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This Jimmy Dee is not the singer of HENRIETTA.
Jimmy Dee, had as a pre-teen become a club attraction in lounges. He later moved to Grand Prairie, Texas. He also resided in Memphis and Nashville, Tennessee and Chicago, Illinois, and eventually settled in the Birmingham, Alabama area.
It is known that he was a member of the backing group for the Verve and MGM recording artist Sharon Wynter. He recorded and toured with her but did not sing on any of her recordings. Although he dated Sharon, he married her younger sister, Debra, in June 1967. The Sharon Wynter song Bad Dreams (Verve Records/Tree Publishing) relates a bit of the story of the romance of Jimmy and Debra.
He worked as a session musician in Memphis and later in Nashville, Tennessee during the sixties. Del Shannon was instrumental in Dee recording for Big Top records. Those recordings which included the song I WANT A LOVE I CAN FEEL were later sold to Roulette and were never released in the United States.
A contractual dispute with Morris Levy of Roulette Records caused his personal recording career to halt in early 1966. However, he reappeared later in the sixties and the mid-seventies and again in the eighties with several more records and produced one CD during the nineties. Through the course of his long career, Dee recorded on many record labels. Among them were Infinity, Big Top, MGM, Inner-Glo, Pixie, Start, Gone, Ace, Canary, Cutie, Shurfine and V-Tone.
During the years 1967 and 1968, he worked sessions in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, both at FAME Studios and Muscle Shoals Sound Studios.
Dee worked as a nightclub entertainer throughout the 1960s, 1970s,and 1980s. He would seem to disappear for several years and then suddenly return to performing; from late 1969 until 1975, he seemed to have abandoned music, and then suddenly reappeared playing clubs and released several new records from 1975 to 1978. He faded once again in 1979, and then returned in 1983 with a doo-wop group, the Echoes, during the revival of doo-wop during the early 1980s.
From 1985 to 1987, he once again seemed to have quit the business, but reappeared again in 1987 and formed a new band and they were known to have performed until 2007 when they disbanded with several members retiring.
Jimmy Dee retired from muisc in December 2011.