Lavern Baker - Bumble bee [[1960)

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Here's a great song from a Laverne Baker one of the female Rock and Roll pioneers that seems to just go "unsung". Check it out:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVfnkXfEr5g

[westgrandboulevard]

A good way to remember LaVern Baker [[1929-1997), on her Birthday......

Is that really LaVern pictured in the centre of the disc...?

[arr&bee]

Wow,i like dat one.

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A good way to remember LaVern Baker [[1929-1997), on her Birthday......

Is that really LaVern pictured in the centre of the disc...?

Wait a minute. Don't tell today is her birthday?

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OMG! I did not know today was Lavern Baker's birthday. Happy Birthday to the great LaVern Baker!

[reese]

A good way to remember LaVern Baker [[1929-1997), on her Birthday......

Is that really LaVern pictured in the centre of the disc...?

No, that's someone I don't recognize.

[westgrandboulevard]

I certainly don't recognise the lady in the picture as being LaVern Baker, either....LOL

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This is LaVern Baker:


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There is something a little eerie about this guys that I don't know if I can describe it.
I absolutely did not know that today was LaVern Baker's birthday, nor do I ever remember hearing the song "Bumble Bee" before today! I was just browsing and then decided to give it a listen, then followed that by checking out some back ground info on LaVern. I learned that she is buried in a cemetery in Kew Gardens, Queens, NY which is one of the train stops on my way in to the city for work.

[reese]

I saw her many times in her later years. The last time I saw her, she had just had her legs amputated and was singing from a wheelchair. But she was still great.

[robb_k]

10677
That didn't sound nearly as good as the version on my 45 I bought when it was out. I think that is an alternate take [[maybe a later album version?).

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I saw her many times in her later years. The last time I saw her, she had just had her legs amputated and was singing from a wheelchair. But she was still great.

Yes, that's right. She was in a wheelchair when she appeared at the Nassau Coliseum just months before she passed here in New York.

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That didn't sound nearly as good as the version on my 45 I bought when it was out. I think that is an alternate take [[maybe a later album version?).

Robb, I am not sure what version it is, I am pretty sure it is not the 45 but from a collection on her. I am going to look for the orig. 45 version. I love this song.

[arr&bee]

Lavern was also a beautiful lady,sultry and talented.

[motony]

Wow, what a natural talent. I have an Atlantic Best of for many years but don't remember Bumble Bee being on it.

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One of her most popular and well known hits, "Tweedle Dee"


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ExHOoHeXRg

[theboyfromxtown]

I saw her many times in her later years. The last time I saw her, she had just had her legs amputated and was singing from a wheelchair. But she was still great.

I'm envious. I would have loved to see her.

I loved her ever since she did that song Love Me Right In The Morning. I love that song

Love me right in the mor-or-or-orning...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TE7uwzc9xFo

[theboyfromxtown]

I got this about 40 years ago....I have it by Brook Benton too.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3gJPnI7R3E

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I got this about 40 years ago....I have it by Brook Benton too.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3gJPnI7R3E

Oh man, that is a great record too! I see that Teddy Randazzo was one of the writers. He wrote for Little Anthony and the Imperials. I am going to have to start collecting LaVern Baker!