Hi Avery, I checked out your fb page and you had a pic of your mom. Read thru the HB posts and someone called your mom Diane. In an online obit, it says Betty Everett had a daughter, Sharon, and a grandson. Was just curious of the names being different.
I had the opportunity to meet Miss Betty Everett. She was really nice we use to talk on the phone and write each other I still have the letters. Rest in peace Betty. Trouble Over The Weekend/Getting Mighty Crowded/Prince Of Players/Falling In Love/Sugar
Dick Clark was the man with the Plan...we owe a lot to Dick Clark for sharing the music to the world! RIP Dick Clark...your contributions to music can never be matched...thank you ...you are missed!
Just so you know: she didn't write it. It was written by a man named Rudy Clark. And this cover by Everett is the 2nd version - the 1st was by Merry Clayton, and didn't do so well. But it's a great song. The Cher version is good too.
Betty Everett was so great that this popular record wasn't even close to her best. Her best didn't chart at all, "Chained To A Memory", which was the B-side of one of her minor hits that I liked and bought I think in 1965. When I flipped over the record I was blown away how truly good Betty really was. We miss you, Betty!
I love that dresssss!!!!! 🤗 She reminds me so much of ...... 🤔 Especially, how sweet humble and straight to the point her interview is.... this is beautiful 😊
Ditto, ditto! But who is it she reminds you of? She reminds me of Whitney Houston, in a way. Just in a way.. She has such a quiet dignity, too. Seems so gentle - yet confident.
Beautiful lady, song, and person. She moved pretty well for someone who feels she can't dance! In Chicago, they did the "Uncle Willie" off of Marvin Gaye's "Can I Get A Witness". Something like the Mashed Potatoes with out lifting your feet up and grooving side to side in rhythm. Still done at Dusty Steppers Sets.
Dick Clark was a good guy. He showed a lot of honor and respect to all the artists doesn't matter what their racial background is. And keep in mind though, he has always been consistent like that all the way back in the 50's and 60's. Nobody can say anyting negative about him. Black artists love him!
That’s an actual dress.... it was later separated && renamed “the bubble skirt” 💕 it was like a 3 part change, it was this dress, then the mid section was later accentuated by a wider elastic waist, and the final cut was the elastic waisted “bubble skirt” 💕
Betty Everett's backups, The Opals, had a few releases of their own on the Okeh label, and probably others as well. Their "Does It Matter?" (1963-64) is a great tune!
Darlene & The Blossoms were on so many hits in the '60's. "Johnny Angel", "Chain Gang" (Sam Cooke) & Herb Alpert's "Mexican Drummer Man". It was Herb's first release with vocals.
@@AvDominguez74 she was your grandmother, wow! I just discovered her due to viruse lockdown I'm going through olskool and oldies and found her. I'm glad I found "Wondering" my wife loves it. May you and your family continue to stay blessed 🙏
Wow I'm 32 and this song popped in my head . Yes I wondering if he truly loves me.like he says. N he sure do love to kiss and french is his beat friend lol
That is correct. Betty Everett recorded in Chicago, and the Opals performed for her background (As well as some Major Lance songs as well.) Check out the Opals "You Can't Hurt Me No More" one of my favs.
Yeah someone else mentioned that to me a few months back, but thanks for that. Darlene was on the today show years ago and said she sang backups on the Betty version, but she must have forgotten the Clayton version or wanted to take credit on the hit version.She's still my favorite and glad the movie 20 Feet from Stardom is out.
i just checked Darlene's selective discography from her book and she lists Shoop Shoop song by Betty as one of her backgrounds, but I'm with you on the Opals. Again thanks for your info.
