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Lee Dorsey is tagged as: soul, funk, new orleans, rhythm and blues, 60s

Born Irving Lee Dorsey in New Orleans, Louisiana, Dorsey moved to Portland, Oregon when he was ten years old. He served in the United States Navy and began a career in prizefighting. Boxing as a light heavyweight in Portland in the early 1950s, he fought under the name “Kid Chocolate” and was quite successful.
Dorsey met songwriter/producer Allen Toussaint at a party in the early 1960s, and was signed to the Fury record label. The song that launched his career was inspired by a group of children chanting nursery rhymes[1] - “Ya Ya” went to number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1961. He recorded other songs for Fury before the label folded, and Dorsey went back to his car repair business.
Toussaint later came back on the Amy label and began to work with Dorsey once again. From 1965 to 1969 Dorsey put seven songs in the Hot 100, the most successful of which was “Working In The Coal Mine” in 1966. It was to be his second and last Top Ten song. In 1970 Dorsey and Toussaint collaborated on an album entitled Yes We Can; the title song was Dorsey’s last entry in the singles chart. It was later a hit for the Pointer Sisters under the title, “Yes We Can Can”.
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Top 10 Lee Dorsey Songs
Give It Up
Ya Ya
Working In The Coal Mine
Get Out Of My Life Woman
Ride Your Pony
Give It Up - Soundtrack Version
Working in a Coalmine
Holy Cow
Yes We Can
Night People
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Top 10 Lee Dorsey Albums
Working in the CoalmineGolden Classics
The New Lee Dorsey
Ride Your Pony
20 Greatest Hits
Absolutely the Best
Yes We Can ...And Then Some
Freedom for the Funk
Working in a Coalmine
Wheelin' and Dealin': The Definitive Collection
Yes We Can/Night People
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