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Chitlin' Circuit. The Chitlin' Circuit was a collection of performance venues found throughout the eastern, southern, and upper Midwest areas of the United States. They provided commercial and cultural acceptance for African-American musicians, comedians, and other entertainers following the era of venues run by the "white-owned-and-operated ...
In the early 1960s, Kuban was a music teacher and band director at Bishop DuBourg High School, a Catholic secondary school in St. Louis. In 1964, he formed the group Bob Kuban and The In-Men. [2] Kuban was both its drummer and the bandleader. [2] The group was an eight-piece band with horns, [2] somewhat of a throwback for the time, considering ...
List of R&B musicians encompasses sub-genres such as urban-contemporary, doo wop, southern, neo-soul and soul, indie, alternative, country, rap, ska, funk, pop, rock, electronic and new jack swing fusions.
The Inaugural Rhythm & Blues Music Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony was held on August 17, 2013 at the Waetjen Auditorium at Cleveland State University in Cleveland. [11] The first class of inductees included recording acts The Supremes, The Temptations, The Marvelettes, The O'Jays, [9] Martha & The Vandellas (Martha Reeves, Rosalind Holmes, and Annette Helton), The Dramatics, Ruby & The ...
W. C. Handy. " The Saint Louis Blues " (or " St. Louis Blues ") is a popular American song composed by W. C. Handy in the blues style and published in September 1914. It was one of the first blues songs to succeed as a pop song and remains a fundamental part of jazz musicians' repertoire. Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, Bing ...
Jerry Fisher. Jerry Donald Fisher (born March 1, 1942, DeKalb, Texas, United States) is an American R&B singer – Texas-born and Oklahoma-reared – known internationally for being the lead vocalist with Blood, Sweat & Tears from 1971 to 1975. He is known to Dallas music fans for his R&B gigs from 1964 to 1972, and known in Bay Saint Louis as ...
Cornell Iral Haynes Jr.[ 3] (born November 2, 1974), [ 3] better known by his stage name Nelly, is an American rapper, singer, and actor. He grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, and embarked on his musical career in 1993 as a member of the Midwest hip hop group St. Lunatics. He signed with Universal Records in 1999 as a solo act to release his debut ...
number-one R&B songs of 1945. Cootie Williams topped the final Harlem Hit Parade chart with "Somebody's Gotta Go". At the start of 1945, Billboard magazine published a chart ranking the "most popular records in Harlem " under the title of the Harlem Hit Parade. Placings were based on a survey of record stores primarily in the Harlem district of ...