3:05Sounds Like My Baby BESSIE BANKS Video Steven Bogarat
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Rare studio footage of Bessie Banks, curated from across the internet. Browse 1 clip below.
Studio footage is the holy grail for music fans. Watching an artist build a song from scratch — layering tracks, debating arrangements, experimenting with sounds — is as close as you can get to witnessing the creative act itself. These clips pull back the curtain on recordings that millions of people know by heart, showing the work, the accidents, and the decisions that made them what they are.
Born Bessie White in North Carolina February 8, 1938, and later raised in Brooklyn, New York, by the mid 50s, she had begun singing with the Turbans vocal group and then joined a quartet called Three Guys and a Doll, who eventually became the Four Fellows without her; one of the Guys and Fellows was Larry Banks. Around this time, at the age of seventeen, Bessie married Larry, on stage at the Royal...
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