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California
California (pronounced ) is the most populous state in the United States and the third-largest by land area, after Alaska and Texas. California is also the most populous sub-national entity in North America. It's on the U.S. West Coast, bordered by the Pacific Ocean to the west and by the states of Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, Baja California, Mexico, to the south. Its 5 largest cities are Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco, and Long Beach, with Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Jose each having at least 1 million residents. Like many populous states, California's capital, Sacramento is smaller than the state's largest city, Los Angeles. The state is home to the nation's 2nd- and 6th-largest census statistical areas and 8 of the nation's 50 most populous cities. California has a varied climate and geography and a multi-cultural population.
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Chicago ( or ) is the largest city in the state of Illinois. With over 2.8 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous city in the country. Its metropolitan area, commonly named "Chicagoland," is the 26th most populous in the world, home to an estimated 9.7 million people spread across the U.S. states of Illinois, Wisconsin, and Indiana. Chicago is the county seat of Cook County.
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The Hollywood Bowl is a modern amphitheater in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles, California, United States that is used primarily for music performances. It has a seating capacity of 17,376.
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The Inner Harbor is a historic seaport, tourist attraction, and iconic landmark of the City of Baltimore, Maryland, United States. The harbor itself is actually the end of the Northwest Branch of the Patapsco River and includes any water west of a line drawn between the National Aquarium in Baltimore and the Rusty Scupper restaurant. The term "Inner Harbor" is used not just for the water but for the surrounding area of the city, with approximate street boundaries of President Street to the east, Lombard Street to the north, Greene Street to the west, and both Camden Street and Conway Street to the south. The harbor is within walking distance of Oriole Park at Camden Yards and M&T; Bank Stadium and has a water taxi that connects the Inner Harbor to Fells Point, Canton, and Fort McHenry. Beginning in 2011, the harbor will host the Baltimore Grand Prix IZOD IndyCar Series race on the streets of the Inner Harbor.
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George Alexander "Alex" Trebek (; born July 22, 1940) is a game show host. Since 1984 he has been the host of the game show Jeopardy!, and prior to that, he hosted game shows such as Pitfall and High Rollers. He has appeared in numerous television series, usually as himself. A native of Canada, he became a naturalized United States citizen in 1998.
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Bobby Hebb (July 26, 1938 – August 3, 2010) was an African American singer and songwriter, best known for his writing and recording of "Sunny".
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Richard Wagstaff "Dick" Clark (born November 30, 1929) is an American businessman; game-show host; and radio and television personality. He served as chairman and chief executive officer of Dick Clark Productions, which he has sold part of in recent years. Clark is best known for hosting long-running television shows such as American Bandstand, five versions of the game show Pyramid, and ''Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve''.
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Earnie Shavers
Earnie Dee Shaver (born August 31, 1945), better known as Earnie Shavers, is an American former professional boxer and is widely considered the hardest puncher of all time. Muhammad Ali, Joe Bugner, Larry Holmes, Randall "Tex" Cobb, Ron Lyle and Ken Norton all credited Shavers as being the hardest puncher they had ever faced in the ring. Shavers took up boxing at the late age of 22, yet two weeks later he won his first ever fight by a first round knockout, against Jim Daniels. Earnie worked out daily in Warren, Ohio. He is 6 ft (1.83 m) tall.
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Gerald Levert
Gerald Levert (July 13, 1966 – November 10, 2006) was an American R&B; singer. Gerald Levert sang with his brother, Sean Levert, and friend Marc Gordon in the R&B; trio LeVert. He was also a part of LSG, an R&B; supergroup comprising Keith Sweat, Johnny Gill, and Levert. His father, Eddie Levert, is the lead singer of the 1970s soul group The O'Jays.
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Joel Carver Whitburn (born November 29, 1939; Wauwatosa, Wisconsin) is an American author and music historian.
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Martin (TV series)
Martin is an American sitcom produced by HBO Independent Productions (a subsidiary of HBO) that aired for five seasons, from August 27, 1992 to May 1, 1997 on Fox. The show stars actor-comedian Martin Lawrence, Thomas Mikal Ford, Tichina Arnold, Carl Anthony Payne II, and Tisha Campbell.
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Patricia Neal
Patricia Neal (January 20, 1926August 8, 2010) was an American actress of stage and screen. She was best known for her roles as World War II widow Helen Benson in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), wealthy matron Emily Eustace Failenson in ''Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), and middle-aged housekeeper Alma Brown in Hud'' (1963), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress.
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Sam Cooke
Samuel Cook (January 22, 1931 – December 11, 1964), known professionally as Sam Cooke, was an American gospel, R&B;, soul, and pop singer, songwriter, and entrepreneur. He is considered to be one of the pioneers and founders of soul music. He is commonly known as The King of Soul for his unmatched vocal abilities and impact and influence on the modern world of music. His contribution in pioneering Soul music led to the rise of Aretha Franklin, Bobby Womack, Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, and popularizing the likes of Otis Redding and James Brown.
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Stevie Wonder
Stevland Hardaway Judkins (born May 13, 1950), name later changed to Stevland Hardaway Morris, known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and activist. Blind from shortly after birth, Wonder signed with Motown Records' Tamla label at the age of eleven, and continues to perform and record for Motown to this day.
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karaoke
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-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, baby (you're gonna miss my
lovin')
When it gets real cold outside (you're gonna miss my
lovin')
I know, I know that you are gonna miss my lo-o-ove
Let me tell you that you're gonna miss my lovin'
Yes you will, baby (you're gonna miss my lovin')
When I'm long gone
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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
- You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine
- Lady Love
- See You When I Get There
- From Now On
- Groovy People
- Sit Down And Talk To Me
- Trade Winds
- Let Me Be Good To You
- 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
- 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
- A Natural Man
- Oh, What a Beautiful Woman
- Got to Get You Into My Life
- A Man of Value
- Walk on In
- I'm Waiting
- His Song Shall Be Sung
- Learning Cup
- How Thoughtless I've Become
- Believe in Me
- Sophisticated Lady
- Here's That Rainy Day
- A Song for You
- Evil
- Love Is a Hurtun' Thing
- Down Here on the Ground
- Something
- Golden Slumbers
- 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
- 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
- Rumpelstiltskin
- I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water
- Save Your Love for Me
- The Scene
- Somewhere
- The Scavenger
- Sweet Emma
- Zorba
- 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
- Autumn Leaves
- On a Clear Day
- Breaking My Back
- Stormy Monday
- South Side Blues
- Tobacco Road
- St. James Infirmary
- The Shadow of Your Smile
- I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water
- Goin' to Chicago Blues
- In the Evening (When the Sun Goes Down)
- The Girl From Ipanema
- I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)
- Street Corner Hustler's Blues
- World of Trouble
- Nobody but Me
- Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall
- Whispering Grass
- Two Tickets West
- It's Monday Every Day
- The Power of Love
- If I Had My Life to Live Over
- For You My Love
- If It's the Last Thing I Do
- Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You
- 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
- Black and Blue
- Kansas City
- Goin' To Chicago Blues
- Trouble in Mind
- World of Trouble
- Six Cold Feet of Ground
- Strange Fruit
- I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water
- World of Trouble
- Tobacco Road
- Willow Weep for Me
- Stormy Monday
- God Bless the Child
- For You My Love
- Dead End Street
- Your Good Thing (Is About to End)
- Love Is a Hurtin' Thing
- You Can't Go Home No More
- At Last
- Fine Brown Frame
- Room With a View
- Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
- All Around the World
- Good Morning Blues
- Gentle on My Mind
- What Now My Love
- Autumn Leaves
- Love Is a Hurtin' Thing
- 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
- Somebody Have Mercy
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Lady Love
- Stay a While With Me
- Groovy People
- Dead End Street
- Tobacco Road
- Love Is a Hurting Thing
- A Natural Man
- I Can Be Good to You
- Tomorrow
- Unforgettable
- Send in the Clowns
- You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine
- The Song I Sing
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Lou Rawls "You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine"
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You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine - Lou Rawls
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You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine
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Lou Rawls - You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine
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ARETHA FRANKLIN & LOU RAWLS - AT LAST
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LOU RAWLS LIVE - YOU'LL NEVER FIND ANOTHER LOVE LIKE MINE
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Lou Rawls - Lady Love
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Lou Rawls "Tobacco Road"
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Lou Rawls - Lady Love
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Lady Love - Lou Rawls Live at North Sea Jazz (HQ)_xvid.avi
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Lou Rawls monologue,Street Corner Hustlers blues.
