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5 unusual facts about rhythm and blues


Ashill, Devon

It was soul/R&B singer Joss Stone's teenage home (specifically, the hamlet of Rull, approximately half a mile away).

Number 1 Girl

"My Girl" has an official remix version which features Young Money rappers Tyga, Lil Twist, and hip hop/R&B singer Ciara produced by Walter Millsap III & Hallway Productionz.

Rhythm-al-ism

"I think that's when I lost my rough edges, I lost the gangster and became like an R&B pretty boy. "The name Rhythm-al-ism alone tells you what I was doing.

Talent Party

Talent Party was a Southern teen dance TV program that aired between 1964 and 1973 featuring many of the popular artists in Rhythm and blues, rock and pop music of the day.

Titus Turner

Titus Turner (May 1, 1933 – September 13, 1984) was an American R&B and East Coast blues singer and songwriter.


Alfreda Gerald

She has both a classical and R&B background and has toured and/or recorded with such artists as Warren Haynes, Wes King, Spectrum, The Gap Band, Deleon Richards, Michelle Malone, and Taliesin Orchestra.

Artist Collection: Luther Vandross

Artist Collection: Luther Vandross is a compilation album by American R&B/soul singer Luther Vandross, released in 2004 (see 2004 in music) as part of BMG International's Artist Collection series, consisting of songs from Vandross' previous efforts Luther Vandross (2001), Dance with My Father (2003), and Live Radio City Music Hall 2003 (2003) plus a brand-new remix.

Bill Doggett

His best known recording is "Honky Tonk", a rhythm and blues hit of 1956 which sold four million copies (reaching No. 1 R&B and No. 2 Pop), and which he co-wrote with Billy Butler.

Boombastic

The album spawned five singles: "In The Summertime", a cover of a Mungo Jerry classic, "Boombastic", which peaked at number 1 on the UK Singles Chart, at 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and at number 1 on the U.S. R&B chart, "Why You Treat Me So Bad?", the double A-side "Something Different" / "The Train Is Coming", and "Day Oh", which was released as a Japanese only single.

Bossip

Two months later in December, Bossip published a new "award" for most annoying celebrity of 2006 with R&B/Pop singer and actress Beyoncé Knowles as 1st position, Actor Taye Diggs at 10th position and rapper Kanye West with an honorable mention.

Box Television

The playlist is predominantly mainstream Urban Pop, Dance and R&B, although since its relaunch in Summer 2006, (and the launch of a sister channel Q) it has begun to focus more on dance music once again.

Chris Townson

Notwithstanding the Beatlemania that was sweeping the country at the time, Townson and Ellison were more interested in the rhythm and blues sound of The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds and The Who.

Donell Rush

Donell Rush (1960 – March 22, 1996) was an American R&B singer, who was signed to RCA Records in the 1990s.

Footsee

By late 1974, the Northern soul music and dance scene centered on the Wigan Casino club in Lancashire, England, was attracting increasing attention from mainstream media in the UK, at the same time as original American R&B recordings which met the musical criteria of its fans, and which were new to listeners, were becoming more difficult to find.

Frazey Ford

Ford cites Rhythm and Blues singers Ann Peebles, Roberta Flack, and Donny Hathaway as influences, and this is evident in Obadiah.

Freakbeat

The term was invented in the 1980s by the music journalist Phil Smee to retroactively describe a music style that has been described as a missing link between the early-to-mid-1960s mod R&B scene and the psychedelic rock and progressive rock genres that emerged in the late 1960s with bands such as Pink Floyd.

Freddie Bell and the Bellboys

They were one of the first white groups to play the R&B hits of the day, and honed their act in the Midwest before landing a booking at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas.

Garnet Mimms

Garnet Mimms (born Garrett Mimms on November 16, 1933 in Ashland, West Virginia) is an American singer, influential in soul music and rhythm and blues.

Glowin' Moses

Milton eventually returned to the music scene with his R&B/Soul collective, Mosaic.

Gonzo journalism

Another speculation is that the word may have been inspired by the 1960 hit song "Gonzo" by New Orleans rhythm and blues pianist James Booker.

