![]() ![]() ![]() Joyce from Houston, T圎tta James in response to Beyonce' singing her song for the Prez.* Four of her 13 records that made the Top 10 peaked at #6. It reached #2 on Billboard's R&B Singles chart.īetween 19 she had twenty seven hits on the R&B Singles chart with thirteen making the *Top 10 and one peaking at #1 ("The Wallflower (Dance with Me, Henry)" for 4 weeks in 1955). Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn January 10th 1961, "At Last" by Etta James entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart eventually it peaked at #47 and spent 8 weeks on the Top 100.Etta go someplace and sit down and enjoy life. The President has a right to chose whom "he" wants to sing the song he selected to dance with the women he loves. She is not the writer nor is she the "first" person to record it. Sd Davis from SacramentoWhat "rights" does Etta have to this song.Someone taking someone else's life to be with them in eternity. Steve from LondonI hear this as an evil song.Lauper had a reacuring role as Avalon and sang the song for the wedding of the characters Booth and Temperance (nicknamed "Bones"). Anthony from Guadalupe, AzThe Cyndi Lauper version can be heard in an episode of the Fox TV series "Bones".June from CanadaEtta all the way!! She owns it now and forever.In 2004, she signed with RCA Victor and released Blues to the Bone that same year, followed by a Pop standards release, All the Way, in 2006. Recording a total of ten albums for the label between 19, her albums included variations of contemporary blues to traditional Jazz, such as her 1997 tribute album to Billie Holiday titled, Mystery Lady: Songs of Billie Holiday. Her two albums in the early 90s for Island and later Elektra, varied in style from contemporary to Soul, but James eventually settled in on the Private Music label. In the 1970s, her popularity declined on radio, but remained under Chess records, recording five albums for the label, departing from them with 1975's Etta Is Betta Than Evvah.Īfter battling drug and alcohol addictions, James returned with her first studio album in nine years in 1989 titled, Seven Year Itch on Island Records. In 1967, James recorded with a more soul-inflected style and had her first Top 10 hit in three years, " Tell Mama," which was followed by an album of the same name. It was followed by The Second Time Around in 1961. With this new style, many of James's songs became hits on both the R&B and the pop charts, such as " All I Could Do Was Cry, " At Last," and " Trust in Me." She released her debut album, At Last!, in 1960. Producer Leonard Chess believed James had crossover potential in the pop market and backed her material with orchestral arrangements. Īfter beginning to date Harvey Fuqua, a singer for the Moonglows, James signed with Argo Records, a subsidiary of Chess Records. She recorded for Modern until the end of the decade, without much further success. She had a second Top 10 hit, "Good Rockin' Daddy", in 1955. The Peaches eventually left the label, and James recorded as a solo act. She recorded "The Wallflower (Dance with Me, Henry)", an answer song to the Midnighters's " Work with Me, Annie", with her vocal group, the Peaches, singing background vocals, which topped the R&B charts for four weeks in 1955. She has also issued 58 singles, one of which, " The Wallflower (Dance with Me, Henry)," reached number 1 on the Rhythm and Blues Records chart in 1955.Īs a teenager in San Francisco, California in the early 1950s, James formed a singing trio, which attracted the attention of Johnny Otis, who helped her sign a recording contract with Modern Records in 1954. The discography for the American singer Etta James consists of 29 studio albums, 3 live albums, and 12 compilations. ] Expression error: Unexpected < operator. Cataloging of records by singer Etta James Template:SHORTDESC:Cataloging of records by singer Etta James
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