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Singer-songwriter
and tambourine player who co-wrote “Disco Ride” with Jolyon Skinner and Michael Zager. It was the flip side to
“Working My Way Back to You/Forgive Me Girl” by The
Spinners. Eltesa
would collaborate quite a bit with Michael, appearing on albums such as the
simply titled Zager.
In 1980, she
sang vocals on Brass Construction VI
and Cissy Houston’s Step Aside for a Lady, and contributed “Split
Decision”, to The Spinners album, Love
Trippin’. The song was co-penned by Doug
James, with whom she would also write “I’ve Got a Feel for
You”.
In 1981, she
played tambourine on Elusion’s All
Toys Break and sang backing vocals on The Neville Brothers’ Fiyo on the Bayou. She did the same on Alvin Field’s
Special Delivery and Lenny
White’s 1983 album, Attitude.
Eltesa has
appeared with the show band, Tangerine, and can be heard on the 1999 CD, Uptown Rulin’: The Best of The Neville Brothers.
The Spinners recordings
Disco Ride (Jolyon
Skinner/Eltesa Weathersby/Michael
Zager)
Sources:
- http://www.discogs.com/artist/Eltesa+Weathersby
- http://www.discomusic.com/records-more/4667_0_2_0_C/
- https://music.msn.com/music/artist-credits/eltesa-weathersby/?sb=3&startingItem=1&ipp=10
- http://65.55.14.126/music/album/lenny-white/attitude/
- http://www.warr.org/brass.html
- http://www.dismarc.org/index.php?form=search&db=0&fieldnames[]=dmOAP-Contributor&operators[]=and&searchvalues[]=Eltesa%20Weathersby
- http://www.faqs.org/copyright/ive-got-a-feeling-the-way-i-feel-right-now-by-junior-wells-2/
- http://www.tangerinemusic.com/Tangerine%20History.htm
- http://www.answers.com/topic/love-trippin-original-edition-2005-album-by-the-spinners
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