Talk:Baby Washington

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On 18 October, Andrew Orlowski of The Register singled out this article as an example of how "atrocious" Wikipedia is:

Bootnote Of the many, many atrocious entries, we'd like to bring one more to the HUAC's attention, and it's our very favorite. As of the time of writing, whoever wrote the entry for soul legend Baby Washington has no idea who she is, but makes a wild guess, then gives up completely with the less-than-helpful advice: "Many have written inacurate information about Washington. She IS NOT "BABY WASHINGTON" from James Brown." (sic).

Indeed. But note that this entry has been edited no less than seven times and can be found replicated at Biography.com, Answers.com, Reference.com, InfoMutt, The Free Dictionary and hundreds of other sites.

You've got to love the web. Just bask in that collective intelligence. [1]

So, let's work on this a bit...

It appears that some of her work was released under Jeanette, which is confusing because she also recorded with a group named the Jaynettes. I started doing a discography based on info from Soulfulkindamuscic.com, but I need to confirm some of this first.

• Actually it was Jeanette Washington that the article was being referred to. The Baby Washington link was redirected to here by me after I did some looking up. There seem to be two listed Jeanette Washingtons - one originally Justine, and another I'm not so sure about. A lot of sources say they are different, but look at Talk:Jeanette Washington to see more on that. - Master Of Ninja 15:42, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

Just confirmed through a published source provided by Pete Hoppula that Jeanette is a different singer. The citation is the 1989 Soul Survivor article in the References. Jokestress 19:52, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

Discography

The Hearts

Goin' Home To Stay / Disappointed Bride (Baton 222: 1956) (with Rex Garvin on piano)

The Jaynetts

• J&S 1765/1766 - I Wanted To Be Free / Where Are You Tonight - 1958

Baby Washington

• J&S 1656 - Everyday / Smitty's Rock - 1957 (With The Shytone Five Orchestra)
• J&S 1604 - Congratulations Honey / There Must Be A Reason – 1957
• J&S 1607/8 - Ah-Ha / Been A Long Time Baby – 1958
• J&S 1619/20 - Hard Way To Go / ? – 1958
• Neptune 101 - The Time / You Never Could Be Mine - 1958
• J&S 1632/33 - I Hate To See You Go / Knock Yourself Out – 1959
• Checker 918 - I Hate To See You Go / Knock Yourself Out – 1959
• Neptune 104 - The Bells (On Our Wedding Day) / Why Did My Baby Put Me Down - 1959 (background vocals by The De Vaurs)
• Neptune 107 - Workout / Let's Love In The Moonlight - 1959 (backing vocals The Plants and background vocals by The De Vaurs)
• Neptune 116 - Deep Down Love / Your Mama Knows What's Right - circa 1960

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The result of the move request was: page moved. — Malik Shabazz ^Talk/_Stalk 06:12, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

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Justine Washington → Baby Washington – The singer is generally known by her stage name rather than her birth name. Although a few of her recordings were issued under her birth name (and other names), by far the majority were as Baby Washington - the name by which she still performs under (2011 photos here). Ghmyrtle (talk) 11:07, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

• Support clearly Baby is the commonname here. Tiggerjay (talk) 00:54, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

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