Chubby Newsome
Chubby Newsome
Top Songs
| 1 | Little Fat Woman with the Coconut Head | ||
| 2 | Where's The Money, Honey | ||
| 3 | Please Throw This Poor Dog a Bone | ||
| 4 | Find a Job | ||
| 5 | Hard-Lovin' Mama |
About
Biography
A legendary blues belter, Chubby Newsome was born in Detroit but gravitated toward New Orleans, both for a style to embrace and for a home. Newsome was something of a legendary beauty whose most notable feature -- aside from a very pretty face, lustrous hair, and a big voice -- was enormous hips, which she learned to use to her advantage as a singer and performer on the vaudeville circuit in the 1940s. She arrived in New Orleans in 1948 and quickly began making a name for herself locally in venues such as the Dew Drop Inn, where she was spotted by bandleader Paul Gayten, who g...