Gwen McCrae

Gwen McCrae (née Mosley, December 21, 1943) is an American singer, best known for her 1975 hit "Rockin' Chair".
Gwen was the youngest of five children, She began performing in local clubs as a teenager, and singing with local groups like the Lafayettes and the Independents. In 1963, she met a young sailor named George McCrae, whom she married within a week.
From 1963, she recorded as a duo with her husband George; the couple got a recording contract with Henry Stone's TK Records. In 1967, singer Betty Wright, who helped get them signed to Stone's Alston record label.
Signed to TK subsidiary Cat, as a solo artist, she found success on the U.S. R&B charts with a cover of Bobby Bland's "Lead Me On" in 1970, followed by "For Your Love". Following husband George's |solo success with "Rock Your Baby", Gwen went on to have a major hit of her own in March 1975 with "Rockin' Chair" which reached number 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 and reached number one on the R&B chart. The follow-up "Love Insurance" also made the R&B chart (#16). Music critic Robert Christgau said "Rockin' Chair" is "almost as irresistibly Memphis-cum-disco-with-a-hook as hubby's 'Rock Your Baby.'"
In 1972, she recorded the song "Always on My Mind". The song was later popularized by Elvis Presley, Willie Nelson, and the Pet Shop Boys and also covered by several other artists.
==Links to Peel==
It is not known whether Peel played any of her records in the 70's when she was at her peak, but in 2004, he played her 1988 track, 'All This Love That I'm Giving', when mentioning that she was performing at the Triptych festival. Interestingly there is no evidence that he played her song, 'All This Love That I'm Giving', in 1988, according to available tracklistings on this site.
==Shows Played==
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*29 April 2004: All This Love That I'm Giving (7") Flame
==External Links==
*Wikipedia
*Discogs
*Official Website
Category:Artists