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Rawls, Lou Filmography
- Frankie Laine: An American Dreamer (2006)
- An Evening of Stars: Tribute to Stevie Wonder (2006)
- The 48th Annual Grammy Awards (2006)
- An Evening of Stars: Tribute to Quincy Jones (2005)
- The 8th Annual Soul Train Christmas Starfest (2005)
- Straight from the Heart: Timeless Music of the 60's & 70's (2004)
- An Evening of Stars: 25th Anniversary Tribute to Lou Rawls (2004)
- American Soundtrack: Rhythm, Love and Soul (2003)
- Sam Cooke: Legend (2003)
- God Only Knows: Vocal Harmony - The Voice (2003)
- Uh Oh! (2003)
- The Nick at Nite Holiday Special (2003)
- Uh Oh! (2003)
- DeFord Bailey: A Legend Lost (2002)
- 32nd NAACP Image Awards (2001)
- An Evening of Stars: A Celebration of Educational Excellence (2001)
- Betaville (2001)
- Christmas with the Stars (2001)
- Petula Clark: A Sign of the Times (2001)
- The Code Conspiracy (2001)
- Bel Air (2000)
- Everything's Jake (2000)
- The Jazz Channel Presents Lou Rawls (2000)
- A Man Is Mostly Water (2000)
- Michael Jordan: An American Hero (1999)
- Wildly Available (1999)
- CD Highway (1999)
- Living Legends of Gospel: The Quartets, Volume 1 (1998)
- Living Legends of Gospel: The Quartets, Volume 2 (1998)
- Watchers Reborn (1998)
- Knock Out (1998)
- The Rugrats Movie (1998)
- Knock Out (1998)
- Blues Brothers 2000 (1998)
- After the Game (1997)
- Still Breathing (1997)
- Snowden on Ice (1997)
- The Price of Kissing (1997)
- Morella (1997)
- Motel Blue (1997)
- Don King: Only in America (1997)
- Driven (1996)
- Livers Ain't Cheap (1996)
- Celebrate the Dream: 50 Years of Ebony Magazine (1996)
- The Prince (1996)
- Malevolence (1995)
- Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
- Lookin' Italian (1994)
- Hollywood Fantasy Christmas (1993)
- Saturday's (1991)
- The Songwriter's Hall of Fame 20th Anniversary... The Magic of Music (1989)
- Lou Rawls Presents Black Gold Hits (1988)
- Living the Dream: A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1988)
- The 15th Annual American Music Awards (1988)
- The 14th Annual American Music Awards (1987)
- The 4th Annual Black Gold Awards (1987)
- The 59th Annual Academy Awards (1987)
- The 4th Annual Black Gold Awards (1987)
- Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood (1987)
- The 3rd Annual Black Gold Awards (1986)
- The 3rd Annual Black Gold Awards (1986)
- Motown Returns to the Apollo (1985)
- The 11th Annual American Music Awards (1984)
- The Secret World of the Very Young (1984)
- The President's Command Performance (1983)
- The 8th Annual American Music Awards (1981)
- Uptown: A Tribute to the Apollo Theatre (1980)
- The 21st Annual Grammy Awards (1979)
- The 20th Annual Grammy Awards (1978)
- The 4th Annual American Music Awards (1977)
- The 4th Annual American Music Awards (1977)
- Lou Rawls: Soul on Ice! (1975)
- The 42nd Annual Academy Awards (1970)
- Angel, Angel, Down We Go (1969)
- Jack Benny's Bag (1968)
- The Best on Record (1968)
Rawls was born on 1st December 1933 in Chicago, Illinois. His father abandoned his family and Lou was raised by his grandmother. His first meeting with music was when he was seven years old, in a Baptist church choir. He was mostly influenced by the Chicago Regal theatre where he had the opportunity to see the best in black entertainment. 'Billy Eckstine' (qv) and Arthur Prysock were only two of the best that Lou saw. He and classmate, 'Sam Cooke (I)' (qv), would harmonize in the school lavatory. He graduated from Dunbar Tech. School and joined the touring gospel singing group, the Pilgrim Travelers. He left the group in 1956 and joined the US Army and became a Sergeant with the Screaming Eagle Paratroopers. In 1958, he was involved in a serious auto accident that killed one and Rawls was pronounced dead on on the way to the hospital. Lou remained in a coma for over five days and suffered a memory loss for several months. 'Sam Cooke (I)' (qv) was also in the automobile and was left uninjured. Rawls was first noticed by Capitol Records producer Nick Benet after noticing his four octave range while performing at a Pandora's Los Angeles coffee shop. He went on to perform at a number of LA clubs and later made his debut at the Hollywood Bowl in 1959 with 'Dick Clark (I)' (qv). He went solo in 1964 and has won four Grammys. In the mid 70s, he joined the Anheuser Busch Brewery as a corporate spokesman. Since 1980, he has presented a series of world wide concerts for American military bases that were co-sponsored by Anheuser Busch, the USO, and the US Dept. Of Defense. During Christmas of 1983, he toured US bases in the Phillipines, Korea and Japan. He has raised hundreds of millions of dollars for black colleges and, every year, he sponsors a celebrity golf tournament in LA to raise money for the United Negro College Fund. South Wentworth Street in Chicago was renamed Lou Rawls Drive in his honor. The talented Rawls is also the singing voice of the animated fickle feline "Garfield".
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The Very Best of Lou Rawls: You'll Never Find Another
(Released 2006)
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- Dead End Street
- Love Is a Hurtin' Thing
- Trouble Down Here Below
- Natural Man
- Your Good Thing (Is About to End)
- Street Corner Hustler's Blues/World of Trouble [live]
- I Can't Make It Alone
- You Can Bring Me All Your Heartaches
- You've Made Me So Very Happy [single]
- On Broadway
- Righteous Woman/I Wanna Little Girl
- Breaking My Back (Instead of Using My Mind)
- Shadow of Your Smile [live]
- Bring It on Home
- Show Business
- Down Here on the Ground
- Lady Love
- See You When I Git There
- Groovy People
- Let Me Be Good to You
- You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine
- Roll 'em Pete
- I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water
- How Long, How Long Blues
- Everyday I Have the Blues
- St. James Infirmary
- (What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue
- Gloomy Sunday
- Kansas City
- Goin' To Chicago Blues
- Trouble in Mind
- World of Trouble
- Six Cold Feet of Ground
- Strange Fruit
- Tobacco Road
- Cotton Fields
- Rockin' Chair
- Stormy Weather
- Ol' Man River
- Blues for a Four-String Guitar
- St. Louis Blues
- Georgia on My Mind
- Sentimental Journey
- Summertime
- When It's Sleepy Time Down South
- You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine
- Groovy People
- See You When I Git There
- Lady Love
- One Life to Live
- Let Me Be Good to You
- Sit Down and Talk to Me
- I Go Crazy
- I Wish You Belonged to Me
- From Now On
- Trade Winds
- Bark, Bite (Fight All Night)
- I Wish It Were Yesterday
- Dollar Green
- Love Is a Hurtin' Thing (live)
- Dead End Street (live)
- Tobacco Road (live)
- This Song Will Last Forever
- There Will Be Love
- Ain't That Loving You
- You're the One
- You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine
- Time
- Groovy People
- Need You Forever
- From Now On
- Pure Imagination
- This Song Will Last Forever
- Let's Fall in Love All Over Again
- See You When I Git There
- Spring Again
- Early Morning Love
- Some Folks Never Learn
- Some Day You'll Be Old
- Secret Tears
- We Understand Each Other
- It's Our Anniversary Today
- All the Way
- Lady Love
- I Wish It Were Yesterday
- One Life to Live
- Dollar Green
- Trade Winds
- There Will Be Love
- Unforgettable
- That Would Do It for Me
- I Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda
- Not the Staying Kind
- Run Jesse Run
- Unforgettable
- Ain't That Loving You
- Early Morning Love
- You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine
- There Will Be Love
- Lady Love
- See You When I Git There
- From Now On
- You Are
- Let's Fall in Love Again
- At Last
- Be Anything (But Be Mine)
- If It's the Last Thing I Do
- The Shadow of Your Smile (live)
- Love Is a Hurtin' Thing
- I Wish You Belonged to Me
- I'm Still in Love With You
- Save Your Love for Me
- Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
- Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town
- The Christmas Song
- Winter Wonderland
- Christmas Is the Time
- Slient Night
- O Holy Night
- Sleigh Ride
- Silver Bells
- Christmas Will Really Be Christmas
- Little Boy Dear
- Auld Lang Syne
- God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
- I'll Be Home for Christmas
- Joy to the World
- O Come All Ye Faithfull
- The First Noel
- A Child With a Toy
- We Wish You a Merry Christmas
- Christmas Is...
