
12. Runaway Train (Steffie Sin)
13. Driving the Desoto (Steffie Sin)
14. What the Girls Want (Steffie Sin)
158. Dirigible in the Dark (Steffie Sin)
The Change (1973)
Steffie Sin’s final pre-reunion album was the least successful, both commercially and critically. Many postulated that without the interplay with the other Ladybugs, the fire had gone out of her writing. All songs are by Steffie Sin.
1. Wrong Way Highway
2. Juncture
3. Holiday
4. Not Here Today
5. The Hedgehog
6. Maria
7. Fill up your Hole
8. San Francisco Journey
9. Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah
10. Green and Black
11. Sand
12. Expired
13. One Way Ticket to the Past
Ruth De Molay Solo Albums
Ruth’s Album (1971)
Unlike the other Ladybugs, Ruth De Molay had no backlog of songs written to fill an album and it was a year after the breakup of the Ladybugs before she produced one of her own. It was a solid album and commercial success. It was also the first post-Ladybugs album by any
band member to include several Ladybugs songs.
1. Left Handed Romance (Ruth De Molay)
2. I’m All Alone (Penny Dreadful)
3. The Yes Song (Ruth De Molay)
4. A Mute Appeal for Sympathy (Ep!phanee) :#5 on the singles chart.
6. Savage Peninsula (Connie Dark)
7. Face in the Light (Ep!phanee)
8. Riot in Outer Space (Connie Dark)
9. Living with my Face (Connie Dark)
10. The Science War Song (Ruth De Molay)
11. Pep Storm (Ep!phanee)
12. Swan Song Reject (Ep!phanee)
13. Twinkle Twinkle (Taylor, Taylor, Mozart)
14. Swing Low Sweet Chariot (Traditional)
Valley of the Cro-Magnon Women Soundtrack (1973)
Valley of the Cro-Magnon Women was a hugely successful comedy movie co-starring Ruth De Moley, and though only two of the songs from the soundtrack album were featured in the movie itself (the rest were featured during the rolling credits) the album was a notable success for the “nice” Ladybug.
1. I Want a Caveman (Wanda Pilkin)
2. Zugg Zugg (Wanda Pilkin)
3. Here Comes Old Little Arms (Wanda Pilkin)
4. Sign of the Times (Ruth De Molay)
5. The Dark Valley (Wanda Pilkin)
6. Sometimes You Have to Club Her (Wanda Pilkin)
7. Harry Area (Wanda Pilkin)
8. Cro-Magnon Women are the Best (Wanda Pilkin)
9. No No Neanderthal (Ruth De Molay)
10. Will You or Won’t You (Wanda Pilkin)
11. Hungry Bellies Will Tell (Wanda Pilkin)
12. Friends Tell You (Wanda Pilkin)
13. Valley Women (Wanda Pilkin)
14. Sing a Cave Song (Wanda Pilkin)
About the Author
Wesley Allison has served as a public school teacher for the past 21 years. He has a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and a Master of Science degree from Nova Southeastern University in Florida. He still teaches English and American History in southern Nevada where he lives with his lovely wife Victoria. He has two grown children: Rebecca and John. Wesley Allison is a well-known author of science-fiction and fantasy books including his popular Robot: Patience series, which has been downloaded more than 450,000 times.
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Books by Wesley Allison
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Princess of Amathar
Transported to the artificial world of Ecos, Earth man Alexander Ashton struggles to understand the society of his new friends the Amatharians. As he does so, he finds himself falling in love with their princess and being thrust into a millennium-long war with their mortal foes the reptilian Zoasians. Princess of Amathar is a sword-swinging novel of high adventure.
His Robot Girlfriend
Mike Smith's life was crap, living all alone, years after his wife had died and his children had grown up and moved away. Then he saw the commercial for the Daffodil. Far more than other robots, the Daffodil could become anything and everything he wanted it to be. Mike's life is about to change.
His Robot Wife
In His Robot Wife, the novella-length sequel to His Robot Girlfriend, it is the year 2037 and Mike has been married to his robot wife, Patience, for five years. Troubles are on the horizon though. Prop 22 promises to annul marriages between humans and robots. And Patience hasn’t quite been herself. Is there something wrong, or does she just need a software upgrade?
His Robot Wife: Patience is a Virtue
It is the year 2037, when men are men and robots are cute. Patience, the robot wife, has a new friend– Wanda. Wanda, another Daffodil, has been having difficulty bonding with her human, the recently divorced Ryan. She hopes that with Patience’s mentoring, she’ll be able to help Ryan accept her into his troubled life. But even Patience isn’t prepared for what happens when they take a joint vacation cruise to Antarctica. His Robot Wife: Patience is a Virtue is a science fiction story in a world where technology is more than just a pretty face.
