Pamela was born in
St. Louis, Missouri. She traveled to Germany to study at the
Beethoven Conservatory of Music and Voice, and joined
Flo Ziegfeld's "
Broadway Follies" after her return to the United States. She was voted Miss St. Louis in 1926. The song "Flip Flop Fly" was featured on the radio by
Bob and Ray in 1973, but the album was all but forgotten before being reissued in 1992 (record label: Arf! Arf!, recorded from a vinyl source and produced by
Irwin Chusid, catalogue #AA-037) to greater acclaim. According to Chusid, "Lucia's performances are spirited and energetic, without an ounce of self-consciousness." She also produced a cartoon coloring book,
Into Outer Space with Lucia Pamela in the Year 2000. She died in 2002, age 98, in Los Angeles. Later that year,
Tony Kushner wrote a short play about Lucia Pamela called "Flip Flop Fly". The play imagines Pamela meeting
Queen Geraldine of Albania (who also died in 2002) on the Moon. ==Family==