• Rockin' Rhythm and Blues is an album by Jerry Lee Lewis released in 1969 on the Sun Record Company label. It is a compilation of his early Sun Records...
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  • controversial marriage at the age of 13 to rock and roll musician Jerry Lee Lewis, who was her first cousin once removed and was 22 at the time. She co-wrote the...
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    Lost and Found. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. ISBN 9781441125880. Billboard. January 1, 1964. Escott, Colin; Hawkins, Martin (August 1, 2017). Good Rockin' Tonight:...
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  • instruments. It was popular in the 1940s and was a precursor of rhythm and blues and rock and roll. Appreciation of jump blues was renewed in the 1990s as part...
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    Jerry Lee Lewis (category American blues pianists)
    Bopper's "Chantilly Lace" and Mack Vickery's "Rockin' My Life Away". In the 21st century, Lewis continued to tour worldwide and release new albums. His...
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    and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the African-American culture. The blues form is ubiquitous in jazz, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll, and...
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    Rhythm and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is a genre of popular music that originated within African American communities in the 1940s...
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  • Butt Rockin' is the third studio album by Texas-based blues rock band the Fabulous Thunderbirds, released in 1981. The recording took the band closer to...
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  • is a jump blues song originally released in 1947 by its writer, Roy Brown and was covered by many recording artists (sometimes as Good Rockin' Tonight)...
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    New Orleans rhythm and blues is a style of rhythm and blues that originated in New Orleans. It was a direct precursor to rock and roll and strongly influenced...
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    released 2002 Classics (Blues & Rhythm Series) 5090, The Chronological Roy Brown 1951–1953, released 2004 Collectables 2882, Rockin' at Midnight: The Very...
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  • 1940s and early 1950s. It originated from African American music such as jazz, rhythm and blues, boogie-woogie, electric blues, gospel, and jump blues, as...
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  • with a heavy rhythm and blues basis. Formed originally in Worcestershire from an existing cover band, it has had many members come and go, including...
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  • The Rhythm and the Blues is the thirteenth solo studio album by Australian rock musician Jimmy Barnes, released through Liberation Music on 28 August 2009...
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  • 1962. Five discs were issued from these sessions: Johnny Sings America's Rockin' Hits; The 1962 Nashville Sessions, Vol. 2: The French Recordings, reissued...
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    It blends African and Caribbean rhythms, blues, and rhythm and blues with music indigenous to the Louisiana Creoles, such as la la and juré. The main instruments...
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    singer and pianist who performed New Orleans blues. He was active in two distinct periods, first in the heyday of early rhythm and blues and later in...
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    Ruth Brown (category American rhythm and blues singers)
    royalties and contracts; these efforts led to the founding of the Rhythm and Blues Foundation. Her performances in the Broadway musical Black and Blue earned...
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  • the rhythm and blues music of the 1940s, which itself developed from earlier blues, the beat-heavy jump blues, boogie woogie, up-tempo jazz, and swing...
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  • "Rockin' Robin" (originally released as "Rock-In Robin" on the Class Records 45 single) is a song written by Leon René under the pseudonym Jimmie Thomas...
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  • Rockin' in Rhythm is an album by The Swingville All-Stars nominally led by saxophonists Al Sears and Hilton Jefferson and trumpeter Taft Jordan recorded...
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  • the foundations for the blues, spirituals, and eventually rhythm and blues. Field hollers, cries and hollers of the slaves and later sharecroppers working...
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    Doo-wop (category Rhythm and blues genres)
    Doo-wop (also spelled doowop and doo wop) is a subgenre of rhythm and blues music that originated in African-American communities during the 1940s, mainly...
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  • started listening to rhythm and blues music and buying records in Tacoma's black district. At the Puyallup Fair in 1957 he stood up and began singing Little...
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    David Wilcox (Canadian musician) (category Canadian blues guitarists)
    1977–1993 (1993) Greatest Hits Too (1997) Rockin’ The Boogie: The Best of Blues and Boogie (2003) Saturday Night Blues: 20 Years (2006) CBC "Canadian Bands...
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  • and has been influenced by rhythm and blues, rock, and other popular music. Contents A B C D E F G H J K L M O P R S T V W List of nicknames of blues...
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  • Carl McVoy (category American blues pianists)
    and 1958, most of which have remained unissued. He subsequently went back to Hi as pianist with The Bill Black Combo, but quit in the mid-1960s and returned...
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    Big Joe Turner (category American blues singers)
    transition from big bands to jump blues to rhythm and blues to rock and roll. He was a master of traditional blues verses, and at Kansas City jam sessions he...
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  • Orleans R&B at its most infectious and rollicking, as showcased on his classic signature tune, "Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu". Smith was...
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  • Changing" – Teddy Edwards "Sweet's Blues" – Al Ciminelli "There's Good Rockin' Tonight" – Robert Geddins "Midnight Blues (Red Shirt)" – Teddy Edwards Mark...
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