As stated above, on this day in 1964 {March 21st} Betty Everett performed "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)" on the ABC-TV program 'American Bandstand'... At the time it was at #22 on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; fifteen days later on April 5th, 1964 it peaked at #6 for two weeks and spent 13 weeks on the Top 100… And the day it peaked at #6 on the Top 100 it reached #1* {for 3 weeks} on Cashbox’s R&B Singles chart… * It was preceded at #1 by a Motown act {The Temp’s “The Way You Do The Things You Do”} and succeeded at #1 by another Motown act {Mary Wells’ “My Guy”}…
YOU CAN TELL HOW THE TIMES HAVE CHANGED WHEN DICK ASKED HER IF SHE SOWS OR KNITS.NO HOST NOW WOULD DARE ASK A FEMALE SINGER DAT KINDA OF QUESTION NOWADAYS.TRUST ME AND THEY DID AND SHE DIDN'T TAKE IT IN A NEGATIVE WAY,SOMEBODY OUT THERE WOULD AND IT WOULD BE ON ALL OVER THE TV AND THE INTERNET.
found this online obituary: Betty Everett, 61 Chicago R&B singer scored hit with 1964's `Shoop Shoop Song' August 22, 2001|By James Janega, Tribune staff reporter. Betty Everett, 61, the Chicago rhythm and blues artist who performed the 1964 hit "The Shoop Shoop Song [It's in His Kiss]," a song that both typified the Record Row sound of Chicago in the early 1960s and ingrained itself in the American public's collective unconscious, died over the weekend in her Beloit, Wis., home. Her body was found Sunday, Aug. 19. She had been treated for heart problems, and the cause of death was believed to be a heart attack, said her sister Christine Townsend. Ms. Everett had several hits in her career, including "You're No Good" in 1963 and "Let It Be Me" with Jerry Butler a year later, but was best known for "The Shoop Shoop Song." "Is it in his eyes? (Oh no! You'll be deceived!) Is it in his sighs? (Oh no! He'll make believe!) If you want to know if he loves you so, It's in his kiss. (That's where it is!)" The song, like her, was a mixture of vulnerability and confidence. "She was quiet, kind of bashful," her sister said. "She was a loner, had a sweet humble spirit. And one thing I do know: She sang from her heart." "The Shoop Shoop Song" was instantly recognized as Ms. Everett's song, even in a career that typified the familiar story of credit long overdue. Its challenges led her to quit the business twice, and each time. Despite an on-again, off-again relationship with music, she remained hopeful her next big hit lay just around the corner. Her career went hand-in-hand with the African-American recording scene in Chicago, launching itself in the prime of Record Row, a collection of black-owned small record labels on South Michigan Avenue. She likewise struggled back after the biggest of those labels, Vee-Jay Records, collapsed in 1966 and sent her own career into turmoil. Born in Greenwood, Miss., Ms. Everett sang gospel music with her family in church and came to Chicago at 17 to live with her sister. After recording unsuccessfully with such Chicago labels as Cobra, C.J. and One-derful, Ms. Everett briefly tried her hand with the Daylighters before leaving music for the first time. She returned in the early 1960s and signed with Vee-Jay. Almost immediately, she hit it big with "You're No Good." When Vee-Jay--then also promoting The Beatles--folded, Ms. Everett started with other labels in town, and returned to the charts with "Danger" and "Sweet Dan" in 1970. Exhausted, she again dropped out of the music business soon after. But though it took a legal fight in the 1990s to regain royalties from musical hits recorded 30 years before, she didn't follow other black musicians of the time into a lifetime of day jobs. Instead, she sang in the choir of her mother's Pentecostal church, as everyone from Linda Ronstadt to Elvis Costello re-recorded her hits. She returned to the business in the 1970s and married Thomas Jameson, her lead guitarist, whom she later divorced. After another hit in 1978 with "True Love [You Took My Heart]," she spent much of the next 10 years re-releasing past collections of her music and touring in musical revivals. She grew ambivalent toward music, enjoying the creativity of it while disliking the business aspects, her sister said. Ms. Everett moved to Beloit in 1987, and her attorney, Jay B. Ross, said she kept a low profile, even while sporadically undertaking recording projects in Chicago. "I'm a very restless person," Ms. Everett told the Tribune in 1990. "If I stay in one place too long, I get bored. I guess I decided to come back because I missed traveling, and I think the best of my career is yet to come." She last performed for a PBS special--"Doo-Wop '51"--which aired this year. Besides her sister, she is survived by her mother, Catherine; another sister, Juanita Clay; a daughter, Sharon; and a grandson. A funeral service will be held Thursday in Beloit.
