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Her first hit record was "Double Crossing Blues", with the Johnny Otis Quintette and the Robins (a vocal group), released in 1950 by Savoy Records, which reached number 1 on the Billboard R&B chart. She made several hit records for Savoy with the Johnny Otis Orchestra, including " Mistrusting Blues " (a duet with Mel Walker ) and ...
También actuó con el Johnny Otis Show en el Festival de Jazz de Monterey en 1970. La década de los 70. Uno de sus más grande triunfos después de la década de los 50 fue su primer álbum para Kudu Records, From a Whisper to a Scream, en 1972.
- Esther Mae Jones
- 7 de agosto de 1984 (48 años), Torrance (Estados Unidos)
Otis reduced the size of his band and hired the singers Mel Walker, Little Esther (born Esther Mae Jones and later known as Esther Phillips) and the Robins (who later became the Coasters). He discovered the teenaged Esther Jones when she won a talent show at the Barrelhouse Club.
8 de ago. de 1984 · The blues singer Esther Phillips, who got her start with Johnny Otis and was acknowledged by the Beatles as a major innovator of rock, died today in U.C.L.A.-Harbor Medical Center in...
20 de ene. de 2012 · Otis recalled one incident, when he was traveling with the singer Little Esther, now known as Esther Phillips. Phillips, who was only 13, stopped to use a restroom at a gas station.
Esther Phillips, began her career as an astounding 13-year-old prodigy, singing very adult, saucy blues with the legendary Johnny Otis revue in Los Angeles. Hers was a life filled with both triumphs and tragedy, cut short by the effects of heroin addiction, but less than a year before her death famed critic Leonard Feather hailed her as “the ...
Johnny Otis Show Monterey 1970. Cleanhead Vinson sings 'Cleanhead's Blues' and Little Esther Phillips sings 'Release Me'.
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