News & Updates — Don Covay

Singer & songwriter Don Covay came out of DC singing gospel with The Rainbows (a group that has included Marvin Gaye and another March 24 birthday Billy Stewart), making a debut recording in 1956. The next year he went to work for and tour with Little Richard. He recorded some tunes for Atlantic, Columbia and other smaller labels, did some writing at the Brill Building, and started to come into his own when he re-signed with Atlantic, and saw a big 1964 hit with "Mercy, Mercy" (with a young Jimi Hendrix on guitar). Atlantic sent him down to Stax to...