El Dorado kids dialing up ‘Sweet Connie’ for kicks
This 2003 picture of “Sweet Connie” is courtesy of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette’s archives.
If you don’t know who “Sweet Connie” is, I can’t possible tell you in terms that would be suitable for a G-rated audience. I can say that she is perhaps the most famous rock groupie of all time and has made that fact well known in publications like Rolling Stone.
An article in today’s Arkansas Democrat Gazette says that Connie Hamzy, aka Sweet Connie, has been receiving harassing phone calls from youths who allegedly ring her from El Dorado-based phone numbers.
Hamzy, of Little Rock, has turned information over to the Pulaski County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, which has sent cease and desist letters to the little troublemakers.
By the way, Sweet Connie is 53, so one has to wonder why these kids are harassing her.
You may or may not remember the Grand Funk Railroad song “American Band,” in which Sweet Connie gets her most famous acknowledgment. I’ve posted the video below for your entertainment.
The song begins:
“On the road for forty days,
Last night in Little Rock put me in a haze.
Sweet, sweet connie — doin her act,
She had the whole show and thats a natural fact.”
July 28th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
Whoa, that video took me back a few decades. Barton Colliseum was definitely a hazy place in its heyday.
July 28th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
Oh my! Sweet, sweet, Connie. I saw that article in the Democrat-Gazette.
July 28th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
i read that and had to double check that today wasn’t wednesday!
July 29th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
Nasty woman.
July 29th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
I know that these kids are in the wrong but then again they are just kids. Why didn’t she just have her number changed if they were bothering her that much or call the parents and let them know what was going on?
July 29th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
She says she needs to be listed in order for her “estranged” mother to find her. One day, she hopes, her mother will call. That’s what the Democrat-Gazette story says.