- Lady Love
- Stay a While With Me
- Groovy People
- Medley
- Let Me Be Good to You
- Tomorow
- Unforgettable
- Send in the Clowns
- You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine
- These Are the Songs I Sing
- Come Fly With Me
- Nice 'n' Easy
- All the Way
- Learnin' the Blues
- That's Life
- The Lady Is a Tramp
- Summer Wind
- The Second Time Around
- My Kind of Town / Chicago
- In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning
- They Can't Take That Away From Me
- One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)
- Chicago
- On Broadway
- Georgia on My Mind
- One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)
- Your Good Thing (Is About to End)
- I Just Want to Make Love to You
- Feeling Alright
- The Girl From Ipanema
- You've Made Me So Very Happy
- God Bless the Child
- If You Gotta Make a Fool of Somebody
- Fa Fa Fa Fa (Sad Song)
- When Love Goes Wrong
- It Was a Very Good Year
- Stormy Weather
- When It's Sleep Time Down South
- Summertime
- The Little Drummer Boy
- Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
- Merry Christmas, Baby
- Christmas Is
- God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
- Santa Clasue Is Comin' to Town
- O Holy Night
- The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas to You)
- The First Noel
- Christmas Will Relly Be Christmas
- What Are You Doing New Years Eve?
- Auld Lang Syne
- What Makes the Ending So Sad
- Blues Is a Woman
- Willow Weep for Me
- Black and Blue
- Kansas City
- Tobacco Road
- Stormy Monday (live)
- St. James Infirmary (live)
- I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water
- Shadow of Your Smile
- Street Corner Hustler's Blues (monologue)
- World of Trouble (live)
- Memory Lane
- Old Man's Memories (monologue)
- It Was a Very Good Year
- A Whole Lotta Woman
The Best of Lou Rawls - The Classic Philadelphia Recordings
(Released 1998)
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- See You When I Get There
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- Bark, Bite (Fight All Night)
- Dollar Green
- I Wish It Were Yesterday
- I Wish You Belonged To Me
- One Life To Live
- Love Is A Hurtin' Thing (Live)
- Dead End Street (Live)
- Tobacco Road (Live)
- At Last
- I Wonder Where Our Love Has Gone
- If I Were a Magician
- I'm Still in Love With You
- Sweet Slumber
- Good Morning Blues
- This Bitter Earth
- Save Your Love for Me
- One More Time
- Chains of Love
- Oh, What a Nite
- Good Night My Love
- Stormy Monday
- God Bless the Child
- See See Rider
- Willow Weep for Me
- I'm Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town
- In the Evening When the Sun Goes Down
- T'ain't Nobody Biz-nes If I Do
- Lost and Lookin'
- I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water
- Sweet Lover
- Blues Is a Woman
- A Little Les of Lou's Blues
- Stormy Monday (alternate take)
- You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine
- Spring Again
- Early Morning Love
- Lady Love
- If I Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda
- Willow Weep for Me
- (Will You) Kiss Me One More Time
- Wind Beneath My Wings
- When the Night Comes
- Midnight Sunshine
- We'll Be Together Again
- In the Middle of the Night
- Close Company
- Forever I Do (The Wedding Song)
- The Lady in My Life
- The Way You Look Tonight
- Learn to Love Again
- It Never Entered My Mind
- Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
- Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town
- Merry Christmas, Baby
- Christmas Will Really Be Christmas
- What Are You Doing New Year's Eve
- The Christmas Song
- A Child With a Toy
- The Little Drummer Boy
- Little Boy Dear
- At Last
- Two Years of Torture
- Fine Brown Frame (feat. Dianne Reeves)
- Good Intentions
- That's Where It's At
- If I Were a Magician
- You Can't Go Home
- Room With a View
- After the Lights Go Down Low
- She's No Lady
- Oh, What a Nite
- For You My Love
- If I Had My Life to Live Over
- Nobody but Me
- Whispering Grass
- Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You
- If It's the Last Thing I Do
- Blues for the Weepers
- That's Your Red Wagon
- Just Squeeze Me (But Don't Tease Me)
- It's You
- I Love You, Yes I Do
- I Wonder
- Wee Baby Blues
- I Wonder Where Our Love Has Gone
- I Just Want to Make Love to You
- A Lover's Question
- Person to Person
- Since I Met You Baby
- I'm Still in Love With You
- Snap Your Fingers
- Baby, What You Want Me to Do?
- Suffering With the Blues
- Hide nor Hair
- Chains of Love
- My Babe
- I Ain't Got Nothin' but the Blues
- Save Your Love for Me
- Saturday Night Fish Fry
- Sweet Slumber
- Christmas Is the Time
- God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
- Silver Bells
- The First Noel
- Sleigh ride
- I'll Be Home for Christmas
- O Holy Night
- Joy to the World
- Winter Wonderland
- O Come All Ye Faithful
- Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
- The Christmas Song
- Silent Night
- We Wish You a Merry Christmas
- Auld Lang Syne
- Lady Love
- See You When I Get There
- You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine
- Groovy People
- One Live to Live
- Let Me Be Good to You
- Sit Down and Talk to Me
- You're My Blessing
- Unforgettable
- Lover's Holyday
- Natural Man
- Bark, Bite (Fight All Night)
- Sweet Tender Nights
- Time Will Take Care of Everything
- Did You Ever Love a Woman
- Natural Man
- Love Is a Hurtin' Thing
- Your Good Thing (Is About to End)
- Dead End Street (monologue)
- Dead End Street
- On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever)
- Three O'Clock in the Morning
- South Side Blues (monologue)
- Tobacco Road
- What Now My Love
- Georgia on My Mind
- A Fool Such as I
- It's Supposed to Be Fun
- Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
- All Around the World
- Good Morning Blues
- Moonglows
- Any Day Now
- This Bitter Earth
- If You Gotta Make a Fool of Somebody
- One More Time
- You're the One
- (I Wonder) Where Our Love Has Gone
- But I Do
- Good Night My Love
- The Last Night of the World
- You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine
- Lady Love
- Groovy People
- There Will Be Love
- Time Will Take Care of Everything
- Unforgettable
- Time
- Tomorrow
- See You When I Get There
- If I Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda
- The Lady in My Life
- This Song Will Last Forever
- Some Day You'll Be Old
- Not the Staying Kind
- You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling
- Let's Clean Up the Getto
- You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine
- Sit Down and Talk to Me
- See You When I Get There
- Let Me Be Good to You
- Groovy People
- Lady Love
- I Go Crazy
- Natural Man
- One Life to Live
- See You When I Git There
- Spring Again
- Early Morning Love
- Some Folks Never Learn
- Some Day You'll Be Old
- Secret Tears
- We Understand Each Other
- It's Our Anniversary Today
- All the Way
- Lady Love
- I Wish It Were Yesterday
- One Life to Live
- Dollar Green
- Trade Winds
- There Will Be Love
- Unforgettable
- That Would Do It for Me
- If I Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda
- Not the Staying Kind
- Natural Man
- His Song Shall Be Sung
- Got to Get You Into My Life
- A Song for You
- Love Is a Hurtin' Thing
- Tobacco Road (live)
- I'm a King Bee
- Evil
- Dead End Street Monologue
- Dead End Street (live)
- You're the One
- You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine
- Time
- Groovy People
- Need You Forever
- From Now On
- Pure Imagination
- This Song Will Last Forever
- Let's Fall in Love Again
- Bring It on Home
- Another Saturday Night
- Can You Dig It
- Take Me for What I Am
- Win Your Love
- Chain Gang
- What Makes the Ending So Sad
- Somebody Have Mercy
- Coppin' a Plea
- Cool Train
- All God's Children
- Let's Burn Down the Cornfield
- You've Made Me So Very Happy
- When Someone Comes Along
- A Whole Lotta Sunlight
- Feelin' Alright
- Mama Told Me Not to Come
- Hurtin'
- Yesterday's Dreams
- How Can That Be
- Will Someone Carry the Ball
- I Love You, Yes I Do
- It's You
- I Wonder
- I Want to Be Loved (But Only by You)
- Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song)
- Your Good Thing (Is About to End)
- When a Man Loves a Woman
- Season of the Witch
- Gentle on My Mind
- Trying as Hard as I Can
- Down Here on the Ground
- I Want to Hear It From You
- A Beautiful Friendship
- Baby I Could Be So Good at Lovin' You
- Soul Serenade
- You're Good for Me
- Lifetime
- Lifetime Monologue
- Ol' Man River
- I'm Satisfied
- One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)
- Yes, It Hurts (Doesn't It?)
