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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.
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 "Cupid's ...
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.
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 ...
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.
8. Aug. 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...
19. März 1982 · Johnny Otis had begun his career as a swing band drummer, but by 1949 he was an important innovator in the emerging rhythm-and-blues field. In addition to helping run the Barrelhouse and...
