Rhythm Blues facts
While investigating facts about Rhythm & Blues and Rhythm Blues Ice Dance, I found out little known, but curios details like:
In 1954, famous rhythm-and-blues singer Johnny Ace died after jokingly pointing a gun toward himself and accidentally shooting himself with it. His last words were "It’s okay! Gun’s not loaded… see?"
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The first album release from Priority Records was by 'The California Raisins' a fictional rhythm and blues group made up of anthropomorphized raisins singing hit songs like 'I Heard It Through The Grape Vine' in order to sell more raisins. The second was Straight Outta Compton by N.W.A.
What is rhythm and blues music?
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across answering what is rhythm and blues. Here are 13 of the best facts about Rhythm & Blues Soundbar and Rhythm & Blues Hall Of Fame I managed to collect.
who was known as the father of rhythm and blues?
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In 1973 Jerry Lee Lewis played one show at the Grand Ole Opry, which barred both rock & roll and profanity. Jerry kicked off a 40-minute rock & roll show, calling himself a "rhythm and blues-singin' motherfucker". It was all revenge on the Nashville scene for his cold welcome in 1955.
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Elvis Presley's 'Hound Dog' was a rendition of a song by the same name performed by a black rhythm and blues singer by the name of Big Mama Thorton. Who also had a song called 'Ball and Chain' which had a rendition performed by Janis Joplin
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The Blues Brothers movie was declared "a modern Classic" in 2012... by the Vatican. "(The film retains) a sense of rhythm and energy that are not seen today, a comedy that takes place on the edge of the surreal”.
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Ray Charles was inducted into the Rhythm and Blues Music Hall of Fame in 2015.
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The Shredmill, an instrument created by the Blue Man Group. "It's a drum machine triggered by magnets that changes rhythm depending where they are placed on the home-made variable-speed conveyor belt."
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Johnny Ace, one of the most successful rhythms-and-blues singer of the 50s, shot himself in the back stage of a venue. His last words were "It's okay! Gun's not loaded… see?"
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Prior to 1949, the Billboard "Rhythm and Blues Records" charts were called "Race Records".
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Telescriptions of the 1950's were the pre-cursors to music videos and featured the top pop, rhythm and blues, country and jazz artists of the day.
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During the racially segregated 1950s and early '60s. James Brown, Ray Charles, Chubby Checker, Etta James, Otis Redding and dozens of others headlined at John Brown's Farm, a stop on the so-called Chitlin' Circuit before white audiences embraced rhythm-and-blues and soul music.
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Rhythm & Blues singer Johnny Ace died in a game of Russian Roulette backstage at his show on Christmas Day 1954 in Houston
Why is it called rhythm and blues?
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