Yeah i knew she was Chicago based and wondered why the Blossoms from LA and the Wrecking Crew background singers, would be on this. Darlene actually said on the Today show years ago to Katie Couric that she sang the Shoop Shoops on Bettys version so then I figured maybe they recorded this in LA at Goldstar. Thanks for the info. Yeah I saw Darlene and the Blossoms backing aretha on Shindig.
I believe it's fairly well documented that the Opals are the girls on Betty's Vee-Jay single. I wonder if maybe Darlene & Co. were on Merry Clayton's or Ramona King's and Darlene (who must have done backgrounds on sessions beyond counting) just forgot which was which. King's came out on Warner Bros. and I believe was recorded in Los Angeles around the same time Darlene & the Blossoms were doing other Warners sessions for the likes of Connie Stevens.
That's my grandmother! RIP granny and miss you!
Hi Avery, I checked out your fb page and you had a pic of your mom. Read thru the HB posts and someone called your mom Diane. In an online obit, it says Betty Everett had a daughter, Sharon, and a grandson. Was just curious of the names being different.
Yes my mom name is Sharon Everrett but we as family call her Diane. Who are You? Seems like you know my mom
My fault, I read too fast. Yes im the grandson of Betty Everett and yes Sharon is Diane, my mother.
So happy to see Betty Everett sing her song loved it!!!
Dude, that is rocking. Her song always makes my day
I had the opportunity to meet Miss Betty Everett. She was really nice we use to talk on the phone and write each other I still have the letters.
Rest in peace Betty.
Trouble Over The Weekend/Getting Mighty Crowded/Prince Of Players/Falling In Love/Sugar
I was sixteen when this song came out. Oh my, so wonderful to hear it again after all these years. Robert, 73, UK.
I was 12 years old when this song first came out, and I loved it, and still do!
I was 6 years old when this song was released in '64. One of my earliest car ride songs.
great, brazil here.
She is so beautiful soulful, and classy
Dick Clark was the man with the Plan...we owe a lot to Dick Clark for sharing the music to the world! RIP Dick Clark...your contributions to music can never be matched...thank you ...you are missed!
no singer can sing this song like betty everett
Aretha can.
@@RS-np2bk exato , Aretha foi maravilhosa na performance ❤
Wow, she's so soft spoken for having such an amazingly clear and ringing singing voice 💜
Yes, yes: I was thinking exactly that, re how soft-spoken Miss Betty is!
God Bless You for this beautiful song. Blessings from India 🇮🇳🙏
Just so you know: she didn't write it. It was written by a man named Rudy Clark. And this cover by Everett is the 2nd version - the 1st was by Merry Clayton, and didn't do so well.
But it's a great song. The Cher version is good too.
So soft spoken. Great song. I love it.
What gentle, soft spoken voice, for such singing pipes🥰
Great one still in 2023.
What a divine voice!
I wasn't born yet but I love her.
First time ever Ive seen Betty perform. Superb!
Betty Everett was so great that this popular record wasn't even close to her best. Her best didn't chart at all, "Chained To A Memory", which was the B-side of one of her minor hits that I liked and bought I think in 1965. When I flipped over the record I was blown away how truly good Betty really was. We miss you, Betty!
Great song , beautiful lady . Why can't anyone sing like her these days ?
I love that dresssss!!!!! 🤗
She reminds me so much of ...... 🤔
Especially, how sweet humble and straight to the point her interview is.... this is beautiful 😊
She seemed really nice and not show biz at all....
Ditto, ditto! But who is it she reminds you of? She reminds me of Whitney Houston, in a way. Just in a way..