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Lou Rawls / Stormy Monday (1989)
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☆ Lou Rawls ~ Wind Beneath My Wings ღ♡ (1982)
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Lou Rawls You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine Louis Allen 1976 wr's Kenny Gamble & Leon Huff 3
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Love Is A Hurtin' Thing - The Soulful Strings (Lou Rawls)
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You've Made Me So Very Happy - Lou Rawls
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Mannix - Guest Starring Lou Rawls & Florence St. Peter
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Ebony Celebrate the Dream Lou Rawls Brandy Smokey Robinson
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LOU RAWLS - You'll never find ( ESPAÑOL ) subtitulado
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Lou Rawls - A Natural Man
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LOU RAWLS -You'll never find another love like mine, A Tom Moulton Mix
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Lou Rawls "Pure Imagination" (1976)
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Lou Rawls - Saint Louis Blues
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| Lou Rawls | |
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| Lou Rawls in 1995 Lou Rawls in 1995 |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Louis Allen Rawls |
| Born | (1933-12-01)December 1, 1933[1] Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Died |
January 6, 2006(2006-01-06) (aged 72) |
| Genres | R&B, soul, jazz, blues |
| Occupations | Singer, actor, voice actor |
| Years active | 1950s–2006 |
Louis Allen "Lou" Rawls (December 1, 1935[1] – 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".[2] Rawls released more than 60 albums, sold more than 40 million records,[citation needed] appeared as an actor in motion pictures and on television, and voiced-over many cartoons. He was also known for his frequently used expression,"Yeah buddy!"
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Career[link]
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.[3]
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.[4]
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.[4]
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").
Soul is truth, ... no matter where it comes from, no matter how it is presented
Lou Rawls, 1968 Pop Chronicles interview[5]
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.[6]
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.
On January 19, 1985, he sang Wind Beneath My Wings at the nationally-televised 50th Presidential Inaugural Gala the day before the second inauguration of Ronald Reagan. He was introduced by Patricia Neal.
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"[link]
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 a well received 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. He had also sung the National Anthem at two previous World Series games: the 1982 World Series opener between the St. Louis Cardinals and Milwaukee Brewers and Game Three of the 1985 World Series between the Cardinals and the Kansas City Royals, both at Busch Memorial Stadium in St. Louis.
Honors and charity work[link]
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[link]
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.[7]
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, as well as the singing voice of the title character himself.
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 (and Alex Trebek continues to do to this day). He was also a spokesman for brewing companies. First appearing in television and radio commercials in the mid-to-late 1960s for Spur Malt Liquor. A Rainier Brewing Company product out of Seattle.[8] He later appeared in a number of Budweiser advertisements. 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 Another Love Like Mine", 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[link]
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.
- "Love Is a Hurtin' Thing" - 1966, #13 (also #1 R&B)
- "Dead End Street" - 1967, #29
- "Show Business" - 1967, #45
- "Your Good Thing (Is About to End)" - 1969, #18 (sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc)[9]
- "A Natural Man" - 1971, #17
- "You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine" - 1976, #2 (also #1 R&B and #1 Easy Listening); another certified gold for sales of one million copies
- "Lady Love" - 1978, #24
Personal life[link]
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.
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.[10]
Discography[link]
Albums[link]
- 1962 Stormy Monday (Blue Note)
- 1962 Black and Blue (Capitol)
- 1963 Tobacco Road (Capitol)
- 1964 For You My Love (Capitol)
- 1965 Lou Rawls and Strings (Capitol)
- 1965 Nobody But Lou (Capitol)
- 1966 Live! (Capitol)
- 1966 The Soul-Stirring Gospel Sounds of the Pilgrim Travelers (Capitol)
- 1966 Soulin' (Capitol)
- 1966 Carryin' On (Capitol)
- 1967 Too Much! (Capitol)
- 1967 That's Lou (Capitol)
- 1967 Merry Christmas Ho! Ho! Ho! (Capitol)
- 1968 Feelin' Good (Capitol)
- 1968 You're Good for Me (Capitol)
- 1969 The Way It Was: The Way It Is (Capitol)
- 1969 Your Good Thing (Capitol)
- 1969 Close-Up (Capitol)
- 1970 You've Made Me So Very Happy (Capitol)
- 1970 Bring It On Home (Capitol)
- 1971 Down Here on the Ground/I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water (Capitol)
- 1971 Natural Man (MGM)
- 1972 Silk & Soul (MGM)
- 1972 A Man of Value (MGM)
- 1973 Live at the Century Plaza (Rebound)
- 1975 She's Gone (Bell)
- 1976 All Things in Time (Philadelphia International)
- 1976 Naturally (Polydor)
- 1977 Unmistakably Lou (Philadelphia International)
- 1977 When You Hear Lou, You've Heard It All (Philadelphia International)
- 1978 Lou Rawls Live (Philadelphia International)
- 1979 Let Me Be Good to You (Philadelphia International)
- 1979 In Concert: Recorded with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra [live] (Dep Entertainment)
- 1980 Sit Down and Talk to Me (Philadelphia International)
- 1981 Shades of Blue (Philadelphia International)
- 1982 Now Is the Time (Epic)
- 1983 When the Night Comes ( Epic)
- 1984 Close Company (Epic)
- 1986 Love All Your Blues Away (Epic)
- 1988 Family Reunion (Gamble-Huff)
- 1989 At Last (Blue Note)
- 1990 It's Supposed to Be Fun (Blue Note)
- 1992 Portrait of the Blues (Capitol)
- 1993 Christmas Is the Time (Manhattan)
- 1995 Holiday Cheer (Cema Special Markets)
- 1995 Merry Little Christmas (EMI Special Products)
- 1998 Unforgettable (Going For)
- 1998 Seasons 4 U (Rawls & Brokaw)
- 1999 A Legendary Night Before Christmas (Platinum Disc)
- 2000 Swingin' Christmas (EMI-Capitol Special Markets)
- 2001 I'm Blesseseek (Malaco)
- 2001 Christmas Will Be Christmas (Capitol)
- 2002 Oh Happy Day (601)
- 2003 Rawls Sings Sinatra (Savoy Jazz)
- 2003 Trying as Hard as I Can (Allegiance)
Chart singles[link]
| Year | Single | Chart Positions | ||
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UK[14] | ||
| 1965 | "Three O'Clock In The Morning" | 83 | - | - |
| 1966 | "The Shadow Of Your Smile" | - | 33 | - |
| "Love Is A Hurtin' Thing" | 13 | 1 | - | |
| "You Can Bring Me All Your Heartaches" | 55 | 35 | - | |
| 1967 | "Trouble Down Here Below" | 92 | - | - |
| "Dead End Street" | 29 | 3 | - | |
| "Show Business" | 45 | 25 | - | |
| "Little Drummer Boy" | - | - | - | |
| 1968 | "Down Here On The Ground" | 69 | - | - |
| 1969 | "Your Good Thing (Is About To End)" | 18 | 3 | - |
| "I Can't Make It Alone" | 63 | 33 | - | |
| 1970 | "You've Made Me So Very Happy" | 95 | 32 | - |
| "Bring It On Home" | 96 | 45 | - | |
| 1971 | "A Natural Man" | 17 | 17 | - |
| 1972 | "His Song Shall Be Sung" | - | 44 | - |
| 1974 | "She's Gone" | - | 81 | - |
| 1976 | "You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine" | 2 | 1 | 10 |
| "Groovy People" / "This Song Will Last Forever" |
64 - |
19 74 |
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| 1977 | "See You When I Git There" | 66 | 8 | - |
| 1978 | "Lady Love" | 24 | 21 | - |
| "One Life To Live" | - | 32 | - | |
| "There Will Be Love" | - | 76 | - | |
| 1979 | "Let Me Be Good To You" | - | 11 | - |
| "Sit Down And Talk To Me" | - | 26 | - | |
| 1980 | "You're My Blessing" | 77 | - | - |
| "Ain't That Loving You (For More Reasons Than One)" | - | 57 | - | |
| "I Go Crazy" | - | 37 | - | |
| 1982 | "Will You Kiss Me One More Time" | - | 54 | - |
| 1983 | "Wind Beneath My Wings" | 65 | 60 | - |
| 1984 | "All Time Lover" | - | 67 | - |
| 1985 | "Learn To Live Again" featuring Tata Vega |
- | 71 | - |
| 1987 | "I Wish You Belonged To Me" | - | 28 | - |
Filmography[link]
- 2000 Jazz Channel Presents Lou Rawls (Image)
- 2003 In Concert (BMG/Image)
- 2005 Prime Concerts: In Concert with Edmonton Symphony (Amalgamated)
- 2006 The Lou Rawls Show: With Duke Ellington & Freda Payne
- 2007 Live in Concert: North Sea Jazz. 1992-1995 (E-M-S)
References[link]
- ^ a b [At the time of death, some sources gave Lou Rawls' year of birth as 1935. Dozens of Web site biographies echo this error.]
