Dee Dee Sharp

Person · Open Library

Works

3

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Female

Origin

United States

Active from

1945-09-09

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

89,868

Total plays

398,120

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), "Mashed Potato Time" (#2), "Gravy (For My Mashed Potatoes)" (#9), "Ride" (#5) and "Do the Bird" (#10). Both "Mashed Potato Time" and "Ride" each sold over one million copies, and were awarded gold di

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. The ERA5 global reanalysis

   · 2020 · cited 24,157x

2. The ERA‐Interim reanalysis: configuration and performance of the data assimilation system

   · 2011 · cited 20,707x

3. The american rheumatism association 1987 revised criteria for the classification of rheumatoid arthritis

   · 1988 · cited 15,808x

4. The UK Biobank resource with deep phenotyping and genomic data

   · 2018 · cited 9,029x

5. Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC

   · 2012 · cited 6,658x

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