which blues singer is best remembered for her recording of stormy weather
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Ethel Waters Ethel Waters (October 31, 1896 – September 1, 1977) was an American singer and actress. Waters frequently performed jazz, swing, and pop music on the Broadway stage and in concerts, but she began her career in the 1920s singing blues. Waters notable recordings include "Dinah", "Stormy Weather", "Taking a Chance on Love", "Heat Wave", "Supper Time", "Am I Blue?", "Cabin in the Sky", "I'm Coming Virginia", and her version of "His Eye Is on the Sparrow". Waters was the second African American to be nominated for an Academy Award. She was the first African-American to star on her
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Ethel Waters Ethel Waters (October 31, 1896 – September 1, 1977) was an American singer and actress. Waters frequently performed jazz, swing, and pop music on the Broadway stage and in concerts, but she began her career in the 1920s singing blues. Waters notable recordings include "Dinah", "Stormy Weather", "Taking a Chance on Love", "Heat Wave", "Supper Time", "Am I Blue?", "Cabin in the Sky", "I'm Coming Virginia", and her version of "His Eye Is on the Sparrow". Waters was the second African American to be nominated for an Academy Award. She was the first African-American to star on her
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preacher Billy Graham on his "crusades". Waters died on September 1, 1977, aged 80, from uterine cancer, kidney failure, and other ailments, in Chatsworth, California. Waters is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale). Ethel Waters Ethel Waters (October 31, 1896 – September 1, 1977) was an American singer and actress. Waters frequently performed jazz, swing, and pop music on the Broadway stage and in concerts, but she began her career in the 1920s singing blues. Waters notable recordings include "Dinah", "Stormy Weather", "Taking a Chance on Love", "Heat Wave", "Supper Time", "Am I Blue?", "Cabin in the Sky", "I'm
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number of crossings out and corrections. Ethel Waters's recording of the song in 1933 was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2003, and the Library of Congress honored the song by adding it to the National Recording Registry in 2004. Also in 2004, Horne's version finished at number 30 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema. Stormy Weather (song) "Stormy Weather" is a 1933 torch song written by Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler. Ethel Waters first sang it at The Cotton Club night club in Harlem in 1933 and recorded it that year,
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him a major influence on his career. "Stormy Monday" was a favorite live number of the Allman Brothers Band. The British rock band Jethro Tull covered Walker's "Stormy Monday" in 1968 for John Peel's "Top Gear". Eva Cassidy performed "Stormy Monday" on her 1996 Live at Blues Alley recording. With Jimmy Witherspoon With Eddie Vinson T-Bone Walker Aaron Thibeaux "T-Bone" Walker (May 28, 1910 – March 16, 1975) was an American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, who was a pioneer and innovator of the jump blues and electric blues sound. In 2011, "Rolling Stone" magazine ranked him number 67
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America. Later, he appeared in the Mike Figgis movie "Stormy Monday" (which featured Tommy Lee Jones, Sting and Melanie Griffith). He also contributed substantially to the soundtrack and was the only featured guitarist apart from B B King. Ed also played on the soundtracks of the films "Leaving Las Vegas" and "Serendipity" (with Bap Kennedy). Deane spent much of the 90s working with blues diva Dana Gillespie, recording several albums with her. During this period Dana was voted "Best British Female Blues Singer", before being installed in the British Blues Connection Hall of Fame. He also worked and toured with
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Billie Davis Billie Davis (born Carol Hedges, 22 December 1945, Woking, Surrey, England) is an English female singer who had hits in the 1960s, and is best remembered for the UK hit version of the song, "Tell Him" (1963) and "I Want You to Be My Baby" (1968). Davis' performing name was suggested by the impresario, Robert Stigwood, and was derived from those of blues singer Billie Holiday and the entertainer Sammy Davis Jr. In her teens, Hedges was an engineering secretary before she started her recording career. After winning a talent contest in which she was backed by Cliff
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Louise Johnson (blues) Louise Johnson was an American Delta blues singer and pianist, who was active in the 1920s and 1930s. From her brief recording career, Johnson completed four songs during a famed recording session in 1930 which included Charley Patton, Son House, and Willie Brown. Little else is known about her, although Johnson's self-accompaniment during the session is stylistically unique among female musicians of the era. Johnson lived in Clarksdale, Mississippi and is believed to have been from Robinsonville. According to pianist John "Red" Williams, who remembered her in Tunica in the late 1920s, "she was a small woman,
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In 1956, he recorded a version, titled "Call It Stormy Monday", with pianist Lloyd Glenn, bassist Billy Hadnott, and drummer Oscar Bradley (Glenn and Bradley had performed for the original 1947 recording). It was produced by Nesuhi Ertegun and is included on Walker's 1959 album, "T-Bone Blues", for Atlantic Records. Writer Bill Dahl described the remake as "luxurious" with Walker's guitar "so crisp and clear it seems as though he's sitting right next to you". Another recording, titled "Stormy Monday", is included on the 1968 album, "Stormy Monday Blues" for Bluesway Records. A later recording of the song, which uses
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not released because of the unavailability of shellac and the recording ban. However, Walker's first single as a band leader, "Mean Old World", which was recorded in July 1942, was released in 1945 by Capitol. One sessionography places the recording of "Stormy Monday" on September 13, 1947, during his third session for Black & White Records. Blues writer Jim O'Neal noted that blues discographies do not show a recording date before 1947. The recording took place in Hollywood, California, and was produced by Black & White's Ralph Bass. "Stormy Monday" was performed in a "club combo" or West Coast-blues style
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The Mississippi Moaner Isaiah Nettles, known by his recording alias The Mississippi Moaner, was an American country blues singer and guitarist. Accurate information about Nettles is sparse but he is best remembered for his recording session in 1935 which was conducted during an era when the output of blues music drastically declined. Nettles was active around a train station in Rockport, Mississippi, a small town 20 miles southeast of Crystal Springs, when he was discovered by talent scout H.C. Speir. Although local residents could not recall Nettles when queried in the 1960s, he surely hailed from a community close to
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as Horne's stand-in in "Stormy Weather". However, her Hollywood career ended when she refused to play an extra in a biopic about Woodrow Wilson which required her to wear a bandanna and sit on a bale of cotton. She then returned to singing in cabaret in Los Angeles clubs, recording several songs including “Bayou Baby Blues,” “School Girl Blues,” “A Falling Star” and “When Gabriel Blows His Horn” with The Robins and “Here Goes a Fool” as a solo artist. During the civil rights movement, Hathaway would become a major activist in the Los Angeles-Hollywood region. After she took up
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Two singles with lead vocals by Knight were also released, "The Man I Love" and "Sophisticated Lady", and this started a new career for Knight as a jazz singer. Her first solo album, "Stormy Weather", produced by Larry Muhoberac, was released in October 1991, and this peaked at No. 16. Her debut solo single, "Fever", was released in September, but this did not peak into the top 50 singles charts. At the 1992 ARIA Music Awards, "Stormy Weather" was nominated for "Best Adult Contemporary Album" and Peter Cobbin was nominated for Engineer of the Year for his work on four
