Rodgers Lee Grant (January 18, 1936 – April 12, 2012) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and lyricist. After working with saxophonist Hugo Dickens in the 1950s, he became pianist for

Mongo Santamaría Ramón "Mongo" Santamaría Rodríguez (April 7, 1917 – February 1, 2003) was a Cuban percussionist and bandleader who spent most of his career in the United States. Primarily a conga drummer, Santamaría was a leading figure in the pachanga and ...

in the 1960s. In 1963, Grant wrote the hit " Yeh! Yeh!"''Songs That Reached Number One in the UK'' http://www.theofficialcharts.com/all_the_no1_songs.php?show=2 Retrieved 07/04/08 with Pat Patrick.

Jon Hendricks John Carl Hendricks (September 16, 1921 – November 22, 2017), known professionally as Jon Hendricks, was an American jazz lyricist and singer. He is one of the originators of vocalese, which adds lyrics to existing instrumental songs and rep ...

wrote lyrics for the song and recorded it with Lambert and Bavan at the

Newport Jazz Festival The Newport Jazz Festival is an annual American multi-day jazz music festival held every summer in Newport, Rhode Island. Elaine Lorillard established the festival in 1954, and she and husband Louis Lorillard financed it for many years. They hire ...

of 1963.

Georgie Fame Georgie Fame (born Clive Powell; 26 June 1943) is an English R&B and jazz musician. Fame, who had a string of 1960s hits, is still performing, often working with contemporaries such as Alan Price, Van Morrison and Bill Wyman. Fame is the on ...

and the Blue Flames had a hit with the song in 1965. Trombonist Scott Whitfield recorded two of Grant's compositions on ''Scott Whitfield Jazz Orchestra East – Live at Birdland'' (2004). Grant served in the

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. Grant moved to

Paulding, Ohio Paulding is a village in and the county seat of Paulding County, Ohio, United States. It is located predominantly in Paulding Township about 64 miles southwest of Toledo. The population was 3,605 at the 2010 census. History Paulding was a pla ...

in 2006 and died on April 12, 2012, at the age of 76 in

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