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The deep bass voice of New Orleans R&B vocalist Benny Spellman boomed through loud and clear on many early-'60s <a href="spotify:artist:63aP18bg2ABSOqSNQcAMNy">Allen Toussaint</a> productions, but he enjoyed a major hit of his own in 1962, "Lipstick Traces (On a Cigarette)." Spellman spent some time with <a href="spotify:artist:06VZekh3wTqjHJbGCNBBLu">Huey "Piano" Smith</a> and the Clowns before signing with Minit, where <a href="spotify:artist:63aP18bg2ABSOqSNQcAMNy">Toussaint</a> utilized his deep pipes to full advantage as a backing vocalist behind <a href="spotify:artist:3ybBNyjii40yY104IZkcly">Ernie K-Doe</a> on "Mother-in-Law" and countless others. (<a href="spotify:artist:22bE4uQ6baNwSHPVcDxLCe">The Rolling Stones</a> covered "Fortune Teller," the flip side of this hit.) Spellman recorded through much of the '60s, his "Word Game" turning up on Atlantic in 1965, before he took a job as a public relations executive for Miller Beer. ~ Bill Dahl, Rovi
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