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song with an appearance in the pop record charts. Bland introduced a new arrangement with chord substitutions, which was later used in many subsequent renditions. His version also incorrectly used the title "Stormy Monday Blues", which was copied and resulted in royalties being paid to songwriters other than Walker. The Allman Brothers Band recorded an extended version for their first live album in 1971, with additional changes to the arrangement. Through the album's popularity and the group's concert performances, they brought "Stormy Monday" to the attention of rock audiences. Similarly, R&B singer Latimore's 1973 hit recording made it popular with
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out of five stars, and, about James, wrote, "one hears the singer at her peak in a swinging and varied program of blues, R&B, and jazz standards." Cook also praised the material that was recorded for the album, saying that "At Last!" had "strong material throughout." He also went on to say that James's voice, "expertly handles jazz standards like "Stormy Weather" and "A Sunday Kind of Love," as well as Willie Dixon's blues classic "I Just Want to Make Love to You." James demonstrates her keen facility on the title track in particular, as she easily moves from powerful
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The Five Sharps The Five Sharps were a short-lived vocal group from Queens, NY. They are best known today for their recording of "Stormy Weather". "Stormy Weather" is today considered one of the most collectible doo wop singles ever released. After the group broke up, several of the members went on to join other groups, such as The Videos. In 1952, after months of performing at local functions, The Five Sharps were spotted by a producer and taken into a studio to record two songs. The group recorded their own "Sleepy Cowboy" and the standard "Stormy Weather". The session took
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sold well. "Stormy Weather" was featured in the 1943 movie of the same name. The song tells of disappointment, as the lyrics, "Don't know why there's no sun up in the sky", show someone pining for her man to return. The weather is a metaphor for the feelings of the singer: "stormy weather since my man and I ain't together, keeps raining all the time." The original handwritten lyrics, along with a painting by Ted Koehler, were featured on the (US) "Antiques Roadshow" on January 24, 2011, where they were appraised for between $50,000 and $100,000. The lyrics show a
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Steve Sowerby on drums. Later in 1989, the Eurogliders disbanded. Akerman returned to his visual art background and became a painter, Lynch initially pursued a solo music career; while Knight became a successful jazz singer. After Eurogliders, Knight made a cameo appearance in the 1990 TV series "Come In Spinner" and sang on its soundtrack, "Come in Spinner", recorded with jazz artist Vince Jones, which peaked at No. 4 on the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) albums charts. This launched a new career for Knight as a jazz singer with her first solo album, "Stormy Weather", which peaked at No.
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Bonnie Lee Bonnie Lee (June 11, 1931 – September 7, 2006) was an American Chicago blues singer known as "The Sweetheart of the Blues". She is best remembered for her lengthy working relationships with Sunnyland Slim and Willie Kent. David Whiteis, who interviewed Lee in researching his book "Chicago Blues: Portraits and Stories", stated, "she was one of the last of her genre, the big-voiced woman blues singer fronting a Chicago band." She was born Jessie Lee Frealls in Bunkie, Louisiana, and raised in Beaumont, Texas. She learned to play the piano as a child. Her mother refused to let
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the guitar playing. On a number of cuts—including "Freight Train Blues," "Hobo Bill's Last Ride," and "Mississippi Heavy Water Blues"—Merle Watson plays slide, while Doc Watson brings his distinct fingerpicking style to each cut. Sittin' Here Pickin' the Blues also offers a few nice surprises, like versions of "Stormy Weather" and "St. Louis Blues." This is a superb collection, sure to please Watson fans, guitar players, and anyone who enjoys honest acoustic music." All songs traditional unless otherwise noted. Sittin' Here Pickin' the Blues Sittin' Here Pickin' the Blues is the title of a recording by American folk music and
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Blues Everywhere I Go Blues Everywhere I Go is an album by American folk singer Odetta, released in 1999. It was her first new release in more than a decade. Allmusic said in their review: "... time doesn't appear to have affected her interpretive skills or the range and quality of her voice, which remains one of the most remarkable instruments in American folk and blues music to date." "Blues Everywhere I Go" was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album at the 42nd Grammy Awards. It was her first nomination after over 50 years of recording.
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Blues Everywhere I Go Blues Everywhere I Go is an album by American folk singer Odetta, released in 1999. It was her first new release in more than a decade. Allmusic said in their review: "... time doesn't appear to have affected her interpretive skills or the range and quality of her voice, which remains one of the most remarkable instruments in American folk and blues music to date." "Blues Everywhere I Go" was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album at the 42nd Grammy Awards. It was her first nomination after over 50 years of recording.
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guitarists Jimmy Spruill and Joe Ruffin and the saxophonist Jimmy Wright. Gaddy stopped recording around 1960. However, along with his longtime friend Larry Dale, he remained a mainstay of the ongoing New York blues scene. In April 1988, Gaddy, Dale and Spruill reunited to play at the Tramps nightclub in New York. Gaddy died of lung cancer in July 1997, at the age of 73, in the Bronx, New York. Bob Gaddy Bob Gaddy (February 4, 1924 – July 24, 1997) was an American East Coast blues and rhythm-and-blues pianist, singer and songwriter. He is best remembered for his recordings
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Recording Industry Association (ARIA) albums charts. This launched a new career for Knight, with her first solo album, "Stormy Weather", which peaked at No. 16 in 1991. Other solo albums followed, "Gracious" in 1993, "Live" in 1996 and "Zeitgeist" in 2000. Eurogliders briefly reformed with Lynch and Knight in 2005 to release two additional albums by 2007. Knight returned to her solo career and released "Willow" in 2008. Grace Knight was born in 1955 in the UK, and performed as a cabaret singer in folk clubs from 1976. She competed in a semi-final of a national talent quest as a
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Alice Leslie Carter Alice Leslie Carter was an American classic female blues singer, active as a recording artist in the early 1920s. Her best-known tracks are "Decatur Street Blues" and "Aunt Hagar's Children Blues". She was a contemporary of the better-known recording artists Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Clara Smith, Victoria Spivey, Sippie Wallace, and Bertha "Chippie" Hill. Little is known of her life outside music. She is not to be confused with Alice Carter, another blues singer, who recorded four songs in 1923. Carter recorded eleven sides in 1921, with musical accompaniment led by James P. Johnson on piano. She
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the 1970s work of John Lee. Ed Bell (musician) Ed Bell (born May 1905, died 1960, 1965 or 1966) was an American Piedmont blues and country blues singer, guitarist and songwriter whose identity has only recently been verified by historians. Some of his records were released under the pseudonyms Sluefoot Joe and Barefoot Bill from Alabama. His best-remembered recording is "Mamlish Blues". Colin Larkin noted in the "Encyclopedia of Popular Music" that "Bell stands as the most influential Alabama artist in pre-war blues recordings." Bell was born on the Davis Plantation, near Fort Deposit, Alabama. As a child he moved
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Ed Bell (musician) Ed Bell (born May 1905, died 1960, 1965 or 1966) was an American Piedmont blues and country blues singer, guitarist and songwriter whose identity has only recently been verified by historians. Some of his records were released under the pseudonyms Sluefoot Joe and Barefoot Bill from Alabama. His best-remembered recording is "Mamlish Blues". Colin Larkin noted in the "Encyclopedia of Popular Music" that "Bell stands as the most influential Alabama artist in pre-war blues recordings." Bell was born on the Davis Plantation, near Fort Deposit, Alabama. As a child he moved with his family to Greenville, Alabama.
