Mayme Watts


Mayme P. Watts, aka Maymie Watts, was an American songwriter and R&B singer. Watts is best known for co-writing the jazz standard "Alright, Okay, You Win" with Sid Wyche. Watts also co-wrote the charting songs "Give Me Your Love" and Midnight Flyer" by Nat King Cole, "Since I Made You Cry" by The Rivieras, "Point of No Return" by Adam Wade, and "Ooh! What a Day!", recorded by both Craig Douglas and Sarah Vaughan.
Watts was a vocalist with the Lionel Hampton Orchestra. She also recorded singles as a solo artist as well as in the duo Mayme & Robert.
In March 1958, Watts married Ralph Sawyer in Germany. In August 1959, Watts filed a lawsuit against former Mercury Records executive Brad Shad, for songwriting royalties she believed were owed to her from “Alright, Okay, You Win”. By the mid-1960s she was performing as a vocalist with the Walter Davis Jr. Trio, and married pianist Walter Davis.

Discography

As Maymie Watts
  • "Quicksand" / "There Goes That Train"
  • "Doo Ba Dee"
  • "Wheel of Time"
With Mayme & Robert / Maymie and Robert
  • "Ain't No Way in the World" / "Parting Tears"
  • "Sweet Lips" / "Ha Ha Hee Hee Ho Ho Hum Hum"
  • "You Ought to Know" / "That's When"