- Its an Uphill Climb to the Bottom
- I Just Want to Make Love to You
- You're Takin' My Bag
- Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye
- Dead End Street (Monologue)
- Dead End Street
- Twelfth of Never
- Righteous Woman (Monologue)
- I Want a Little Girl
- Why (Do I Love You So)
- I'll Take Time
- You're Always on My Mind
- A Whole Lotta Woman
- Love Is a Hurtin' Thing
- So Hard to Laugh So Easy to Cry
- You're the One
- Don't Explain
- What Now My Love
- Memory Lane
- Old Man's Memories (Monologue)
- It Was a Very Good Year
- Growing Old Gracefully
- Old Folks
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- Breaking My Back
- Nobody but Me
- Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall
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- Two Tickets West
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- The Power of Love
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- For You My Love
- If It's the Last Thing I Do
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- Blues for the Weepers
- Roll 'em Pete
- I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water
- How Long, How Long Blues
- Everyday I Have the Blues
- St. James Infirmary
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- Strange Fruit
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- Willow Weep for Me
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- For You My Love
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- Your Good Thing (Is About to End)
- Love Is a Hurtin' Thing
- You Can't Go Home No More
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- All Around the World
- Good Morning Blues
- Gentle on My Mind
- What Now My Love
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- You've Made Me So Very Happy
- Yesterday
- (Now and Then There's) A Fool Such as I
- Georgia on My Mind
- On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever)
- Make the World Go Away
- The Twelfth of Never
- Cold Cold Heart
- Motherless Child
- God Bless the Child
- Nobody but Me
- Blues for the Weepers
- Goin' to Chicago Blues
- How Long How Long Blues
- Southside Blues - Tobacco Road
- Something Stirring in My Soul
- Georgia on My Mind
- So Hard to Laugh So Easy to Cry
- Old Folks
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- Why Do I Love You So
- Street of Dreams
- I Wonder
- Let's Burn Down the Cornfield
- One for My Baby One More for the Road
- Mean Old World
- Long Gone Blues
- Fine and Mellow
- See You When I Git There
- Spring Again
- Early Morning Love
- Some Folks Never Learn
- Someday You'll Be Old
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- We Understand Each Other
- It's Our Anniversary Today
- All The Way
- Lady Love
- I Wish It Were Yesterday
- One Life To Live
- Dollar Green
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- Unforgettable
- That Would Do It For Me
- I Coulda', Woulda', Shoulda'
- Not The Staying Kind
- Red Top
- Just Squeeze Me (but Don't Tease Me)
- You're the One
- Dead End Street, Parts 1 & 2
- Love Is a Hurtin' Thing
- Bring It on Home
- Another Saturday Night
- Righteous Woman (monologue) / I Wanna Little Girl
- Tobacco Road
- How Long, How Long Blues
- Your Good Thing (Is About to End)
- I Wonder
- A Whole Lotta Woman
- You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine
- This Song Will Last Forever
- Time Will Take Care of Everything
- Show Business
- You Can Bring Me All Your Heartaches
- Tobacco Road
- Love Is a Hurtin' Thing
- See You When I Get There
- Your Good Thing (Is About to End)
- Dead End Street
- There Will Be Love
- Let Me Be Good to You
- Bark, Bite
- Lover's Holiday
- Sweet Tender Nights
- Time Will Take Care of Everything
- Sit Down and Talk to Me
- Ain't That Loving You
- You're My Blessing
- Old Times
- Heartaches
- I Go Crazy
- Did You Ever Love a Woman
- Think
- Hoochie Coochie Man
- You've Lost That Loving Feeling
- I Can't Make It Alone
- Love Is a Hurting Thing
- When She Speaks
- (How Do I Say) I Don't Love You Anymore
- Season of the Witch
- Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa (Sad Song)
- When Love Goes Wrong
- Feeling Alright
- You Made Me So Very Happy
- Your Good Thing (Is About to End)
- You're Good for Me
- Dead End Street
- Don't Explain
- A Whole Lotta Woman
- It's an Uphill Climb (To the Bottom)
- For What It's Worth
- Gentle on My Mind
- All God's Children
- How Can That Be
- Bring It on Home to Me
- Can You Dig It (Monologue)
- Take Me for What I Am
- Evil Woman
- Soul Serenade
- When a Man Loves a Woman
- I'm Gonna Use What I Got (Holiday)
- Hang Ups
- The Letter
- Evil Woman
- Feelin' Good
- My Ancestors
- Even When You Cry
- For What It's Worth
- Gotta Find a Way
- Encore
- Ain't No Sunshine
- Lean on Me
- Use Me
- Kissing My Love
- Grandma's Hands
- You
- Lonely Town, Lonely Street
- The Same Love That Made Me Laugh
- Sad Song
- Trying as Hard as I Can
- I Love You, Yes I Do
- Season of the Witch
- I Wonder
- I Want to Be Loved
- Your Good Thing Is About to End
- When a Man Loves a Woman
Born: 1933-12-01
Died: 2006-01-06
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Lou Rawls "You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine"
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- Duration: 4:26
- Published: 27 Apr 2009
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"You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine" (written by Kenny Gamble & Leon Huff) is a song performed by R&B singer Lou Rawls on his 1976 album All Things in Time. The song proved to be Rawls' breakthrough hit, reaching #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #1 on the R&B and Adult Contemporary charts. It was the only Rawls record to reach Billboard's pop top ten. It was the first big hit for Philadelphia International to feature the reformulated MFSB, after many of the original members left Gamble and Huff for better opportunities. The song started Rawls' live shows from 1977 on. The single went on to sell over a million copies and was certified platinum by the RIAA. "You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine" has been covered by singers Michael Bublé, Laura Pausini reggae legend John Holt and most recently the Dub Pistols (who use a sample of John Holt's version) on their Speakers And Tweeters album. This song was also featured on The Proud Family Soundtrack. Also, it can be heard in the 2nd trailer of Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs.
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You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine - Lou Rawls
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- Duration: 4:45
- Published: 25 Jan 2009
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- Author: handsmlake
Song is off of his 1976 album "All Things In Time", and hit #2 on the Billboard top 100 that year. Suprisingly this is the only Lou Rawls song to ever crack the Billboard top ten.
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Lou Rawls I'll See You When I Get There
Modern Northern Soul Groove
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Lou Rawls "Tobacco Road"
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- Published: 23 Jul 2008
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Louis Allen Rawls (December 1, 1933 January 6, 2006) was an American soul, jazz, and blues singer. He was known for his smooth vocal style: Frank Sinatra once said that Rawls had "the classiest singing and silkiest chops in the singing game". Rawls released more than 70 albums, sold more than 40 million records, appeared as an actor in motion pictures and on television, and voiced-over many cartoons. He had been called "The Funkiest Man Alive". "Tobacco Road" is a song written and first recorded by John D. Loudermilk in 1960 that was a hit for The Nashville Teens in 1964 and has since become a standard across several musical genres. Originally framed as a folk song, "Tobacco Road" was semi-autobiographical tale of growing up in the rough East Durham area of Durham, North Carolina. Released on Columbia Records, it was not a hit for Loudermilk, achieving only minor chart success in Australia. Other artists, however, immediately began recording and performing the song. The confusingly-named English group The Nashville Teens' rendition was a bold effort featuring prominent piano and bass drum parts set against a dual lead vocal; fellow countryman Mickie Most produced it with the same tough-edged-pop feel that he brought to The Animals' hits. "Tobacco Road" was a trans-Atlantic pop hit in 1964, reaching number 6 on the UK singles chart and number 14 on the US singles chart. While the Teens would have further success in England, in the US "Tobacco Road" became another one-hit <b>...</b>
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You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine
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- Duration: 4:28
- Published: 26 Oct 2008
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Lou Rawls
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Lou Rawls - Lady Love
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- Duration: 3:48
- Published: 29 Jan 2008
- Uploaded: 02 Feb 2012
- Author: memyself2k
The late great R & B legend performs one of my favorite songs. What can I say? The man had class.
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LOU RAWLS LIVE - YOU'LL NEVER FIND ANOTHER LOVE LIKE MINE
2003
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Spring Again - Lou Rawls
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- Duration: 3:04
- Published: 21 Mar 2010
- Uploaded: 31 Jan 2012
- Author: BlissInspiration
Yay! It's spring again! I can hear the birds sing again, See the flowers start to bud, See young people fall in love. The Legend, the late Lou Rawls sings "Spring Again" - written by Kenny Gamble & Leon Huff 1977... set to beautiful images. Enjoy this spring, summer, fall and winter.. until... it's spring again! : )
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The Girl From Ipanema - Lou Rawls
The late Lou Rawls singing the tune "The Girl from Ipanema" a truly distinctive and unique musical adaptation of this well known song.
