1. Freddie Scott was an American soul singer and songwriter.
11 Facts About Freddie Scott
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Freddie Scott was conscripted for the USMilitary, but continued to record for small labels with little success.
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Freddie Scott continued to release his own records, including "Baby, You're a Long Time Dead" for Joy Records in 1961.
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Freddie Scott followed it with a slow version of Ray Charles' "I Got a Woman", which again made the charts.
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Freddie Scott left Columbia Records in 1965, and moved to the Shout label, a subsidiary of Bert Berns' Bang Records.
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Freddie Scott followed up with a version of "Cry to Me", another Berns song that had previously been a hit for Solomon Burke and Betty Harris.
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Freddie Scott continued to perform, but spent much of the next two years without a record deal.
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Freddie Scott recorded in the early 1970s for the Vanguard, Pickwick International and Mainstream labels, and continued to perform concerts.
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Freddie Scott later worked on the oldies circuit, and released a new album, Brand New Man, in 2001.
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Freddie Scott performed "Brown Eyed Girl" on the Van Morrison tribute album Vanthology, released in 2003.
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Freddie Scott died in New York City in 2007 at the age of 74.