Rosie Hamlin was the Rosie of Rosie the Originals, who had a memorable one-shot hit with the ballad "Angel Baby" in 1960. Hamlin, who wrote "Angel Baby" and much of the other material she recorded, set herself aside from many other average rock singers of the time with the high, almost childish timbre of her vocals, heard to best effect when she went into especially high, wordless "woo, ooo" phrases. Rosie the Originals broke up shortly after "Angel Baby" was a hit, and the singer went on to record, billed only as Rosie, for Brunswick in the early '60s, getting one small hit with "Lonely Blue Nights." Hamlin lacked the vocal or emotional range to make a lasting impact; many of her songs were slow, simple doo wop-ish ballads that sounded similar to, but were not as good as, "Angel Baby." She retired from music to raise a family after the early '60s, although she did reenter the studio in 1969 to record material that was similar to her early releases, in an updated style. Unissued at the time, it came out in 1999 on the Ace CD The Best of Rosie the Originals, which also included about a dozen of her early-'60s recordings. Rosie Hamlin died in March 2017 at the age of 71. ~ Richie Unterberger, Rovi