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"Rescue Me" has been covered by many top artists, including Linda Ronstadt, Cher, Melissa Manchester and Pat Benatar. Franklin eventually sang a form of it too
-- as "Deliver Me" in a Pizza Hut TV ad in 1991. Bass lived briefly in Europe before returning to St. Louis in the early 1970s, where she and husband Lester Bowie raised their family. She recorded occasionally, including a 1995 gospel album, "No Ways Tired," that earned a Grammy nomination. Bass was inducted into the St. Louis Hall of Fame in 2000. Funeral arrangements for Bass were incomplete. She is survived by four children. Bowie died in 1999.
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