- ^ "Find a Performance". Kennedy Center. http://www.kennedy-center.org/calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=showEvent&event=MGJPD. Retrieved 2011-04-28.
- ^ Lou Rawl’s biography
- ^ a b The Pilgrim Travelers
- ^ Gilliland, John (1969). "Show 52 - The Soul Reformation: Phase three, soul music at the summit. [Part 8] : UNT Digital Library" (audio). Pop Chronicles. Digital.library.unt.edu. http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19834/m1/.
- ^ Gilliland, John (1969). "Show 47 - Sergeant Pepper at the Summit: The very best of a very good year. [Part 3] : UNT Digital Library" (audio). Pop Chronicles. Digital.library.unt.edu. http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19815/m1/. Retrieved 2011-04-28.
- ^ Sesame Street Old School: Volume 1 DVD booklet. In 1969 Rawls appeared on the TV show The Big Valley in the episode "Joshua Watson"
- ^ Billboard Magazine December 17, 1966. P.45
- ^ Murrells, Joseph (1978). The Book of Golden Discs (2nd ed.). London: Barrie and Jenkins Ltd. pp. 265–266. ISBN 0-214-20512-6.
- ^ Lou Rawls biopic in the works
- ^ Allmusic.com
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2003). Top Pop Singles 1955-2002 (1st ed.). Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Inc.. p. 578. ISBN 0-89820-155-1.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (1996). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-1995. Record Research. p. 364.
- ^ Betts, Graham (2004). Complete UK Hit Singles 1952-2004 (1st ed.). London: Collins. p. 633. ISBN 0-00-717931-6.
External links[link]
- Lou Rawls at Find a Grave
- Official Lou Rawls Website
- Lou Rawls Biography
- AllTogether - Navy recruiting video ("Tell 'em Lou Rawls sent ya")
- Lou Rawls interviewed on the Pop Chronicles (1969).
- Obituary in the Star Gazette
- "Lou Rawls talks to Spencer Leigh", 21 February 1990. Conducted when Rawls was promoting ‘At Last’ in England.
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| Name | Rawls, Lou |
| Alternative names | |
| Short description | |
| Date of birth | December 1, 1933 |
| Place of birth | Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Date of death | January 6, 2006 |
| Place of death | Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Interred: Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California |
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 Franklin performing at President Barack Obama's inauguration in 2009 |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Aretha Louise Franklin |
| Born | (1942-03-25) March 25, 1942 (age 70) Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Origin | Detroit, Michigan, U.S. |
| Genres | Soul, jazz, blues, R&B, gospel, funk, rock |
| Occupations | Singer, songwriter, pianist |
| Instruments | Vocals, piano |
| Years active | 1956–present |
| Labels | Columbia (1960–1966) Atlantic (1967–1979) Arista (1980–2003) Aretha Records (2004–) |
| Associated acts | Sweet Inspirations, Carolyn Franklin, Erma Franklin, Cissy Houston, Whitney Houston, George Benson, George Michael, Michael McDonald, Eurythmics, Luther Vandross |
Aretha Louise Franklin (born March 25, 1942) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and pianist. In a recording career that has spanned over half a century, Franklin's repertoire has included gospel, jazz, blues, R&B, pop, rock and funk. Franklin is known as one of the most important popularizers of the soul music genre and is referred to as the Queen of Soul, a title she was given early in her career. Franklin, the daughter of prominent Baptist minister and activist C. L. Franklin, began her singing career singing in her father's church at the age of ten and started recording four years later. After several years in the gospel circuit and with her father's blessing, she formed a secular pop music career at the age of eighteen, signing with Columbia Records, where she was branded by its CEO John Hammond as his most important act since Billie Holiday. Franklin's Columbia period wasn't as successful as hoped and in late 1966, Franklin switched over to Atlantic Records, where she began recording a string of popular hits including "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)", "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman", "Think", "Chain of Fools" and what later became her signature song, "Respect".
After a brief lull in 1969, Franklin continued to record a string of popular singles throughout the early 1970s, reaching her peak as an albums artist with 1970's Spirit in the Dark, 1971's Young, Gifted & Black and the 1972 gospel record, Amazing Grace, which later became one of the best-selling gospel albums of all time and was the biggest-selling album in gospel music for over 25 years. Franklin's success in Atlantic peaked after the release of the singles, "Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)", "I'm in Love" and "Giving Him Something He Can Feel" and the 1976 soundtrack to the movie, Sparkle and Franklin left the label in 1980 to sign with Clive Davis' Arista Records label where she switched over from soul and funk music to a more conservative urban adult contemporary sound in the albums, Aretha and Love All the Hurt Away, before regaining commercial success with the 1982 album, Jump to It, produced by R&B hitmaker Luther Vandross. In 1984, Franklin added modern day pop rock and dance elements to her sound, which was integral to the success of her 1985 album, Who's Zoomin' Who?, which spawned the hits "Freeway of Love", "Who's Zoomin' Who" and the Eurythmics featured "Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves". The 1986 release of Aretha featured her last number-one hit single with the George Michael duet "I Knew You Were Waiting for Me". Afterwards Franklin returned to a lull in her career until the release of 1998's A Rose Is Still a Rose, which incorporated modern day contemporary R&B and which the title track returned Franklin to the top 40 of the pop charts.
Rolling Stone magazine ranked her atop its "100 Greatest Singers of All Time" list,[1] as well as the ninth greatest artist of all time.[2] She has won 18 Grammys and received two honorary Grammys. In 1987, Franklin became the first female artist to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Franklin is planned to be inducted to the GMA Gospel Music Hall of Fame in August 2012.
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Early life (1942-1960)[link]
Franklin was born in Memphis, Tennessee to Barbara (née Siggers) and Clarence LaVaughn Franklin. Franklin's father, Clarence, otherwise known as "C. L." Franklin, was a rising itinerant preacher, who moved to Memphis from Shelby, Mississippi. Within two years after Aretha's birth, however, Franklin's father again moved, this time up north to Buffalo, New York. The initial reasoning behind Franklin's move to Buffalo was because Franklin sought to find better opportunities and reach a bigger church audience as compared to the South. However, it was debated Franklin moved after word reached about him impregnating a teenage member of his Memphis church and he moved north to avoid the scandal and a possible court case.
