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Sep 12, 2016 · McCoy’s start was not auspicious: Rose Marie Hinton was born to Arkansas farmers in 1922. As a child, she lived in a shack with a tin roof and helped her siblings raise chickens and cotton.
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Rose Marie McCoy was born in a drafty tin-roofed shack in Oneida, AR, in 1922. In the heart of the Arkansas Blues Delta, McCoy described it as “the kind of place you pass through without even knowing you’re passing through it.” She had to travel 18 miles from home to hear the blues, standing outside a club called the Hole in the Wall where blues ar...
So, in 1942, at age 19, Rose Marie McCoy left home for New York City to chase a dream with $6 in her pocket and a remarkable gift: she knew she could tell stories with her songs. She settled in Harlem, ironing shirts at Chinese laundries where they paid her by the piece and taking weekend gigs at small clubs. On a trip back home in 1943, she marrie...
Rose Marie McCoy got her first real taste of success that same year from a duet with blues belter Big Maybelle. Written as a put-down, “dozens” style, call-and-response song, Maybelle would sing a line and McCoy would come back with an insult. Harkening back to a tradition of African American insult dueling and social interaction, it became Big May...
Sometimes scribbling lyrics on napkins and paper bags, they could sell songs they’d written that morning by the afternoon. As Maxine Brown remembered, “the place was hoppin’. A lot of the songs you heard back in the old days were sold right out of that restaurant.” Back when most performers relied on professional writers for their hits, writing cam...
Presley’s album ruled Billboard’s pop chart for 10 solid weeks. And while the single never made it to #1, he included it on follow-up albums and performed it in live concerts. More than 30 artists went on to record it, including Roy Orbisonand The Teen Kings, Ricky Nelson, Eric Burdon of The Animals, Johnny Rivers, Faith Hill and many others. In 19...
One of Rose Marie McCoy’s biggest hits came in 1961 with “I Think It’s Gonna Work Out Fine” recorded by a little-known, up-and-coming duo, Ike and Tina Turner. They were awarded a Gold Record and received a Grammy nomination. McCoy, by now, had bought herself a house in Teaneck, NJ, and a green Cadillac. And she had her very own office in the fable...
As a result, many of the Brill Building writers had to find new ways to earn a living. Some, like Carole King and Neil Diamond, launched successful singing careers; some became producers; others left the music business altogether. But not McCoy, who kept working. In the 1970s she wrote and produced a jazz album with Sarah Vaughan; wrote Coca-Cola j...
Rose Marie McCoy’s music spanned the genres of R&B, jazz, gospel, rock and roll and, late in her life, country. More than 300 artists have recorded her songs; their names read like a Who’s Who of American music: Nat King Cole, Elvis Presley, Sarah Vaughan, Big Maybelle, James Brown, Patti Page, Eartha Kitt, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Bette Midle...
Learn about the life and career of Rose Marie McCoy, the first Black woman to make it big as a songwriter for Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra and more. Read about her songs, awards, challenges and legacy in this article by WednesdaysWomen.
Feb 1, 2015 · Jan. 31, 2015. For a woman who composed or collaborated on some 850 songs over seven decades, Rose Marie McCoy, who died on Jan. 20 at 92, was largely unheralded, recognized only belatedly in a ...
Feb 27, 2009 · Rose Marie McCoy circa 1946, 12 years before her first big hit, "Trying to Get to You." In the 1950s and early '60s, American pop music became a meld of different genres — rhythm and blues ...
1942–2015. Rose Marie McCoy (April 19, 1922 – January 20, 2015) was an American songwriter. She began her career as an aspiring singer before becoming a prolific songwriter during the 1950s and 1960s. Many artists have recorded some of the over 800 songs she published, including Big Maybelle, James Brown, Ruth Brown, Nat King Cole, Aretha ...
Feb 18, 2009 · Rose Marie McCoy is one of the most prolific songwriters of 50's American pop music, yet her legacy remains relatively unknown. The artist managed to publish over 800 songs during her career and ...
Sep 8, 2019 · Learn about the life and music of Rose Marie McCoy, who wrote over 850 songs for Elvis Presley, Nat King Cole, and many others. Listen to personal stories and rare interviews with McCoy and her biographer Arlene Corsano.
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