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Mary Vesta Williams (December 1, 1957 - September 22, 2011) was an American singer-songwriter, who performed across genres such as pop, jazz, adult contemporary and R&B. Originally credited as Vesta Williams, she was simply known as Vesta beginning in the 1990s. She was known for her four-octave vocal range. She once sang The Star Spangled Banner for the Los Angeles Lakers game opener using all four of those octaves. Although Williams never had any albums certified gold nor any Top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, she scored six Top 10 hits on the Billboard R&B chart from the mid-1980s to the early-1990s which included "Once Bitten, Twice Shy" (1986), "Sweet Sweet Love" (1988), "Special" (1993), and her 1989 R&B hit and signature song, "Congratulations".

Below is a list of Vesta Williams 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: AandM 680
chart position: RandB #5, US #55
written by: Tena Clark, Gary Prim & Vesta Williams
album: Vesta 4 U
comments: [ballad]
Vesta Williams Congratulations
1989 A&M
2 record label: AandM 395 347
chart position: RandB #2
written by: Attala Zane Giles and Vesta Williams
album: Special
comments: [love ballad]
Vesta Williams Special
1992 A&M
3 record label: AandM 2880
chart position: RandB #9, UK #14, US dance #45
written by: Vesta Williams & Dean Gant
album: Vesta
Vesta Williams Once Bitten Twice Shy
1986 A&M
4 record label: AandM 5223
chart position: RandB #4
written by: Attala Zane Giles, Billy Osborne and Vesta Williams
album: Vesta 4 U
comments: [love ballad]
Vesta Williams Sweet, Sweet Love
1988 A&M
5 record label: Breakout 600
chart position: RandB #17, UK #89, US Dance #5
written by: Bryan Loren
album: Vesta
Vesta Williams Don't Blow a Good Thing
1987 Breakout
6 record label: EMI 04614
chart position: RandB #9
written by: Robin Smith and Stephanie Spruill
album: Tokyo Blue
comments: [smooth jazz soul ballad]
Najee featuring Vesta Williams I'll Be Good to You
1990 EMI
7 record label: AandM 1263
chart position: RandB #9
written by: Attala Zane Giles
album: Vesta 4 U
Vesta Williams 4 U
1989 A&M
8 record label: AandM 12221
chart position: RandB #46, US Dance #21
written by: Bryan Loren
album: Vesta
Vesta Williams Something About You
1987 A&M
9 record label: AandM 603 (UK)
chart position: UK #88
written by: La Television and Willcox
album: Vesta
comments: [ballad]
Vesta Williams Suddenly It's Magic
1987 A&M
10 record label: AandM 7299
chart position: RandB #43
written by: Attala Zane Giles and Vesta Williams (as Vesta)
album: Special
Vesta Williams Do Ya
1991 A&M
11 record label: AandM 0342
chart position: RandB #44
album: Everything N More
comments: [ballad]
Vesta Williams Always
1993 A&M
12 record label: AandM 1443
chart position: RandB #70
written by: Attala Zane Giles and Vesta Williams (as Vesta)
album: Vesta 4 U
Vesta Williams How You Feel
1989 A&M
13 record label: AandM 2957
chart position: RandB #90
album: Vesta
Vesta Williams You Make Me Want To (Love Again)
1987 A&M
14 record label: Warner Bros.
chart position: RandB #107
album: Celebration
comments: [slow jam]
Norman Brown ft. Vesta Williams Rain
2000 Warner Bros.




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