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Roscoe Shelton Roscoe Shelton (August 22, 1931 – July 27, 2002) was an American electric blues and R&B singer. He is best remembered for his 1965 hit single "Strain on My Heart" and for his working relationships with the Fairfield Four and with Bobby Hebb. Other notable recordings include "Think It Over" and "Baby Look What You're Doin' to Me". Fred James, who produced much of Shelton's later work, noted that Shelton moved effortlessly into soul music, unlike many of his 1950s blues and R&B recording contemporaries. Shelton was born in Lynchburg, Tennessee, and raised in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1949
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specifically gave his song the longer name to set it apart. However, trouble ensued when other artists began recording it using these shortened names. Walker blamed Duke Records owner Don Robey for giving it the wrong title for his artists, including Bobby Bland's 1962 rendition, which appeared as "Stormy Monday Blues". Bland's version, which was an R&B and pop chart hit, was subsequently copied by other artists, who also used the incorrect title. As a result, Walker lost out on royalties when his song was misnamed "Stormy Monday Blues" and the payments were forwarded to Eckstine, Hines, and Crowder. Even
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chord substitutions similar to Bobby Bland's 1961 rendition, was included on The Sounds of American Culture series on NPR in 2008. In 1983, T-Bone Walker's original "Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just as Bad)" was inducted into the Blues Foundation Blues Hall of Fame in the "Classic of Blues Recording — Single or Album Track" category. Writing for the foundation, Jim O'Neal called it "one of the most influential records not only in blues history, but in guitar history". In 1991, it was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame which "honor[s] recordings of lasting qualitative or historical
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Maggie Jones (blues musician) Maggie Jones (born March 1894; date of death unknown) was an American blues singer and pianist who recorded thirty-eight songs between 1923 and 1926. She was billed as "The Texas Nightingale". Among her best-remembered songs are "Single Woman's Blues", "Undertaker's Blues", and "Northbound Blues". Jones was born in Hillsboro, Texas. Her birth name is sometimes given as Fae Barnes, and her year of birth as 1900, but the researchers Bob Eagle and Eric LeBlanc state that she was born in 1894 and that "Fae Barnes" was a stage name. She relocated to New York in 1922,
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and Mickey Owens, left the music industry until 1975, when four of the surviving group members including Ward performed at the Academy of Music in New York. The Five Sharps The Five Sharps were a short-lived vocal group from Queens, NY. They are best known today for their recording of "Stormy Weather". "Stormy Weather" is today considered one of the most collectible doo wop singles ever released. After the group broke up, several of the members went on to join other groups, such as The Videos. In 1952, after months of performing at local functions, The Five Sharps were spotted
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"Worried Down with the Blues" plus her "Hurry Sundown Blues," "Climbing Mountain Blues," "Landlady's Footsteps," "Winter Blues," and "Kokola Blues" were included on the compilation album "Female Blues Singers, Vol. 5: C/D/E (1921–1928)", released in 1997 by Document Records. Madlyn Davis Madlyn Davis was an American classic female blues singer, active as a recording artist in the late 1920s. Among her best-known tracks are "Kokola Blues" and "It's Red Hot". She was a contemporary of better-known recording artists, such as Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Clara Smith, Mozelle Alderson, Victoria Spivey, Sippie Wallace, and Bertha "Chippie" Hill. Little is known of
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Stormy Weather (1943 film) Stormy Weather is a 1943 American musical film produced and released by 20th Century Fox. The film is considered one of the best Hollywood musicals with an African-American cast, the other being MGM's "Cabin in the Sky" (1943). The film is considered a primary showcase of some of the top African-American performers of the time, during an era when African-American actors and singers rarely appeared in lead roles in mainstream Hollywood productions, especially those of the musical genre. "Stormy Weather" takes its title from the 1933 song of the same title, which is performed near the
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Undeniable: Live at Blues Alley Undeniable: Live at Blues Alley is a live recording made at Blues Alley in Washington, D.C. in June 2009 by Pat Martino and his band. It was released on the HighNote label. Allmusic reviewed the album stating ""Undeniable: Live at Blues Alley" is a memorable document of Martino's June 2009 appearance at the Washington, D.C. club." JazzTimes observed "Recorded live with a brilliant all-star group, this is one of his best recordings for years." Downbeat noted "The shuffle march that drives 'Midnight Special' does its job by hustling everything along, but Monaco's stormy exposition and
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Clodagh Rodgers Clodagh Rodgers (born 5 March 1947) is a singer and actress from Northern Ireland, best known for her hit singles including "Come Back and Shake Me", "Goodnight Midnight", and "Jack in the Box". Rodgers was born in Warrenpoint and began her professional singing career at 13 when she opened for Michael Holliday. Her father, a dancehall tour promoter, helped her sign with Decca in 1962. She made 4 singles before moving to EMI's Columbia label in 1965, where 'Cloda Rogers' made the 1966 single "Stormy Weather"/"Lonely Room". Although none of her Decca or Columbia singles made the UK
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Ada Brown Ada Scott Brown (May 1, 1890 – March 30, 1950) was an American blues singer. She is best known for her recordings of "Ill Natural Blues", "Break o' Day Blues", and "Evil Mama Blues. Brown was born and raised in Kansas City, Kansas. Her cousin James Scott was a ragtime composer and pianist. Her early career was spent primarily on stage in musical theater and vaudeville. She recorded with Bennie Moten in 1926; the side "Evil Mama Blues" is possibly the earliest recording of Kansas City jazz. Aside from her time with Moten, she did several tours alongside
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radio programme "Desert Island Discs", on February 26, 1952 and November 18, 1990; her latter appearance is now part of the programme's online archive. Elisabeth Welch Elisabeth Margaret Welch (February 27, 1904July 15, 2003) was an American singer, actress, and entertainer, whose career spanned seven decades. Her best-known songs were "Stormy Weather", "Love for Sale" and "Far Away in Shanty Town". She was American-born, but was based in Britain for most of her career. Welch was born in Englewood, New Jersey, where her father was chief gardener of an estate. Her father was of indigenous American and African American ancestry;
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Godine, 2002. . Stormy Weather (yacht) Stormy Weather is a ocean-racing yawl that was designed by Olin Stephens when he was only twenty-five, and launched from the Henry B. Nevins yard in New York on 14 May 1934. She was named after the song of the same name, written by Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler. Her first owner, Philip LeBoutillier, was President of the Best & Co. department store on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. Apocryphally, he first heard the song sung by Lena Horne, while he was dining at The Montauk Manor resort on Long Island in 1933, and promptly
