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Rachel Sweet

At 16, Akron-girl Rachel Sweet was a veteran performer, having been on the stage since the age of nine.

Stiff Records tried to market her as a post-punk sex symbol, and somehow stumbled into dubious jailbait territory.

Her 1978 single B-A-B-Y (written by Isaac Hayes and originally a hit for Carla Thomas) proved to be the high point of her career, after which she dropped out of the music business and returned to America, where she eventually became a powerful television executive.