"Searching For My Love"is one of the best rhythm and blues records of the 1960s.Bobby Moore and the Rhythm Acesare the parties responsible for it. But was it a big hit? That depends on where you lived at the time. It barely made the airwaves in New York, then was quickly gone. ...
Karlovits, Bob
Rhythm and blues (R&B) is a term that has been used to describe many African American music genres, including electronic blues, soul, funk, disco, and contemporary pop. The term has taken new meaning with each generation but was originally coined in the late 1940s to refer to a genre d...
Rhythm and blues (R&B) is a term that has been used to describe many African American music genres, including electronic blues, soul, funk, disco, and contemporary pop. The term has taken new meaning with each generation but was originally coined in the late 1940s to refer to a genre ...
of jazz (primarily swing and be-bop), and the blues. Early R&B ensembles commonly included a vocalist, electric guitar, saxophone, and a full rhythm section of piano, bass, and drums. Hit songs were upbeat and danceable, with a familiar feel due to the apparent influence of previous ...
The 12-piece band aimed for a sound roughly equivalent to Glenn Miller or Harry James consisting of four saxes, three trumpets, one trombone, piano, bass, drums and a vocalist. Women of Jazz: Concealed in the shadows of early Jazz, Blues and Popular music history are dynamic and accomplishe...
While putting the band together, Wyman and Taylor were also amassing a vast amount of potential material. "Bill has alargerecord collection," explains Terry. "So we just went through it for about six months. We had six or eight C90 cassettes filled with odd songs from like Etta James and...
came to pay their respects toSam Cookeat a memorial service in Chicago after his death, shot at the age of 33 by a frightened night manager in a cheap motel after an argument over a girl got out of hand. The entertainer’s death shocked the worlds of gospel, rhythm’n’blues, and ...
The supergroup comprised of Donald Fagen, Boz Scaggs and Michael McDonald celebrates the music of the '60s and '70s on their second summer tour.
Dick “Huggy Boy” Hugg, a pioneering rhythm and blues disc jockey whose career spanned five decades in Los Angeles radio, has died. He was 78. Hugg, whose death Wednesday at Long Beach Memorial Hospital was blamed on internal bleeding, had been battling poor health for the last several ye...