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her second album, "Skye Songs", in 1977, as Joya Diane Skye. Another album, called "Sadhana in the Streets", was recorded in India and released in 2003. In 2006, Collector's Choice Music reissued "Early Morning Blues and Greens". Diane Hildebrand Diane Hildebrand (born April 13, 1945) is an American pop singer-songwriter. She wrote for several musicians during the 1960s and 1970s, but is best remembered for her work with Screen Gems Music Publishing, penning material for the band the Monkees. In 1969, Hildebrand recorded her debut studio album, "Early Morning Blues and Greens". She later released two additional albums under the
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Stormy Marmot Stormy Marmot is a yellow-bellied marmot of the Rocky Mountain region, living in Aurora, Colorado. Every February 2, on Groundhog Day, Stormy makes a prediction for the remainder of winter. Stormy is a yellow-bellied marmot, a member of the squirrel family. Stormy is trotted out once a year to check for his shadow and make a weather prediction. Punxsutawney Phil loyalists have been known to disparage Stormy. Statistical analysis of groundhog predictions show that Stormy Marmot and Poor Richard have the best correlation to observed weather trends. ""When Stormy Marmot predicts an early spring, we can expect March
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and, the same year, appeared as a backing singer with Dawkins again at the Chicago Blues Festival. She met and married Mark Bruso in 2002. Later that year she recorded "Nora Jean Bruso Sings the Blues", which was released in 2003 by Red Hurricane Records. Bruso performed again at the 2003 Chicago Blues Festival, this time under her own name, and toured in Europe. In 2004, she was nominated for two W.C. Handy Awards (now known as Blues Music Awards), as 'Best New Artist' and 'Best Traditional Female Artist'. The same year, after having signed a recording contract with Severn
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Stormy Weather (yacht) Stormy Weather is a ocean-racing yawl that was designed by Olin Stephens when he was only twenty-five, and launched from the Henry B. Nevins yard in New York on 14 May 1934. She was named after the song of the same name, written by Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler. Her first owner, Philip LeBoutillier, was President of the Best & Co. department store on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. Apocryphally, he first heard the song sung by Lena Horne, while he was dining at The Montauk Manor resort on Long Island in 1933, and promptly chose the name
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had ever seen". The musical numbers in the movie contain elements of minstrelsy. The performance of a cakewalk for example, features flower headdresses reminiscent of the Little Black Sambo figures used in historical misrepresentations of Black American males. "Stormy Weather" and other musicals of the 1940s opened new roles for blacks in Hollywood, breaking through old stereotypes and far surpassing limited roles previously available in race films produced for all-black audiences. Stormy Weather (1943 film) Stormy Weather is a 1943 American musical film produced and released by 20th Century Fox. The film is considered one of the best Hollywood musicals
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Mickey Champion Mickey Champion (born Mildred Sallier April 9, 1925 - November 24, 2014) was an American blues singer. With a career spanning five decades, Champion is best remembered for her powerful vocals, and for guesting alongside other prominent musical acts. Champion was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana. She was raised by her aunts and had her first experience as a singer at Lake Charles Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, where her grandfather was a bishop. Admired for the quality and intensity of her religious singing, she became part of a vocal trio, and while in high school was heard and
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is featured in the second half of the song. Eckstine later recorded "Stormy Monday Blues" in 1959 with Count Basie for their "Basie/Eckstine Incorporated" album. The song has sometimes been confused with T-Bone Walker's 1947 song "Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just as Bad)", which is frequently shortened to "Stormy Monday" or "Stormy Monday Blues". Stormy Monday Blues "Stormy Monday Blues" is a jazz song first recorded in 1942 by Earl Hines and His Orchestra with Billy Eckstine on vocals. The song was a hit, reaching number one in "Billboard" magazine's "Harlem Hit Parade", making it Hines' only
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Teremoana Rapley Teremoana Rapley (born 1973) is a New Zealand singer, MC and television presenter, best known for her work in the 1990s with Upper Hutt Posse and Moana and the Moahunters. Teremoana describes herself as having "voluntarily pulled out of mainstream media with her music after realising that the industry is based on looks and not artistry." Teremoana joined hip hop group Upper Hutt Posse in 1987, aged 14. She sang on the group's early tracks, including "Stormy Weather" and "Ragga Girl" and featured on the group's 1989 album "Against the Flow". In 1989 Teremoana joined Moana Maniapoto's hip
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Want" both on Tandef Records. Champion suffered several strokes before dying on November 24, 2014 in Los Angeles. Mickey Champion Mickey Champion (born Mildred Sallier April 9, 1925 - November 24, 2014) was an American blues singer. With a career spanning five decades, Champion is best remembered for her powerful vocals, and for guesting alongside other prominent musical acts. Champion was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana. She was raised by her aunts and had her first experience as a singer at Lake Charles Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, where her grandfather was a bishop. Admired for the quality and intensity of
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songs to impresario Larry Parnes, which started her son's singing career. The songs were released on DVD/CD in 2008.<ref name="25thAnniversaryDVD/CD"></ref> Johnny 'Guitar' Byrne (from Rory Storm and The Hurricanes) and singer Paul Murphy recorded a version of "Butterfly" and "She’s Got it" in the studio on 22 June 1957, and Byrne later played the recording to Harrison. On 12 July 1958, a local skiffle group, The Quarrymen (Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, Lowe and Hanton) visited Phillips' studio to record two songs, although the date has been disputed, as Lowe remembered that the recording was during cold weather (October or November, 1957)
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Walter Davis (blues) Walter Davis (March 1, 1911 or 1912 – October 22, 1963) was an African-American blues singer, pianist, and songwriter who was one of the most prolific blues recording artists from the early 1930s to the early 1950s. Davis had a rich singing voice that was as expressive as the best of the Delta blues vocalists. His best-known recording, a version of the train blues standard "Sunnyland Blues", released in 1931, is more notable for the warmth and poignancy of his singing than for his piano playing. His best-known songs included "Come Back Baby", "Ashes in My Whiskey"
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Elisabeth Welch Elisabeth Margaret Welch (February 27, 1904July 15, 2003) was an American singer, actress, and entertainer, whose career spanned seven decades. Her best-known songs were "Stormy Weather", "Love for Sale" and "Far Away in Shanty Town". She was American-born, but was based in Britain for most of her career. Welch was born in Englewood, New Jersey, where her father was chief gardener of an estate. Her father was of indigenous American and African American ancestry; her mother was of Scottish and Irish descent. Welch was brought up in a Baptist-Christian family, and began her singing in a church choir.
