The following is adapted from Wikipedia:
Doris Duke is an American gospel and soul singer. She was born in Sandersville, Georgia.
She started singing with gospel groups and by 1963 she was working in New York City on sessions and as a backing singer at the Apollo. Under her then married name of Doris Willingham, she recorded her first single, "Running Away from Loneliness" in 1966. This and later releases were unsuccessful, and she continued working as a session singer, mainly in Philadelphia. In 1969, producer Jerry 'Swamp Dogg' Williams signed her as a solo artist, renaming her Doris Duke and recording the album I’m A Loser. The album was eventually issued on Canyon Records, and over the years became regarded, by Dave Godin and others, as one of the finest deep soul records of all time. The first single, "To the Other Woman", reached the R&B top ten, but success was cut short when the record company collapsed. Subsequent records, including some with Swamp Dogg, had little success, and she retired into obscurity.
She started singing with gospel groups and by 1963 she was working in New York City on sessions and as a backing singer at the Apollo. Under her then married name of Doris Willingham, she recorded her first single, "Running Away from Loneliness" in 1966. This and later releases were unsuccessful, and she continued working as a session singer, mainly in Philadelphia. In 1969, producer Jerry 'Swamp Dogg' Williams signed her as a solo artist, renaming her Doris Duke and recording the album I’m A Loser. The album was eventually issued on Canyon Records, and over the years became regarded, by Dave Godin and others, as one of the finest deep soul records of all time. The first single, "To the Other Woman", reached the R&B top ten, but success was cut short when the record company collapsed. Subsequent records, including some with Swamp Dogg, had little success, and she retired into obscurity.
I'm gonna post three of her albums, but I thought I would kick it off with three sides she cut as Doris Willingham - though unfortunately not her debut single.
Stay tuned for her three first albums!
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