Griffin Brothers

The Griffin Brothers were an American rhythm and blues band from Norfolk, Virginia, sometimes credited on record as the Griffin Brothers Orchestra.

Herman Grizzard

Herman Grizzard (died 1971, Nashville, Tennessee) was an American radio disc jockey who attained fame from the 1940s through the 1970s for playing rhythm and blues and other music on Nashville radio station WLAC.

Hip Hop TV

Hip Hop TV is an Italian Music TV channel devoted to hip hop, rap and rhythm and blues music, launched in Italy on SKY Italia channel 720 on October 1, 2008 with the song Laffy Taffy by D4L.

Inez and Charlie Foxx

Inez Foxx (born September 9, 1942) and her elder brother Charlie Foxx (October 23, 1939 – September 18, 1998) were an African-American rhythm and blues and soul duo from Greensboro, North Carolina.

J. J. Barnes

J. Barnes (born James Jay Barnes, November 30, 1943, Detroit, Michigan) is an American R&B singer.

Kevin Sharp

Sharp made his debut on the country music scene in 1997 with a cover of R&B artist Tony Rich's single "Nobody Knows", a cover which topped the Billboard country charts for four weeks.

Kiss TV

The playlist predominantly consists of mainstream hip-hop, Dance and R&B.

Korean diaspora

However, an increasing number of aspiring Korean American singers and actors, finding their career progress in Hollywood blocked, choose to go to South Korea through talent and modelling agencies; prominent examples include singer Brian Joo (of R&B duo Fly to the Sky) and actor Daniel Henney (who initially spoke no Korean).

Lee Magid

Lee Magid (6 April 1926 New York City – 31 March 2007 Malibu, California) was a Rhythm and blues producer and manager who worked with artists such as Clara Ward, Al Hibbler,Sam Fletcher and Della Reese.

Leo Mintz

By about 1950, Mintz noticed an increase in the number of white teenagers sifting through his boxes, listening and dancing to rhythm and blues records, such as those by Ruth Brown, Wynonie Harris and Fats Domino, which had been marketed to African Americans.

Leroy Hodges

Remaining active throughout the 1990s, Hodges appeared on albums by American R&B musicians Rufus Thomas and Bobby Rush.

Lil Greenwood

Lil Greenwood (November 18, 1924 – July 19, 2011) was an American Jazz and R&B vocalist.

Nobody's Supposed to Be Here

Canadian R&B singer Deborah Cox released the song in 1998 from her second album One Wish.

One Night with You: The Best of Love, Volume 2

One Night with You: The Best of Love, Volume 2 is a greatest hits album by American R&B/soul singer Luther Vandross, released in 1997 (see 1997 in music).

Papa Don't Take No Mess

An edited version of the song released as a two-part single in 1974 was Brown's final number one R&B hit and peaked at number thirty-one on the Hot 100.

Rhythm and Blues at the Flamingo

Rhythm and Blues at the Flamingo is a live rhythm and blues album recorded by Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames in September 1963 and released by Columbia Records on 1964.

She Called Me Baby

"He Called Me Baby" entered the R&B charts for the first time in December 1968 via a recording by Ella Washington made for Nashville-based R&B label Sound Stage 7.

Shifty Henry

Henry recorded with and arranged for the elite of jazz and rhythm and blues, including Dinah Washington, Billy Eckstine, Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus, The Treniers, Illinois Jacquet, and Miles Davis.

Sonny and his Wild Cows

This band played (and is still playing) almost all kinds of American music of the 1940s and 50's, blues, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, rock-a-billy, swing, country and western.

Syd Nathan

He contributed to the development of country & western, rhythm and blues and rock and roll music, and is credited with discovering many prominent musicians, most notably James Brown whose first single "Please, Please, Please" was released on the subsidiary label Federal in 1956.

The Bayou

The club hosted late 20th century bands such as Foreigner, U2 (their second show in the United States), the Dave Matthews Band, The New Orleans Radiators, Hootie & the Blowfish, Kiss, the Tom-Tom Club and other artists that influenced the evolution of rock as well as rhythm and blues from the '60s through the '90s.