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released in October 2017 on Vision Wall Records. Shaun Murphy (singer) Shaun Murphy is an American blues and R&B singer songwriter, best known for her powerhouse singing style. Her recording career started in 1971 with Motown Records. Murphy shared the stage with many Detroit-based bands, including Wilson Mower Pursuit and Jake Wade and the Soul Searchers, in venues such as Detroit's Grande Ballroom, as well as the first Ann Arbor Blues Festival in 1969, along with various large state fairground music venues. She was soon noticed by an employee of Motown in a touring theater production along with Texas native
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Shaun Murphy (singer) Shaun Murphy is an American blues and R&B singer songwriter, best known for her powerhouse singing style. Her recording career started in 1971 with Motown Records. Murphy shared the stage with many Detroit-based bands, including Wilson Mower Pursuit and Jake Wade and the Soul Searchers, in venues such as Detroit's Grande Ballroom, as well as the first Ann Arbor Blues Festival in 1969, along with various large state fairground music venues. She was soon noticed by an employee of Motown in a touring theater production along with Texas native Meat Loaf. The two were signed by Rare
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Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just as Bad) "Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just as Bad)" (commonly referred to as "Stormy Monday") is a song written and recorded by American blues electric guitar pioneer T-Bone Walker. It is a slow twelve-bar blues performed in the West Coast blues-style that features Walker's smooth, plaintive vocal and distinctive guitar work. As well as becoming a record chart hit in 1948, it inspired B.B. King and others to take up the electric guitar. "Stormy Monday" became Walker's best-known and most-recorded song. In 1961, Bobby "Blue" Bland further popularized the
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Ella May Saison Ella May Saison (also credited as Ella Mae Saison) is a Filipino singer. Saison began her recording career at age 19. Prior to landing a recording contract, she was a soloist for the Artstart Band, specializing in jazz, gospel, and blues. In the Philippines, she is best known for her hits "Till My Heartaches End" and "If The Feeling Is Gone", subsequently covered by Passage and Kyla, respectively. Saison won the Katha Award for Best Female Performer, and she was also recognized in the Philippines for one Gold and one Platinum album. A year after her second
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the development of bebop's "off playing", and once memorably barked at Dizzy Gillespie during his intoxicated recording session: "Miss Gillespie, if you play another of them bad notes, I'm gonna beat your brains out". Rubberlegs Williams Henry "Rubberlegs" Williams (14 July 1907 in Atlanta - 17 October 1962 in New York City) was an American blues and jazz singer, dancer and occasional female impersonator. A star of Vaudeville, he is probably best remembered for his singing work with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, although it was for his dancing that he was renowned for in New York City and Boston.
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Charlie Allen (singer) Charles E. "Charlie" Allen (May 1, 1942 – May 7, 1990) was one of the founding members of blues and rock outfit Pacific Gas & Electric and the vocalist for the group. By 1968, the group consisted of Charlie Allen, Frank Cook, Tom Marshall, Brent Block, and guitarist Glenn Schwartz. Besides being remembered for his association with Pacific Gas & Electric, Allen is perhaps best remembered for the hit single "Are You Ready?" that he co-wrote with John Hill which besides being a hit for Pacific Gas & Electric has been covered by The Staple Singers, and
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Madlyn Davis Madlyn Davis was an American classic female blues singer, active as a recording artist in the late 1920s. Among her best-known tracks are "Kokola Blues" and "It's Red Hot". She was a contemporary of better-known recording artists, such as Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Clara Smith, Mozelle Alderson, Victoria Spivey, Sippie Wallace, and Bertha "Chippie" Hill. Little is known of her life outside music. Davis made ten recordings in Chicago for Paramount Records. Her first session took place in June 1927. With accompaniment from the Red Hot Shakers, who likely included Cassino Simpson on piano, Davis recorded "Worried Down
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be to convince others that she was "born in the belly of the blues"'. "This Ol' World" which features blues musician Joe Bonamassa was released as the album's lead single in April 2010. "Gold Dust" (smoking gun remix) was released in July 2010 The album was nominated for Best Jazz/Blues Recording of the Year in the Scottish Music Awards. Thom was also nominated for Artist of the Year and her label "Guardian Angel Recordings" was nominated for Record Label of the Year. Merchants and Thieves Merchants and Thieves is the third studio album release by Scottish pop singer Sandi Thom,
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Ava Barber Ava Barber (born June 28, 1954) is an American country music singer and performer. She is best remembered for her performances on "The Lawrence Welk Show" throughout much of the 1970s and early 1980s. She is also known as a recording artist, her best-known hit being the song, "Bucket to the South", which peaked at No. 13 on the Hot Country Songs list in 1978. She has done many reunion specials on PBS for "The Lawrence Welk Show" over the past number of years. Ava Marlene Barber was born and reared in Knoxville, Tennessee, named after actress Ava
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significance". The song was included as one of the "500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll" by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995. The U.S. National Recording Preservation Board selected the song in 2007 for inclusion in the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry of "sound recordings that are culturally, historically or aesthetically significant". B.B. King biographer David McGee referred to it as a "Mount Rushmore of a blues song". Singer and writer Billy Vera noted "if T-Bone had done nothing more in his career than write and record this one tune, his esteemed place in the
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Junior Parker Herman "Junior" Parker (March 27, 1932November 18, 1971) was an American Memphis blues singer and musician. He is best remembered for his unique voice, which has been described as "honeyed" and "velvet-smooth". One music journalist noted, "For years Junior Parker deserted downhome harmonica blues for uptown blues-soul music". In 2001, he was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame. There is some disagreement over the details of Parker's birth, but most reliable sources now indicate that he was born in March 1932 at Eastover Plantation near Bobo, Coahoma County, Mississippi. He moved with his mother to West Memphis,
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Cleo Gibson Cleo Gibson was a classic female blues singer active in the 1920s. Her full name was Cleosephus Gibson. She recorded two tracks for Okeh Records, "I’ve Got Ford Movements In My Hips" and "Nothing But Blues". Much surrounding her life is a mystery, but her recordings are a notable example of American blues music. Gibson was originally one of a pair of vaudeville performers known as Gibson and Gibson. She reportedly had a great vocal resemblance to another blues singer, Bessie Smith, which may have been part of the reason she was given a recording date. She recorded
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'FIDIYOOTDEM" before releasing "Die Every Day" in 2016. In addition to her Juno Award nomination, she won the MuchMusic Video Award for Best Hip Hop Video for "Picasso Leaning", the first female artist ever to win that award. Tasha the Amazon Tasha the Amazon, born Tasha Schumann, is a Canadian hip hop musician, best known for her debut EP "Die Every Day," which was nominated at the 2017 Juno Awards for Rap Recording of the Year. Born to German and Jamaican parents, she was raised in Kitchener, Ontario. She is the niece of Erroll Starr, a rhythm and blues singer
