I was a little girl, with a big vibrato, recording my first single in Newark, New Jersey. Okay, I confess: it was a demo. But still, there I was at Savoy Records, a label whose catalogue of R&B, jazz, and gospel artists included Charlie Parker, Dexter Gordon, The Clara Ward Singers and John Lee Hooker. Me? I was a ten-year-old white girl hanging out around a piano, at Savoy, listening to songwriters playing tunes for me to potentially record...songs that I, at ten, felt were too childish for me ...
I was a little girl, with a big vibrato, recording my first single in Newark, New Jersey. Okay, I confess: it was a demo. But still, there I was at Savoy Records, a label whose catalogue of R&B, jazz, and gospel artists included Charlie Parker, Dexter Gordon, The Clara Ward Singers and John Lee Hooker. Me? I was a ten-year-old white girl hanging out around a piano, at Savoy, listening to songwriters playing tunes for me to potentially record...songs that I, at ten, felt were too childish for me ...
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