Thurston Harris

Thurston Harris recorded using the Lamplighters, among the many groupings on the first R&B picture in South Central LA, in the first ’50s. The group afterwards evolved in to the Tenderfoots, then your Sharps, and it had been under this last name these were acknowledged to if they supported Harris on his most well-known strike, 1957’s “Small Bitty Quite One” (number 2 R&B and amount six pop) for Aladdin. In 1957, while agreed upon as a single musician to Aladdin, Harris documented a cover of Bobby Day’s traditional novelty amount, with a good band offering the ubiquitous Earl Palmer on drums and his close friends within the Sharps carrying out history vocals. The one propelled Harris instantly towards the front-ranks from the R&B picture. In 1958, Harris have scored a high 20 R&B strike with “Perform What You Do,” but he didn’t have any graph success soon after. In 1990, Thurston Harris passed away of a coronary attack in Pomona, CA, at age group 58. “Small Bitty Very One” has truly gone to become among the best-loved oldies from the past due ’50s.