Lillian Briggs
Lillian Briggs
Top Songs
| 1 | The Teens in Jeans from New Orleans | ||
| 2 | Will We Meet Again? | ||
| 3 | I Care for You | ||
| 4 | Not a Soul | ||
| 5 | Be Mine |
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Biography
Rockabilly bombshell Lillian Briggs was born in 1932 and raised in Allentown, PA. She was splitting duties playing trombone in Joy Cayler's All-Girl Orchestra with her day job driving a laundry truck when in 1952 she was discovered by legendary DJ Alan Freed, who featured Briggs in a series of his New York stage shows. Seemingly poured into her skin-tight silver and gold lamé dresses, the singer immediately became a crowd favorite, and in 1954 talent scout Jack Petrill helped land her a solo contract with Epic. Briggs' punchy 1955 debut single "I Want You to Be My Baby" went o...