Billy Bland - Let The Little Girl Dance

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Billy Bland
Let The Little Girl Dance / Sweet thing
London HL 9096 (1960)

Billy Bland was a US R&B singer, born in North Carolina in 1932.  By 1947 he was living in New York City where he began his professional career as a singer.  In 1950 he joined and recorded with a group called The Bees.

The group moved south to New Orleans where they recorded "Toy Bell" an early version of the song "My Ding_A-Ling", later recorded by Chuck Berry.

Billy left the group and started a solo career releasing a handful of 45s in the late 50s.  In 1960 he happened to hear Titus Turner recording his version of this 45. Billy demonstrated to Titus how best to sing the song and the moment was recorded by the producer Henry Glover who pushed to have Billy's version released as a 45. 

It became a hit in the US reaching #11 on the billboard R&B chart and here in the UK it was released on the London label.

Billy released further 45s but quit the music industry in 1963.  In the 1980s he was running a soul food restaurant in Harlem.  

Billy died in 2017 at the age of 84.





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