Franklin wasn't six yet when her father moved to and eventually settled in Detroit where he built his own church, the New Bethel Baptist Church. Following the move, Franklin's parents separated after a contentious marriage, with Barbara Franklin settling in Buffalo, New York where she became a nurse. Aretha would later recall spending time with her mother at her house in Buffalo during summertime visits though it had been debated Franklin's mother had abandoned her, a charge Franklin has constantly denied. Franklin wasn't yet ten when her mother died suddenly in Buffalo. While she and her siblings attended her funeral, it was said their father either couldn't or refuse to attend. Shortly after her mother was buried, Aretha started singing solos at her father's church.[4] Her father's local celebrity in Detroit helped to attract attention to Franklin's home. Franklin remembered seeing several celebrities and prominent public figures at her house. Among those that would later influenced her music and vocal style included gospel musicians Mahalia Jackson, Clara Ward and The Caravans founder Albertina Walker, while other musicians such as Sam Cooke and Jackie Wilson and fellow preacher Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. also became prominent visitors. Franklin began playing the piano at a young age and knew much of how to play by ear. Franklin recalled that when it came to musical taste, her father wasn't strict, allowing Franklin to listen to a variety of genres including blues, jazz and R&B.
By the mid-fifties, Franklin's father was recording for JVB Records, becoming one of the few preachers to record an album full of sermons, which also included musical performances by the minister along with his choir. In 1956, Franklin started bringing his daughter with him to perform on the gospel circuit. That year, Franklin's father recorded his 14-year-old daughter's gospel performances at a local church and helped Franklin reach a deal with JVB Records where she recorded the album, Songs of Faith, and also released her first single, "Never Grow Old", which would later be reissued by Checker Records numerous times. Franklin's performances on the gospel circuit continued until she reached 17, by then Franklin had a desire to record pop music, something always frowned upon in the ministry. However, her father C. L. approved of her decision, and did the same with his eldest daughter Erma, and helped both daughters reach deals with several record labels outside of Detroit. Prior to signing her first deal, Motown CEO Berry Gordy pursued both Erma and Aretha to sign with Motown. C. L. Franklin, however, passed on the offer thinking the label was too local to promote their talents. Eventually, Aretha settled for Columbia Records.
Music career[link]
Early recordings (1960-1966)[link]
Franklin's first Columbia single, "Today I Sung the Blues", was released in September 1960, becoming her first charted success, it eventually reached #10 on Billboard's R&B chart. Her debut album Aretha followed in January of the following year, recorded with the Ray Bryant Combo. Franklin's second single, "Operation Heartbreak", repeated the R&B chart success of Franklin's debut single, reaching #7, followed by another R&B top ten single, "Won't Be Long". Franklin's recordings were often compared to that of Dinah Washington and Billie Holiday, singers Franklin admired. Columbia CEO and founder John Hammond, upon hearing Franklin, felt she had what it took to be the next Billie Holiday and recorded Franklin strictly in jazz-influenced pop.
Later Hammond acknowledged that he felt the label didn't understand Franklin's background in gospel music and failed to bring that aspect out in her first secular recordings.[5] Later in 1961, Franklin had her first top 40 single on the pop chart with a ballad rendition of "Rock-A-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody". While Franklin would later say she enjoyed her tenure on Columbia Records, most of the records were considered to be not artistically satisfying to Aretha's style and would later be forgotten about following Franklin's rise to stardom with her earthier R&B recordings with Atlantic. Franklin was placed on the list of jazz magazine Downbeat's top ten best jazz vocalists in 1961, 1962 and 1963. One of her most significant recordings during her early Columbia period was the ballad, "Skylark", recorded in 1962. The song previewed what was to come of Franklin as parts of her gospel singing was showcased in the song.
After a well received tribute album to Dinah Washington, Columbia Records switched paths from their early hopes of jazz stardom to more commercial pop music for Franklin as well as some blues music. The latter music showed up in Franklin's 1964 hit, "Runnin' Out of Fools". Afterwards, Franklin was given covers of Motown hits and other girl group sounding hit singles to record as well as original songs such as "One Step Ahead" and "Cry Like a Baby", which was a top 30 R&B recording and was one of the first hits written by the team of Ashford & Simpson. Following this, Franklin and Columbia opted not to renew their contract. Under the advice of her then-husband and manager, Ted White, Franklin decided to sign with top R&B label, Atlantic Records, signing with them in December 1966. Following her success with Atlantic, Columbia began reissuing Franklin's Columbia material and releasing Columbia recordings that Franklin hadn't released before she left the label in an attempt to capitalize on her success.
Success with Atlantic (1967-1976)[link]
After signing with Atlantic, Franklin was sent to the FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama to record her first songs with the label alongside the respected Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section. It was in Muscle Shoals that Franklin cut her first Atlantic recording, the blues ballad "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)".[5] While busy recording another song at the studio, Franklin's husband and one of the musicians got into a drunken argument over Franklin, leading to the couple returning to their house in New York, where they hid for several weeks. Eventually, Franklin returned to record at New York's Atlantic Studios to finish her vocals on the song, "Do Right Woman, Do Right Man". "I Never Loved a Man" would be released in February 1967 and become Franklin's first significant hit single, reaching #9 on the pop chart and #1 on the R&B chart. The b-side, "Do Right Woman", helped Aretha's first Atlantic single to become a double-sided hit on the R&B chart, where it peaked at #37.
In April, Atlantic issued her second single, the Otis Redding song, "Respect"[5], which was re-arranged by the song's producers Jerry Wexler and Arif Mardin and Aretha into a gospel-sounding shouter with Franklin later incorporating call and response vocals with her two sisters, Erma and Carolyn present. With Wexler's allowance, Franklin added in the ad-lib, "r-e-s-p-e-c-t, find out what it means to me, r-e-s-p-e-c-t, take care, TCB", which led to her sisters afterwards shouting out, "sock it to me" repeatedly. Franklin would later insist the song's alleged sexual overtones were not what people insisted saying it was simply a female's response to her lover to show her respect. The song became a simultaneous #1 hit on the pop and R&B charts. Both songs helped its parent album, I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You, to reach the top ten of the pop albums chart. Franklin's version of "Respect" later was hailed as a 1960s anthem. Franklin's hit streak continued throughout 1967 and 1968 with songs such as "Baby I Love You", "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" and "Chain of Fools".[5] "Respect" later won Franklin her first two Grammys. She eventually won eight consecutive Grammys under the Best Female R&B Vocal Performance category.[6]
During a 1967 performance in a Chicago dance, deejay Pervis Spann crowned Franklin a tiara and announced her as "Lady Soul". Franklin's hit streak continued with songs such as "Think" (also referred sometimes as "Freedom" due to Franklin's repeats of the word), "Ain't No Way", "(Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You've Been Gone", "The House That Jack Built" and "I Say a Little Prayer". Due to Franklin's earthier hits, her rendition of the latter song generated mild controversy due to her recording what had been strictly a sweet pop song recorded by Franklin's friend Dionne Warwick, however, the song turned out to be a huge success, eventually becoming a bigger hit in the UK where it reached #4. Franklin's albums such as Lady Soul (taken from the title she was given to in 1967) and Aretha Now became successful albums with Lady Soul boasting three top ten singles. Though she wouldn't take part in the civil rights movement of that time period, Franklin's songs, including "Respect" and "Think", were often used as a means of protest. Franklin insists however that she recorded the songs for fun as she was allowed to freely experiment with vocal styles in the studio. Around this time, Franklin used other background singers, including New Jersey backing group The Sweet Inspirations, to help her on recordings.
