Performance · Production
Big Dee Irwin
Big Dee Irwin is credited on 309 releases across 62 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1958–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
309
Pressings credited
62
Albums
8
Decades active
39
In collections
Biography
DiFosco "Dee" T. Ervin Jr. (July 6, 1932 – August 27, 1995), better known as Big Dee Irwin, was an American R&B singer and songwriter whose biggest hit was a version of "Swinging on a Star" in 1963, recorded as a duet with Little Eva.
Bio from Wikipedia
Credited work
309 releases · 62 albums · active 1958–2025
- Performance · 334
- Production · 24
- Other credits · 9
Studios: Stax Recording Studios · Mirasound Studios · Criteria Recording Studios · RCA's Music Center Of The World
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- The Hollies
- Little Eva
- Ray Charles
- Dee Irwin
- The Whispers
- The Pastels (2)
- Sylvie Vartan
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