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Most widely known for co-founding soft rock and roll hitmakers Bread, vocalist/songwriter Wayne Griffin also won an Academy Honor for co-authoring 1970’s smash “FOR EVERYONE WE REALIZE.” Delivered in Cincinnati on August 10, 1943, Griffin grew up in Memphis, developing up in a nearby that housed rock and roll & …

Some people still have them mixed up, to get it direct from the outset, Little Johnny Taylor was most widely known for his scorching gradual blues smashes “IN YOUR FREE TIME Love” (for Bay Area-based Galaxy Records in 1963) and 1971’s “EVERYONE KNOWS About My POSITIVE THING” for Ronn Records …

Avant-garde tenor saxophonist Frank Lowe evolved over time from an unrestrained, free-blowing energy participant into a flexible, multi-hued improviser who non-etheless remained underground for some of his profession. Given birth to in Memphis in 1943, Lowe started playing tenor at age group 12, studied in the SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA …

Barbara Pittman’s state to fame is the fact that she was the only real female musician signed to Sam Phillips’ Sunlight Information — other women recorded for the label, but only Pittman was presented with a agreement. That by itself would secure her place being a footnote in music background, …