Doris Jean Harrell who recorded professionally under the name Dee Edwards, was an American

United States

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 singer.

Biography

Edwards was married to the arranger

Arrangement

The American Federation of Musicians defines arranging as "the art of preparing and adapting an already written composition for presentation in other than its original form. An arrangement may include reharmonization, paraphrasing, and/or development of a composition, so that it fully represents...

 Floyd Jones

Floyd Jones

Floyd Jones was an American blues singer, guitarist and songwriter, who is significant as one of the first of the new generation of electric blues artists to record in Chicago after World War II. A number of Jones' recordings are regarded as classics of the Chicago blues idiom, and his song "On...

, and they collaborated on some songs that Guido Marasco released on his GM and Bumpshop record label

Record label

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s in 1970, releasing "Say It Again With Feeling". After one RCA

RCA Records

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 single

Single (music)

In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...

 in 1972, Jones followed up with the song for the De-To label, "I Can Deal With That", which was the last of Edwards' Detroit recording sessions.

The couple relocated to New York

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, enjoying Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...

chart

Record chart

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 action with a disco

Disco

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 hit released on Cotillion

Cotillion Records

Cotillion Records was a subsidiary of Atlantic Records and was active from 1968 through 1985. The label was originally formed as an outlet for blues and deep Southern soul; its first single, Otis Clay's version of "She's About A Mover", reached the R&B charts. Cotillion's catalog quickly expanded...

 in 1979, "Don't Sit Down", taken from the album

Album

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 Heavy Love, which also featured the ballad

Ballad

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 "No Love, No World" and her cover version

Cover version

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 of Acker Bilk's "Stranger On The Shore

Stranger on the Shore

"Stranger on the Shore" is a piece for clarinet written by Acker Bilk for his young daughter and originally named Jenny after her. It was subsequently used as the theme tune of a BBC TV drama serial for young people that was also called Stranger on the Shore.The track, performed by Bilk "Stranger...

".

During the 1980s, Edwards recorded her own version of "It Comes To My Attention", popular with the UK

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 soul

Soul music

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 fraternity. A keen painter

Painting

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, Edwards then left the music industry to concentrate on her family in Detroit.

She died in 2006 of natural causes

Death by natural causes

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, at the age of 60.

In 2010 Adidas

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 featured a remix

Remix

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 of "Why Can't There Be Love" by Pilooski in a commercial for the 'Celebrating Originality on the Streets' campaign.

Singles

• "My Time Is Important to Me"
• "You Say You Love Me"
• "Too Careless with My Love"
• "Oh What a Party"
• "Happiness Is Where You Find It"
• "Why Can’t There Be Love"
• "All the Way Home"
• "His Majesty, My Love"
• "Say It Again with Feeling"
• "All We Need Is a Miracle"
• "I Can Deal with That"
• "'Don't Sit Down"
• "Mr. Miracle Man"