Tag Archives: Early R&B

Friendly, talented Otis Leavill Cobb was created Feb 8, 1937, in Dewey Rose, GA. The Cobb family members relocated to Chicago 2 yrs later and resolved in the Londale region within the Westside. Leavill experienced four brothers and two sisters. His dad pastored the First Chapel of Deliverance on South …

Few 1950s rock & roll tunesmiths were as prolifically skilled as Otis Blackwell. His immortal compositions consist of Small Willie John’s “Fever,” Elvis Presley’s “AVOID BEING Cruel” and “All Shook Up,” Jerry Lee Lewis’ “Great Balls of Fireplace” and “Breathless,” and Jimmy Jones’ “Helpful Guy” (simply for beginners). Though he …

Best known for his or her hit solitary “Globe Angel,” the doo wop quartet the Penguins were never in a position to replicate the achievement of their just Top 40 strike, but the music nevertheless became a rock and roll & roll basic. The Penguins shaped in 1954, when the …

The Nutmegs are remembered today for his or her enduring East Coastline doo wop classic, 1955’s R&B smash hit “Tale Untold” (number 2 in the U.S.). The group continuing to have local achievement in the northeastern U.S., rating a high 20 regional strike with “Dispatch of Like.” Nearly ten years …

Throughout their long careers as both solo performers so that as members of the group that bore their family name, the Neville Brothers proudly carried the torch of their native New Orleans’ rich R&B legacy. Even though the four siblings — Arthur, Charles, Aaron, and Cyril — didn’t officially unite …

Categorised as “Motown’s best-kept secret,” the Originals scored just a small number of chart hits throughout their lengthy career, especially the effective 1969 ballad “Baby I’m for True,” yet their behind-the-scenes contributions mainly because songwriters and backing vocalists cement their put in place the label’s enduring legacy. The Originals had …

Although this duo is mainly remembered being a one-hit act — for “Like Is Strange,” which reached number 11 in 1957 — they in fact recorded a number of exciting hybrids of R&B and rock and roll & move in the mid- and later ’50s. Playing on countless ’50s periods …

A rock ‘n’ move vocal group from Manhattan, NEW YORK, NY, USA, who had one strike song, ‘Tell Me personally Why’ (1957). People originated from Dewitt Clinton SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL and had been Norm Fox (business lead tenor), Bobby Troutman (tenor), Andre Lilly (second tenor), Bobby Thierer (baritone) and Hype …

The brother of vocalist Arthur Prysock, Crimson Prysock is a hard-driving, energetic tenor saxophonist who hasn’t only backed his brother on several hits for Aged City in the ’50s and ’60s, but also used Tiny Bradshaw. Crimson Prysock also was a favorite jukebox musician in the middle-’50s for Mercury, though …

Anyone scanning this could be forgiven for being unsure of very much about Melvin Smith. Certainly, if lots of thousand listeners actually keep in mind the name of “Looped,” his most well-known recording of the first ’50s, that might be amazing. Inside a 15-yr recording profession, Smith under no circumstances …