Dale & Grace
Mixing genteel, innocent ballads with touches of Creole and honky tonk piano,
Louisiana duo Robert 'Dale' Houston and Grace Broussard were one of the swamp
pop acts of the early 1960s and topped the charts with their debut single I'm
Leaving It Up To You. Houston grew up playing piano and singing in churches in
Covington County, Mississippi before being spotted in a bar by music
entrepreneur Sam Montalbanom who hired him to write for his label Montel
Records. Broussard cut her teeth playing at bistros around Louisiana with her
brother, and started singing with Houston after they ...
