Gwen McCrae (née Mosley, December 21, 1943, Pensacola, Florida, United States) is an American singer, best known for her 1975 hit "Rockin' Chair".
Career
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 who she married within a week.
From 1963, she recorded as a duo with her husband George, and was first to receive a solo recording contract, with Henry Stone's TK Records. George and Gwen were discovered in 1967 by 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 her cover version of Bobby Bland's "Lead Me On" in 1970, followed by "For Your Love". Following husband George’s unexpected solo success with "Rock Your Baby", Gwen went on to have a major hit of her own in March 1975 with "Rockin' Chair", a #1 R&B hit which also reached number 9 in the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 The follow-up "Love Insurance" also made the R&B chart (#16).
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ALBUMS
- Live in Paris at New Morning released: 2006
- The Best Of released: 2004
- Golden Classics released: 1993
- Gwen McCrae released: 1981
- Melody of Life released: 1979
- Something So Right released: 1976
- Together released: 1975
- Rockin' Chair released: 1975
- Rockin' Chair & Let's Straighten It Out released:
The Best Of
Released 2004- Rockin' Chair
- For Your Love
- It's Worth the Hurt
- 90% of Me Is You
- It Keeps On Raining
- He Don't Ever Lose His Groove
- Winners Together or Losers Apart (feat. George McRae)
- Let Your Love Do the Talkin' (feat. George McRae)
- You and I Were Made for Each Other (feat. George McRae)
- Damn Right It's Good
- Love Without Sex
- Starting All Over Again
- Tonight's the Night
- Let's Straighten It Out
- Love Insurance
- Cradle of Love
- Maybe I'll Find Somebody New
- The Melody of Life
- All This Love I'm Giving
Rockin' Chair & Let's Straighten It Out
- Rockin' Chair
- Move Me Baby
- He Keeps Something Groovy Going On
- Let Them Talk
- For Your Love
- It's Worth the Hurt
- 90% of Me Is You
- It Keeps on Raining
- He Don't Ever Loose His Groove
- Your Love Is Worse Than a Cold Love
- Early Morning Love
- Starting All Over Again
- Tonight's the Night
- Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I'm Yours)
- Let's Straighten It Out
- Love Insurance
- Cradle of Love
- At Bedtime
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Rockin' Chair
by: Gwen MccraeMmm, ah (ah-ahhh)
Mmm, ah
Mmm-mmm-mmm, ah (ah-ahhh)
Mmm-mmm, ah
Sexy baby, good lovin' daddy
Oh, let me be your rockin' chair
Just a rock me way from here
Let's get it on
Come to me, baby
Oh, let me be your rockin' chair
Just a rock me way from here
Let your arms shelter me from all hurt and pain
Mmm, light my heart with your everlasting flame
Oh, mmm-mmm
Sexy baby, (rock, rock) good lovin' daddy (rock, rock)
Oh, let me be your (rock, rock) rockin' chair
Rock (rock, rock) me way from here
Let's get it on (rock, rock)
Mmm, come to me, baby (rock, rock)
Oh, let me be your rockin' (rock, rock) chair
Just a rock (rock, rock) me way from here
Rock me gently, make me feel like a cloud in the sky
Whisper softly, let my heart take wing and fly
Mmm, mmm, mmm
Sexy baby (rock, rock), oh, good lovin' daddy (rock, rock)
Let me be your (rock, rock) rockin' chair
Just a rock (rock, rock) me way from here
Let's get it on (rock, rock), mmm, come to me, honey (rock, rock)
Oh, let me be your rockin' (rock, rock) chair
Just a rock (rock, rock) me way from here
Mmm, just a rock me, baby
Oh, in my rockin' chair
Babe, mmm
All night long till the mornin' comes
Just a you, babe
Oh, just a rock me, honey
Mmm, a rock me, baby
In the midnight hour
Hey, in my rockin' chair
All night long
C'mon, baby, sexy baby
Oh, let me be your rockin' chair (ah-ahhh)
Just a rock me way from here
C'mon, baby, sexy honey
Oh, let me be your rockin' chair (ah-ahhh)