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Using their exciting Jubilee-style harmonizing, the Delta Rhythm Boys helped to bridge the R&B vocal sets of the 1930s and ’40s as well as the doo wop sets of the 1950s. While they capped their early achievement with advanced renditions of traditional music, “Dry Bone fragments” and Ellington’s “Consider the …

They called Atlantic Records “the home that Ruth built” through the 1950s, plus they weren’t discussing the Sultan of Swat. Ruth Brown’s regal hitmaking reign from 1949 towards the close from the ’50s helped immensely to establish the brand new York label’s predominance in the R&B field. Afterwards, the business …

Few feminine R&B famous actors enjoyed the type of constant acclaim Etta Wayne received within a career that spanned 6 decades; the celebrated maker Jerry Wexler once known as her “the best of all contemporary blues performers,” and she documented several enduring strikes, including “FINALLY,” “Inform Mama,” “I’d Rather Move …

LaVern Baker was among the sexiest divas gracing the mid-’50s rock and roll & move circuit, boasting a brashly seductive vocal delivery tailor-made for belting the catchy novelties “Tweedlee Dee,” “Bop-Ting-a-Ling,” and “Tra La La” for Atlantic Information during rock’s initial influx of prominence. Blessed Delores Williams, she was performing …

The unrivaled Soul Queen of New Orleans — a title officially bestowed by regional officials, believe it or not — Irma Thomas ranks among Crescent City R&B’s greatest & most enduring music ambassadors, under no circumstances enjoying the coast-to-coast commercial success of contemporaries like Aretha Franklin and Etta James but …

Varetta Dillard was among the great unknown blues shouters from the 1950s. A two-time champion from the Apollo Theater’s novice competition, she documented solo so when an integral part of a duo that she distributed to vocalist/pianist H-Bomb Ferguson. Authorized by Savoy in 1951, her singles included “Easy Easy Baby” …

Dinah Washington was simultaneously perhaps one of the most beloved and controversial singers from the mid-20th hundred years — beloved to her fans, devotees, and fellow singers; questionable to critics who still accuse her of offering out her artwork to business and bad flavor. Her primary sin, evidently, was to …

A favorite entertainer who recorded often for Capitol during 1944-1950, Julia Lee’s double-entendre music and rocking piano produced her a significant attraction in Kansas Town. She performed piano and sang in her sibling George E. Lee’s Orchestra during 1920-1934, documenting with him in 1927 and 1929 (including “EASILY Could Be …

b. 6 August 1961, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Learning clarinet from age eight, Goines started adding various associates from the saxophone family members to his instrumental arsenal while participating in senior high school. In 1980 he examined clarinet and saxophones at Loyola School, graduating in 1984. Quickly before graduation, he …

Ella Johnson made her tag because the vocalist with her sibling Pal Johnson’s big music group through the ’40s and ’50s, which is the framework where she really shines. Her later on solo edges for Mercury are pale imitations of her use the band. Although some of Ella’s strikes are …