About Georgia Gibbs
Georgia Gibbs was an American popular singer and vocal entertainer rooted in jazz. Already singing publicly in her early teens, Gibbs achieved acclaim and notoriety in the mid-1950s copying songs originating with the black rhythm and blues community and later became a featured vocalist for many radio and television variety and comedy programs. Her key attribute was tremendous versatility and an uncommon stylistic range from melancholy ballad to uptempo swinging jazz and rock and roll. Gibbs was the first singer to record The Laziest Gal in Town, a Cole Porter song which was made much more famous in the 1960s by Nina Simone. In 1951 she signed with Mercury Records where she ultimately had success "sticking with plain Georgia Gibbs".
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