Ruth Brown - Mama (He Treats Your Daughter Mean)

Remembering RUTH BROWN (Jan 12th 1928 - Nov 17th 2006)
NOTE: I've upscaled and colourised this clip of the amazing RUTH BROWN - American singer-songwriter and actress, sometimes known as the "Queen of R&B" - performing (MAMA) HE TREATS YOUR DAUGHTER MEAN.
Written by Johnny Wallace and Herbert J. Lance and recorded by Ruth Brown in 1952, this was Brown's third number-one record on the US Billboard R&B chart and her first pop chart hit.
According to Atlantic Records producer Herb Abramson, Lance wrote the song with his friend Wallace (the brother of the boxer Coley Wallace) after the pair had heard a blues singer on the street in Atlanta, Georgia, singing a mournful song that included the title in its lyrics.
The song they heard may have been "One Dime Blues", sung by Blind Lemon Jefferson in the 1920s, which in the lyrics had the line "Mama, don't treat your daughter mean," and recorded by Blind Willie McTell in 1949.
Ruth Brown initially disliked the song but...
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...was persuaded by Lance and Wallace to record it in December 1952, after Abramson had speeded up its tempo.
The song was subsequently recorded by many others, including Anita Wood (1960), Sarah Vaughan (1962), Delaney & Bonnie (1970), Koko Taylor (1975), and Susan Tedeschi (1998). Brown re-recorded the song in 1962, when it made number 99 on the US pop chart.
RUTH BROWN
During her long career, Ruth won popularity awards in two different musical eras, but her lasting achievement lay in the reforms she campaigned for and won within the music industry. Many artists who had been exploited in the past gained financially because of them.
In the business arena, Brown employed the drive and colourful language that characterised her blues-inflected songs. She liked sexual innuendos, such as the supposed furniture sales pitch of If I Can't Sell It, I'll Keep Sitting On It in Black and Blue, her 1989 Broadway revue, but with industry politics she was blunter. "Crumbs from a rich man's label," she scoffed at a "gift" of $1,000 from Atlantic Records magnate Ahmet Ertegun during a fees dispute.
His record company was nicknamed "the house that Ruth built" after Ertegun heard Brown sing, and signed her in 1948. Although he could take credit for persuading her to switch from ballads to R&B, the numerous hits she made over the next decade lifted the young Atlantic label into big earnings. Among Brown's successes were the 11-week chart topper in 1950, Teardrops from My Eyes; the ballad So Long; the rocking [Mama] He Treats Your Daughter Mean; I'll Wait for You; I Know; Lucky Lips; 5-10-15 Hours [of Your Love], another number one hit; Mambo Baby; Oh What a Dream; and Don't Deceive Me, in 1960, when she left Atlantic.
By then the era's leading popular singer, Frankie Laine, known as Mr Rhythm, was calling her Miss Rhythm. She toured with Ray Charles, Billy Eckstine, Clyde McPhatter and Jackie Wilson. Little Richard said he borrowed his trademark "Lucille-aagh" shriek from her. Yet suddenly she faded away.

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What year was this?

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I think it’s 1950’s, not sure