Betty Roché
Mary Elizabeth "Betty" Roché (January 9, 1920 – February 16, 1999) was an American blues singer who became most famous with her cover of the song "Take the "A" Train". She recorded with the Savoy Sultans, Hot Lips Page, Duke Ellington, Charles Brown and Clark Terry.
Roché was born in Wilmington, Delaware, United States. She settled in New York in 1939, started her career by winning an Apollo Theater amateur talent contest, sang with the Savoy Sultans from 1941 to 1942, then with Duke Ellington in the 1940s and 1950s. In 1953, she left the Ellington band and settled in San Diego, California. In 1960, she went back to New York and recorded for Prestige.
Roché died in February 1999, aged 79.
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Betty Roché
ALBUMS
- Singin' & Swingin' released:
Born: 1920-01-09
Died: 1999-02-16
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by Buddy Rich
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by Buddy Rich
The Beat Goes On
by: Buddy RichDrums keep pounding a rhythm to the brain
La de da de de, la de da de da
Charleston was once the rage, uh huh
History has banned that stage, un huh
The miniskirts the current thing, uh huh
Teenybopper is our newborn king, uh huh
And the beat goes on, beat goes on
Drums keep pounding a rhythm to the brain
La de da de de, la de da de da
The grocery store's the supermart, uh huh
Little girls still break their hearts, uh huh
And men still keep on marching off to war
Electrically they keep their baseball score
And the beat goes on, the beat goes on
Drums keep pounding a rhythm to the brain