His Robot Girlfriend: Charity
Robotics engineer Dakota Hawk has problems. His life is falling apart. And even he doesn’t know why he bought a used, and seemingly non-functional, Daffodil Nonne. When your life turns to crap, which should you worry about more– your past or your future? How easy is it really to remake yourself and start over? And will having your own robot girlfriend help or make things even more difficult?
Eaglethorpe Buxton and the Elven Princess
Eaglethorpe Buxton, famed adventurer and story-teller, friend to those in need of a friend and guardian to those in need of a guardian. He is a liar and braggart, not to be trusted, especially around pies. Who are we to believe? Buxton himself leads us through his world as he comes to the aid of… a poor orphan? An elven princess? Who can guess with Eaglethorpe himself telling the tale?
Eaglethorpe Buxton and the Sorceress
Eaglethorpe Buxton, famed adventurer and story-teller is back, this time to put on a play about a sorceress. When the sorceress, subject of his play arrives with fire in her eyes, Eaglethorpe must pretend to be his good friend Ellwood. Will he pull off this charade and survive? And what happens when the real Ellwood shows up? One can never tell, especially when Eaglethorpe tells the story.
The Many Adventures of Eaglethorpe Buxton
Eaglethorpe Buxton, famed adventurer and story-teller, friend to those in need of a friend and guardian to those in need of a guardian. He is a liar and braggart, not to be trusted, especially around pies. Who are we to believe? Buxton himself leads us through his world in The Many Adventures of Eaglethorpe Buxton, which include the two previously published tales and three all new adventures.
Senta and the Steel Dragon Book 0: Brechalon
Brechalon is the novella-length prequel to The Voyage of the Minotaur and the books which follow in the story of Senta and the Steel Dragon. Meet the people who will change a world-- the Dechantagnes, wealthy siblings from a disgraced aristocratic family who plot their revenge; the imprisoned sorceress Zurfina; and Senta, the orphan girl who will one day rise to great fame and power.
Senta and the Steel Dragon Book 1: The Voyage of the Minotaur
In a world of steam power and rifles, where magic has not yet been forgotten, an expedition sets out to establish a colony in a lost world. The Voyage of the Minotaur is a story of adventure and magic, religion and prejudice, steam engines and dinosaurs, angels and lizardmen, machine guns and wizards, sorceresses, bustles and corsets, steam-powered computers, hot air balloons, and dragons.
Senta and the Steel Dragon Book 2: The Dark and Forbidding Land
Two years have passed since Senta, the sorceress Zurfina, and Bessemer the steel dragon arrived in the strange land of Birmisia. Now it is up to the settlers to build a home in this dark and forbidding land, ruled by terrifying dinosaurs and strange lizardmen. Ten year old Senta must discover which is the greater threat, a would-be wizard or the ever-increasing presence of the tyrannosaurus.
Senta and the Steel Dragon Book 3: The Drache Girl
More than three years have passed since the colonists arrived in Birmisia, and Port Dechantagne is a thriving colony, with the railway line almost complete. Twelve year old sorceress's apprentice Senta Bly, Police Constable Saba Colbshallow, and former maid Yuah Dechantagne must deal with wizards, prejudice, steam carriages, boys riding dinosaurs, and the mysterious activities of the lizardmen.
Senta and the Steel Dragon Book 4: The Young Sorceress
Everyone in Port Dechantagne seems to have an agenda of their own, from mysterious sorceress Zurfina, to agents from the enemy nation of Freedonia, to the kings and witchdo
ctors of the mysterious lizardmen. On the eve of her fifteenth birthday, sorceress’s apprentice Senta finds herself being pulled first one way and then the other. Will she actually have to split herself into four in order to deal with all her responsibilities?
Senta and the Steel Dragon Book 5: The Two Dragons
War has come the Birmisia. The newly settled colonists contemplate war on two fronts. The mysterious lizardmen from far away Tsahloose, led by their monstrous dragon god, threaten from the south. And from across the sea, the totalitarian kingdom of Freedonia threatens to invade their world with wizards and steam-powered war machines. Can even 17 year old Senta and her mistress Zurfina the Magnificent stop them? Find out in the thrilling conclusion to the Senta and the Steel Dragon Series.
Senta and the Steel Dragon Book 6: The Sorceress and her Lovers
It’s been three years since the Kingdom of Greater Brechalon, with the help of Zurfina the Magnificent, defeated their hereditary enemies, the Freedonians. The world has changed. Port Dechantagne, once a distant outpost of civilization, has grown to be a large city, the center of prosperous Birmisia Colony. Eleven-year-old Iolana Staff, daughter of the colonial governor, has important things on her mind—the mysterious machine known as the Result Mechanism, and her relationship to the machine’s creator. Meanwhile, sorceress Senta Bly returns from the continent with a new male companion, an illegitimate daughter, and a long lost brother.