Betty Everett
b. 23 November 1939, Greenwood, Mississippi, USA. Having moved to Chicago in the late '50s, Everett recorded unsuccessfully for several local labels, including Cobra and One-derful. Her hits came on signing to VeeJay Records where You're No Good (1963) and The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss) (1964) established her pop/soul style. A duet with Jerry Butler, Let It Be Me (1964), consolidated this position, but her finest moment came with Getting Mighty Crowded, a punchy Van McCoy song. Her career faltered on VeeJay's collapse, and an ensuing interlude at ABC Records was unproductive. However in 1969, There'll Come A Time reached number 2 in the R&B charts, a momentum which continued into the early '70s with further releases on UNI and Fantasy Records. Betty's last chart entry was in 1978 with True Love (You Took My Heart). Chertook her version of The Shoop Shoop Song to the top of the charts in 1991.