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GUEST,Bob Coltman Origins: Baby Did You Hear (31) RE: Origins: Baby Did You Hear 15 Nov 12

"Ecton, Lee," from an fm broadcast site with no other information, is a credit associated with Dinah Washington, all right. These are two people, evidently in songwriter roles, given as Katie Ecton and Robert Lee.

Whether this, c. 1959, amounts to Katie Lee and a husband? or associate? I don't know. Could Katie Ecton be Katie Lee's maiden name?

There's also wiggle room to interpret "Robert Lee" as a pseudonym for Dinah Washington herself, but I can't be sure.

In any case, Ecton and Lee can only legitimately have been getting credit as arrangers. Composers they were not, as the song preexisted them by a good nine years at least.

Interesting sidelight.

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