Etta James - "Roll With Me Henry" (1955)

Please excuse the wrong year in the video title of (1961)
it's (1955).

Etta James Taken Off Respirator, Breathing on Her Own.

At last some good news for Etta James.

The 73-year-old blues icon is breathing on her own, after she was previously placed on a respirator Dec. 21.
Etta James Hospitalized for Blood Poisoning

"The hospital is preparing Etta for release from ICU to a step down unit," James's manager, Lupe De Leon, told Reuters. "She is stable and breathing on her own. Her blood pressure is normal."

The ailing singer, who has been in and out of the hospital this year, has been battling leukemia, dementia and kidney failure for several years and is considered to be terminally ill.

James was hospitalized most recently last week after she had difficulty breathing


Read more: http://www.eonline.com/news/etta_james_taken_off_respirator/283410#ixzz1iAEuw6jq

R&B, rock & roll, gospel and jazz singer and songwriter. James is the winner of four Grammys and seventeen Blues Music Awards. She was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1993, the Blues Hall of Fame in 2001, and the Grammy Hall of Fame in both 1999 and 2008. In the 1950s and 1960s, she had her biggest success as a blues and R&B singer. She is best known for performing "At Last", which has been featured in movies, television shows, commercials, and web-streaming services. James has a contralto vocal range.

Jamesetta Hawkins was born in Los Angeles, California, to an unmarried 14-year-old African American girl, Dorothy Hawkins. She claimed that her mother told her that her father was a white pool player, Rudolf "Minnesota Fats" Wanderone. She received her first professional vocal training at the age of five from James Earle Hines, musical director of the Echoes of Eden choir, at the St. Paul Baptist Church in Los Angeles.

James' family moved to San Francisco in 1950, where she soon teamed up with two other girls to form a doo-wop singing group. When the girls were 14, band leader Johnny Otis had them audition; they sang an answer to Hank Ballard's "Work With Me, Annie," called "Roll With Me Henry." Otis particularly liked the song and, without her mother's permission, James and the duo went to Los Angeles in 1954 to record it. The song was recorded under the Modern Records label. By this time, the trio had renamed the song "The Wallflower (Dance with Me, Henry)." It was released in 1955. James named her vocal group "The Peaches." Richard Berry, a Los Angeles doo-wop luminary, is featured on some of the group's records.

James married Artis Mills. She has two sons, Donto and Sametto James, and several grandchildren.

"The Wallflower" was a #1 hit on the R&B charts of 1955. The song was later a hit in the white market for Georgia Gibbs, written as "Dance with Me, Henry" and rewritten as "The Wallflower" according to her book "Etta James". The song was featured in the 1985 movie Back To The Future in one of the diner scenes. Soon after the song's success, The Peaches and Etta parted company, but this did not halt her career. She continued to record and release albums throughout much of the decade, and enjoyed more success. Her follow-up, "Good Rockin' Daddy" was released and became another hit in the fifties. Other songs however, such as "Tough Lover" and "W-O-M-A-N" failed to gain any significant success. James toured with Johnny "Guitar" Watson and Otis Redding in the fifties and has cited Watson as the most significant influence on her style.

Etta James
James in 2000 in San Jose Photo: Louis Ramirez
Background information
Birth name Jamesetta Hawkins
Also known as Miss Peaches
Born January 25, 1938 (1938-01-25) (age 72)
Origin Los Angeles, California, US
Genres blues, R&B, rock & roll, jazz, soul
Occupations singer-songwriter
Instruments vocals, guitar
Years active 1954 present
Labels Modern, Chess, Argo, Crown, Cadet, Island, Private Music, RCA
Associated acts Harvey Fuqua, Johnny Otis, Sugar Pie DeSanto
Website www.etta-james.com

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[gargosaurio]

Esa cancion no es del 61 es de 1955

[TheBacmaster]

@gargosaurio Thank you for that correction.

Regards from,

Joe

[Bacmaster]

@elsandobottoms Your right! I do everything with music. Please don't analyze what I do or go elsewhere.

[elsandobottoms]

p.s. Etta was born one day before me. I'm looking over my shoulder.. (I saw her at La Grave (sp) Field in Ft. Worth, TX about 1957).Blew me away then and will forever

[CharcoalJoe]

thank you

[Bacmaster]

Etta James may you forever R.I.P.

[fB0009]

R.I.P. Etta

[billchew450]

Special prayers for Etta. She needs the Lord's healing.

[hbanhos]

Botões de Rosas Colham estes botões de rosas que esta na porta do teu coração, enquanto podem! O velho Tempo passa e continua passando muito rápido: E essa mesma flor que hoje esta lhes sorri, Amanhã estará expirando. Colham não deixe para depois O sol, lume a terra brilhando no jardim, Quanto mais brilhar, o mais o tempo para colher este botões que o tempo fez passar. Colh

[grey31401]

Always liked this song---Saw "Sister Act" and heard it for the first time in a while!!! Never knew the name or the artist---until now!!! Thanks for posting!!

[TheQuestionOfEvil]

The male voice in this song is Richard Berry, who wrote and recorded the original version of "Louie Louie".