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a later R&B audience. "Stormy Monday" is one of the most popular blues standards, with numerous renditions. As well as being necessary for blues musicians, it is also found in the repertoires of many jazz, soul, pop, and rock performers. The song is included in the Grammy, Rock and Roll, and Blues Foundation halls of fame as well as the U.S. Library of Congress' National Recording Registry. T-Bone Walker was one of the earliest musicians to use the electric guitar. After moving to Los Angeles around 1936, he began performing regularly in the clubs along Central Avenue, then the center
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Stormy Weather (Echo & the Bunnymen song) "Stormy Weather" is a single by Echo & the Bunnymen which was released on 5 September 2005 on the Cooking Vinyl label. It was the first single to be released from the 2005 album, "Siberia". It reached number 55 on the UK Singles Chart. The single and its parent album re-united the band with Hugh Jones, who produced their second album, 1981's "Heaven Up Here". At the time Jones said that the "Siberia" work was the best he had ever done. The song was written by Will Sergeant and Ian McCulloch and it
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Centipede (Rebbie Jackson song) "Centipede" is the debut single by American singer Rebbie Jackson and the title track from her debut album, "Centipede". The song was written and produced by Jackson's brother Michael Jackson. He and The Weather Girls also sing backing vocals on the song. It is Rebbie Jackson's only single to enter the Billboard Hot 100 and is her best remembered song. The Weather Girl's Martha Wash's soulful voice is heard quite prominently throughout the song. The song was later re-released on "The Rebbie Jackson Collection" and the original 12" version was included on her 1998 comeback album
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in his name." Parker's "Annie Get Your Yo-Yo" was later sampled by the Wiseguys for their 1999 hit "Start the Commotion". Parker's version of "Tomorrow Never Knows" is regularly used as an intro to the live shows by The Chemical Brothers. Singles Original albums Label retrospectives Guest appearances Junior Parker Herman "Junior" Parker (March 27, 1932November 18, 1971) was an American Memphis blues singer and musician. He is best remembered for his unique voice, which has been described as "honeyed" and "velvet-smooth". One music journalist noted, "For years Junior Parker deserted downhome harmonica blues for uptown blues-soul music". In 2001,
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1987, Faithfull dedicated a ""thank you"" to Tose within the album package of "Strange Weather", on the back sleeve: "To Howard Tose with love and thanks". Faithfull's divorce from Brierly was also finalised that year. In 1995, she wrote and sang about Tose's death in "Flaming September" from the album "A Secret Life". In 1987, Faithfull again reinvented herself, this time as a jazz and blues singer, on "Strange Weather", also produced by Willner. The album became her most critically lauded album of the decade. Coming full circle, the renewed Faithfull cut another recording of "As Tears Go By" for
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Missouri. Since 2000, she has toured with former members of "The Lawrence Welk Show" and performed on her own. She does reunion specials with previous members of the show on PBS. She is working on a new show in Branson called "The Grand Ladies of Country Music." Her husband acts as her agent. Ava Barber Ava Barber (born June 28, 1954) is an American country music singer and performer. She is best remembered for her performances on "The Lawrence Welk Show" throughout much of the 1970s and early 1980s. She is also known as a recording artist, her best-known hit
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1933. That year, before this show was available, Welch was given permission to perform in London in "Dark Doings", in which she sang "Stormy Weather", newly written by Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler. She subsequently took the song as her signature tune. Welch's show-stopping performance in "Nymph Errant" was seen by Ivor Novello, and in 1935 he gave her a part in his show "Glamorous Night", in which she stood out again singing his blues song "Far Away in Shanty Town". In 1931 she had included in her cabaret act the new song "As Time Goes By", almost a dozen
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Stormy Monday (film) Stormy Monday is the 1988 feature film debut of director Mike Figgis. Starring Sean Bean, Tommy Lee Jones, Sting and Melanie Griffith, and is an atmospheric, noirish thriller. The notable jazz soundtrack is also by Figgis. Being set in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, the film is something of an homage to "Get Carter". The film's title refers to blues guitarist/singer T-Bone Walker's signature song "Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just As Bad)" The film opens on a young man, Brendan (Sean Bean), looking for work. He circles an ad seeking a cleaner for heavy, night work at
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Diane Hildebrand Diane Hildebrand (born April 13, 1945) is an American pop singer-songwriter. She wrote for several musicians during the 1960s and 1970s, but is best remembered for her work with Screen Gems Music Publishing, penning material for the band the Monkees. In 1969, Hildebrand recorded her debut studio album, "Early Morning Blues and Greens". She later released two additional albums under the name Joya Diane Skye. Hildebrand was born in Roswell, New Mexico in 1945. She began a songwriting career at age 13 when Hildebrand was living in São Paulo, Brazil. One of her earliest compositions, "I'm on My
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and Bob Margolin. "Free" debuted at number 6 in the "Billboard" Blues Albums Chart. "The Ballad of Lonesome Cowboy Bill" was the first single released from "Free". In 2018, Fish appeared at the Briggs Farm Blues Festival. Amanda Fish Amanda Fish is an American blues singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Her 2018 album, "Free", debuted at number 6 in the "Billboard" Blues Albums Chart. Her younger sister, Samantha Fish, is a fellow blues and roots rock singer-songwriter, recording for Ruf Records. In her adolescence, Amanda Fish retreated to her own room to practice her singing while her younger sister, Samantha Fish, did
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allegedly living in Memphis, but not much is known about Johnson's life after the recording session. Louise Johnson (blues) Louise Johnson was an American Delta blues singer and pianist, who was active in the 1920s and 1930s. From her brief recording career, Johnson completed four songs during a famed recording session in 1930 which included Charley Patton, Son House, and Willie Brown. Little else is known about her, although Johnson's self-accompaniment during the session is stylistically unique among female musicians of the era. Johnson lived in Clarksdale, Mississippi and is believed to have been from Robinsonville. According to pianist John
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throughout the decade. The single was Gold-certified by the RIAA, selling over a million copies in the USA. Centipede (Rebbie Jackson song) "Centipede" is the debut single by American singer Rebbie Jackson and the title track from her debut album, "Centipede". The song was written and produced by Jackson's brother Michael Jackson. He and The Weather Girls also sing backing vocals on the song. It is Rebbie Jackson's only single to enter the Billboard Hot 100 and is her best remembered song. The Weather Girl's Martha Wash's soulful voice is heard quite prominently throughout the song. The song was later
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Nancy Nash Nancy Nash is a Canadian blues and pop singer, who has recorded and performed both under her birth name and as Sazacha Red Sky. Under the latter name, she garnered a Juno Award nomination for Best Music of Aboriginal Canada Recording at the Juno Awards of 1994. Initially nominated for her recording of Chief Dan George's "The Prayer Song", the nomination was revised to reflect her album "Red Sky Rising" after she was accused of cultural appropriation by George's family. Nash was born and raised in North Battleford, Saskatchewan, and spent her early career working in Edmonton, Alberta.
