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Mayme Watts

Mayme Watts is credited on 777 releases across 229 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1953–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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777

Pressings credited

229

Albums

8

Decades active

42

In collections

Biography

Mayme P. Watts, aka Maymie Watts, was an American songwriter and R&B singer. Watts is best known for co-writing the jazz standard "Alright, Okay, You Win" with Sid Wyche. Watts also co-wrote (with Robert Mosely) the charting songs "Give Me Your Love" and "Midnight Flyer" by Nat King Cole, "Since I Made You Cry" by The Rivieras, "Point of No Return" by Adam Wade, and "Ooh! What a Day!", recorded by both Craig Douglas and Sarah Vaughan. Watts was a vocalist with the Lionel Hampton Orchestra. She also recorded singles as a solo artist as well as in the duo Mayme & Robert. In March 1958, Watts married Ralph Sawyer in Germany. In August 1959, Watts filed a lawsuit against former Mercury Records executive Brad Shad, for songwriting royalties she believed were owed to her from “Alright, Okay, You Win”. By the mid-1960s she was performing as a vocalist with the Walter Davis Jr. Trio, and married pianist Walter Davis.

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777 releases · 229 albums · active 1953–2025

  • Performance · 784
  • Other credits · 4

Studios: Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco, California · The Copacabana Nightclub · Montreux Jazz Festival · Studio Davout

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