Willie Denson

Prolific songwriter Willie Denson remains most widely known for the Shirelles’ 1961 traditional “Mama Said.” Blessed and elevated in Columbus, GA, Denson migrated to NEW YORK in 1957; while seeking a career being a songwriter and poet, he proved helpful the night change on the U.S. POSTOFFICE, employment he kept for three years and retained even though his musical dreams became possible. In 1959 he teamed with composer Luther Dixon to co-write “Mama Said,” motivated with the storage of Denson’s very own mother, Lillie. Documented with the Shirelles’ 2 yrs later, the melody rocketed in to the U.S. Best Five and continues to be one of the most memorable slashes of the lady group period. The Shirelles documented several extra Denson/Dixon collaborations, including “End the Music,” “THE ITEMS I wish to Listen to (Pretty Words and phrases),” “Like Is certainly a Swingin’ Thing,” and “Blue Vacation”; Denson released a lot more than 250 music in all, especially Gene Pitney’s “Backstage (I’m Depressed),” Gene McDaniels’ “A Rip,” as well as the Ronettes’ “Formula for Like.” Denson’s tries to start his own executing career fulfilled with little achievement, nevertheless, and in 1995 he came back to his indigenous Columbus, producing headlines six years afterwards when he gained three million dollars in the Georgia lottery. Denson passed away of lung cancers on July 1, 2006; he was 69.