LaVern Baker: Hey Memphis

Lavern Baker is one of my favourite singers, active with Atlantic from 1949 to 1962. During the Vietnam war she went to entertain US troops but caught pneumonia. She was sent to the US naval base at Subic Bay Phillipines to recover. When she had done so she was offered the post of entertainments organiser and resident singer on the base. She accepted and only left 22 years later when the base closed down.She's taking off Elvis here. Memphis was what she called him!