The Essex

The Essex was an American R&B vocal group formed in 1962.

The Lita Mae Show

The Lita Mae Show is a 2005 R&B album by singer-songwriter Shei Atkins.

The Love Unlimited Orchestra

The Love Unlimited Orchestra, formed by American R&B/soul musician Barry White, was a 40-piece string-laden orchestra that served as a backing unit for White and female vocal trio Love Unlimited.

Wong shadow

Its origins lie in American R&B, surf rock artists like The Ventures, Dick Dale, Exotica, rockabilly and country and western brought over by American and Australian Soldiers serving in Vietnam in the late 1950s and early 60's when on R&R.


see also

A Shot of Rhythm and Blues

The Beatles recorded "A Shot of Rhythm and Blues" three times for the BBC in 1963, with John Lennon on lead vocals each time.

At Yankee Stadium

At Yankee Stadium is the sixth studio album from NRBQ (New Rhythm and Blues Quartet), released in 1978 on Mercury Records.

Black-appeal stations

This influence was in large part to Cleveland disc jockey Alan Freed, who developed a new term for the upbeat music that combined elements for rhythm and blues, gospel, and country.

Christopher John Farley

In 2004, at the passing of legendary rhythm and blues recording artist and singer Ray Charles, Farley and fellow journalist Anthony DeCurtis, pianist Marcus Roberts, and violinist and record producer Phil Ramone all appeared in an installment of the Charlie Rose Show, titled An Appreciation of Ray Charles, which was dedicated to the singer's music and his memory and legacy.

Clarence Henry

Clarence "Frogman" Henry (born March 19, 1937), an American rhythm and blues singer and pianist

GBO

The Graham Bond Organisation, British rhythm and blues group of the early 1960s

James Norman

Jimmy Norman, American rhythm and blues and jazz musician and a songwriter

Juggy

Juggy Murray (1923–2005), American rhythm and blues music producer

Mister Blues

Wynonie Harris (1915-1969) (aka Mister Blues), an American blues shouter and rhythm and blues singer

Mother-in-Law Lounge

The Mother-in-Law Lounge is a pub and a shrine in New Orleans, Louisiana dedicated to the memory of rhythm and blues singer, Ernie K-Doe.

Rendezvous Records

The company was founded by songwriter Leon René, who had previously set up the pioneering independent rhythm and blues labels Exclusive and Excelsior labels in the 1940s, and then Class Records in 1951.

Rhythm and Blues Revue

Rhythm and Blues Revue is a 1955 American concert film directed by Joseph Kohn and Leonard Reed.

Satan and Adam

A sometime-songwriter for Jesse Stone, Magee recorded several near-hits on Ray Charles's Tangerine label in the early 1960s, including "Get in My Arms Little Girl." His proficiency on guitar earned him gigs with a number of rhythm-and-blues performers, including James Brown, King Curtis, Big Maybelle, Joey Dee and the Starlighters, and a transvestite duo known as The Illusions That Create Confusion.

Sister Mary Ignatius Davis

In particular, Sister Ignatius nurtured the talents of tenor saxophonist Tommy McCook, trombonist Don Drummond and trumpeter Johnny "Dizzy" Moore, who went on to form the Skatalites, as well as trombonist Rico Rodriguez, who moved to Great Britain, played with the Specials on their chart-topping Special A.K.A. EP of January 1980 and is currently a member of Jools Holland's Rhythm and Blues Orchestra.

Tad Jones

Jones co-authored the history of post-World War II New Orleans Rhythm and Blues, Up from the Cradle of Jazz, with Jason Berry and Johnathan Foose.

The Hurricanes

The band play 1950s rock and roll and 1960s rhythm and blues with a modern twist covering various artists including Ray Charles, Dale Hawkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Solomon Burke, The Coasters and Muddy Waters.

The Right Time

"Night Time Is the Right Time", also known as "The Right Time", a rhythm and blues standard first recorded in 1957

Tiny Bradshaw

What is now Bradshaw's best known recording was "The Train Kept A-Rollin'" (1951) — not a chart hit at the time — which passed from rhythm and blues history into rock's legacy.