It went # 20 R&B in 1965 and led to an appearance on the television show, Shindig. Bettye's pleading voice, set against the moody string arrangement by Dale Warren produced a record that is on many 'greatest soul songs of all time' lists. Let Me Down Easy, written by Dee Dee Ford, was an atmospheric masterpiece. Her association with Don and Dee Dee spawned her next big record, for the Calla label. Bettye then went back to New York and became the featured singer in the Don Gardner & Dee Dee Ford Review, where their Small's Paradise shows became the talk of the town. She then recorded a single for Detroit's Lupine label, which also failed to chart. King, Clyde McPhatter, and another newcomer, Otis Redding.ДЄfter her second Atlantic single failed to chart, she asked for a release from her contract. The record charted #7 R&B and put her on her first national tour, with Ben E. The record was quickly picked up by Atlantic for Bettye's first single was My Man - HeвЂ™s a Loving Man, in the fall of 1962. Singer Timmy Shaw brought her to Johnnie Mae Matthews, a notorious Detroit record producer. She knew a local groupie by the name of Sherma Lavett, liked the sound of the name, and thus, Bettye LaVette was born. She decided to change her name to something more dramatic. these were her roots.Д«y 16, Betty Jo had become enamored with showbiz. The '5' Royales, Dinah Washington, Bobby 'Blue' Bland, Red Foley. Unlike many of her contemporaries, Bettye did not get her start in the church, but in that very same living room, where there was a jukebox, filled with the blues, country & western, and R&B records of the time. Her parents sold corn liquor and her living room was oft-times visited by The Soul Stirrers, The Blind Boys of Mississippi, and many other traveling gospel groups of the day. Her family moved to Detroit when she was six years old. She was born Betty Jo Haskins on January 29,1946, in Muskegon, Michigan. To quote the late, great George Jones: 'Bettye is truly a 'singer's singer'.' Bettye is one of very few of her contemporaries who were recording during the birth of soul music in the 1960s and is still creating vital recordings today. Hailed by the New York Times as вЂњone of the great soul interpreters of her generationвЂќ, Bettye LaVette is a vocalist who can take any type of song and make it completely her own.

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