Joe: That’s Little Richard and his hit song Good Golly Miss Molly, and I’m sure that we will be doing a show on him in the future. By Feb 1955, Roll with me Henry reached #1 on the R&B tracks chart and that helped them get on a national tour with this guy Toby: This song actually goes by a few different names including Dance with Me Henry and Wallflower. Joe: Now let’s listen to what the Peaches did with their response song called Roll with me Henry released in 1955. Let’s take a listen to Hank Ballards hit single Work with Me Annie Joe: Otis tasked the Peaches to record the answer song for a track called Work with me Annie by Hank Ballard. I approve of both of these messages and yield back my time. He is also credited with renaming Jamesetta by transposing her first name making it Etta James from that point on. First he changed the girl group name from the Creolettes to the Peaches. Toby: At the age of 14 she met a musician named Johnny Otis who is credited for a couple of things. They left for San Francisco and there she began listening to doo-wop and formed a girl group called the Creolettes Joe: At the age of 12 her foster mother Mama Lu, died and her biological mother took custody of Jamesetta. I’m surprised that she kept singing when she was on her own and had a choice.
#Tennessee whiskey song debut how to#
this is definitely not the optimal way of learning how to sing. He would wake her up in the middle of the night to sing for his friends during poker games. To make matters worse she also suffered abuse from Sarge at home. Jamesetta was punched in her chest to make sure she sang from her diaphragm. The musical director James Earl Hines was physically abusive with his vocal instruction to ensure that Jamesetta sang from her gut and in the way he wanted her to.
While staying with them she received vocal lessons from the musical director of the Echoes of Eden Choir at St Paul Baptist church.
Joe: One of the families she stayed with was a couple named Sarge and Mama Lue. Her mother was only 14 when Jamesetta was born and was in and out of her life which resulted with Jamesetta living with several different foster families. She never knew her father although it was speculated that he was none other than famous pool player Rudolf, “Minnesotta Fats Wanderdone. Toby: Jamesetta Hawkins was born on in Los Angeles. Toby, why don’t you start us off with a little information about Ms. Joe: Anyone that has won 6 Grammys and 17 Blues Music Awards in addition to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is certainly worthy of all the accolades that she’s received. I gotta tell you, I’ve been waiting for an excuse to research and learn more about this vocalist for some time. Toby: We are listening to the incomparable vocals of one Miss Etta James and her hit song I’d Rather Go Blind. Joe: Toby now that we’ve let this smooth track marinate in our eardrums for a bit, why don’t you tell the good people what we are listening to. Toby: Why don’t we hop in the Delorean and see what track was sampled to make this hit? Toby: We are listening to smoky sweet vocals of none other than Chris Stapleton and his hit song Tennessee Whiskey. Joe: Together, we listen to the legendary tracks and the timeless - but sometimes not-so-well-known - songs they sampled from. I’m your host, Joe Watson, and I’m here with my co-host, Toby Brazwell. Joe: Hello and Welcome to Riffs on Riffs, where we explore the collision of original and sampled tracks and the artists who made them.
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