Greta Keller – Blue Moon 1935

Margaretha Keller was born in Vienna, Austria in 1903. She was trained in dance and acting and appeared onstage with Marlene Dietrich and was a model for how Dietrich developed her own voice and style. A record contract in 1929 was her big break taking her to Berlin and Prague, then to London and New York. She lived in Hollywood in the 1940s and was married to the wealthy David Bacon. Bacon was murdered in 1943 and Greta returned to Switzerland and Vienna to restart her career. She made numerous voyages back to the US For 45 years Keller made records from the earliest Victrola days to the dawn of CDs. She acted in film, performed radio concerts, hotels clubs (notably New York’s Waldorf), musicals, revues, and foremost was a recording artist.
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“I’m Gonna Love You Just A Little Bit More, Baby” is a song written, produced and recorded by Barry White (September 12, 1944 – July 4, 2003). Considering how successful it would end up being, it would probably come as a surprise that, for many years, White had little to no interest in a recording career. White was born Barrence Eugene Carter in Galveston, Texas and grew up in the high-crime areas of South Central Los Angeles. At 17, he was jailed for four months for stealing 000 worth of Cadillac tires. While in prison, White listened to Elvis Presley singing “It’s Now Or Never” on the radio, an experience he later credited with changing the course of his life. After his release, he left gang life and began a musical career at the dawn of the 1960s in singing groups before going out on his own in the middle of the decade. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, he built up a good resume as an arranger/producer and songwriter for singers Felice Taylor and Viola Wills and in 1972, White found great commercial success on the US Pop and R&B charts with “Walkin’ In The Rain (With The One I Love)”, a song he wrote, arranged and made a brief, non-singing cameo on that was recorded by the female vocal trio Love Unlimited and released by the MCA-owned label, Uni Records. White’s relationship with Uni would soon sour due to the departure of label-head Russ Regan. With Love Unlimited still contract-bound to Uni, White decided to work with another artist, specifically a male one …
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