Mamie Galore

Born Mamie Davis in Erwin, MS, Mamie Galore started singing as a young girl in church. By the end of the 1950s, she was singing with Herman Scott & the Swinging Kings, and later joined the Ike & Tina Turner Revue. A big (but attractive) woman with a voice to match, she couldn't stay long in the anonymity of the Turner show, and by 1962 she'd moved on. That year, Galore also left the Delta for Chicago, where she was a backup singer for Little Milton; she also recorded for Monk Higgins' St. Lawrence label, which was, conveniently enough, distributed by Chess Records -- it was at...