1978

GIRLS * HORTENSE ELLIS * MANDINGO * JA

Hortense Ellis, who also sang as Mahalia Saunders, giving advice to the girls on this song; which was originally recorded by Betty Wright  as Girls Can't Do What The Guys Do a decade earlier, as the first issue on Henry Stone's Alston records. Mother of fourteen children and sister to the more famous Alton Ellis, Hortense Ellis was born in 1949 and died October 2000.

See also: Easy Squeeze


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