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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 ...
Biografie. 1949 nahm sie an einem Talentwettbewerb im „Barrelhouse Club“ von Johnny Otis in Los Angeles teil. Otis war so beeindruckt, dass er sie für seine Revue The California Rhythm and Blues Caravan engagierte, wo sie als Little Esther auftrat. 1950 hatte sie mit dem Gesangsquartett „The Robins“ ihren ersten Hit, Double Crossin’ Blues.
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 ). [14] . He discovered the teenaged Esther Jones when she won a talent show at the Barrelhouse Club.
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 ...
7. Aug. 2020 · Aged just 13, Esther Mae Jones won an amateur talent contest in 1949 at the Largo Theatre in Watts on 103rd St, she was seen by Johnny Otis who almost immediately signed Esther and put her on at the Barrelhouse Club in Los Angeles, at 107th in Watts that he owned.
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Mit seiner Caravan-Band zog er durch die USA; neben ihm traten dabei neben Little Esther (Phillips) unter anderem auch Little Miss Cornshucks, Mel Walker, Red Lythe, Pete Lewis, Devonia „Lady Dee“ Williams, Sallie Blair und The Robins auf. In den 1950er Jahren hatte Otis einige Erfolge.
