A name known to many a teenager in the 1950s was Thurston Harris. This African-American sisnger was born in Indianapolis and in the early 1950s, moved to Los Angeles and joined The Lamplighters. The group changed its name once or twice, then disbanded (no pun intended), and Harris went solo, recording a song written by Bobby Day, Little Bitty Pretty One, a big dance hit in 1957.
His 1958 recording of Do What You Did moved onto the charts but didn't do nearly as well as his big hit of the previous year, possibly due to DJ discomfort about playing such a suggestive song on the air.
The rest of Harris' life was difficult, including drug use, and a heart attack claimed him in 1990.
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