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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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Gender

female

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Philadelphia

Occupation

singer

Genre

soul

Instrument

voice

Record label

Philadelphia International Records

Official website

www.deedeesharp.com

Image

Dee Dee Sharp.jpg

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