{{Short description|American songwriter and R&B singer}} {{refimprove|date=September 2021}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Mayme Watts | image = | caption = | image_size = | birth_name = | alias = Maymie Watts | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | instrument = | genre = | occupation = Songwriter, vocalist | years_active = | label = Groove, Glory, MGM, Roulette | past_member_of = Lionel Hampton Orchestra, Mayme & Robert, Walter Davis Jr. Trio | website = }}
'''Mayme P. Watts''', aka '''Maymie Watts''', was an American songwriter and R&B singer.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://secondhandsongs.com/artist/18367/works|title = Songs written by Mayme Watts |website=Secondhandsongs.com}}</ref> Watts is best known for co-writing the jazz standard "Alright, Okay, You Win" with Sid Wyche.{{cn|date=September 2021}} Watts also co-wrote (with Robert Mosely) 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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.musicvf.com/songs.php?page=artist&artist=Mayme+Watts&tab=songaswriterchartstab|title=Mayme Watts • Top Songs as Writer|website=Musicvf.com|accessdate=30 March 2023}}</ref>
Watts was a vocalist with the Lionel Hampton Orchestra.<ref name="auto">Washington Afro-American, March 11, 1958, Page 19</ref> 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.<ref name="auto"/> 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”.<ref>Jet Magazine, Vol 16, No. 18, August 27, 1959, Page 62</ref> By the mid-1960s she was performing as a vocalist with the Walter Davis Jr. Trio, and married pianist Walter Davis.<ref>Jet Magazine, Vol 38, No. 10, June 11, 1970, Page 33</ref>
== Discography == '''As Maymie Watts''' (solo) * "Quicksand" / "There Goes That Train" (Groove 4G-0103, 1955) * "Doo Ba Dee" (Track 23, Rockin' the Groove, Bear Family BCD 17412, 2016) * "Wheel of Time" (Track 35, Rockin' The Groove, Bear Family BCD 17412, 2016) '''With Mayme & Robert / Maymie and Robert''' * "Ain't No Way in the World" / "Parting Tears" (Glory 45-260, 1957) * "Sweet Lips" / "Ha Ha Hee Hee Ho Ho Hum Hum" (MGM K12702, 1958) * "You Ought to Know" / "That's When" (Roulette R-4347, 1961)
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