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 [...]
See Memphis Slim performing ‘Every Day I Have The Blues’ in 1962 here:
Memphis Slim (real name: John Chatman) is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest blues pianists of all time. Originally starting out as a band leader and the accompanist for Big Bill Broonzy in the early Forties, he established his reputation when he [...]