Etta James重病

1960年代知名的R＆B “節奏與藍調”女歌手Etta James因白血病和老年癡呆症病情嚴重已經花了三十多萬美金，12月20日她的先生和兒子在法庭達成協議，由結婚32年的先生繼續照顧他老婆，並且處理Etta的資產。


Etta James係於1938年出生於洛杉磯外號「桃姐」，因為她1955年的成名曲，後來得到靈魂歌曲榜四週冠軍的The Wallflower，是以Etta James and “The Peaches”之名推出而得名，Etta是一位對開創R＆B音樂有貢獻的歌手，早年曾與The Moonglows合唱團主唱Harvey Fuqua組成Etta＆Harvey二重唱，但因吸毒而於1970年代後期消失於歌壇。

Etta James沒有Top10的歌，但暢銷曲其實很多，在歷年暢銷歌星排行榜獲得第112名，2003年並得到Grammy終生成就獎。

Etta James 在排行榜上名次最好的歌是1967年第23名的Tell Mama，這首歌也被收進搖滾樂名人堂。



Tell Mama

Etta James



Your dogs ain't found a good girl,

One that love you and give you warning

Now you find that you been misused,

Well how many girls can think all right



She'd embarrass you anywhere,

She'd make her friends think that she didn't care

Give me the chance and I'd been begging

And I just want to take care of you and I want you to



Tell Mama, all about it, tell Mama, what you need

Tell Mama, what you want and how that girl does things all right

Let me hear you say "Yash"



The girl you had didn't have no sense,

she wasn't worth all the time you spent

Had another man kick you out the door,

now that same dude is wearing your clothes



Tell your Mama, what you want, tell your Mama, what you need

Tell your Mama, what you got to have