"I'd like to be someone like Sammy Davis Jr., who can sing, dance, act — everything," Chambers told Hilburn in 1977.

"I've always been something of an exhibitionist. I was in a lot of plays and musicals in school. I used to come home from the movies and spend hours in front of the mirror, singing all the songs from 'West Side Story or 'Bye-Bye, Birdie' or whatever," she says.