I made this video as a tribute to Donna Hightower - This World Today Is A Mess.. + Informações

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one of my favourite songs. + Informações

c'est vrai que le monde d'aujourd'hui est plutôt mal barré. + Informações

The great Donna Hightower in an incredible performance.. + Informações

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A great lady ... not a very good video I made, as it is a copy, but just listen .... + Informações

Ms. Hightower was honored in Spain for contributions to jazz in the summer of 2006. Great version of the Nearness of You.. + Informações

Donna Hightower. + Informações

Here is a classic song by the unjustly underrated yet great jazz and R&B singer Donna Hightower. "Little" Donna Hightower had a dynamic, big voice and made some fine shouting records for Decca and RPM in the 1950's. She toured the "chitlin circuit" with Louis Jordan and BB King at that time. She not only had range and power, but was equally compelling doing sentimental, soft ballads. She was backed by the orchestras of Horace Henderson and Maxwell Davis on the Decca and RPM material, respectively. The Missouri-born singer has made a pretty good living in Europe, where she went to sing for a week at a London jazz club in 1959 and stayed 31 years. Indeed Hightower's voice was discovered 55 years ago while she was doing two things she loved ? cooking and singing ? at a diner in Chicago. She was back in the kitchen one day when a customer asked that the radio be turned up. "That ain't no radio", the owner told Bob Tillman, a reporter for the Chicago Defender. "That's just Lil' Donna." Tillman took Hightower around and introduced her to club owners and she soon got regular bookings fronting bands at the Strand Hotel Lounge, the Crown Propellor and other South Side hotspots. She came to the attention of Decca Records, which signed her and suggested a name change. "They said it was too long and I said: 'Well, it's got the same number of letters as "Ella Fitzgerald" ', and they let it go." Hightower made a series of singles for Decca and RPM, and in 1958 she was working in New .... + Informações

Ms. Hightower in Spain, singing a duet with Denia Ridley. July 2006. + Informações

Star of stage and screen Donna Hightower reveals Hollywoods inner most secrets, and her new play "Cannibals".. + Informações

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Published by French Mercury 1973.. + Informações

Donna Hightower es una cantante estadounidense que desde 1969 y durante los años 70 vivió en España , en donde grabó varios discos en solitario y también a dúo con Danny Daniel. En la segunda mitad de los años 70, su popularidad va decreciendo hasta que a principios de los 90 regresa a Estados Unidos.. + Informações

Rhythm'n'Blues Jiver from RPM Records 1955. + Informações

Dance remix of Donna Hightower's 70's track!. + Informações

Rhythm'n'Blues jiver from RPM Records 1956.... + Informações

Originally unissued song from 1955.. + Informações

Donna Hightower es una cantante estadounidense que desde 1969 y durante los años 70 vivió en España , en donde grabó varios discos en solitario y también a dúo con Danny Daniel. En 1970 edita su primer single en castellano titulado: Soy feliz. En la segunda mitad de los años setenta, su popularidad va decreciendo hasta que a principios de los años noventa regresa a Estados Unidos.. + Informações

GROUP IS THE JACKS. + Informações

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One of the best singers of all time. Her style, range, and writing abilities are astounding.. + Informações

Recorded 1958. Donna Hightower on vocal, Ben Webster on saxophone.. + Informações

Nice video mash up posted on Izlesene.com by Nilinmavisi. + Informações