Thursday music corner: American R&B singer Lee Dorsey (b. New Orleans, 1924, d. New Orleans, 1986) was a childhood friend of Fats Domino and served in the US Navy in World War II. Having moved with his family to Oregon at age 10, he returned to the city of his birth in his early thirties and began singing in night clubs alongside his car repair day job. He released his first single Rock in 1959, but it was his third in 1961, Ya Ya, that achieved breakthrough success, topping the R&B charts and reaching number seven in the US pop charts. He went on to work extensively with producer Allen Toussaint and backing group The Meters.
The loping funk of Who's Gonna Help Brother Get Further is an album track from Dorsey's 1970 LP Yes We Can. A single from the album, Sneakin' Sally Through The Alley, was penned by Toussaint and later became a track and debut album title for Robert Palmer in 1974; Toussaint produced the album and the Meters and Little Feat's Lowell George backed Palmer on it.
Lee Dorsey - Who's Gonna Help Brother Get Further (1970)
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