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WASHINGTON (AP) — Two groups with ties to the 1950s R&B group The Clovers who had been fighting over the use of the band's name have come to an agreement. Lawyers for the two groups filed a ...
Blue Rhythms: Six Lives in Rhythm and Blues By Chip Deffaa University of Illinois Press, 301 pages, $29.95 Prior to the rapid, mid-1950s rise of rock ‘n’ roll, the driving sound of rhythm and ...
(CBS/AP) Herb Reed, the last surviving original member of the 1950s R&B vocal group the Platters, has died in Boston at the age of 83. The group's hits like "Only You" and "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes ...
Billy Mitchell, a former singer with the rhythm-and-blues group the Clovers, who was best known for his rollicking rendition of "Love Potion No. 9," died Tuesday at a hospital in Washington, D.C ...
The 1950s. The dawning of a new era in popular music. The birth of rock & roll. James Brown and Chuck Berry. Elvis Presley ...
Zola Taylor, who broke gender barriers as the first female member of the 1950s R&B group The Platters and later became entangled in a public soap opera as one of three women claiming to be pop ...
Lloyd Price, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer behind the groundbreaking 1950s pop/R&B hits “Personality” and “Stagger Lee,” died on May 3 at the age of 88.
WASHINGTON (AP) Two groups with ties to the 1950s R&B group The Clovers who had been fighting over the use of the band's name have come to an agreement. Lawyers for the two groups filed a document ...
It's worth watching the premiere of CBS’ “The Crazy Ones” to watch Kelly Clarkson sing the 1950s R&B classic “It Ain’t the Meat, It’s the Motion.” Would that everything else about ...
Guitar great Steve Cropper pays tribute to the 1950s R&B/doo-wop act the 5 Royales (inset) on his new album, with the help of artists such as B.B. King. Courtesy Neal Peters Collection Album of ...