LaVern Baker -Bumble Bee- (1960)

“Bumble Bee“ was written by Leroy Fullylove and Lavern Baker and released in October 1960 on Atlantic & conducted by Jesse Baker was born Delores Evans November 11, 1929 in Chicago, was raised in Calmut City, Illinois under her mothers new surname December 23, 1948 at age nineteen she married Eugene Baker began singing in Chicago clubs in billed as Little Miss Sharecropper, she was first recorded under that name in 1949, leading to a recording deal with that title for National Records in 1951, shortly before it was she changed her name briefly to Bea Baker when recording for Okeah Records in 1951, switched to Delores Baker, and then was billed as LaVern Baker when she sang with Todd Rhodes and his band 1953 she signed with Atlantic that she had three major hits with Tweedle Dee (1955) Jim Dandy (1956) and I Cried A Tear (1958).And a string of other addition to singing she worked with Ed Sullivan and Alan Freed on TV and Baker toured as a part of Lee Gordon’s Big Show 1957 in she toured also in West divorcing Eugene Williams in the fall of 1958, LaVern Baker married comedian Slappy White in the couple divorced in 1969 she signed for a USO become seriously ill with bronchial pneumonia after a trip to recoverng in a U.S. naval base at Subic Bay in the Phillippines, a friend recommended that she stay as the entertainment director at the Marine Corps Staff NCO club Baker remained there for 22 years, returning to the United States after the base was closed in 1990 LaVern Baker was among the first of eight recipients of the Pioneer Award from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation. She become 1991 the second female artist after Aretha Franklin to be inducted into Rock and Roll Hall Of Baker continued to perform live and recording even after her both legs were amputated, because of complications due to diabetes in Baker died March 10, 1997 in Queens, New Atlantic single is backed with “My Time Will Come“.