Vicki Brown
Vicki Brown (23 August 1940 – 16 June 1991) was an English pop, rock and contemporary classical singer. She is best known for her membership of both The Vernons Girls and The Breakaways, and as one of the UK's most enduring backing vocalists. She was the first wife of fellow singer and musician, Joe Brown, and mother of the singer, Sam Brown.
Biography
Brown was born Victoria Mary Haseman, on 23 August 1940 in Liverpool, England.
She married Joe Brown and, after leaving the Breakaways, remained a prolific session singer under the name Vicki Brown. The Browns had two children, Sam and Pete Brown; the former a successful singer-songwriter, the latter a record producer.
In 1972, Joe Brown formed Brown's Home Brew, which played rock and roll, country and gospel music and featured his wife in the line-up. They released two albums, Brown's Home Brew (1972) and Together (1974), on which both Browns appeared. She also recorded with her sister, Mary Partington, as The Seashells reaching No. 32 in the UK Singles Chart in September 1972 with "Maybe I Know" (originally recorded in 1964 by Lesley Gore).
Doug Kershaw
Douglas James "Doug" Kershaw (born January 24, 1936) is an American fiddle player, singer and songwriter from Louisiana. Active since 1948, Kershaw has recorded fifteen albums and charted on the Hot Country Songs charts.
Early life
Born in an unincorporated community called Tiel Ridge in Cameron Parish, Kershaw did not learn English until the age of eight. By that time, he had mastered the fiddle, which he played from the age of five, and was on his way to teaching himself to play 28 instruments. His first gig was at a local bar, the Bucket of Blood, where he was accompanied by his mother on guitar.
Kershaw became interested in Cajun music during parties his parents would host on the family's houseboat in Louisiana, where he first heard Cajun bands playing the music.
"Doug and Rusty"
Doug grew up surrounded by Cajun fiddle and accordion music. After teaching his brother, Rusty, to play guitar, he formed a band, the Continental Playboys, with Rusty and older brother Nelson "Peewee" Kershaw in 1948. With the departure of Peewee from the group, in the early 1950s, Rusty & Doug continued to perform as a duo. In 1955, when Kershaw was nineteen, he and Rusty performed on the Louisiana Hayride KWKH radio broadcast in Shreveport, Louisiana. The two were so popular that they were invited to perform at the WWVA Jamboree (later renamed Jamboree U.S.A.), in Wheeling, West Virginia.
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ALBUMS
- Winter Garden released: 2006
Vicki Brown
ALBUMS
- The Collection released: 1993
- About Love and Life released: 1990
- Lady of Time released: 1989
- Look at Me released:
Born: 1940-08-23
Died: 1991-06-16
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Cajun Stripper
by: Doug KershawSay child have you seen the Bourbon Street queen
She's feeling it revealing it down in New Orleans that
Cajun Stripper queen
Dance dance dance little stripper dance while the music's
Dance dance dance little queenie do give it all you've
She's got what it takes to drive you insane
She'll show you things like you ain't never seen that
little cajun queen
So dance dance dance little stripper...
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She doesn't undress like all of the rest
She kicks off her shoes when she feels the blues the
Cajun Stripper blues
So dance dance dance little stripper...
If would you go down to that cajun town
Tell her that I said to let her hair hang down and show
you round the town