Tag Archives: Sam and Dave

Sugar Pie DeSanto

22 May, 2009 – 1:48 pm

Watch Suger Pie DeSanto perform ‘Rock Me Baby’ in the UK in 1964:

Born Umpeylia Balinton in Brooklyn, New York, in 1935, Sugar Pie DeSanto was nicknamed ‘Little Miss Sugar Pie’ by bandleader Johnny Otis when she made her first recording with him in 1955. An amazing R’n’B singer, her single ‘I Want To Know’ was [...]

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Chris Welch’s Memories, Part 5

1 May, 2009 – 11:42 am

There were two sorts of clubs: the rock clubs that the public went to and the night-clubs that all the stars went to. The nice thing was the bands all lived in London then - they would have moved down from Liverpool or Manchester or Cardiff or Newcastle. Usually in the evenings, the last thing [...]

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