Although her father has never been identified,[6] James speculated that she was the daughter of pool player Rudolf "Minnesota Fats" Wanderone, whom she met briefly in 1987. You can sign in to vote the answer. Really like this name!
James referred to her mother as "the Mystery Lady". Find out more about the name Etta at BabyNames.com. During drunken poker games at home, he would awaken James in the early morning hours and force her with beatings to sing for his friends. He wrote that James had her first hit single when she was 15 years old and went steady with B.B.
James continued to perform on occasion in the early 1980s, including two guest appearances at Grateful Dead concerts in December 1982.
In early 1961, James released what was to become her signature song, "At Last", which reached number two on the R&B chart and number 47 on the Billboard Hot 100. Stories on how they met vary. and Ruth does not help with the harshness. In 1989, she signed with Island Records and released the albums Seven Year Itch and Stickin' to My Guns, both of which were produced by Barry Beckett and recorded at FAME Studios. [16] In 1963, she had another major hit with "Pushover" and released the live album Etta James Rocks the House, recorded at the New Era Club in Nashville, Tennessee. [38] James's voice deepened and coarsened, moving her musical style in her later years into the genres of soul and jazz.[15]. Hail!
I picture Etta Ruth as a crabby frowning old wrinkled lady with a kerchief over her hair curlers. What names go better together for couple (fictional story)?
James has influenced a wide variety of musicians, including Diana Ross, Christina Aguilera, Janis Joplin, Brandy, Bonnie Raitt, Shemekia Copeland,[20] and Hayley Williams of Paramore[39] as well as British artists The Rolling Stones,[40] Elkie Brooks,[41] Paloma Faith,[42] Joss Stone[43] Rita Ora, and Adele,[44] and the Belgian singer Dani Klein.
"Place" was the maiden surname of Longabaugh's mother (Annie Place) and she is recorded in various sources as Mrs. Harry Longabaugh or Mrs. Harry A.
[15] The album won James her first Grammy Award, for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female, in 1994. Following this success, James became an in-demand concert performer though she never again reached the heyday of her early to mid-1960s success.
What kind of a person you hear of with the name Shaylee. But it does sound perfectly lovely if you don’t have that association and her peer group won’t know about them, I would think.
My first thought was Etta James, I think it's a lovely name x. I don’t like it. [15] After signing with Chess Records in 1960, James broke through as a traditional pop-styled singer, covering jazz and pop music standards on her debut album, At Last! She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993. Many of the backing musicians were top-flight players from Los Angeles: Rick Rosas (bass), Michael Huey (drums), Ed Sanford (Hammond B3 organ), Kip Noble (piano) and Josh Sklair, her longtime guitar player. It’s ok, but my accent says it ‘edda’, various types of English accents would say it ‘eh-ah’ or ‘ettaaaaarh’. [12], James signed with Private Music Records in 1993 and recorded a Billie Holiday tribute album, Mystery Lady: Songs of Billie Holiday. I actually love Etta but I'm not a fan of Ruth. My bestfriend is naming her daughter Etta Ruth. Do you think Sophia is a pretty name for a female less than 30 yo? Could never use it as I have an Effie. I wanna see what other people think of it. It's not bad but I don't really like Etta and Ruth together, Etta is sort of harsh and seems like it should be short for Marietta, Henrietta, Julietta, etc. I really like Ruth as a middle name. She also recalled how happy he made her many years later when she found out that it was Presley who had moved her close friend Jackie Wilson from a substandard convalescent home to a more appropriate facility and, as she put it, paid all the expenses.