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James Montgomery (singer) James Montgomery (born May 12, 1949) is an American blues musician, best known as the lead singer, blues harp player, frontman, and bandleader of The James Montgomery Blues Band (a.k.a. The James Montgomery Band). Montgomery collaborates with many star performers and recording artists. He is also the past President of The New England Blues Society. James Montgomery was born on May 12, 1949 in Detroit, Michigan. He grew up in Detroit where his father, John Montgomery, worked for Chrysler as a public relations executive. His brother, John Montgomery, also worked in the music industry before becoming an
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singer is essentially saying that his lover need not perform any of the traditional domestic duties—love making is all he needs. The CD single also included James' "Tell Mama" and "Stormy Weather". In 1996, it reached number five on the UK Singles chart, as well as number 27 on the Dutch singles chart. In 1998, the single also reached the records charts in Belgium: number 31 on the Belgian (Flanders) Singles Chart and number 15 on the Belgian (Wallonia) Singles Chart. CD single Blues-rock group Foghat released a studio version of "I Just Want to Make Love to You" on
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Fannie May Goosby Fannie May Goosby (born 1902, died after 1934) also known as Fannie Mae Goosby was an American classic female blues singer, pianist and songwriter. Ten of her recordings were released between 1923 and 1928, one of which, "Grievous Blues", she recorded twice. Goosby was one of the first female blues musicians to record her own material. She also was one of the first two blues singers to be recorded in the Deep South, the other being the dirty blues singer Lucille Bogan. Details of her life outside the recording studio are minimal. According to the blues researchers
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Taylor, joined the Thunderbirds, who went on to record five singles for the Columbia label. On Island's Sue label, he released a version of "Stormy Monday Blues" under the pseudonym Little Joe Cook, which perpetuated the myth that he was a black singer. Farlowe moved to Andrew Loog Oldham's Immediate label and recorded eleven singles, five of which were cover versions of Rolling Stones songs including "Paint It, Black", "Think", "Ride On, Baby", "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction", and "Out of Time", which reached no. 1 (1966) in the UK Singles Chart. He recorded four more singles, the best known
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series "Leverage". Several of her earlier recordings, including recordings for Motown which went unreleased at the time, have been included on later compilation albums. Her best known recording,"My Smile Is Just a Frown (Turned Upside Down)", is featured in the UK-Irish drama-documentary "Dreams of a Life", released in December 2011. Caroline Crawford Caroline Crawford (born c. 1949) is an American rhythm and blues and disco singer and actress, who recorded as Carolyn Crawford for Motown Records in the early 1960s, and for other labels later in her career. In 1963, at the age of about 13, she won a talent
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Lorna Bennett Lorna Bennett (born 7 June 1952 in Newton, Saint Elizabeth Parish, Jamaica) is a reggae singer who twice topped the Jamaican singles chart in the early 1970s, and who is best remembered for her reggae version of "Breakfast in Bed". Born in St. Elizabeth, Bennett went to school in Kingston and while still at school began singing with the Bare Essential Band, who performed at the Excelsior nightclub. At one of these performances she was noticed by Geoffrey Chung of the Now Generation band, who nurtured her early recording career. A recording of "Morning Has Broken" was not
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though Latimore's 1973 hit version of the song was titled "Stormy Monday", the single incorrectly listed "Hines-Eckstine" as the composers. American soul blues singer Bobby Bland recorded his interpretation of the song in Nashville, Tennessee, in September 1961, during the same session that produced the song, "Turn On Your Love Light". Drummer John "Jabo" Starks recalled Rather than copy Walker's arrangement, Bland felt he had to do something different with the song. Most notably, his version features chord substitutions in bars seven through ten: When Duke Records released Bland's version, it was inexplicably re-titled "Stormy Monday Blues". The single reached
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Read's "Such Is Life" at the Adelphi Theatre in London's West End. During the show's run, Philips record producer Johnny Franz spotted her on television, was impressed, and offered her a recording deal. Bassey recorded her first single, "Burn My Candle", released in February 1956, when she was 19. Owing to the suggestive lyrics, the BBC banned it, but it sold well enough nonetheless, backed with her powerful rendition of "Stormy Weather". More singles followed, and in February 1957, Bassey had her first hit with "The Banana Boat Song", which reached No. 8 in the UK Singles Chart. In 1957
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Goosby, except as indicated otherwise. Fannie May Goosby Fannie May Goosby (born 1902, died after 1934) also known as Fannie Mae Goosby was an American classic female blues singer, pianist and songwriter. Ten of her recordings were released between 1923 and 1928, one of which, "Grievous Blues", she recorded twice. Goosby was one of the first female blues musicians to record her own material. She also was one of the first two blues singers to be recorded in the Deep South, the other being the dirty blues singer Lucille Bogan. Details of her life outside the recording studio are minimal.
