Tweedlee Dee

1954

Tweedlee Dee is a rhythm and blues song, the Winfield Scott has written for LaVern Baker. The song was recorded for Atlantic City Records by her in 1954 at Atlantic Studio in New York and Baker was first hit. It reached # 4 on the Billboard R & B charts and # 14 in the Billboard pop charts. Not only for Baker, also for Winfield Scott, the song was the first hit.

The song was an attempt to adapt a black voice to the taste of the white buyers. Although the recording of the song was trying to adapt them to the pop style, soon appeared a cover of Georgia Gibbs, which was released by Mercury Records. Since the major companies had better distribution channels, this recording became a hit in the pop charts ( gold record for more than 1 million albums sold ), while Baker's shot was a big hit only in the R & B charts. Back then it was common practice that large record companies who covered black R & B hits and adapting to the taste of the white market, but at Tweedle Dee Mercury did not even bother to adapt, but so reported Tom Dowd, the engineer of the Atlantic recording, hired the same arranger and the same musicians. LaVern Baker tried at their congressmen to work for a federal law against such takeovers of arrangements of songs, but failed with their initiative. To date, this approach is legal.

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