![]() Yesterday, her song “Call Me A Fool,” featuring Stax legend Carla Thomas was nominated for Best American Roots Song at the upcoming 64 th GRAMMY Awards, the first nomination of the celebrated singer-songwriter’s career. SHORT FILM DIRECTED BY JASON AND IVAN REITMAN OUT TODAY In an appearance on the NPR news quiz show Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me a few years ago, Thomas was asked about her work with Redding, and she immediately said, “O ne of the major things I would like to say about Otis Redding is when he first came and decided to sign with Stax, he sounded so much like Little Richard.TRACK “YOU AND I” FEATURED IN APPLE’S NEW HOLIDAY Even 50 years after his death, she still enjoys teasing Otis Redding.In detailing the encounter in his book Dreams to Remember, Mark Ribowsky wrote that Thomas “trailed after like a lovesick schoolgirl, trying to prolong the meeting.” and the MG’s, Thomas roared through a set that included a cover of “Yesterday,” and when the show was over, Paul McCartney came backstage. PEPPER’S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND, they took a break and went to see Carla perform at a club called the Bag O’ Nails. One evening while the Beatles were in the midst of recording SGT. “But still, I was surprised at how well it did.” “ The record was young-sounding, romantic and it expressed what a lot of people wanted to say at that age,” Carla once said. The single might never have been released if her father, Rufus, hadn’t been so convinced of the song’s potential that he continued to shop it around despite being turned down. ![]() The song in question was the legendary “Gee Whiz,” and it’s actually stretching things to say that she was the first woman to accomplish that feat, since she was only 15 years old at the time. She was the first woman to chart a Top 10 song in the Billboard Hot 100 with a song she wrote herself. ![]() As a young girl my age, she was kind of like a role model.” A lot of times I know they’d send them to Brenda, ‘cause that’s all I cared about. I remember for some reason they knew I liked country, so they’d come get me when I was at school and I’d go down there and sing some audition tapes. “I even used to do some audition tapes for to listen to. “I used to do Brenda Lee’s stuff with the Teen Towns,” Thomas told Freeland, citing “I’m Sorry” in particular.
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