Biography
In late-sixties St. Louis, Barbara Cosby teamed with Pat Ewing and Dorothy Ewing to create the vocal trio the Petites. Their lone documented release, the Teek Records single pairing "Lonely Girl" with "I Believed the Man Loved Me," scored an enormous local success that oldies programmers in the city still spin regularly. Although the group is said to have completed an album, no copy has ever surfaced. A notable milestone arrived when the Petites opened for Smokey Robinson & the Miracles during a Motown package show in their hometown.
Cosby’s earlier experience included stints with the family gospel ensemble the Crosby Singers and the secular outfit Barbara Cosby and the Comets. After the Petites disbanded, she married Charles Carr, who helped secure a short-term deal with Chess Records that produced several singles. The Chess association yielded no commercial results, so the couple started their own Ben-Carr label and issued two albums there. In 1996 she resurfaced on Ecko Records as Barbara Carr, the raunchy southern diva whose R-rated material included the tracks "Bone Me Like You Own Me," "If You Can't Cut the Mustard," and "If I Don't Holler."
Cosby’s earlier experience included stints with the family gospel ensemble the Crosby Singers and the secular outfit Barbara Cosby and the Comets. After the Petites disbanded, she married Charles Carr, who helped secure a short-term deal with Chess Records that produced several singles. The Chess association yielded no commercial results, so the couple started their own Ben-Carr label and issued two albums there. In 1996 she resurfaced on Ecko Records as Barbara Carr, the raunchy southern diva whose R-rated material included the tracks "Bone Me Like You Own Me," "If You Can't Cut the Mustard," and "If I Don't Holler."