1960
GEE WHIZ * CARLA THOMAS * ATLANTIC 2086 * USA
The daughter of Rufus Thomas, Carla was born in 1942, and as a ten year old she sang with the Teen-Town Singers. She left the group at eighteen and cut Cause I Love You / Deep Down Inside with her father, for the proto Stax label Satellite # 102. She then recorded Gee Whiz (the same song had already been turned down by Vee Jay) for Satellite; it was a song she had written when only sixteen, only sixteen, she was only sixteen, it was issued in 1960 as Satellite 104, then later in the year it was put out on the Atlantic label.