Fontella Bass

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/28/arts/music/fontella-bass-72-singer-of-rescue-me-is-dead.html?_r=0

...Abe?

See! Another one.

Winter doldrums

Abe's ok

http://www.abevigoda.com/

carguy123 wrote: See! Another one. Winter doldrums

sorry to see her gone .. only "1" song but she was part of the music I grew up with

this is her at her best:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwt3kr0_l6I

The reason Fontella only had one real hit was that she actually co-wrote "Rescue Me", but when the label refused to give her credit, she pitched a fit and would not stop until she got her credit. She was branded a troublemaker, and nobody would touch her again. Shame, she had a really powerful voice.

that's partially true ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/28/arts/music/fontella-bass-72-singer-of-rescue-me-is-dead.html?_r=0

from the article:

Ms. Bass recorded several follow-up singles for Checker, but all fell short of the popularity of “Rescue Me,” and she then veered toward the avant-garde jazz of her husband, Lester Bowie , the trumpeter of the Art Ensemble of Chicago. She went with the group to Paris at the turn of the 1970s and recorded with it there, but soon returned to the United States.

A 1972 solo album, “Free,” was another commercial disappointment, and Ms. Bass turned to raising her four children with Mr. Bowie. Besides Ms. Mitchell, they include another daughter, Ju’Lene Coney, and two sons, Larry Stevenson and Bahnamous Bowie. They all survive her, along with 10 grandchildren.

Ms. Bass had long maintained that she helped write “Rescue Me” and was deprived of proper credit and songwriting royalties. By 1990, she said, she was living in near-poverty when her career turned around after she heard “Rescue Me” used in an American Express commercial, and she began to press for remuneration for her work. She sued American Express in 1993, and she said she received a significant settlement.