Discography and Biography of Dee Dee Sharp Gamble. Listen to all their hits.
Dee Dee Sharp Gamble Songs

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Dee Dee Sharp (born Dione LaRue, September 9, 1945, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States) is an American R&B singer, who began her career recording as a backing vocalist in 1961. In 1962 she began a string of successful Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 hits: "Slow Twistin'" (with Chubby Checker) (#3) for which she was uncredited on the label, "Mashed Potato Time" (#2), "Gravy (For My Mashed Potatoes)" (#9), "Ride" (#5) and "Do the Bird" (#10).[1] Both "Mashed Potato Time" and "Ride" each sold over one million copies, and were awarded gold discs. "Do the Bird" provided her only entry in the UK Singles Chart, where it peaked at #46 in April 1963. In 1967, she married record producer and Philadelphia International co-founder Kenny Gamble and has since recorded under the name Dee Dee Sharp-Gamble. The couple later divorced in 1980. She had a brief career resurgence during the disco era and hit the charts again with her version of 10 CC's "I'm Not In Love." She also joined Lou Rawls, Billy Paul, Teddy Pendergrass, The O'Jays and Archie Bell as a member of the Philadelphia International All Stars, who had a minor hit with "Let's Clean Up the Ghetto." In 1980 she spent four weeks at number one on the Hot Dance Club Play chart with "Breaking and Entering" / "Easy Money," from her album Dee Dee.

Below is a list of Dee Dee Sharp Gamble songs, sorted by the most popular first. Place mouse on to see information about song. Click song title to play song and to read details about the song including lyrics (if available). Click year to list all songs from that year. Click label to list songs from that record label. Songs with chart position "---" either never made it into the US top 100 R&B or UK charts or we have no details of their highest chart positions if they did.

(Song are sorted in highest US R&B Top 100 and/or UK Top 100 chart position order)


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1 record label: Cameo 212
chart position: RandB #1 (4 weeks), US #2
weeksinr&bchart: 16
written by: Jon Sheldon & Harry Land
album: It's Mashed Potato Time
Dee Dee Sharp Mashed Potato Time
1962 Cameo
2 record label: Parkway 835
chart position: RandB #3, US #3, UK #23
written by: Jon Sheldon
album: For Teen Twisters Only
Chubby Checker (with Dee Dee Sharp) Slow Twistin'
1962 Parkway
3 record label: Cameo 230
chart position: RandB #7, US #5
written by: Jon Sheldon & David Leon
album: All The Hits By Dee Dee Sharp Volume II
Dee Dee Sharp Ride!
1962 Cameo
4 record label: Cameo 219
chart position: RandB #11, US #9
written by: Kal Mann & Dave Appell
album: It's Mashed Potato Time
Dee Dee Sharp Gravy (For My Mashed Potatoes)
1962 Cameo
5 record label: Cameo 244
chart position: RandB #8, US #10
weeksinr&bchart: 6
written by: Kal Mann & Dave Appell
album: Do The Bird
Dee Dee Sharp Do The Bird
1963 Cameo
6 record label: P.I.R. 81062
chart position: US dance #1
album: Dee Dee
comments: [philly sound disco dance]
Dee Dee Sharp Gamble Easy Money
1981 P.I.R.
7 record label: Cameo 274
chart position: RandB #25, US #33
written by: Kal Mann and Dave Appell
Dee Dee Sharp Wild!
1963 Cameo
8 record label: Cameo 260
chart position: US #43
written by: Kal Mann and Dave Appell
Dee Dee Sharp Rock Me In The Cradle Of Love
1963 Cameo
9 record label: Cameo 375
chart position: RandB #37, US #78
written by: James Bishop and Kenny Gamble
Dee Dee Sharp I Really Love You
1965 Cameo
10 record label: Cameo 296
chart position: RandB #38, US #82
written by: Kal Mann and Dave Appell
Dee Dee Sharp Where Did I Go Wrong
1964 Cameo
11 record label: Cameo 296
chart position: US #97
written by: Billy Jackson (as William Jackson) and Jimmy Wisner
Dee Dee Sharp Willyam, Willyam
1964 Cameo
12 record label: Cameo 382
chart position: US #126
written by: Barrett Strong
Dee Dee Sharp It's a Funny Situation
1966 Cameo
13 record label: Atco 6557
chart position: US #127
written by: Fred Briggs and Johnny Northern
Ben E. King & Dee Dee Sharp We Got a Thing Going On
1968 Atco
14 record label: Cameo 329
chart position: US #131
written by: Billy Jackson and Jimmy Wisner
Dee Dee Sharp Never Pick A Pretty Boy
1964 Cameo
15 record label: Atco 6445
chart position: Cashbox RandB #50
written by: Bishop, Gamble
Dee Dee Sharp My Best Friend's Man
1966 Atco
16 record label: TSOP 4778
chart position: RandB #62
written by: Graham Gouldman and Eric Stewart
Dee Dee Sharp Gamble I'm Not in Love
1976 TSOP
17 record label: P.I.R. 02041
chart position: RandB #79
written by: Cynthia Biggs, Dexter Wansel, Kenneth Gamble
album: Dee Dee
comments: [philly sound]
Dee Dee Sharp Gamble I Love You Anyway
1981 P.I.R.
-- record label: TSOP 4776
written by: J. Mendell, D. Gamble, R. L. Martin
album: Happy 'Bout The Whole Thing
Dee Dee Sharp Happy 'Bout The Whole Thing
1975 TSOP
-- record label: Gamble 4005
written by: K. Gamble, L. Huff
comments: [southern soul ballad]
Dee Dee Sharp You're Gonna Miss Me (When I'm Gone)
1970 Gamble




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