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Lou Rawls-Season Of The Witch(1969)
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- Published: 31 Jan 2009
- Uploaded: 22 Jan 2012
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Re-Loaded
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Lou Rawls Colonoscopy Exam in English
Lou Rawls gives Damon Wayans a Colon exam
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Lou Rawls - Love Is A Hurting Thing
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- Duration: 2:14
- Published: 22 Apr 2008
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Lou Rawls - Love Is A Hurting Thing.... Nice Ender Sound....
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Lou Rawls - Dead End Street
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- Duration: 3:46
- Published: 11 Mar 2009
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Lou Rawls - "Groovy People"
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- Duration: 3:21
- Published: 26 Jul 2009
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Fan Post. CD:"Very Best Of Lou Rawls: You'll Never Find Another" Buy CD: www.cduniverse.com (c)2006 Capitol/EMI
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Lou Rawls (Louis Allen) You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine 1976 wr' Kenny Gamble & Leon Huff 2
You'll never find, as long as you live Someone who loves you tender like I do You'll never find, no matter where you search Someone who cares about you the way I do Whoa, I'm not braggin' on myself, baby But I'm the one who loves you And there's no one else, no-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh one else You'll never find, it'll take the end of all time Someone to understand you like I do You'll never find the rhythm, the rhyme All the magic we shared, just us two Whoa, I'm not tryin' to make you stay, baby But I know some how, some day, some way You are (you're gonna miss my lovin') You're gonna miss my lovin' (you're gonna miss my lovin') You're gonna miss my lovin' (you're gonna miss my lovin') You're gonna miss, you're gonna miss my lo-o-ove Whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh (you're gonna miss my lovin') Late in the midnight hour, baby (you're gonna miss my lovin') When it's cold outside (you're gonna miss my lovin') You're gonna miss, you're gonna miss my lo-o-ove You'll never find another love like mine Someone who needs you like I do You'll never see what you've found in me You'll keep searching and searching your whole life through Whoa, I don't wish you no bad luck, baby But there's no ifs and buts or maybes You're gonna, You're gonna miss (miss my lovin') You're gonna miss my lovin' (you're gonna miss my lovin') I know you're gonna my lovin' (you're gonna miss my lovin') You're gonna miss, you're gonna miss my lo-o-ove Whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh (you're gonna miss my lovin') Late in the midnight hour <b>...</b>
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Lou Rawls - Merry Christmas, Baby
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- Duration: 2:35
- Published: 24 Dec 2009
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Track 03 from Ultra-Lounge: Christmas Cocktails, Part 2.
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Lou Rawls Down Here On The Ground
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- Published: 26 Oct 2009
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Golden Slumber from Live At The Century Plaza
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Lou Rawls Lets burn down the cornfield
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- Published: 13 Mar 2009
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Dianne Reeves & Lou Rawls - Fine Brown Frame
Dianne Reeves & Lou Rawls - Fine Brown Frame
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LOU RAWLS LIVE - BRING IT ON HOME
LOU JAMMIN HIS OL BUDDY'S CLASSIC.
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Lou Rawls "Pure Imagination" (1976)
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Originally from his 1976 album "All Things In Time". Louis Allen Rawls (December 1, 1933[1] January 6, 2006) was an American soul music, jazz, and blues singer. He was known for his smooth vocal style: Frank Sinatra once said that Rawls had "the classiest singing and silkiest chops in the singing game".Rawls released more than 70 albums, sold more than 40 million records, appeared as an actor in motion pictures and on television, and voiced-over many cartoons. He had been called "The Funkiest Man Alive". Rawls' favorite expression was "Yeahhhh, buddy!" "Pure Imagination" is a song from the 1971 movie Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. It was written by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley specifically for the movie and does not appear in the original book by Roald Dahl or the 2005 film adaptation by Tim Burton. It was sung by Gene Wilder (Willy Wonka).
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Lou Rawls - Strange Fruit
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| Coordinates | 40°26′30″N80°00′00″N |
|---|---|
| name | Lou Rawls |
| background | solo_singer |
| birth name | Louis Allen Rawls |
| born | December 01, 1933Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| died | Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Interred: Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California |
| genre | R&B;, soul, jazz, blues |
| occupation | Singer, actor, voice actor |
| years active | 1950s–2006 |
| notable instruments | }} |
Louis Allen "Lou" Rawls (December 1, 1933 – January 6, 2006) was an American soul, jazz, and blues singer. He was known for his smooth vocal style: Frank Sinatra once said that Rawls had "the classiest singing and silkiest chops in the singing game". Rawls released more than 70 albums, sold more than 40 million records, appeared as an actor in motion pictures and on television, and voiced-over many cartoons.
Rawls is the subject of an upcoming biopic, tentatively titled ''Love Is a Hurtin' Thing: The Lou Rawls Story''. Rawls' son, Lou Rawls Jr., is the author of the script. Rawls will reportedly be portrayed by the actor Isaiah Washington. Rawls' favorite expression was "Yeah buddy!"
Career
Rawls was born on December 1, 1933 in Chicago and raised by his grandmother in the Ida B. Wells projects on the city's South Side. He began singing in the Greater Mount Olive Baptist Church choir at the age of seven and later sang with local groups through which he met future music stars Sam Cooke, who was nearly three years older than Rawls, and Curtis Mayfield.After graduating from Chicago's Dunbar Vocational High School, he sang briefly with Cooke in the Teenage Kings of Harmony, a local gospel group, and then with the Holy Wonders. In 1951, Rawls replaced Cooke in the Highway QC's after Cooke departed to join The Soul Stirrers in Los Angeles. Rawls was soon recruited by the Chosen Gospel Singers and himself moved to Los Angeles, where he subsequently joined the Pilgrim Travelers.
In 1955, Rawls enlisted in the U.S. Army as a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division. He left the "All-Americans" three years later as a sergeant and rejoined the Pilgrim Travelers (then known as the Travelers). In 1958, while touring the South with the Travelers and Sam Cooke, Rawls was in a serious car crash. Rawls was pronounced dead before arriving at the hospital, where he stayed in a coma for five and a half days. It took him months to regain his memory, and a year to fully recuperate. Rawls considered the event to be life-changing.
Alongside Dick Clark as master of ceremonies, Rawls was recovered enough by 1959 to be able to perform at the Hollywood Bowl. He was signed to Capitol Records in 1962, the same year he sang the soulful background vocals on the Sam Cooke recording of "Bring it on Home to Me" and "That's where it's at," both written by Cooke. Rawls himself charted with a cover of "Bring it on home to me" in 1970 (with the title shortened to "Bring It On Home").
|width=35%}} Rawls' first Capitol solo release was ''Stormy Monday (a.k.a. I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water)'', a jazz album, in 1962. On August 21, 1966, he opened for The Beatles at Crosley Field in Cincinnati.
Though his 1966 album ''Live!'' went gold, Rawls would not have a star-making hit until he made a proper soul album, appropriately named ''Soulin''', later that same year. The album contained his first R&B; #1 single, "Love Is a Hurtin' Thing". In 1967 Rawls won his first Grammy Award for Best R&B; Vocal Performance, for the single "Dead End Street." In 1967, Rawls also performed at the first evening of the Monterey International Pop Music Festival.
In 1969, the singer was co-host of NBC's summer replacement series for the ''Dean Martin Show'' along with Martin's daughter, singer Barbara Gail Martin.
After leaving Capitol in 1971, Rawls joined MGM, at which juncture he released his Grammy-winning single "Natural Man" written for him by comedian Sandy Baron and singer Bobby Hebb. He had a brief stint with Bell Records in 1974, where he recorded a cover of Hall & Oates' "She's Gone." In 1976, Rawls signed with Philadelphia International Records, where he had his greatest album success with the million-selling ''All Things in Time''. The album produced his most successful single, "You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine", which topped the R&B; and Adult Contemporary charts and went to number two on the pop side, becoming Rawls' only certified million-selling single in the process.
Subsequent albums, such as 1977's ''When You Hear Lou, You've Heard It All'' yielded such hit singles as "Lady Love". Other releases in the 1970s included the classic album ''Sit Down And Talk To Me''.
Rawls' 1977 Grammy Awards performance of "You'll Never Find" was disrupted by a coughing fit.
In 1982, Rawls received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Sang the lyrics to WGN-TV's 1983 "Chicago's Very Own" ad campaign, a slogan that the station still uses to this day.
In 1989, he performed vocals for "The Music and Heroes of America" segment in the animated television miniseries This is America, Charlie Brown.
