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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 prime impact on Small Richard during his formative years, “Prince from the Blues” Billy Wright’s hearty shouting delivery was an Atlanta staple through the postwar years. Wright was a normal at Atlanta’s 81 Theater as a youngsters, bathing in the vaudevillians before graduating to performing and dancing position there …

If Redd Foxx was the ruler from the party record through the ’50s and ’60s, after that certainly Rudy Ray Moore upped the ante through the ’70s having a succession of triple-X-rated platters which were thus hot most shops could only offer them beneath the counter-top, even through the height …

Screamin’ Jay Hawkins was probably the most outrageous performer extant during rock’s dawn. Susceptible to emerging from coffins on-stage, a flaming skull called Henry his continuous friend, Screamin’ Jay was an insanely theatrical shape long before it had been even remotely suitable. Hawkins’ life tale is nearly as bizarre as …

Using a six-inch pompadour, brocaded shirts, rhinestone shades, along with a rhythmic, belligerent design of piano playing, Esquerita was the initial Little Richard, years before Mr. Penniman tutti-frutti’d his method to stardom. Functioning around the Dallas-New Orleans circuit in the first ’50s, Esquerita’s shot on the big time emerged when …

He just had several strikes in the 1950s and early ’60s, but while Bo Diddley sang, “You Can’t Judge a Publication by Its Cover.” You can’t judge an designer by his graph achievement, either, and Diddley created greater and much more important music than basically a small number of the …