Franklin's hit streak was more modest throughout 1969 while Aretha battled personal problems including her filing for divorce from Ted White after eight years of an acrimonious marriage. After a break from the studio, she returned in mid-1969 and recorded "Share Your Love with Me" and the self-penned composition "Call Me", which was released in late 1969 and early 1970 respectively and returned Franklin to #1 on the R&B chart. Franklin also reinvented her style of dress and, as was the trend at the time, she wore an Afro hairstyle and adapted traditional African garb, influenced by the black nationalist movement that had started in the late 1960s. Franklin's success continued with her hit renditions of rock songs such as "The Weight", "Let It Be" and "Eleanor Rigby". Franklin's next album, Spirit in the Dark, included the hits "Spirit in the Dark" and "Don't Play That Song (You Lied)", which became a hit in the UK where Franklin promoted the single. The following year, Franklin became the first black artist to perform at Bill Graham's Fillmore West[7] where she later released a live album from the performance. Following these triumphs, Franklin was beginning to be referred to as "The Queen of Soul", a title which she's kept since.
Following the release of the 1971 hits, "Spanish Harlem" and the self-penned number "Rock Steady", Franklin issued the acclaimed Young, Gifted and Black album in early 1972 and had a follow-up hit with the ballad, "Day Dreaming". The album was also noted for Franklin recording the first cover of an Elton John song with Elton's song, "Border Song". Later in 1972, Franklin released her first gospel album in sixteen years with the Amazing Grace album, which became her most successful album in Atlantic Records, later reportedly selling over two million copies making it at that time the best-selling gospel album of all time. That record has since passed but Franklin's album still remains a huge seller. Franklin's success continued the following year with the release of the ballad, "Angel", which was co-penned by her sister Carolyn. The song was co-produced by Franklin and Quincy Jones, who together produced the concept album, Hey Now Hey (The Other Side of the Sky), which had initially started off as a jazz album. Though some noted the album for its risky experimentation of different styles, it wasn't totally received well by the Atlantic staff and some fans didn't know what to make of its direction. Following its release, Franklin began producing her own Atlantic albums after a renegotiation of her contract with the label. One of the first albums she released following her new deal was Let Me In Your Life, in 1974. The album returned Franklin, who was now adapting a more glamorous figure, to the top 40 thanks to the hits, "Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)" and "I'm in Love" and a sensual cover of the Marvin Gaye single, "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing".
By the release of 1974's With Everything I Feel in Me and 1975's You, however, Franklin's success had started to peak. Having relocated to Los Angeles, Franklin's recordings suffered from dismal promotion and changing musical tastes as soul music started to lose its popularity with pop fans in the emergence of different genres such as hard rock, heavy metal, funk and disco. The albums weren't hits and no song from any of those albums were huge hits, leading to a fallout between Franklin and Atlantic Records, which had started with the label's embrace of British hard rock group Led Zeppelin and softer R&B vocalist Roberta Flack, no longer making Franklin the top priority artist she had been since signing with the label. To make matters worse, in 1976, her eight-year streak of winning a Grammy for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance, was broken by Natalie Cole. However, that year, Franklin found renewed success with the Curtis Mayfield production, Sparkle, which spawned the #1 R&B hit, "Giving Him Something He Can Feel" and going gold.
Fallout with Atlantic and first Arista recordings (1977-1984)[link]
However, the success wouldn't last long. Franklin's next three albums, the Lamont Dozier and Carole Bayer Sager-produced Sweet Passion, the Mayfield produced Almighty Fire and the Van McCoy-produced La Diva tanked on the charts and no single released from those albums charted on the Hot 100 during this tumultuous period. Franklin continued performing in the US and worldwide but was now building a reputation on living comfortably off royalties so that she only performed on occasion rather than as normal procedure. Aretha would later win the masters off her post-1974 Atlantic recordings. Following the release of La Diva in 1979, Atlantic decided not to renew her contract.
In 1980, Franklin gained something of a new audience after a cameo appearance in The Blues Brothers film where she appeared as the wife of Matt "Guitar" Murphy and engages in a brief war of words with Dan Aykroyd's and John Belushi's characters Elwood and Jake Blues, over Murphy leaving his restaurant to perform with them again in which Franklin afterwards performed "Think". Afterwards, Franklin signed a contract with Clive Davis' Arista Records label. Later in 1980, she issued the Aretha album, which featured a minor hit, "United Together", which became a #3 R&B hit. The music on Aretha and its 1981 follow-up, Love All the Hurt Away, furthered Franklin away from earthy soul and into a more glossier and conservative form of R&B music labeled as urban contemporary. The title track off her 1981 album produced another R&B hit with duet vocals provided by George Benson.
In 1982, Franklin returned to the top of the R&B charts with the Jump to It album boasted by the success of the title track, which became her first number-one R&B single in five years. The album also became her first to go gold after her first two Arista albums had failed to reach that position. The album was produced by then R&B hitmaker Luther Vandross, who was then called in to produce Franklin's follow-up, 1983's Get It Right. However, that record failed, selling less than 200,000 copies, despite the title track becoming another number-one R&B hit for Franklin.
Success with Arista (1985-1998)[link]
Following its release and the subsequent death of her minister father, C. L., in 1984, Franklin laid low for a few months before returning to the studio in her native Detroit to record her next Arista album which was later titled, Who's Zoomin' Who? The inspiration behind the making of the album was due to Aretha listening to the radio and liking what she heard and opted for "a younger sound".[8] This album was produced by rising producer Narada Michael Walden. The album included dance, pop and modern rock elements and would return Franklin to the top ten of the pop charts. "Freeway of Love" became her biggest hit in years reaching #3 on the pop chart and #1 R&B while the follow-up, "Who's Zoomin' Who" reached #7 pop and #2 R&B and was co-penned by Franklin, partly because she inspired the song title. A third single, "Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves", featuring the Eurythmics, peaked at #18 on the pop charts. The videos for "Freeway of Love" and "Sisters" made Franklin popular with music video audiences and her success was compared to another sixties R&B contemporary, Tina Turner's own groundbreaking success years after leaving Ike Turner.
Franklin followed up this success with the Aretha album in 1986. The album spawned another series of hits including "Jimmy Lee", a cover of the Rolling Stones hit "Jumpin' Jack Flash" and the #1 George Michael duet, "I Knew You Were Waiting for Me" later going gold. To help promote the album, Franklin filmed a Showtime concert TV special. Around this time, Franklin also contributed her voice to several TV networks including a theme song for ABC TV titled "Together" in 1986[9] and the hit series, "A Different World", where her rendition of the theme song remained part of the show from its second season in 1988 through its fifth season in 1992. However, Franklin's success was not as long lasting. Due to an accident in a plane she suffered in 1983, Franklin missed schedule for performances overseas which caused a pain for Arista promoters overseas. Also a problem was Franklin's vocals, which was starting to hamper after years of cigarette smoking. Franklin started adapting to a raspier, low tone starting with performances in 1982 and 1983. In spite of this, she remained a popular concert draw. In 1987, Franklin recorded her first gospel album in fifteen years, One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism, in hopes of having similar success with that record as she had had with Amazing Grace. However, the album failed to find an audience. Franklin returned to the pop charts in 1989 with the release of the Elton John duet, "Through the Storm" and the subsequent release of the album of the same name. However, the album failed to become a success and a much publicized duet with fellow label mate and chart-topping singer Whitney Houston titled "It Isn't, It Wasn't, It Ain't Never Gonna Be" failed to bring much notice peaking below the top 40.
Franklin's attempt at revamping her sound with new jack swing productions in the 1991 album, What You See Is What You Sweat was badly received and was another commercial failure. Following this, Franklin quit chain smoking and spent the next several years reviving parts of her vocal style. In 1994, she contributed to the Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit soundtrack recording the dance song, "A Deeper Love", which became Franklin's biggest single in years reaching #5 in the UK. Later that year, following the release of an Arista best-of, Franklin recorded the Babyface compositions, "Honey" and "Willing to Forgive", with the latter single becoming her first top 40 single in five years. Franklin later contributed vocals to the Waiting to Exhale soundtrack recording the song "It Hurts Like Hell" and following a couple years on the road, recorded the hit album, A Rose Is Still a Rose, which success was mainly due to the success of its title track, which became her last top 40 single on the Billboard Hot 100 nearly 40 years after recording her first one. Throughout 1998, Franklin had success with TV performances including the 1998 Grammys when she performed Luciano Pavarotti's rendition of the opera ballad, "Nessun Dorma", generating a standing ovation at the end of her performance, and a show-stopping performance at VH-1's Divas Live.