She has such a quiet dignity, too. Seems so gentle - yet confident.
Beautiful song. I was fortunate to get to hear it on AB. Great show.
I've loved this since I was a child.
Beautiful lady, song, and person. She moved pretty well for someone who feels she can't dance!
In Chicago, they did the "Uncle Willie" off of Marvin Gaye's "Can I Get A Witness". Something like the Mashed Potatoes with out lifting your feet up and grooving side to side in rhythm. Still done at Dusty Steppers Sets.
Dick Clark was a good guy. He showed a lot of honor and respect to all the artists doesn't matter what their racial background is. And keep in mind though, he has always been consistent like that all the way back in the 50's and 60's. Nobody can say anyting negative about him. Black artists love him!
Great guy, wish there was more like him. I just get tears in my eyes watching him.
GOD BLESS MY BEAUTIFULL LADY.NOW YOU ARE WALKING THE STREETS OF GOLD
That voice, it's perfection!
Wonderful singer! Her duet with Jerry Butler on Let It Be Me is one of my favorite songs.
I love her skirt, think they called them balloon skirts then. Still like this song.
That’s an actual dress.... it was later separated && renamed “the bubble skirt” 💕 it was like a 3 part change, it was this dress, then the mid section was later accentuated by a wider elastic waist, and the final cut was the elastic waisted “bubble skirt” 💕
I wish today female singers had that class, talent and beauty
Betty Everett's backups, The Opals, had a few releases of their own on the Okeh label, and probably others as well. Their "Does It Matter?" (1963-64) is a great tune!
Thank you for presenting this. It is fabulous
Love you Betty, great songs and great memorzes
Classic song, it's wonderful to see Betty perform it!
Man Betty had a great voice and her version of You're No Good really kicks.
Classic ! great singing
Loved it then and still love it now.
Such charm, personality, grace, beauty and....a beautiful voice.
WOW! How great it is to see Betty doing her song I have loved so much! THANK YOU for this post. It is so precious!
Love her energy! A great!
OH WOW, NRRA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is the very first time I have ever seen Betty Everett do this song! Thanks for the upload! LOVE IT!
Classic Classic Classic
Just One The Very Best Hit Singles of 1964 as it is By The Great Betty Everett as it is Called Shoop Shoop Song as it was top seller for her in 1964
I love that song I was in third grade when that song came out watch american bandstand and st louis hop every saturday morning
Love this!
REMEMBERING BETTY EVERETT
(NOVEMBER 23, 1939 - AUGUST 19, 2001)
[11/23/2023]
What a voice!!!
Great job Betty.The Newbeats have a great version of this song also.I love them both equally.
best version
No songs like that anymore. Sad isn't it.
Yes ... very sad !!!!!
wow.. very talented grand mother. very classy lady.
this is head and shoulders above any other version of this song Chers comes nowhere near it
Darlene Love and the Blossoms on the background vocals.
Shout out from 53511. Where she spent her last few years! R.I.P. Ms. Everett. 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
What a wonderful woman..... Fargo N.D.
Darlene & The Blossoms were on so many hits in the '60's. "Johnny Angel", "Chain Gang" (Sam Cooke) & Herb Alpert's "Mexican Drummer Man". It was Herb's first release with vocals.
I never knew Betty Everett was from Chicago!!
Technically my grandmother is from Greenwood, Mississippi. She and my mom moved to Chicago in 1957.
@@AvDominguez74 she was your grandmother, wow! I just discovered her due to viruse lockdown I'm going through olskool and oldies and found her. I'm glad I found "Wondering" my wife loves it. May you and your family continue to stay blessed 🙏
Maravilloso !!!
Actually, the Blossoms are on the Merry Clayton version. The Opals are on Everett's version.
Wow I'm 32 and this song popped in my head . Yes I wondering if he truly loves me.like he says. N he sure do love to kiss and french is his beat friend lol
Mmm Ms Betty Everett.. Sexy, very humble, amazing vocals. Wish she had released more music than she did. RIP Queen.