"The Star Spangled Banner"
On the night of September 29, 1977, Rawls performed the national anthem of the United States prior to the Earnie Shavers-Muhammad Ali title fight at Madison Square Garden. He would be requested to sing the anthem many times over the next 28 years, and his final performance of it came on October 23, 2005. The crowd at that performance may not have known that Rawls was extremely ill with cancer, but he reportedly delivered an electrifying performance to kick off Game Two of the 2005 World Series between the Chicago White Sox and Houston Astros at U.S. Cellular Field in his hometown of Chicago.
Honors and charity work
In 1980, Rawls began the "Lou Rawls Parade of Stars Telethon" which benefits the United Negro College Fund. The annual event, known since 1998 as "An Evening of Stars: A Celebration of Educational Excellence", consists of stories of successful African-American students who have benefited from and/or graduated from one of the many historically black colleges and universities who receive support from the UNCF, along with musical performances from various recording artists in support of the UNCF's and Rawls' efforts. The event has raised over US$200 million in 27 shows for the fund through 2006.In January 2004, Rawls was honored by the United Negro College Fund for his more than 25 years of charity work with the organization. Instead of hosting and performing as he usually did, Rawls was given the seat of honor and celebrated by his performing colleagues, including Stevie Wonder, The O'Jays, Gerald Levert, Ashanti, and many others. His final television performance occurred during the 2005-2006 edition of the telethon, honoring Stevie Wonder in September 2005, just months before entering the hospital and after having been diagnosed with cancer earlier in the year. This program, aired in January, 2006, contains his final public television performance, where he performed two classics, "You Are the Sunshine of My Life," and a final ode to Frank Sinatra with, "It Was A Very Good Year."
At the time of Rawls' death, news and UNCF figures noted the significance of Rawls' final performance, "It Was a Very Good Year." The song is a retrospective of one's life and its lyrics include, "When I was seventeen, it was a very good year. It was a very good year for small town girls and soft summer nights...And now those days grow short, it is the autumn of years, and now I think about life as vintage wine from fine old kegs, from the brim to the dregs, it pours sweet and clear, it was a very good year."
Acting career
Rawls appeared in a segment of the first season of ''Sesame Street'', to sing the alphabet. He dismissed the concept of using cue cards for the performance, but reversed such decision when he forgot the order of the letters.Throughout Rawls' singing career, he had the opportunity to appear in many films, television shows, and commercials. He can be seen in such films as ''Leaving Las Vegas'', ''Blues Brothers 2000'', and ''Angel, Angel, Down We Go''. He had a supporting role in the ''Baywatch'' spin-off, ''Baywatch Nights''. He also appeared in the western television series, ''The Big Valley'', (starring legend Barbara Stanwyck, along with Lee Majors and Linda Evans) where he played a hired hand. Here, he delivered the memorable line: "Ain't a horse that can't be rode; ain't a man that can't be throwed".
Rawls lent his rich baritone voice to many cartoons, including ''Hey Arnold!'' as the voice of Harvey The Mailman, ''Garfield'', and ''The Proud Family'' (also appearing in animation form in one episode). For many of the Film Roman Garfield specials, Rawls would often compose songs for them, which he would then sing usually doing a duet with Desiree Goyette.
For many years, he was a spokesperson for the Colonial Penn Life Insurance Company, helping promote the brand on radio and TV to African-American markets much as Ed McMahon did for the white audience. He was also a spokesman for Budweiser. Budweiser was a key sponsor for the Rawls telethon and UNCF. There was no attempt to avoid the similarity between the title of the 1977 album ''When You've Heard Lou, You've Heard It All'' and his corporate sponsor's slogan "When You Say Budweiser, You've Said It All". A track on the 1978 album ''Lou Rawls Live,'' features Rawls singing the commercial slogan. Anheuser-Busch, the brewers of Budweiser, also suggested his telethon work to him.
Rawls was also a regular guest host on "Jazz Central", a program aired on the BET Jazz cable channel.
He appears as "Dr. Rawls" in a dream on an episode ''My Wife and Kids'', where he breaks into a parody version of "You'll Never Find", which a frightened Damon Wayans is afraid of having a colonoscopy the following day. Rawls uses the scope as a microphone in the scene. Rawls appears as a commentator in the second half of both the rated and unrated versions of the commentary for ''Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy'' DVD commentary track, despite having nothing to do with the film itself. During the track, he indulges the commentators' request, participating in a scatting contest with Will Ferrell.
Rawls also appeared in an episode of ''Baywatch'' as a bookie.
Rawls was also a guest star during the second season of ''The Muppet Show''. He also made a brief appearance on the series finale of ''Martin''.
Billboard Top 50 hit singles
The following is a list of Rawls singles that made the top 50 on the Billboard Hot 100. His first Hot 100 entry was "Three O'Clock in the Morning" in 1965, and his final was "Wind Beneath My Wings" in 1983. In addition to those two, nine other singles peaked at positions below the top 50 on the Hot 100, and additional singles reached the R&B;, Adult Contemporary and Bubbling Under charts.
Personal life
In January 2003, Rawls was arrested in Albuquerque, New Mexico, after getting into an argument with his then-girlfriend, Nina Malek Inman. During the course of the argument, he reportedly shoved her resulting in one charge of battery on a household member. The charge was later dropped. Rawls and Inman married later that same year.On December 19, 2005, the Associated Press reported that Rawls tried to annul his two-year marriage to wife Inman Rawls, who had been acting as his business manager, after it was discovered she had made unauthorized transfers amounting to nearly $350,000 from his bank account into an account solely controlled by her. She later stated that she had transferred the funds to protect them from one of Rawls' daughters from a previous relationship.
It was also announced in December 2005 that Rawls was being treated for cancer in both his lungs and brain. With his wife by his side, Lou Rawls succumbed to his illness on January 6, 2006, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California.
In addition to his wife of two years and their young son, Aiden Allen Rawls; Rawls left behind adult daughter Louanna Rawls (a wardrobe stylist and future Launch My Line contestant); adult daughter Kendra Smith; adult son Lou Rawls, Jr.; and three granddaughters: Brianna, Katrina, and Chayil.
Discography
Filmography
References
External links
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| Coordinates | 40°26′30″N80°00′00″N |
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| Name | Aretha Franklin |
| Background | solo_singer |
| Birth name | Aretha Louise Franklin |
| Born | March 25, 1942Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Origin | Detroit, Michigan, U.S. |
| Occupation | Singer, songwriter, pianist |
| Years active | 1956–present |
| Genre | Soul, jazz, blues, R&B;, gospel, rock |
| Instrument | Vocals, piano |
| Label | ColumbiaAtlanticArista |
| Associated acts | Sweet Inspirations, Carolyn Franklin, Erma Franklin, Cissy Houston, George Benson, George Michael, Michael McDonald, Eurythmics }} |
Aretha Louise Franklin (born March 25, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Although known for her soul recordings and referred to as The Queen of Soul, Franklin is also adept at jazz, blues, R&B;, gospel music, and rock. ''Rolling Stone'' magazine ranked her atop its list of The Greatest Singers of All Time as well as the ninth greatest artist of all time. She has won 18 competitive Grammys and two honorary Grammys. She has 20 No.1 singles on the Billboard R&B; Singles Chart and two No.1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100: "Respect" (1967) and "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)" (1987), a duet with George Michael. Since 1961, she has scored a total of 45 Top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100. She also has the most million-selling singles of any female artist (14). Between 1967 and 1982 she had 10 No.1 R&B; albums—more than any other female artist. In 1987, Franklin became the first female artist to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. She was the only featured singer at the 2009 presidential inauguration of Barack Obama.
Biography
Early life and career: 1942–1959
Aretha Louise Franklin (named for two aunts) was born in a two-room house in Memphis located at 406 Lucy St. She was the third of four children born to Barbara (née Siggers) and C.L. Franklin and the fifth of six overall in between past relationships by her parents. Franklin's family moved to Buffalo, when Franklin was two, and then by four, had settled in Detroit. Following the move to Detroit, Franklin's parents, who had a troubled marriage, split. Due to her father's work as a Baptist minister, Franklin was primarily raised by her grandmother, Rachel. Franklin suffered a tragedy when her mother died in Buffalo when Aretha was ten. Franklin sang in church at an early age and learned how to play piano by ear.
By her late preteens, Franklin was regularly singing solo numbers in her father's New Bethel Baptist Church. C.L. (né Clarence LaVaughn) Franklin), Aretha's father, was a respected local preacher. She grew up with local and national celebrities hanging out at her father's home including gospel greats Albertina Walker and her group The Caravans, Mahalia Jackson and Clara Ward, three women who played a pivotal role in her vocal development as a child.
