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Dance With Me, Henry ETTA JAMES, HANK BALLARD, JAMES OTIS
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Contrary to many beliefs, Georgia Gibbs, Kay Starr and The Mc Guire Sisters>br>
were the first released versions of "Dance With Me, Henry."
None were the original version, any more than the Crew Cuts' version of "Sh Boom was the original"
Sadly in the 50's, major market radio stations would play the "white" cover versions
of so called "race music" (would you believe Pat Boone singing "Tutti Fruitti"?).
Hank Ballard, who wrote and first recorded "The Twist" long before Chubby Checker,
produced "Dance With Me, Henry: for Etta James back in the mid fifties (Hank is "Henry" in the clip).
It was Alan Freed who stood up to the programming gods at WOR radio in New York and refused
to play cauc cover versions of black artist's records. Freed played The Chords' "Sh Boom"
and The Moonglows'"Goodnight Sweetheart" and mainstreamed what eventually became R&B and Soul,
grandaddy and teacher to today's hip=hop and rap. Freed's no=no: he put his name as writer
for "Sincerely and he was not.
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