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Viola Wills

Viola Mae Wilkerson (December 30, 1939 – May 6, 2009), known professionally as Viola Wills, was an American pop and R&B singer, best known for her covers of classics and other standards such as Patience and Prudence's "Gonna Get Along Without You Now" (1979), Gordon Lightfoot's "If You Could Read My Mind" (1980), The Drifters' "Up on the Roof" (1980), "Always Something There To Remind Me" by Burt Bacharach and Hal David (1980), the Doris Day single "Secret Love" (1980), Chicago's "If You Leave Me Now" (1981) and Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides Now" (1986). She also recorded one of the few dance versions of the Burt Bacharach and Hal David classic "A House Is Not a Home" (1994), which is a different song from the similarly titled "House Is Not a Home" by Deborah Cox. Her cover of the Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler torch song "Stormy Weather" peaked at No.

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Viola Wills

Name
Viola Wills
Birth Name
Viola Mae Wilkerson
Born
December 30, 1939
Birthplace
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Died
May 6, 2009 (aged 69)
Place of death
Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.
Occupation
Singer, songwriter
Nationality
United States
Fields
pop music

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Viola Mae Wilkerson (December 30, 1939 – May 6, 2009), known professionally as Viola Wills, was an American pop and R&B singer, best known for her covers of classics and other standards such as Patience and Prudence's "Gonna Get Along Without You Now" (1979), Gordon Lightfoot's "If You Could Read My Mind" (1980), The Drifters' "Up on the Roof" (1980), "Always Something There To Remind Me" by Burt Bacharach and Hal David (1980), the Doris Day single "Secret Love" (1980), Chicago's "If You Leave Me Now" (1981) and Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides Now" (1986). She also recorded one of the few dance versions of the Burt Bacharach and Hal David classic "A House Is Not a Home" (1994), which is a different song from the similarly titled "House Is Not a Home" by Deborah Cox. Her cover of the Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler torch song "Stormy Weather" peaked at No.

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