She's so cool. I luv it.
gifted, definitely. She had it.
That is correct. Betty Everett recorded in Chicago, and the Opals performed for her background (As well as some Major Lance songs as well.) Check out the Opals "You Can't Hurt Me No More" one of my favs.
Se estivesse viva hoje seria uma estrela mundial e ainda em atividade. Uma voz fenomenal !!!
CONCORDO!!!! Betty Everett Tinha Uma Voz PODEROSA!!!!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤
You're grandma was dope..May she rest peacefully
My fav Betty song was...
"All in My Mind"
Yeah someone else mentioned that to me a few months back, but thanks for that. Darlene was on the today show years ago and said she sang backups on the Betty version, but she must have forgotten the Clayton version or wanted to take credit on the hit version.She's still my favorite and glad the movie 20 Feet from Stardom is out.
She so soso so soso bless
Great song!!
i just checked Darlene's selective discography from her book and she lists Shoop Shoop song by Betty as one of her backgrounds, but I'm with you on the Opals. Again thanks for your info.
adorable!!
She's charming
The Best of The Best
What a Doll-Baby!
I was 1 month old when this was aired....
The best version.
Pareja are you dumb this is not a version it's the ORIGINAL get it right .
Awesome!
DC was the consummate pro....made everyone feel right at home.
As stated above, on this day in 1964 {March 21st} Betty Everett performed "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)" on the ABC-TV program 'American Bandstand'...
At the time it was at #22 on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; fifteen days later on April 5th, 1964 it peaked at #6 for two weeks and spent 13 weeks on the Top 100…
And the day it peaked at #6 on the Top 100 it reached #1* {for 3 weeks} on Cashbox’s R&B Singles chart…
* It was preceded at #1 by a Motown act {The Temp’s “The Way You Do The Things You Do”} and succeeded at #1 by another Motown act {Mary Wells’ “My Guy”}…
Thanks for the background/follow up. I love to share this info with others 😊
I remember when it came out.
Betty Jean Everett 1939- 2001
Thanks
YOU CAN TELL HOW THE TIMES HAVE CHANGED WHEN DICK ASKED HER IF SHE SOWS OR KNITS.NO HOST NOW WOULD DARE ASK A FEMALE SINGER DAT KINDA OF QUESTION NOWADAYS.TRUST ME AND THEY DID AND SHE DIDN'T TAKE IT IN A NEGATIVE WAY,SOMEBODY OUT THERE WOULD AND IT WOULD BE ON ALL OVER THE TV AND THE INTERNET.
Loved it!! Thank you for upload
REMEMBERING BETTY EVERETT (NOVEMBER 23, 1939 - AUGUST 19, 2001) [11/23/2018]
So refreshingly unpretentious. And I agree with her, it's in his kiss!
She's too lovely and cute - unf. believable
Cher was 17 in Betty Everett Version was came out and later her version came out in 1990
Molina Long Cher the only nature treasure
Awesome Brave Lady
You will always be so good... hope you got the reference !
R.I.P Betty Everett
what a cool nice lady...
VERY GOOD WHEN THE WORLD WAS GOOD
found this online obituary: Betty Everett, 61
Chicago R&B singer scored hit with 1964's `Shoop Shoop Song'
August 22, 2001|By James Janega, Tribune staff reporter.
Betty Everett, 61, the Chicago rhythm and blues artist who performed the 1964 hit "The Shoop Shoop Song [It's in His Kiss]," a song that both typified the Record Row sound of Chicago in the early 1960s and ingrained itself in the American public's collective unconscious, died over the weekend in her Beloit, Wis., home.
Her body was found Sunday, Aug. 19. She had been treated for heart problems, and the cause of death was believed to be a heart attack, said her sister Christine Townsend.
Ms. Everett had several hits in her career, including "You're No Good" in 1963 and "Let It Be Me" with Jerry Butler a year later, but was best known for "The Shoop Shoop Song."
