What's up, welcome back to another Soul Sunday!
Today's artist is Della Humprey with "Don't make the good girls go Bad", "Dreamland" & "Your love is all I need" Della was a rising star. She performed around town at places like Fox’s Den at the Mary Elizabeth Hotel [an advertisement for that show described her as "Aretha Franklin No. 2 - Miami's Newest Singing 12-year old Soul Sister."] she played other local events in Miami and Orlando. At the age of 12 Della won a school talent show which happened to have Clarence "Blowfly" Reid as one of the judges. She recorded this Reid-penned song soon after.
Della had 2 other 45s out on the Arctic label- "Over The Tracks/Just Like The Boys Do" and "Will You Love Me Tomorrow/Let's Wait Until Dark". From what I can tell, when the 70s came Della moved into recording reggae rather than soul. After a couple of quiet years on the recording front, she reappeared in the early 1970s and cut a reggae cover song called Dreamland for a Miami label that was owned by local producer Steve Alaimo. Alaimo was a former business partner of the legendary Henry Stone "Dreamland" wasn’t a big hit here but it was reissued on a Jamaican label about a year later (circa 1972). Della then took a detour. She never made another record. She never performed again. Rumors abound that her family, driven by their apprehension of her entering the music scene at such an early age, became very protective to the point that she shied away from the public eye for good. Last year when I heard the new track from the game's new song featuring Drake "good girls gone bad" they sampled Della's song "Don't make the good girl's gone bad"... I was very excited to see that even though she never made any more hits that her voice and music was being recognized. I just wanted to send a special thanks to all the supporters & for the love. My husband has been doing Soul Sundays for about 3 years now. He one day asked me to take over & add my special touch. He said it needed a woman's touch & so I did. It's coming up on almost a year now since I've taken over & I'm very happy when people come up to me & tell me they check out my Soul Sundays every weekend & look forward to the following Sunday. That makes me feel good to know I have people out there enjoying the selections I choose. This is something I take with pride & very personal to me because each song I put has a special meaning to my life. We're working on a couple of things for Soul Sunday's that I'm very excited about. I'll keep you guys posted!
Thanks for "Tooning In"
Della had 2 other 45s out on the Arctic label- "Over The Tracks/Just Like The Boys Do" and "Will You Love Me Tomorrow/Let's Wait Until Dark". From what I can tell, when the 70s came Della moved into recording reggae rather than soul. After a couple of quiet years on the recording front, she reappeared in the early 1970s and cut a reggae cover song called Dreamland for a Miami label that was owned by local producer Steve Alaimo. Alaimo was a former business partner of the legendary Henry Stone "Dreamland" wasn’t a big hit here but it was reissued on a Jamaican label about a year later (circa 1972). Della then took a detour. She never made another record. She never performed again. Rumors abound that her family, driven by their apprehension of her entering the music scene at such an early age, became very protective to the point that she shied away from the public eye for good. Last year when I heard the new track from the game's new song featuring Drake "good girls gone bad" they sampled Della's song "Don't make the good girl's gone bad"... I was very excited to see that even though she never made any more hits that her voice and music was being recognized. I just wanted to send a special thanks to all the supporters & for the love. My husband has been doing Soul Sundays for about 3 years now. He one day asked me to take over & add my special touch. He said it needed a woman's touch & so I did. It's coming up on almost a year now since I've taken over & I'm very happy when people come up to me & tell me they check out my Soul Sundays every weekend & look forward to the following Sunday. That makes me feel good to know I have people out there enjoying the selections I choose. This is something I take with pride & very personal to me because each song I put has a special meaning to my life. We're working on a couple of things for Soul Sunday's that I'm very excited about. I'll keep you guys posted!
Thanks for "Tooning In"
MRS. JULIE TOON$
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