LaVern Baker was one of the most original and significant African American vocalists of the 1950s and early 1960s. Baker was born Delores Williams on November 11, 1929, in Chicago. Her aunt was the ...

LaVern Baker, a gutsy rhythm and blues belter who went to the top of the charts in the '50s and '60s with "Jim Dandy" and "Tweedle-Dee," died in 1997 at the age of 67. Baker was the second woman ...

‘I KNEW I’D MADE some friends in the music business over 40-some years,” says LaVern Baker. “I didn’t realize how many. ” Actually, the stage will be almost as f… ...