Later work (1999-present)[link]
In 1999, Franklin issued her autobiography, Aretha: From These Roots. Franklin would not release her next album until 2003 when she issued the album, So Damn Happy. In between then, she contributed to albums and songs by several artists including K-Ci and JoJo on a song titled "Angel", and Mary J. Blige on the song, "Don't Waste Your Time", featured on Blige's 1999 album, Mary. The So Damn Happy album featured a minor R&B hit with "Wonderful", which later nabbed Franklin another Grammy. After the release of So Damn Happy, Franklin decided to not renew her contract with Arista after 23 years with the label. In 2004, she began work on her album, A Woman Falling Out of Love, due to be the first release off her dormant Aretha's Records, in 2005. In the meantime, Arista released a duets compilation, 2007's Jewels in the Crown: All-Star Duets with the Queen, which featured another minor R&B hit with the Fantasia duet, "Put You Up on Game". That same year, Franklin issued her first Christmas album, This Christmas, Aretha, which was initially released as a Borders Group exclusive and was later issued on the DMI label.
In 2008, she won her 18th career Grammy in the gospel category on the song "Never Break My Faith" with Mary J. Blige. A year after, she received news for performing at the inauguration for then newly elected President Barack Obama performing the song "My Country 'Tis of Thee", with her attire, including her church hat, becoming a popular item online and the subject of several internet memes. The following year, Franklin received an honorary music degree from Yale.[10] By 2010, Franklin announced that she had sold her rights to movie producers to produce a biopic on her in which would be loosely based off Franklin's 1999 memoirs, Aretha: From These Roots. Franklin had initially planned for Halle Berry to play her in the featured role but Berry turned down her offer in January 2011. Franklin has since picked singer Audra McDonald to play her.
In May 2011, commemorating on her 50th anniversary since the release of her first non-gospel recording, Franklin issued her 38th studio release, A Woman Falling Out of Love through WalMart. Franklin recorded two duets with longtime friend, Ronald Isley of The Isley Brothers, recording "The Way We Were" on Aretha's album, while recording "You've Got a Friend" on Isley's record, Mr. I. Later in September, Franklin contributed duet vocals to the Tony Bennett rendition of "How Do You Keep The Music Playing" off his Duets II album.
Personal life[link]
Children[link]
Aretha, by her own admission grew up fast as a child and discovered boys at the age of thirteen, getting pregnant just three months after becoming a teenager. A relationship with one boy led to the birth of her first son, Clarence, named after her father, on March 28, 1956, just three days after she turned 14. In January 1957, before reaching 15, Franklin had another son, Edward, with another boy.[11] 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.)
Franklin had a third son, Ted White, Jr. (sometimes referred to as Teddy Richards), with her manager and former family friend Ted White, Sr., born in 1964. Teddy is the musical director and guitarist of his mother's touring band.[12] A relationship with road manager Ken Cunningham produced a fourth son, Kecalf, who was named after the first initials of their parents' names.[13] Kecalf, her youngest-born child, was born three days after his mother's 28th birthday. In 2010, Aretha's son Edward was attacked by three people at a Detroit gas station near Plymouth Road and Evergreen.[14][15] Kecalf Franklin, Aretha's youngest son, is currently a rapper and produces gospel recordings.[16]
Marriages[link]
Against her father's wishes, Aretha married her first husband, Ted White, in front of a justice of the peace in Ohio in 1961 when she was nineteen. White later replaced Aretha's father as her manager in 1967. According to close friends, White was physically abusive and it's suggested White's physical abuse and philandering were the cause of Franklin's heart-wrenching vocals on her best-known recordings during the Atlantic years. Her producer, Jerry Wexler once called Franklin "the lady of mysterious sorrows" since Aretha didn't tell anyone her personal story. Following a 1968 cover article in Time magazine in which her abusive marriage and a claim that her mother abandoned her at a young age led Franklin to not give any interviews to media groups and increasing her privacy.
After ending her affair with Ken Cunningham after a seven-year on-again, off-again relationship, Franklin married actor Glynn Turman on April 11, 1978 at her father's New Bethel Baptist Church with her father presiding over the ceremony. Aretha became a surrogate stepmother to Turman's three children from a previous marriage. Due to their schedules, however, it wasn't long before their marriage fell apart despite living together in Franklin's mansion in Encino. In late 1982, Franklin and Turman separated after only four years, eventually divorcing in early 1984. In early 2012, it was reported that Franklin was set to walk down the aisle a third time with her longtime companion Willie Wilkerson.[17][18] Franklin and Wilkerson had plans to marry in 1987 but later nixed those plans. Within a month after Aretha had announced the wedding this year, she nixed the plans again.
Relatives, other romances and friends[link]
Franklin's sisters Erma Franklin and Carolyn Franklin were professional singers and sang as backup for Aretha during her initial success at Atlantic. Her brother, the Reverend Cecil Franklin, took over as her manager after her divorce from Ted White was finalized. Cecil remained her manager until his death from cancer on December 26, 1989. Younger sister Carolyn preceded Cecil in death in early 1988 from breast cancer while Erma Franklin later died from throat cancer in 2002. Franklin's eldest half-brother, Vaughn (born December 24, 1934) and elder half-sister Carl Kelley (née Jennings; born 1940) are still alive. Kelley is C.L. Franklin's daughter by Mildred Jennings, a then 12-year-old congregant of New Salem Baptist Church of Memphis, Tennessee, where C.L. was pastor in the late 1930s and early 1940s.[19] Franklin was close to her minister father, C. L. Franklin. C. L. served as Franklin's first manager, a position he gave up to Ted White around 1967. Aretha was performing in Las Vegas on June 10, 1979 when her father was shot by attempted robbers at his LaSalle Street home in Detroit. Aretha and her family returned their father back to his home six months after the shooting left him in a coma. Aretha moved back to Detroit at the end of 1982 to assist with the care of her father, who died in a nursing home on July 27, 1984.
Aretha's relationship with road manager Ken Cunningham was on and off from 1969 until a final breakup in 1976. During one breakup in 1971, Franklin, living back in northwest Detroit, had a brief liaison with Temptations star Dennis Edwards. The relationship inspired Franklin's hit, "Day Dreaming". Franklin and Edwards' romance cooled quickly but they've remained friends. Aretha is also friendly with many of her Detroit peers that went on to be music superstars including Smokey Robinson and Stevie Wonder. She was friendly with members of the Four Tops as well, later singing with them on several records in the 1980s. Franklin also had a close friendship with Sam Cooke after meeting as gospel performers. Following Cooke's death, Franklin recorded his songs "A Change Is Gonna Come" and "You Send Me".
