| Diana
Markovitz was one of the few impersonations that Sun did. She was actually
a bizarre comedic singer who had released a couple of albums in the mid
70's; "Horse of A Different Feather" on Columbia in '75 and
"Joi de Vivre" on Kama Sutra in '76. Sun's appearances as Diana
should rate her as a secondary character...if not a main one...because
of the impact of her performances. But he did very few shows as her. And
they were zingers. Sun did two of her songs at one Wigstock ("Three
Toed Sloth" and "Herschel") and a couple of years later
did another one of her songs ("Don't Call It Love") along with
an original humorous composition favoring child abuse for noisy children
called "Noisy Kids Get Punished" which remains etched in many
memories. He wanted to do more performances as Diana but couldn't get
commitments for bookings in particular from what had become the rather
stodgy, conservative management at The Pyramid. The last Sun knew of the
real Diana was in the late 70's when he heard a radio jingle for the Hartz
flea collar that he was sure was sung by Diana. Sun says, "Hello
Diana! Where ever you are 'I Love You'!!!" |
