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Mavis Staples U.S West Coast Tour.
R&B and Soul Legend Mavis Staples is embarking on a tour of the United States West Coast, before heading to Switzerland and select dates overseas. Known for her hits with…
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October 7, 1962 Little Richard makes his British singing debut!!
On October 7, 1962 Little Richard made his British singing debut on Thank Your Lucky Stars, a U.K, Television show. Little Richard (Born Wayne Penniman 1932 in Macon Georgia), pioneered…
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Bo Diddley Records Debut Single Today
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Fats Domino Releases “Rock & Rollin’ With the Fat Man”
On this day in 1956 Fats Domino
released his classic album “Rock & Rollin’ With the Fat Man. The album contained one of the Fat’s greatest known singles, “Aint That A Shame.”
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Police Believe Slashed Tires Caused Jesse Belvin’s Death Today
Police have launched an investigation into the death of R&B singer Jesse Belvin, who died today (February 6, 1960) in a car crash in New Hope, Arkansas.
According to original reports, Belvin, Jackie Wilson and Arthur Prysock left a Little Rock, Arkansas segregated dance, when a “white group appeared late” at the hall for their “dance session.”
The “hall” was The Robinson Auditorium. The singers were there to perform two sets – one for a black crowd and one for a white audience.
Wilson allegedly refused to do the white only set in protest to segregation. After arguing with promoters, he was allegedly “ordered out of town at gunpoint,” the Los Angeles Sentinel reported.