Tiny Topsy was one of those marvellous big-voiced women of the mid to late 50s, in the vocal style of Big Maybelle, LaVern Baker and Big Mama Thornton, who possessed a set of lungs to match her 250 pound physique. She was born May 22, 1930 in Chicago and began performing with Al Smith’s band in Chicago in 1945. This group split in 1952, with Smith becoming an in-house band leader for the likes of Chance, Parrot and Vee-Jay, but without Tiny's involvement.

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