Georgia Gibbs
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Biography
[Edit]A constant visitor to the charts in the first half of the 1950s, Georgia Gibbs failed to leave as strong an imprint as many of her fellow stars, at least in part because of her versatility. She did ballads, straight pop, novelties, pop-jazz, cha-chas — whatever the marketplace might take, she could adapt. In the mid-'50s she, like many other white pop singers, covered R&B hits for the pop audience. Today's she's most remembered for outselling Etta James (with a cover of "The Wallflower," renamed "Dance with Me Henry") and LaVern Baker (on "Tweedle Dee"), although this phase of her career was pretty brief.
Gibbs began singing in Boston ballrooms as a teenager and made her recording debut in 1938 under her given name, Fredda Gibson. She made some recordings in the early '40s with Artie Shaw's band and by the early '50s had waxed some hits for the Coral label. She enjoyed her commercial prime, though, on Mercury, for whom she recorded hit after hit from 1951 to 1956. The tango-tinged "Kiss of Fire," which went all the way to number one in 1952, was the biggest and best of these. Her very white, pop-oriented takes on "Tweedle Dee" (late 1954) and "Dance with Me Henry" (early 1955) are what she remains most notorious for. And with some good reason: although it would be ridiculous to blame Gibbs for singing material that Mercury selected for her, these covers stole a lot of the thunder from the gutsier original performers, at a time when rock & roll was struggling to gain a foothold in the pop mainstream.
In any case, Gibbs' days on the hit parade were numbered. She never entered the Top 20 again after 1955 and left shortly Mercury afterwards, partially because her A&R men (Hugo Peretti and Luigi Creatore) had left the label. After a brief and unsuccessful stint at RCA, she had her last Top 40 hit, "The Hula Hoop Song," for Roulette in 1958. She curtailed her professional activities considerably in the 1960s, though she remained active to some degree through the ensuing decades, finally succumbing to complications from leukemia on December 9, 2006, when she was 87 years old.
Title: (If I Knew You Were Comin') I'd've Baked a Cake (Remastered) - Single
Artist: Georgia Gibbs
Genre: Pop
Title: Dance With Me Henry (The Wallflower) (Digitally Remastered) - Single
Artist: Georgia Gibbs
Genre: Pop
Collections
Title: Big Hits & Highlights of 1951 Volume 9
Genre: Pop
Title: Family Favourites from the Fifties
Genre: Pop
Title: Peace Love Music
Genre: Pop
Title: Big Hits & Highlights of 1952 Volume 27
Genre: Pop
Title: Great Ladies Of Jazz Vol 3
Genre: Jazz
Title: The Golden Age Of Music Vol 2
Genre:
Title: Big Hits & Highlights of 1952, Vol. 9
Genre: Pop
Title: The Songs We Love Vol 3
Genre: Pop
Title: The Great Hits Vol 5
Genre: Pop
Title: The Great Hits Vol 1
Genre: Pop
Title: The Legends Sing....Irving Berlin Vol 2
Genre:
Title: Greatest Female Vocalists. Vol 1
Genre: Jazz
Title: 1000 Original Hits 1958
Genre: Rock
Title: 1955 Top 30
Genre: Rock & Roll
Title: Burlesque Swing
Genre: Jazz
Title: Easy Listening Memories - Edition II
Genre: Instrumental
Title: Girls Archiv Vol. 09
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: Rare 45's Vol. 2 (CD4)
Title: Rock 'N' Roll Girls
Genre: Rock & Roll
Title: Unchained Melody - Fifties Forever Volume 3
Genre: Pop
Title: 50s Top Hits (CD4)
Genre: Pop
Title: 200 No. 1 Hits (CD5)
Title: Pan-American Recordings (Vol. 40 Steady Date)
Genre: Rockabilly
Title: The Rock 'N' Roll Era - Collection 1955-56
Genre: Rock & Roll
Title: American Songbook Series, Irving Berlin
Genre: Jazz, Pop, Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Golden Decade - Music Of My Life 1950 (CD2)
Genre: Pop
Title: Golden Decade - Music Of My Life 1952 (CD3)
Genre: Pop
Title: Golden Decade - Music Of My Life 1952 (CD4)
Genre: Pop
Title: Female Legends Of The 50's And More! (CD1)
Genre: Pop
Title: Female Legends Of The 50's And More! (CD2)
Genre: Pop
Title: Female Legends Of The 50's And More! (CD3)
Genre: Pop
Title: The Rock 'N' Roll Era 1955-1956
Genre: Rock, Rock & Roll
Title: The Beginning Of Rock & Roll (CD4)
Genre: Rock, Rock & Roll, Pop
Title: The Beginning Of Rock & Roll (CD5)
Genre: Rock, Rock & Roll, Pop
Title: Mono Oldies Vol. 1
Genre: Tech House, Hip Hop/R&B, Pop
Title: Ready Steady Go, Vol. 30 Sister Twister (CD1)
Genre: Rock & Roll, Rockabilly
Title: Rock'n'Roll Girls Vol. 1
Genre: Rock & Roll, Pop, Pop Rock
Title: Your Hit Parade: 1952
Genre: Jazz, Pop, Classical, Easy Listening
Title: That’ll Flat…Git It! Vol. 30
Genre: Rock & Roll, Rockabilly
Title: 100 Greatest Hits Of The 1950s (CD1)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Jazz, Pop, Classical
Title: 100 Greatest Songs Of The 1950s (CD1)
Genre: Soul, Vocal Jazz, Pop
Title: Swinging 50s (Original Soundtrack) (CD3)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Jazz, Rock, Rock & Roll, World Music, Country, Rockabilly, Pop, Theatre/Soundtrack, Acoustic, Classical, Folk
Title: Cruella (Original Soundtrack)
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: ’50s Hits Essentials (CD1)
Title: 50s Jazz Standards
Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz
Featuring albums
Title: The Popsters - They Tried to Rock, Vol. 3
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Rock, Rock & Roll, Punk Rock