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Donna Hightower
Immortalized by the 1972 hit "The World Today Is A Mess", Donna Hightower
recorded her first song for the Decca label twenty years earlier. Born in
Carruthersville, Missouri, on December 28, 1926, "Little" Donna Hightower
enjoyed a chequered career, from her rhythm'n'blues beginnings with two albums
released by Capitol in 1959 to her fame as a soul singer in the 1970s. Moving to
France and then Spain, she sang in English and Spanish for Columbia. Her hour of
glory over, she retired to Austin, Texas, in 1990, where she died on August 19,
2013 at the age of 86.