"Is it in his eyes? (Oh no! You'll be deceived!) Is it in his sighs? (Oh no! He'll make believe!) If you want to know if he loves you so, It's in his kiss. (That's where it is!)"
The song, like her, was a mixture of vulnerability and confidence.
"She was quiet, kind of bashful," her sister said. "She was a loner, had a sweet humble spirit. And one thing I do know: She sang from her heart."
"The Shoop Shoop Song" was instantly recognized as Ms. Everett's song, even in a career that typified the familiar story of credit long overdue. Its challenges led her to quit the business twice, and each time. Despite an on-again, off-again relationship with music, she remained hopeful her next big hit lay just around the corner.
Her career went hand-in-hand with the African-American recording scene in Chicago, launching itself in the prime of Record Row, a collection of black-owned small record labels on South Michigan Avenue. She likewise struggled back after the biggest of those labels, Vee-Jay Records, collapsed in 1966 and sent her own career into turmoil.
Born in Greenwood, Miss., Ms. Everett sang gospel music with her family in church and came to Chicago at 17 to live with her sister. After recording unsuccessfully with such Chicago labels as Cobra, C.J. and One-derful, Ms. Everett briefly tried her hand with the Daylighters before leaving music for the first time.
She returned in the early 1960s and signed with Vee-Jay. Almost immediately, she hit it big with "You're No Good."
When Vee-Jay--then also promoting The Beatles--folded, Ms. Everett started with other labels in town, and returned to the charts with "Danger" and "Sweet Dan" in 1970. Exhausted, she again dropped out of the music business soon after.
But though it took a legal fight in the 1990s to regain royalties from musical hits recorded 30 years before, she didn't follow other black musicians of the time into a lifetime of day jobs. Instead, she sang in the choir of her mother's Pentecostal church, as everyone from Linda Ronstadt to Elvis Costello re-recorded her hits.
She returned to the business in the 1970s and married Thomas Jameson, her lead guitarist, whom she later divorced. After another hit in 1978 with "True Love [You Took My Heart]," she spent much of the next 10 years re-releasing past collections of her music and touring in musical revivals.
She grew ambivalent toward music, enjoying the creativity of it while disliking the business aspects, her sister said.
Ms. Everett moved to Beloit in 1987, and her attorney, Jay B. Ross, said she kept a low profile, even while sporadically undertaking recording projects in Chicago.
"I'm a very restless person," Ms. Everett told the Tribune in 1990. "If I stay in one place too long, I get bored. I guess I decided to come back because I missed traveling, and I think the best of my career is yet to come."
She last performed for a PBS special--"Doo-Wop '51"--which aired this year.
Besides her sister, she is survived by her mother, Catherine; another sister, Juanita Clay; a daughter, Sharon; and a grandson.
A funeral service will be held Thursday in Beloit.
Ohh... this is awesome ;o
i been looking for this song for long time, why do they call shoop shoop song?
I always imagine Bart dancing with a lady wig on when listening 👂🏻🎧🎶 to this, lol. 😂
My lord she’s intelligent. You can tell she’s tired. Working hard.
Yeah i knew she was Chicago based and wondered why the Blossoms from LA and the Wrecking Crew background singers, would be on this. Darlene actually said on the Today show years ago to Katie Couric that she sang the Shoop Shoops on Bettys version so then I figured maybe they recorded this in LA at Goldstar. Thanks for the info. Yeah I saw Darlene and the Blossoms backing aretha on Shindig.
I believe it's fairly well documented that the Opals are the girls on Betty's Vee-Jay single. I wonder if maybe Darlene & Co. were on Merry Clayton's or Ramona King's and Darlene (who must have done backgrounds on sessions beyond counting) just forgot which was which. King's came out on Warner Bros. and I believe was recorded in Los Angeles around the same time Darlene & the Blossoms were doing other Warners sessions for the likes of Connie Stevens.
SAME eye make up style like Dionne at the beginning... Both lovely young ladies.