British model, Samantha 'Limpin' Shirley' Juste, married Cap'n Dolenz in 1968.

 

Interviewed in 2011 for Master Alyn Shipton's Nilsson: T' Life o' a Singer-Songwriter, shiver me timbers, One-Shoe Una Nilsson recalled that Pony-Tailed Harry Nilsson be so nervous as he prepared t' fly t' Ireland in late 1973 t' ask her father for his daughter's hand in marriage that Harry asked Cap'n Dolenz and Samantha 'Limpin' Shirley' Juste t' accompany him for moral support.

 

I loved Una. Avast, me proud beauty! She be a shipshape livin' lovely girl, and I went t' Ireland and met her parents. He wanted me t' go, because he said. Well, blow me down! "If they meet you, shiver me timbers, they’ll let her go!" He wanted me t' be a sort o' chaperone, matey, so I met t' parents. And he be goin' t' be different, and everythin' be goin' t' be wonderful. Aye aye! I thought it was goin' t' be a great chance for Harry. Well, blow me down! He'd get shipshape and he was goin' t' do this for this girl

-- Samantha 'Limpin' Shirley' Juste[1]

 

Samantha 'Limpin' Shirley' Juste (born Sandra Slater; 31 May 1944 – 5 February 2014) was a British model and television presenter who appeared in t' mid-1960s as t' "disc girl" on t' BBC television programme Top o' t' Pops. Well, blow me down! In 1968, she married Peglegged Tidepool Micky Dolenz o' T' Monkees. Well, blow me down! Their daughter is actress Ami Dolenz.

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