Dave “Baby” Cortez

Though hardly a soulful, bluesy professional like Jimmy Smith or dashing experimentalist like Larry Teen, organist Dave “Baby” Cortez made his tag within the ’50s,’60s, and ’70s as an able, often smart soloist and pop instrumentalist. His flair for catchy melodies, riffs, and hooks led to lots one pop and amount five R&B strike with “The Happy Body organ” in 1959. Cortez acquired another double champion in 1962 with “Rinky Dink,” that one peaking at amount nine R&B and amount ten pop. Before his instrumental achievement, Cortez documented for Ember as David Clowney in 1956, and is at the Pearls from 1955 to 1957. He arrived one other melody over the R&B Best 50, “Somebody Has Taken YOUR HOUSE,” in 1973 for any Platinum. His various other songs were documented for Time clock and Chess. There’s been no local reissue of Cortez’s music, but you can find import anthologies obtainable.