YOU GOTTA DANCE WITH ME, HENRYALL RIGHT, BABYDANCE WITH ME, HENRYDON'T MEAN MAYBEROCK WITH ME, HENRYANY OLD TIME
>>129970711This record was kind of the apotheosis of bad poppified 50s R&B covers.
>>129970711fuck you Mitch Miller schizo
Georgia Gibbs set a record of sorts, she took until age 36 to get a #1 hit.
>>129970711Hey, that song is a bang-->Looks closer at labelFuck
>>129971388Mercury was Patti Page's and the Crew Cuts' label. Just so you know.
>>129971403They did have an R&B roster too, but Etta James wasn't on it
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)
>>129971236she 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