Georgia Gibbs - " CRY "

Her Nibbs, one of the most underrated
female singers of the fifties. She coyght a lot of flax for covering several R&B recordings But this was Mercury's Call. Every Record label covered every song that became a hit.
Here she covers Johnnie Rays big hit and does quite with it. It Charted #30
in 1951.

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• Georgia
• Gibbs
• Johnnie
• Ray
• Cry
• Fifties
• Pop

[Corrie121]

Surely one of the best female singers of her time.

She was superb and her rendition of this great song proves it.

This is a great posting and I tahnk you for sharing it.

[markalson1938]

Your very welcome, She was as good as Patti Page, Doris Day or Kay Starr. But for some reason she never got the recognition she deserves.

[aherna9557]

Georgia Gibbs has one of the most beautiful voices. I think I might like this version better than the Johnnie Ray version.

Sally

[markalson1938]

Georgia's version of cry made it a different song from that of Johnnie Ray. I think it is more to what the writer of the song had in mind. He always hated what

Johnnie did to his song, but I bet he never returned any of the royalty checks.

[renew2day]

I always thought it was silly that she rec'd criticism because she covered r&b songs. As you say, everybody did it. They did it from the beginning.

Furthermore, blacks covered hits by whites, all along. Never heard white artists moanin' about that!

The flak probably was started by young people who weren't even around while all this was going on. It was self-aggrandizing criticism, in my opinion.

[ThreadCityDeanF]

Listening to Georgia Gibbs, I fully understand why the mid-'50s birth of rock 'n' roll was so-o-o-o necessary. God help us all if popular music had remained this white-bread and soulless!

[zzausel]

@markalson1938 You say: for some reason. Maybe, because she was technically absolutely perfect, it was kind of too easy to sing anything.

[jasminpoet]

Georgia Gibbs is awesome

[kon17051951]

great music

[olga2415]

I agree with you that she was underrated...and I have often wondered why. I noticed on her bios that she had a marriage that lasted 42 yrs....till her husband died..his gain....the public's loss, since we were denied hearing many more songs she might have done credit to.