Franklin grew close with Sweet Inspirations founder Cissy Houston, who sang background on Franklin's "Ain't No Way".[20] Due to this friendship, she was later made honorary aunt of Cissy's daughter, Whitney Houston, who often referred to Franklin as "Auntie Ree".[21] Franklin recalled meeting Whitney at either 8 or 9 years old when Whitney's mother brought her to a recording studio.[22] Sometime in the 1980s, a PR mistake listed Franklin as Houston's godmother. On February 11, 2012, Whitney Houston died in Beverly Hills from unknown causes.[23] Aretha was devastated by her death and said it was "so stunning and unbelievable".[23] She planned to perform at the memorial service on February 18, but her representative claimed that Aretha was "ill" and was "not performing at the memorial service", though she later performed at New York's Radio City Music Hall on the same night.[24][25]
Weight issues, health problems, surgery and rumors of cancer[link]
Franklin acknowledged her issues with her weight in the past even telling an interviewer from Jet magazine that she was always trying to lose weight. Before undergoing surgery for an undisclosed ailment that halted her schedule in 2010, Franklin had begun losing weight. According to the singer in 2011, she said she had lost up to 85 lbs in weight following her surgery. In the past, Franklin had went through periods of yo-yo dieting, at one time, losing over 100 pounds showing off her weight loss on the cover of Ebony magazine in 1974. Franklin managed to keep the weight off until after 1982. After another slim period in the early '90s, and after quitting cigarettes cold turkey in 1991, Franklin's weight started to balloon up. In 2010, Franklin suffered a pain in her side which she said, "was so hard it almost brought me to my knees." After continuing a concert tour, the pain recurred, and she subsequently underwent surgery for an undisclosed ailment in October 2010, ending several engagements with Condoleeza Rice. At this time, rumors surfaced that she was suffering from pancreatic cancer. In discussing the events in 2011, she has said that this was not the case and that her doctor told her, "the surgery that you just had is going to add 15 to 20 more years to your life."[26]
Connection to the Civil Rights Movement[link]
Franklin’s music and civil rights involvement cannot be separated for it was through music, which Franklin was able to reach out to so many and empower those who had felt so long oppressed.
Aretha Franklin first became connected with the civil rights movement through her father, Reverend C.L. Franklin. Rev. Franklin was an influential preacher who traveled the country as well as recorded a weekly sermon for the radio station, WLAC, which reached 65 percent of the African-American population. It was these same tours that Aretha would begin her singing career.[27] Rev. Franklin would also introduce Aretha to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. starting a life long friendship between the two.
It was Franklin's soulful sound, which would become the driving anthem of the civil rights movement or as poet Nikki Giovanni put it “the voice of the civil rights movement, the voice of the black America”.[28]
Through Franklin’s album ‘I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You’, hit ‘Respect’ rose to the top. Her strong voice asking for something as simple as respect reflects the cries of the civil rights movement. Her lyrics mirror that of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s ‘I Have A Dream’ speech. Most notably the lines “Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God’s children”.[29] While the civil rights movement was already in motion before Franklin became a prominent figure she had now lent it a soundtrack.
Franklin did not have to do much to help propel the civil rights movement. “Her own sense of pride and her dignified stance, she represented the new black woman of the late 1960s”.[13] Franklin’s own sound and presence were enough to reflect the ideas of the movement and were what caused her to become a notable figure in the cause.
Franklin was not actively heading demonstrations or participating in sit-ins, but she was able to do her part and use her talent to help the movement. She would numerous times perform at rallies with King, lending her voice and fame to pull in crowds. Franklin is a registered Democrat.[30]
Awards and achievements[link]
- On June 28, 1968 she became the second African-American woman to appear on the cover of TIME magazine.[31]
- On August 1, 1968, she sang the National Anthem at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, IL.
- In 1985, then-Gov. James Blanchard of Michigan declared her voice “a natural resource” during a ceremony that marked her 25 years in show business.
- Aretha Franklin is one of three musicians, along with Madonna & Marvin Gaye, to have singles peak at each of the top 10 positions on the US Billboard Hot 100.
- On January 20, 1987, she became the first woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.[32]
- On March 29, 1987, Franklin sang "America the Beautiful" at WrestleMania III.
- In September 1999, she was awarded The National Medal of Arts by President Clinton.
- In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked her ninth on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.[33]
- In 2005, she was awarded The Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush.
- In 2005, she became the second woman (Madonna being the first) to be inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame.
- In 2005, Franklin was inducted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends Hall of Fame.[34]
- On February 6, 2006, she performed, along with Aaron Neville, "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Super Bowl XL.
- On May 13, 2006, she was presented with an honorary Doctor of Music degree by the Berklee College of Music.
- On April 1, 2007 Aretha sang "America the Beautiful" at WrestleMania 23.
- On May 14, 2007, she was presented with an honorary Doctor of Music degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
- In 2007, Aretha Franklin's recording of "Respect" was voted a Legendary Michigan Song.[35]
- Is an honorary member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority
- On February 8, 2008, Franklin was honored as MusiCares "Person of the Year".
- On February 14, 2008, Franklin was given the Vanguard award at the NAACP Image awards.
- On May 4, 2008, Franklin was given the Key to the City of Memphis at the 2008 "Memphis in May International Music Festival" by Mayor Dr. Willie Herenton during her performance onstage.
- On September 13, 2008, Franklin was ranked No. 19 on the Billboard Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists list by Billboard.[36]
- November 2008, Franklin was named by Rolling Stone as the No. 1 all-time best singer of the rock era, according to the magazine's survey of 179 musicians, producers, Rolling Stone editors, and other music industry insiders.[37]
- On January 20, 2009, Franklin performed "My Country, 'Tis of Thee" during the inauguration ceremony of Barack Obama.
- On May 23, 2010, Franklin received an Honorary Doctorate in Music from Yale University.[38]
- On June 1, 2010, Aretha Franklin's recording of "Chain Of Fools" was voted a Legendary Michigan Song.[35]
- On February 13, 2011, the Grammy Awards paid tribute to Franklin with a medley of her classics by fellow singers Christina Aguilera, Florence Welch, Jennifer Hudson, Martina McBride and Yolanda Adams[39]
- On October 16, 2011, Franklin sang "Precious Lord (Take My Hand)" for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s memorial dedication ceremony in Washington, D.C.
- On August 14, 2012, Franklin will be inducted to the GMA Gospel Music Hall of Fame.
Grammy Awards[link]
Franklin has won 18[40] performance Grammy Awards,[41] and two honorary Grammys: the Grammy Legend Award (1991) and the Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award (1994).[42]
She holds the record[citation needed] 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).
