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Deek Watson And His Brown Dots
Deek Watson And His Brown Dots
Sentimental Reasons
It didn't take long for Ivory 'Deek' Watson to get his own thing together after leaving The Ink Spots in the autumn of 1944. It hadn't been an amicable parting. Deek and lead tenor Bill Kenny weren't getting along, and shortly after Watson's exit, he and Charlie Fuqua sued Kenny, ultimately to no avail. When the legal smoke cleared, Deek was enjoined from forming a competing Ink Spots group. So in January of '45, he assembled a new quartet with a very similar name: The Brown Dots. The extroverted tenor was joined by tenor Joe King, bass Jimmy Gordon, and baritone/guitarist William 'Pat' Best.
The newly minted group played the Apollo in early February, and they hooked up with Irving Berman's Manor Records. At their first Manor date, they cut Best's lovely ballad Sentimental Reasons with King's tenor up front. Issued that summer with Watson's name mistakenly cited as composer, the song might have come and gone unnoticed had Lou Levy of Leeds Music not taken an interest. Convinced Sentimental Reasons had pop potential, Levy bought the rights from Best for $2500. Soon Nat King Cole, Eddy Howard, Dinah Shore, and Ella Fitzgerald were wrapping their pipes around Best's confection, proving Levy prophetic. Manor had The Brown Dots recut the song in September of '46, but they never did hit with it.
King was gone from The Brown Dots before the end of 1945, replaced by Jimmy Nabbie. The group recorded steadily for Manor, starred on network radio, and appeared in the 1946 films 'Boy! What A Girl!' and 'Sepia Cinderella.' All of them parted ways with Watson in late '46, adding tenor Danny Owens and recording for Manor as The Sentimentalists. In addition to cutting on their own, they backed Savannah Churchill on her '47 Manor smash I Want To Be Loved (But Only By You) as well as her '48 hits Time Out For Tears and I Want To Cry. By then, they were known as The Four Tunes. Watson put together another assemblage of Dots and made more recordings with little success.
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