Early success: 1960–1966
She released her first single for Columbia in September 1960, aged 18. It reached No. 10 on ''Billboard'''s R&B; chart. Her first album was released in January 1961. The label had her record mainly jazz-influenced pop music, hoping for success with this format as the label had with Billie Holiday. Columbia founder John H. Hammond later admitted in an interview years later that he felt Columbia did not really understand Franklin's background in gospel and failed to bring that aspect out in her secular recordings. After scoring two more top ten R&B; hits with "Operation Heartbreak" and "Won't Be Long" in 1961, Franklin scored her first top 40 pop hit with her rendition of "Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With a Dixie Melody". However later releases failed to find similar success, although Franklin had a near-Top 50 hit with "Runnin' Out of Fools" (1963).After the release of a tribute album to Dinah Washington, Columbia drifted away from their early jazz dreams for Franklin and had the singer record renditions of girl group-oriented hits including "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss)", "Every Little Bit Hurts" and "Mockingbird" but every attempt to bring her success with the material failed. However, she had garnered fame for being a multi-talented vocalist and musician. During a show in 1965, the master of ceremonies gave Franklin a tiara crown declaring her "the queen of soul". The title would prove to be prophetic. By 1966, struggling with recording for Columbia, Franklin decided not to sign a new contract with the label and settled with a deal with Atlantic. After she gained success at Atlantic, Columbia would release material from Franklin's prior recordings with the label which continued until 1969.
Superstardom: 1967–1972
Franklin began recording her first songs for Atlantic in early 1967. Initially sent to Muscle Shoals's legendary FAME studios where the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section was the in-house band, Franklin cut her first song – the blues ballad "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)", which finally allowed Franklin to show her gospel side. Tensions between Franklin's then-husband and then-manager Ted White and a musician led to Franklin and White hiding from public view in New York. Franklin eventually returned to the studio in New York to record the b-side, the gospel-oriented "Do Right Woman, Do Right Man". "I Never Loved a Man" soared up both the pop and R&B; charts upon its release peaking at number-nine and number-one respectively.Her second single with Atlantic would also be her biggest, most acclaimed work. "Respect", originally recorded and written by R&B; singer Otis Redding, would become a bigger hit after Franklin's gospel-fueled rendition of the song. The song also started a pattern of Franklin in later songs during this period producing a call and response vocal with Franklin usually backed up by her sisters Erma and Carolyn Franklin or The Sweet Inspirations. Franklin is credited with arranging the background vocals and ad-libbing the line, "r-e-s-p-e-c-t, find out what it means to me/take care of TCB", while her sisters shouted afterwards, "sock it to me". Franklin's version peaked at number one on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, becoming a sixties anthem. Franklin had three more top ten hits in 1967 – "Baby I Love You", "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" and "Chain of Fools". "Respect" later won Franklin her first two Grammys. She eventually won eight consecutive Grammys under the Best Female R&B; Vocal Performance category.
By the end of the year, Franklin not only became a superstar but she stood as one of the symbols of the civil rights movement partially due to her rendition of "Respect", which had a feminist-powered theme after Franklin recorded it. Franklin's other hits during the late sixties included "Think", her rendition of Dionne Warwick's "I Say a Little Prayer", "Ain't No Way" and "The House That Jack Built" among others. By the end of the sixties, Franklin's title as "the queen of soul" became permanent in the eyes of the media. After a few struggles in 1969, she returned with the ballad, "Call Me" in January 1970. That same year she had another hit with her gospel version of Ben E. King's "Don't Play That Song", while in 1971, Franklin was one of the first black performers to headline Fillmore West where she later released a live album. That same year she released the acclaimed ''Young, Gifted & Black'' album, which featured two top ten hits, the ballad "Daydreamin'" and the funk-oriented "Rocksteady". In 1972, she released her first gospel album in nearly two decades with ''Amazing Grace''. The album eventually became her biggest-selling release ever, selling over two million copies and becoming the best-selling gospel album of all time.
Decline and fallout with Atlantic: 1973–1979
Aretha had another number-one R&B; hit in 1973 with the Carolyn Franklin and William "Sonny" Sanders-composed "Angel", however its parent album, ''Hey Now Hey (The Other Side of the Sky)'', failed to repeat the success of Franklin's other albums. By 1974, after four years performing in Afrocentric-styled clothing, the singer glammed up her look and styled red hair releasing ''Let Me In Your Life''. The album yielded the smash single, "Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)". While several singles would later find success on the R&B; charts, Franklin was losing favor with pop audiences as soul music was starting to be overtaken by the emerging disco genre. Atlantic Records had also by this point given priority attention to Roberta Flack, leading to relations between Franklin and the company becoming estranged as a result. Franklin turned down a number of tracks giving to her by Marvin Yancy and Chuck Jackson (though eventually they would contribute to her 1975 album, ''You''). Several of the songs including "This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)" was later recorded by Natalie Cole. After the arrivals of Cole and Chaka Khan, Franklin's star ebbed.She briefly returned to the top 40 in 1976 with the Curtis Mayfield production, ''Sparkle'', which spawned the number-one R&B; hit, "Giving Him Something He Can Feel". Despite this, Franklin struggled to find success with subsequent releases. After the release of 1979's ''La Diva'', an attempt for Franklin to find a disco audience that flopped, selling less than 50,000 copies, Franklin's contract with Atlantic expired. Neither Atlantic nor Aretha had any interest in renewing it. While she was performing in Las Vegas on June 10, 1979, Franklin's father, C.L., was shot during an attempted robbery at his LaSalle Street home in Detroit. The incident left C.L. in a coma for the next five years. Aretha moved back to the Detroit area in late 1982 from Los Angeles (where she had lived since 1976) to help care for her father.
Comeback: 1980–1989
In 1980, Franklin among other prominent rhythm and blues and soul artists including Ray Charles and James Brown appeared on the film, ''The Blues Brothers.'' Franklin appeared as the wife of musician Matt "Guitar" Murphy, who engages in a brief war of words with Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi before going into "Think". Following that performance, Clive Davis signed Franklin to his Arista Records imprint. The singles "United Together" and the George Benson-featured "Love All the Hurt Away" returned Franklin to the R&B; top ten while 1982's ''Jump to It'', featuring a contemporary R&B; production style by Luther Vandross, became a comeback of sorts for Franklin on the pop music chart. The album stayed at No. 1 on the R&B; Albums chart for seven weeks and crossed to No. 23 on the ''Billboard'' 200 album chart, selling over 600,000 units and becoming Aretha's first gold-certified album since the ''Sparkle soundtrack''. The title track became Franklin's first number-one R&B; hit in five years while also hitting No. 24 on the Hot 100. After the relative failure of her 1983 follow-up, ''Get It Right'', also produced by Vandross, Franklin took some personal time off. Following the July 1984 death of her father, she entered the United Sound Studios in Detroit to record a new album for Arista in October of that year. Inspired by the recent success of fellow artist Tina Turner and Arista's emerging star Whitney Houston, Arista paired Franklin with Narada Michael Walden.The album released in July 1985, ''Who's Zoomin' Who?'', featured R&B;, pop, dance, synthpop and rock elements and became Franklin's first platinum-certified success. The album launched several major hits including the title track and the Motown-inspired "Freeway of Love". The rock-influenced Annie Lennox duet, "Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves" also became a hit for Franklin on the pop charts though it failed to climb higher than No.66 on the R&B; chart due to its more pop rock-leaning sound. Music Videos for each of the singles became prominent fixtures on MTV, BET and VH-1 among other video channels. In 1986, Franklin released her self-titled follow-up to ''Who's Zoomin' Who''. The album sold almost a million copies, and featured the number-one hit, "I Knew You Were Waiting for Me", a duet with George Michael. In April 1987, the song became Franklin's first single since "Respect" to hit No. 1 on the Hot 100.
Other hits from the album included a cover of "Jumpin' Jack Flash" and another Motown-inspired hit, "Jimmy Lee". In 1987 she returned to her gospel roots with the album, ''One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism'', which failed to repeat the success of ''Amazing Grace'' despite a powerful rendition of "Oh Happy Day", featuring Mavis Staples, but did reach the Top 10 of Billboard's gospel chart. In 1986, she sang the theme song ("Together") for the ABC television network.
