Lacille Watkins & The Belltones (3) (Newark, New Jersey)
Personnel :
Lacille Watkins (Lead)
Discography :
1956 - His Hand In Mine / Maybe You'll Be There (Kapp 145)
Biography :
Born
in Newark (New Jersey) in 1923, La Cille Christine Watkins started her
musical career as a gospel and opera singer. Her long time partner in
songwriting and music was Wilbur Bell who also recorded as Johnny Bell
(Cecil and Fleetwood Records).
Together,
they recorded spirituals as by the Watkins-Bell Singers for Bandwagon
Records (and Arlington, its folk and race subisidary) in the late
forties. LaCille Watkins had also at least two releases under her own
name. The first on Jaguar Records backed by the Volumes. The second on
Kapp, backed by the Belltones.
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Songs :
His Hand In Mine