Betty Everett

You're No Good - Stateside  1964

Getting Mighty Crowded - 1964 / Chained To A Memory (USA VeeJay)

It's In His Kiss (Shoop Shoop Song)  

Betty Everett's first success was You're No Good (no 5 chart hit in the USA in 1964) - but the original was by Dee Dee Warwick. Both were regularly played at the Twisted Wheel in Manchester. Next came the Shoop Shoop Song -  It's In His Kiss. These were excellent tracks and when Getting Mighty Crowded (written by Van McCoy) was released it immediately took off at all the Manchester soul venues and became a perennial floor filler.

Growing up in Greenwood Mississippi,  Betty sang - you guessed it -  gospel. Later she moved to Chicago and began recording for Cobra in 1958.

1960 at Vee-Jay in the early 60s. She did You're No Good, which became a big hit on the UK soul scene. It was covered in the UK by The Swinging Blue Jeans, better known for the wonderfully inane titled track,  The Hippy Hippy Shake.

Years later in 1975 it became a number one hit for Linda Ronstadt. The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss), was Betty Everett's first major hit but became a smash for Cher in 1988.

Her duet Let it Be Me with Jerry Butler  was another hit for Betty. In 1969 she recorded There Comes a Time which reached two on the R & B charts in the US.

                       

1970 Uni, label then 'Fantasy' till 1974 then United Artists in 1978.

Betty appeared in videos released by the Kentucky Educational Television network together with Jerry Butler:



Betty Everett and Jerry Butler - KET.org