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Within a year of the commencement of his recording career, he became a regular vocalist, first doing blues material ("Beale Street Blues", for example), and later doing popular songs. He is often mentioned as one of the best jazz vocalists of the era; his singing style is like his trombone playing, in much the same way that Louis Armstrong sang like he played trumpet. Teagarden's singing is best remembered for duets with Armstrong and Johnny Mercer. In the late 1920s he recorded with such bandleaders and sidemen as Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Bix Beiderbecke, Red Nichols, Jimmy McPartland, Mezz Mezzrow, Glenn
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Stormy Weather (AT&T album) Stormy Weather is a live compilation album by various artists released by The Isis Fund in 1998. The record was produced by Don Henley as part of the Walden Woods Project, with which Henley is associated. It features ten covers of songs, all by different female musicians, and was funded by AT&T and the Thoreau Institute. The CD was issued solely to longtime customers of AT&T and included complimentary and downloadable internet access software. "Stormy Weather" received three out of a five stars from AllMusic and was received favorably by Frank Tortorici of Sonic.net. "Stormy Weather"
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"Love Is a Hurtin' Thing", "Stormy Monday" was the first of more than 20 other albums Rawls would record on that label in only a decade. Stormy Monday (Lou Rawls album) Stormy Monday, also known as "I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water", is the debut album of R&B singer Lou Rawls, released in 1962 on Capitol Records. Recorded in two sessions in February 1962, the album features a number of blues and jazz standards chosen by Rawls and backed by the Les McCann Trio. "Stormy Monday" was reissued in 1990 by Blue Note records. "Excerpt from the album liner notes:" In
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"On My Knees" for Jaci Velasquez; Nicole later included the song on her own album. The couple divorced in 2014. He wrote songs to "" and made the music for Chris Olsen's "Threads: A Pond Full of Pigs". Most recently Mullen has been restoring an old recording studio in the historic district of Franklin, TN (Emack Studio) that he purchased with CCM veteran Toby McKeehan (Toby Mac, DC Talk), and which is now the headquarters of the artist relations department of Yamaha International. Per AllMusic: Grammy Award nominee • Best Pop Gospel Album - 1991, "Faded Blues" • Best Song
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Jennifer Holliday Jennifer Yvette Holliday (born October 19, 1960) is an American singer and actress. She started her career on Broadway in musicals such as "Dreamgirls" (1981–83), "Your Arms Too Short to Box with God" (1980–81) and later became a successful recording artist. She is best known for her debut single, the "Dreamgirls" number and rhythm-and-blues/pop hit, "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going", for which she won a Grammy in 1983. She also won a 1982 Tony Award for "Dreamgirls". Holliday landed her first big role on Broadway in 1979 at age 19, the same day she auditioned
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Jolette (singer) Jolette Guadalupe Hernández Navarrete (born 21 January 1984) is a Mexican singer and television presenter. She is best remembered for being part of the from the reality musical talent show La Academia in 2005. Jolette has two brothers and one sister. Jolette formed part of the 2005 generation from the musical reality show La Academia. Although she didn't demonstrate any vocal talent through the course of the show, she got to stay for 17 weeks on the show. She is best remembered on the show for her multiple lawsuits with judges and professors, which led to the rating
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Blind James Campbell Blind James Campbell (September 17, 1906 – January 22, 1981) was an American blues singer and guitarist. He is mostly remembered for his 1962–63 recording for the Arhoolie label with his Nashville Street Band. James Campbell was born in Nashville, Tennessee, on September 17, 1906. He later became known as Blind James Campbell after an accident at a fertilizer plant left him permanently blinded. In 1936 he formed a band and began playing folk, country, pop, jazz and blues music at parties, dances and for other local events. The Nashville Street Band consisted of fiddler Beauford Clay
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Tasha the Amazon Tasha the Amazon, born Tasha Schumann, is a Canadian hip hop musician, best known for her debut EP "Die Every Day," which was nominated at the 2017 Juno Awards for Rap Recording of the Year. Born to German and Jamaican parents, she was raised in Kitchener, Ontario. She is the niece of Erroll Starr, a rhythm and blues singer prominent in the 1980s. She moved to Toronto after high school, studying psychology at the University of Toronto, where she launched her music career. Releasing a number of solo singles between 2013 and 2015, including a mixtape called
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on the pop chart and is included on Latimore's self-titled debut album for Glades Records. The Blues Foundation, in its statement about Latimore's induction to the Blues Hall of Fame in 2017, noted the importance of "Stormy Monday" on his performing career. Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just as Bad) "Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just as Bad)" (commonly referred to as "Stormy Monday") is a song written and recorded by American blues electric guitar pioneer T-Bone Walker. It is a slow twelve-bar blues performed in the West Coast blues-style that features Walker's smooth, plaintive vocal
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Stormy Monday Blues "Stormy Monday Blues" is a jazz song first recorded in 1942 by Earl Hines and His Orchestra with Billy Eckstine on vocals. The song was a hit, reaching number one in "Billboard" magazine's "Harlem Hit Parade", making it Hines' only appearance in the charts. "Stormy Monday Blues" is performed in the style of a slow blues that "starts with Hines' piano and a walking bass for the introduction". Billy Eckstine then enters with the vocal: The lyrics "stormy" or "Monday" do not appear in the song. A trumpet solo by Maurice "Shorty" McConnell with big band backing
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Downhearted Blues "Downhearted Blues" is a blues song composed by American jazz singer Alberta Hunter and musician Lovie Austin. The first line sets the theme for the song: "Gee but it's hard to love someone when that someone don't love you". Hunter sang it during her engagement at the Dreamland Cafe, in Chicago, where she performed with Joe "King" Oliver's band. She made a recording of the song in 1922. Blues singer Bessie Smith recorded the song with piano accompaniment by Clarence Williams on February 16, 1923. It was released as her first single (with "Gulf Coast Blues" on the
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Ida May Mack Ida May Mack or Ida Mae Mack was an American classic female blues, country blues, and Texas blues singer and songwriter. She recorded eight songs in 1928, four of which she recorded twice. Six of these tracks were released at the time. Little is known of her life outside the music industry. Little is known about Mack's origins and early life. It is known that she traveled by train to Memphis, Tennessee, in 1928, alongside Bessie Tucker and Charlie Kyle, with the intention of recording for Victor. Memphis was the location of the recording studio nearest to
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That Thing" by Lil Johnson and "Rock Me Mama" by Ikey Robinson. Also in 1922, billed as the "southern nightingale," Smith won first place and a silver cup in a blues singing contest in which she sang her own composition, "Trixie's Blues", competing against Alice Leslie Carter, Daisy Martin and Lucille Hegamin, at the Inter-Manhattan Casino in New York, sponsored by the dancer Irene Castle. She is best remembered for "Railroad Blues" (1925), which features one of her most inspired vocal performances on record, and "The World Is Jazz Crazy and So Am I" (1925). Louis Armstrong played the cornet
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Blues". She sang in a vigorous and sometimes abrasive manner. All her songs have been anthologized on later blues collections. There is no record of what became of Johnson after her recording career ended in 1937. Lil Johnson (blues singer) Lil Johnson (fl. 1920s-1930s, dates and places of birth and death unknown) was an African-American singer who recorded dirty blues and hokum songs in the 1920s and 1930s. Her origins and early life are not known. She first recorded in Chicago in 1929, accompanied by the pianists Montana Taylor and Charles Avery on five songs, including "Rock That Thing". She
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on May 20, 1981. At the time, Ross's was music history's most expensive recording deal. In 1971, Diana Ross began working on her first film, "Lady Sings the Blues", which was a loosely based biography on singer Billie Holiday. Despite some criticism of her for taking the role, once the film opened in October 1972, Ross won critical acclaim for her performance in the film. Jazz critic Leonard Feather, a friend of Holiday's, praised Ross for "expertly capturing the essence of Lady Day". Ross's role in the film won her Golden Globe Award and Academy Award nominations for Best Actress.
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