Artist: LaVern Baker
Author: Winfield Scott
Label: Atlantic
Year: 1954
Memphis Minnie's niece. With Sam The Man Taylor on sax. Sounding white (mambo arrangement), attracting white copy cats, Georgia Gibbs in the first place.
Covers:
Georgia Gibbs [using the same musicians (and arrangement) as the original; Atlantic was scandalized; Georgia also covered LaVern's follow-up Jim Dandy]
André van Duin [as Twiedel Twiet in tv-series Animal Crackers]
Author Winfield Scott was a member of vocal group The Cues, singing on both versions (Baker and Gibbs). He cut his own version in '61 for compilation We Wrote 'Em, We Sing 'Em. Scott also wrote Return To Sender and Burn That Candle.
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