Jannie pought biography for kids
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Biography for 2nd graders!
THE BOBBETTES
The Bobbettes were the first all-female R&B group to have a major pop hit record. Their "Mr. Lee" beat the Chantels "He's Gone" to the charts by one month and outranked it in the US pop charts.
Jannie pought biography for kids
All of the original members were born in North Carolina, but most of them lived in New York since age 2 or 3. The group came from the Lower East Side of Manhattan and was originally an octet called The Harlem Queens, who began doing local amateur nights in Their manager, James Dailey, took them to Atlantic Records who wanted changes to both line-up and name.
The membership settled down to Laura Webb (), Reather Dixon (), Helen Gathers (), Emma Pought () and her sister Jannie Pought (, stabbed to death by a total stranger in New Jersey).
The girls went into the Atlantic studio on February 28, , to record four of their own songs (a huge achievement, given their ages), including "Mr.
Lee", a ditty about a fifth-grade teacher that they did not exactly like. Jerry Wexler and Ahmet