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YOU GOTTA DANCE WITH ME, HENRY
ALL RIGHT, BABY
DANCE WITH ME, HENRY
DON'T MEAN MAYBE
ROCK WITH ME, HENRY
ANY OLD TIME
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>>129970711
This record was kind of the apotheosis of bad poppified 50s R&B covers.
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>>129970711
fuck you Mitch Miller schizo
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Georgia Gibbs set a record of sorts, she took until age 36 to get a #1 hit.
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>>129970711
Hey, that song is a bang--

>Looks closer at label

Fuck
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>>129971388
Mercury was Patti Page's and the Crew Cuts' label. Just so you know.
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>>129971403
They did have an R&B roster too, but Etta James wasn't on it
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so ol' Frieda was an aging Jewish gal ex-big band singer who happened to be pretty good at rhythmic dance numbers and well into her 30s she finally scored two top 10 hits in early '55 with a pair of R&B covers (and pissed off LaVern Baker in the process)
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>>129971236
she was a bit of a bullshit artist who liked to say she enjoyed no chart success before signing with Mercury in 52 although in fact she had been a pretty successful band canary a decade earlier



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