Mayme Watts

{{Short description|American songwriter and R&B singer}}

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| alias = Maymie Watts

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| occupation = Songwriter, vocalist

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| label = Groove, Glory, MGM, Roulette

| associated_acts = Lionel Hampton Orchestra, Mayme & Robert, Walter Davis Jr. Trio

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Mayme P. Watts, aka Maymie Watts, was an American songwriter and R&B singer.{{Cite web|url=https://secondhandsongs.com/artist/18367/works|title = Songs written by Mayme Watts |website=Secondhandsongs.com}} 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.{{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}}

Watts was a vocalist with the Lionel Hampton Orchestra.Washington Afro-American, March 11, 1958, Page 19 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”.Jet Magazine, Vol 16, No. 18, August 27, 1959, Page 62 By the mid-1960s she was performing as a vocalist with the Walter Davis Jr. Trio, and married pianist Walter Davis.Jet Magazine, Vol 38, No. 10, June 11, 1970, Page 33