Later work: 1989–2003
In 1989, Franklin returned with her first pop album in three years with ''Through the Storm'' but despite scoring a Top 20 hit with the title track featuring Elton John and the presence of Whitney Houston in their duet single, "It Isn't, It Wasn't, It Ain't Ever Gonna Be", the album tanked, as did a follow-up, 1991's new jack swing effort, ''What You See Is What You Sweat''. After singing Donny Hathaway's "Someday We'll All Be Free" on the ''Malcolm X soundtrack'' in 1992 and singing at then-President Bill Clinton's inauguration ceremony in 1993, Franklin returned to favor with pop audiences later in 1993 with the release of the dance single, "Deeper Love", which was featured on the soundtrack of ''Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit''. The following year, Franklin issued her Arista hits album and with Babyface released two hit singles, "Honey" and the top 40 pop ballad "Willing to Forgive". In 1995, her song "It Hurts Like Hell" appeared on the soundtrack for the movie ''Waiting to Exhale''. Four years passed until Franklin released another album. 1998's ''A Rose Is Still a Rose'' reintroduced Franklin to a new R&B; audience and featured elements of neo soul and hip hop soul with production from Lauryn Hill, Jermaine Dupri and Sean "Puffy" Combs. The title track, written and produced by Hill, became Franklin's biggest hit in years reaching number 26 on the Hot 100 and reaching the R&B; top five.She later reprised her role as Matt "Guitar" Murphy's wife in the Blues Brothers remake, ''Blues Brothers 2000'' singing "Respect". She struggled to record a successful follow-up, however, and it would be five more years before a new album emerged. Franklin issued her next album, ''So Damn Happy'', in 2003.
Current work: 2004–present
In 2003, after 23 years with Arista, Franklin parted with the company and decided to go on the independent route, forming Aretha's Records two years later. Franklin released a duets compilation album, ''Jewels in the Crown: All-Star Duets with the Queen'', in 2007. The album featured the Fantasia duet, "Put You Up on Game", which despite becoming a modest hit on Urban AC radio, stalled at No. 41 on the R&B; charts. A year later, Franklin issued her first holiday album, ''This Christmas, Aretha''. After initially being released as a Borders exclusive, it was later released by the DMI label.In 2008, Franklin was honored as MusiCares "Person of the Year", two days prior to the 50th Annual Grammy Awards, where she was awarded her 18th career Grammy. Franklin was personally asked by then newly-elected President Barack Obama to perform at his inauguration singing "My Country 'tis of Thee". The memorable hat she wore at the ceremony was donated to the Smithsonian Institution. In 2010, Franklin received an honorary music degree from Yale University.
In 2010 and through early 2011, Franklin had told the media she had selected actress Halle Berry to play her in the featured role of the legendary singer in a biopic loosely based on Franklin's memoirs, ''Aretha: From These Roots''. In January 2011, Berry turned down the role. Franklin said she's now setting her sights on singers Fantasia and Jennifer Hudson on getting the lucrative role.
Marking her 50th anniversary in show business, Franklin released her thirty-eighth studio album, ''A Woman Falling Out Of Love'', on May 3, 2011, through WalMart. It is the first release off Franklin's own record label, Aretha's Records, a label she formed back in the 1990s. However, Aretha's new disc peaked at a disappointing #54 on ''Billboard'''s main album chart, dropping off after only two weeks. She co-produced some of the new tracks. The first single from the album is the ballad "How Long I've Been Waiting" which failed to chart. Ronald Isley will be featured in the album doing the Barbra Streisand standard, "The Way We Were", as he and Franklin covered the Carole King classic, "You've Got a Friend", first issued on Isley's ''Mr. I'' album.
Following her exit from the stage in November, 2010 and her surgery the following month, Franklin has recently returned to the stage, rescheduling dates she was forced to cancel due to recent health problems.
In September 2011, Tony Bennett will be releasing a duet with Franklin entitled "How Do You Keep The Music Playing" off of his forthcoming album, Duets II (Tony Bennett album).
Personal life
In 1956, shortly after her 14th birthday, Franklin gave birth to her eldest child, a son she named Clarence (for her father). Around 1957 she gave birth to another son, Edward. She never identified by name the father of either child. Her grandmother, Rachel, raised the boys while Aretha pursued her singing career. Rachel lived in a guest house behind C.L. Franklin's LaSalle Street home. The Franklin family moved from their home on Boston Street in Detroit's North End section to LaSalle Street during the late 1950s.Against her father's wishes Aretha began dating a family acquaintance named Ted White. In 1961 they were quickly married in Ohio by a judge. White became her personal manager as well as co-writer. Shortly afterward, she purchased a house on Sorrento Avenue in northwest Detroit, where she resided for the next decade. Their son Teddy (Ted White Jr.) was born in 1964. She and Ted divorced in 1969. Teddy is the musical director and guitarist of her touring band. From 1969 until 1976, she had a seven-year relationship with her road manager Ken Cunningham. (Although she and Ted White did not divorce until late 1969, Aretha conceived her fourth child in June of that year.) In the early 1970s the couple moved from Detroit to New York City, at which time Aretha's grandmother moved into her Sorrento Avenue home. Their son Kecalf (from the initials of his parents' names: Kenneth E Cunningham Aretha Louise Franklin and pronounced "kelf") was born on March 28, 1970 at Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital.
On April 11, 1978, Aretha Franklin married actor Glynn Turman at her father's New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit. Franklin's father performed the marriage ceremony. The couple returned to their home in Encino, California. In late 1982, Franklin moved back to Detroit, and in 1985 she purchased a home in West Bloomfield, where she still resides. Turman and Franklin divorced in early 1984. The couple did not have children. They remained friends, and she sang the theme song for his show, ''A Different World'', in the late 1980s.
Franklin's sisters Erma and Carolyn, are both deceased, as is her brother Cecil. As of 2011, her half-brother Vaughn (born 1934) is alive as is her half-sister, Carl Ellan Kelley (née Jennings; born 1940). Kelley is C.L. Franklin's daughter by Mildred Jennings, a then 13-year-old congregant of New Salem Baptist Church of Memphis, Tennessee, where C.L. was pastor in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Aretha's sons, Ted White Jr. ("Teddy") and Kecalf Cunningham, are active in the music business. Teddy has been a guitarist in Aretha's back up band since the late 1980s, while Kecalf works as a Christian hip-hop rapper and producer.
Aretha Franklin is a registered Democrat.
In September 2010, her son Edward was attacked and severely beaten by three people while at a gas station on Joy Road in northwest Detroit.
Franklin's long friendship with Cissy Houston during Houston's time with The Sweet Inspirations led to Franklin becoming Whitney Houston's godmother. Cissy Houston sang the operatic soprano whoop in the background of Franklin's "Ain't No Way".
Awards and achievements
On June 28, 1968 she became the second African-American woman to appear on the cover of ''TIME'' magazine.
Grammy Awards
Franklin has won eighteen Grammy Awards in total during her career (she first charted in 1961) and holds the record for most Best Female R&B; Vocal Performance awards with eleven to her name (including eight consecutive awards from 1968 to 1975 – the first eight awarded in that category).
