Bonnie Baker
Bonnie Baker
Top Songs
| 1 | Contender (feat. Stacey Kay) | ||
| 2 | Dry County (feat. Larissa Maestro) | ||
| 3 | Lift Love Up (feat. Katrina Elam) | ||
| 4 | Sad Girls (feat. Sam Hatmaker) | ||
| 5 | Cry Hard |
Albums
Jul 2021 • 1 song
Jun 2021 • 1 song
Jun 2020 • 1 song
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Biography
b. Evelyn Nelson, 1 January 1918, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, d. 11 August 1990, Florida, USA. An extremely popular singer with Orrin Tucker's dance band from 1936-42, Baker was spotted by Tucker while playing a club in Chicago. He hired her as a band vocalist and changed her name, billing her as ‘Wee Bonnie Baker'. In 1939, they recorded the classic novelty number ‘Oh, Johnny, Oh, Johnny, Oh!', a 1918 song by Abe Olman and Ed Rose. It soon became one of the ‘hottest' records around, contributing to Baker being voted Most Popular Female Vocalist of 1940 in a Billboard college p...