Mamie Davis

Mamie Galore was a respected element of Mississippi Delta blues along with Lil’ Expenses Wallace, Robert Jr. Lockwood, Eddie Cusic, Po Henry, Willie Foster, while others. Created Mamie Louise Davis, Sept 24, 1940, in Erwin, MS, the music insect struck early and she sang in college and chapel before getting into a music profession by joining an area music group after graduating from senior high school. She quickly began carrying out with traveling rings, such as Small Milton, Ike & Tina Turner, Friend Hicks, and Johnny Burton. When the tiny Milton tour rolled into Chicago, she got a cope with St. Lawrence Information that led to her first solitary, “Unique Agent 34-24-38” b/w “I Wanna Become Your Radio” (1965); the music was a lady spy tale similar to Edwin Starr’s “Agent OO Spirit.” Nevertheless, something was amiss as Mamie’s second solitary, “Mistaken Wedding ceremony” b/w “YOU HAVE THE ENERGY,” fallen on Thomas Information Feb 1966. St. Lawrence countered with “It Ain’t Required” (March 1966). It became an area strike and Davis’ biggest record, the impromptu songwriting group of Jerry Butler and two from the Curves. She adopted Higgins (aka Milton Bland) to California in 1968 and published songs for Nice River Music, collaborating primarily with Dee Irwin, Virginia Bland (aka Vee Pea Smith), and Higgins on a lot more than 30 game titles including “Seriously in my own Kitchen,” “Meanest Guy I’ve Ever Seen,” “YOU UNDERSTAND I Know YOU UNDERSTAND,” and “Globe Don’t Treatment But I REALLY DO.” Aside from the earlier mentioned, Davis’ significant recordings had been “No To Cry,” “I COULD Feel Him Sliding Method,” and a duet with Dee Irwin “By enough time I Reach Phoenix”/”I Say JUST A LITTLE Prayer” b/w “All I’D LIKE for Xmas” on Imperial Information. She came back south to Greenville, MS, in 1972 where she trained blues and performed — as Mamie Davis — in blues celebrations and local night clubs — the Reaching Place, Moving Fountain, Bud’s Café, and Small Blues Caffa — billed as the Spirit Queen of Greenville. Delta blues supporters dropped a thoroughbred Oct 6, 2001, when the vivacious vocalist succumbed to a fatal heart stroke. She was 61.