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!colspan="5"|Aretha Franklin's 18 Grammy Award Wins
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| 1 || style="text-align:center;"| 1968 || Best Rhythm & Blues Recording || R&B; ||Respect
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| 2 || style="text-align:center;"| 1968 || |Best Female R&B; Vocal Performance || R&B; || Respect
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| 3 || style="text-align:center;"| 1969 || Best Female R&B; Vocal Performance || R&B; || Chain Of Fools
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| 4 || style="text-align:center;"| 1970 || Best Female R&B; Vocal Performance || R&B; || Share Your Love With Me
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| 5 || style="text-align:center;"| 1971 || Best Female R&B; Vocal Performance || R&B; || Don't Play That Song For Me
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| 6 || style="text-align:center;"| 1972 || Best Female R&B; Vocal Performance || R&B; || Bridge Over Troubled Water
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| 7 || style="text-align:center;"| 1973 || Best Female R&B; Vocal Performance || R&B; || Young, Gifted and Black (album)
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| 8 || style="text-align:center;"| 1973 || Best Soul Gospel Performance || Gospel || Amazing Grace (album)
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| 9 || style="text-align:center;"| 1974 || Best Female R&B; Vocal Performance || R&B; || Master Of Eyes
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|10 || style="text-align:center;"| 1975 || Best Female R&B; Vocal Performance || R&B; || Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing
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|11 || style="text-align:center;"| 1982 || Best Female R&B; Vocal Performance || R&B; || Hold On...I'm Comin' (album track)
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|12 || style="text-align:center;"| 1986 || Best Female R&B; Vocal Performance || R&B; || Freeway Of Love
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|13 || style="text-align:center;"| 1988 || Best Female R&B; Vocal Performance || R&B; || Aretha (album)
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|14 || style="text-align:center;"| 1988 || Best R&B; Performance – Duo Or Group with Vocals || R&B; || I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me) (with George Michael)
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|15 || style="text-align:center;"| 1989 || Best Soul Gospel Performance – Female || Gospel || One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism (album)
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|*|| style="text-align:center;"| 1991 || Living Legend Award || Special
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|*|| style="text-align:center;"| 1994 || Lifetime Achievement Award || Special
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|16 || style="text-align:center;"| 2004 || Best Traditional R&B; Vocal Performance || R&B; || Wonderful
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|17|| style="text-align:center;"| 2006 || Best Traditional R&B; Vocal Performance || R&B; || A House Is Not A Home
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|18|| style="text-align:center;"| 2008 || Best Gospel-Soul Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group || Gospel
|Never Gonna Break My Faith (with Mary J. Blige)
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Discography
Top 10 US Hot 100 singles
| Year | Title | Peak |
| 1967 | "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)" | |
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| 1967 | "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" | |
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| 1968 | "(Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You've Been Gone" | |
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| 1968 | "The House That Jack Built" | |
| 1968 | "I Say a Little Prayer" | |
| 1971 | ||
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| 1973 | "Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)" | |
| 1985 | "Freeway of Love" | |
| 1985 | "Who's Zoomin' Who" | |
| 1987 | "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)" (with George Michael) |
All no. 1 hits in US R&B; 100 singles
| Year | Title | Peak |
| 1967 | "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)" | |
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| 1967 | ||
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| 1968 | "(Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You've Been Gone" | |
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| 1969 | "Share Your Love with Me" | |
| 1970 | ||
| 1970 | "Don't Play That Song (You Lied)" | |
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| 1973 | "Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)" | |
| 1974 | ||
| 1976 | "Something He Can Feel" | |
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| 1982 | ||
| 1983 | ||
| 1985 | "Freeway of Love" |
Filmography
Movies
Television
References
External links
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| Coordinates | 40°26′30″N80°00′00″N |
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| Name | Louis Allen |
| Birth name | ? |
| Death date | January 31, 1964 |
| Death place | Amite County, Mississippi |
| death cause | Murder |
| ethnicity | African-American }} |
Louis Allen (? — January 31, 1964) was an African-American logger and civil rights activist, involved in voter registration in the small town of Liberty, Mississippi. He allegedly witnessed the murder of a fellow activist by a white state legislator, and was himself murdered when he approached federal authorities about the killing. Despite a consensus among investigators that Allen was killed by Amite County's sheriff, no one has been prosecuted for the murder.
Early life
Allen's precise date of birth is unknown. He served in World War II.
Murder of Herbert Lee
On September 25, 1961, as he was walking past a cotton gin, Allen witnessed the murder of Herbert Lee, a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, by E.H. Hurst, a pro-segregation democrat legislator in Mississippi's House of Representatives. When Hurst was put on trial hours later, Allen and other witnesses were pressured into giving false testimony, claiming that Hurst had shot Lee in self-defense. An all-white jury acquitted Hurst.However, Allen's conscience persuaded him to tell the truth to fellow activists. He discussed Lee's murder with Julian Bond, an SNCC organizer and the future NAACP president; Bond wanted Allen to tell his story to federal authorities, but in the racially charged atmosphere of Liberty, such an action was very dangerous. "He lied [at Hurst's trial] because he was in fear of his life", Bond later said. "If he had implicated a powerful white man in a murder of a black man, he was risking his life...I tried to encourage him to tell the truth, but you know, it was like saying, 'Why don't you volunteer to be killed?'"
Allen eventually approached the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the United States Commission on Civil Rights to change his story. An FBI memo reported that Allen "expressed fear that he might be killed", but the Bureau did not provide him with any protection. Rumors of Allen's actions subsequently spread throughout Liberty's white population, which responded by intimidating Allen and blackballing him from the community. When Allen reported death threats, the FBI—which had limited jurisdiction over civil rights cases at the time—referred the matter to the Amite County sheriff's office. Another FBI memo, however, reported that "Allen was to be killed and the local sheriff was involved in the plot to kill him."
White hostility against Allen continued to intensify in Liberty. On one occasion, as Allen unsuccessfully attempted to register to vote at Amite County Courthouse, he was shot at by an unknown assailant. In another incident, a white businessman threatened Allen, saying, "Louis, the best thing you can do is leave. Your little family—they're innocent people—and your house could get burned down. All of you could get killed."
Allen allegedly became a target of harassment by Amite County's newly-elected sheriff, Daniel Jones. In a later interview, Allen's son, Hank, described Jones as "mean", recounting numerous incidents where he arrested his father on trumped-up charges. Hank Allen remembered a particular incident where he witnessed his father being beaten by Jones outside his home, which culimnated in Jones breaking Louis Allen's jawbone with a flashlight. Allen was arrested and spent the night in the county jail, but lodged a complaint against Jones to the FBI. He summarily testified before a federal grand jury. His complaint, however, was dismissed.
Death
The deteriorating atmosphere within Liberty reached such a point that Allen arranged to move in with relatives in Milwaukee. On the night of January 31, 1964--the night before his scheduled departure--Allen was ambushed at the cattle grid outside his property. He was killed by two shotgun blasts to the head. His body was eventually found by Hank Allen.
Investigations
No further invesigation into Allen's murder was conducted until 1994, when Plater Robinson, a history professor at Tulane University, began examining the case files. Robinson's research in the following years pointed to Daniel Jones as a likely suspect in the killing. In 1998, Robinson conducted a tape-recorded interview with an elderly black preacher named Alfred Knox, who claimed that Jones recruited his son-in-law, Archie Weatherspoon, to "kill Louis Allen". When Weatherspoon refused Jones' request to "pull the trigger", Jones allegedly killed Allen himself. Both Knox and Weatherspoon have since been deceased.Jones also emerged as the prime suspect when the FBI reopened Allen's case in 2007. Jones' father was a high-ranking "Exhalted Cyclops" in Liberty's Ku Klux Klan, and contemporary FBI documentation claimed that Jones himself was a Klan member.
In April 2011, a report about the Allen case was broadcast on the CBS newsmagazine ''60 Minutes''. As a part of the report, correspondent Steve Kroft travelled to Liberty to interview local residents, but was largely met with silence. Kroft also interviewed an elderly Daniel Jones on his property, who denied killing Allen and invoked the Fifth Amendment when asked about his alleged Klan membership.
See also
References
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| name | Dianne Reeves |
| birth date | October 23, 1956 |
| birth place | Detroit, Michigan |
| occupation | Jazz singer }} |
Dianne Reeves (born 23 October 1956) is an American jazz singer. She currently lives in Denver, Colorado.
Biography
Early life
Reeves was born in Detroit, Michigan to a very musical family. Her father, who died when she was two years old, was also a singer. Her mother, Vada Swanson, played trumpet. A cousin, George Duke, is a well known piano and keyboard player and producer. Dianne and her sister Sharon were raised by their mother in Denver, Colorado. As a child Dianne took piano lessons and sang at every opportunity. When she was 11 years old her interest in music was enhanced by an inspiring teacher who thought that music was the best way to bring students together. Dianne discovered a love of music and that she wanted to be a singer.Her uncle, Charles Burrell, a bass player with the Denver Symphony Orchestra, introduced her to the music of jazz singers, from Ella Fitzgerald to Billie Holiday. She was especially impressed by Sarah Vaughan.
Career
At the age of 16, Reeves was singing at the George Washington High School (Denver) in Denver, in a high school big-band. That same year the band played at a music festival (Convention of the National Association of Jazz Educators). Her band won first place and it was there she met the trumpeter Clark Terry, who became her mentor.A year later Reeves began studying music at the University of Colorado, before she moved in 1976 to Los Angeles. In L.A. her interest in Latin-American music grew. She began experimenting with different kinds of vocal music and finally decided to pursue a career as a singer. She met Eduardo del Barrio, toured with his group "Caldera" and sang in Billy Childs' jazz band "Night Flight". Later she toured with Sérgio Mendes.
From 1983 until 1986 Reeves toured with Harry Belafonte as a lead singer. This period saw her first experiences with world music.
In 1987 Reeves was the first vocalist signed to the reactivated Blue Note/EMI label. Reeves moved back to Denver from Los Angeles in 1992. Reeves sang at the closing ceremony of the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City.
Reeves' musical director, Peter Martin, tours regularly with her.
Grammy Awards
She has to date won 4 Grammy Awards for "Best Jazz Vocal Performance" for her albums
She is the only singer to have won this Grammy for three consecutive recordings.
Discography
Studio albums
Sideman
Filmography
References
External links
Category:1956 births Category:African American musicians Category:American jazz singers Category:Grammy Award winners Category:Living people Category:People from Detroit, Michigan Category:Palo Alto Records artists Category:Capitol Records artists Category:Women in jazz
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