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Shirley Ellis
Shirley Ellis (19 January 1929 - 5 October 2005) was an American soul music singer and songwriter of West Indian origin.
She is best known for her novelty hits "The Nitty Gritty" (1963) (US #8), "The Name Game" (1964) (US #3) and "The Clapping Song" (1965) (US #8/UK #6).
"The Clapping Song" sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc.By 1954 she had written two songs which were recorded by The Chords.
Ellis was originally in the group The Metronomes and she went on to marry the lead singer, Alphonso Elliston.
All her solo hits were written by her and her manager, record producer, and songwriting partner, Lincoln Chase.Ellis had recording contracts with the Kapp Records subsidiary Congress and later Columbia and Bell Records, but retired from the music industry in 1968.Cover versionsCover versions of her hits have been recorded by Madeline Bell, The Belle Stars, Laura Branigan, Aaron Carter, Gary Glitter, Ricardo Ray, Pia Zadora, Southern Culture on the Skids, Gladys Knight and the Pips (a version of "The Nitty Gritty", produced by Norman Whitfield) as well as a 1980s high energy dance version of The Name Game by actor and personality "Divine" aka.
Harris Glenn Milstead.In addition, her song "Soul Time" was sampled by the UK band, The Go! Team for their single "Bottle Rocket".On the January 2, 2013 Season 2 episode of American Horror Story titled "The Name Game", the song was used in a sequence where Jessica Lange's character hallucinates herself and some of the other main characters singing and dancing to the song.