| Aretha Franklin's 18 Grammy Award Wins | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Year | Category | Genre | Title |
| 1 | 1968 | Best Rhythm & Blues Recording | R&B | Respect |
| 2 | 1968 | Best Female R&B Vocal Performance | R&B | Respect |
| 3 | 1969 | Best Female R&B Vocal Performance | R&B | Chain Of Fools |
| 4 | 1970 | Best Female R&B Vocal Performance | R&B | Share Your Love With Me |
| 5 | 1971 | Best Female R&B Vocal Performance | R&B | Don't Play That Song For Me |
| 6 | 1972 | Best Female R&B Vocal Performance | R&B | Bridge Over Troubled Water |
| 7 | 1973 | Best Female R&B Vocal Performance | R&B | Young, Gifted and Black (album) |
| 8 | 1973 | Best Soul Gospel Performance | Gospel | Amazing Grace (album) |
| 9 | 1974 | Best Female R&B Vocal Performance | R&B | Master Of Eyes |
| 10 | 1975 | Best Female R&B Vocal Performance | R&B | Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing |
| 11 | 1982 | Best Female R&B Vocal Performance | R&B | Hold On...I'm Comin' (album track) |
| 12 | 1986 | Best Female R&B Vocal Performance | R&B | Freeway Of Love |
| 13 | 1988 | Best Female R&B Vocal Performance | R&B | Aretha (album) |
| 14 | 1988 | Best R&B Performance – Duo Or Group with Vocals | R&B | I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me) (with George Michael) |
| 15 | 1989 | Best Soul Gospel Performance – Female | Gospel | One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism (album) |
| * | 1991 | Living Legend Award | Special | |
| * | 1994 | Lifetime Achievement Award | Special | |
| 16 | 2004 | Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance | R&B | Wonderful |
| 17 | 2006 | Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance | R&B | A House Is Not A Home |
| 18 | 2008 | Best Gospel-Soul Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group | Gospel | Never Gonna Break My Faith (with Mary J. Blige) |
Discography[link]
Further information: Aretha Franklin discography
LPs[link]
- Songs of Faith (1956)
- Aretha (1961)
- The Electrifying Aretha Franklin ' (1962)
- The Tender, the Moving, the Swinging Aretha Franklin' (1962)
- Laughing on the Outside (1963)
- Unforgettable: A Tribute to Dinah Washington (1964)
- Runnin' Out of Fools (1964)
- Yeah!!! In Person (1965)
- Soul Sister (1966)
- Take It Like You Give It (1967)
- I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You (1967)
- Aretha Arrives (1967)
- Lady Soul (1968)
- Aretha Now (1968)
- Soul '69 (1969)
- This Girl's in Love with You (1970)
- Spirit in the Dark (1970)
- Young, Gifted and Black (1972)
- Amazing Grace (1972)
- Hey Now Hey (The Other Side of the Sky) (1973)
- Let Me in Your Life (1974)
- With Everything I Feel in Me (1974)
- You (1975)
- Sparkle (1976)
- Sweet Passion (1977)
- Almighty Fire (1978)
- La Diva (1979)
- Aretha (1980)
- Love All the Hurt Away (1981)
- Jump to It (1982)
- Get It Right (1983)
- Who's Zoomin' Who? (1985)
- Aretha (1986)
- One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism (1987)
- Through the Storm (1989)
- What You See Is What You Sweat (1991)
- A Rose Is Still a Rose (1998)
- So Damn Happy (2003)
- This Christmas, Aretha (2008)
- A Woman Falling Out of Love (2011)
Top 10 US Hot 100 singles[link]
| Year | Title | Peak |
|---|---|---|
| 1967 | "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)" | 9 |
| 1967 | "Respect" | 1 |
| 1967 | "Baby I Love You" | 4 |
| 1967 | "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" | 8 |
| 1967 | "Chain of Fools" | 2 |
| 1968 | "(Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You've Been Gone" | 5 |
| 1968 | "Think" | 7 |
| 1968 | "The House That Jack Built" | 6 |
| 1968 | "I Say a Little Prayer" | 10 |
| 1971 | "Bridge Over Troubled Water" / "Brand New Me" | 6 |
| 1971 | "Spanish Harlem" | 2 |
| 1971 | "Rock Steady" | 9 |
| 1972 | "Day Dreaming" | 5 |
| 1973 | "Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)" | 3 |
| 1985 | "Freeway of Love" | 3 |
| 1985 | "Who's Zoomin' Who" | 7 |
| 1987 | "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)" (with George Michael) | 1 |
Source:[43]
All no. 1 hits in US R&B 100 singles[link]
| Year | Title |
|---|---|
| 1967 | "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)" |
| 1967 | "Respect" |
| 1967 | "Baby I Love You" |
| 1967 | "Chain of Fools" |
| 1968 | "(Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You've Been Gone" |
| 1968 | "Think" |
| 1969 | "Share Your Love with Me" |
| 1970 | "Call Me" |
| 1970 | "Don't Play That Song (You Lied)" |
| 1971 | "Bridge Over Troubled Water" / "Brand New Me" |
| 1971 | "Spanish Harlem" |
| 1972 | "Day Dreaming" |
| 1973 | "Angel" |
| 1973 | "Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)" |
| 1974 | "I'm in Love" |
| 1976 | "Something He Can Feel" |
| 1977 | "Break It to Me Gently" |
| 1982 | "Jump to It" |
| 1983 | "Get It Right" |
| 1985 | "Freeway of Love" |
Source:[43]
Filmography[link]
Movies / Concerts / Documentaries[link]
- The Blues Brothers (1980)
- Motown 40: The Music Is Forever (1998) (ABC-TV documentary)
- Blues Brothers 2000 (1998)
- DIVAS LIVE (1998)
- Immaculate Funk (2000) (documentary)
- Rhythm, Love and Soul (2002)
- Tom Dowd & the Language of Music (2003) (documentary)
- Singing in the Shadow: The Children of Rock Royalty (2003) (documentary)
- From The Heart / The Four Tops 50th Anniversary and Celebration (2004)
- Atlantic Records: The House that Ahmet Built (2007) (documentary)
Television[link]
- The Tonight Show / Johnny Carson
- The Mike Douglas Show
- In 1972, she had a role in the TV show Room 222
- Solid Gold (numerous appearances with the last in 1982 performing "Jump To It")
- Kelly & Company (Marilyn Turner and John Kelly, Detroit)
- Dayna (Dayna Eubanks, fomer Detroit newscaster)
- Rolonda Show (Rolonda Watts)
- The Oprah Winfrey Show (numerous appearances including Oprah's 40th birthday, with Patti LaBelle and Gladys Knight)
- Live with Regis and Kelly (numerous appearances)
- The View
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- ^ Whitall, Susan. "Aretha Franklin recalls meeting a young Whitney Houston". Aretha Franklin, who will sing at Whitney Houston's funeral Saturday, spoke to Al Roker on the "Today" show Friday morning about the first time she met Houston, as a wide-eyed 8- or 9-year-old.. The Detroit News. http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120217/ENT09/202170397/1361/Aretha-Franklin-recalls-meeting-a-young-Whitney-Houston. Retrieved 18 February 2012.
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- ^ Luther King, Jr., Martin. "I Have A Dream". I Have A Dream. http://www.news.wisc.edu/releases/3504.html. Retrieved December 9, 2011.
- ^ On an ABC promo aired on July 27, 2010 announcing Franklin and Rice's appearing together in concert there was a segment in which Franklin was being interviewed and she said herself, "I am a Democrat".
- ^ "TIME Magazine Cover: Aretha Franklin". Time. June 28, 1968. http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19680628,00.html. Retrieved September 30, 2011.
- ^ "Aretha Franklin Biography". Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. undated. Archived from the original on November 27, 2010. http://rockhall.com/inductees/aretha-franklin/bio/.
- ^ "The Immortals: The First Fifty". Rolling Stone Issue 946. http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/5939214/the_immortals_the_first_fifty.
- ^ Category: Inductees. "Aretha Franklin". Michigan Rock and Roll Legends. http://www.michiganrockandrolllegends.com/mrrl-hall-of-fame/70-aretha-franklin. Retrieved 2012-05-13.
- ^ a b Category: Uncategorised. "Legendary Michigan Songs". Michigan Rock and Roll Legends. http://www.michiganrockandrolllegends.com/legendary-michigan-songs-inductees. Retrieved 2012-05-13.
- ^ The Billboard Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists. Billboard.com. Retrieved on July 8, 2011.
- ^ Aretha Franklin greatest singer in rock era: poll. Music.yahoo.com (2008-11-11). Retrieved on July 8, 2011.
- ^ Franklin receives honorary doctorate from Yale. Newsone.com (2010-05-24). Retrieved on July 8, 2011.
- ^ Grammay Awards tribute to Aretha Franklin
- ^ According to NARAS rules,[where?] Special Grammy Awards (such as Lifetime Achievement) are not counted in a performer's tally.
- ^ "Past Winners Search: Aretha Franklin". Grammy.com. http://www.grammy.com/nominees/search?artist=Aretha+Franklin&title=&year=All&genre=All. Retrieved January 2, 2011.
- ^ Nechvatal, Zack (February 10, 2011). "Grammy Awards To Honor Aretha Franklin". Chicago, Illinois: WXRT/CBS Radio. Archived from the original on January 2, 2012. http://wxrt.radio.com/2011/02/10/grammy-awards-to-honor-aretha-franklin/. Retrieved January 2, 2012.
- ^ a b "Aretha Franklin: Biography". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on May 3, 2009. http://web.archive.org/web/20090503075231/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/arethafranklin/biography. Retrieved March 21, 2010.
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| Louis Allen | |
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| Born | ? |
| Died | January 31, 1964(1964-01-31) Amite County, Mississippi |
| Cause of death | Murder |
| Ethnicity | African-American |
Louis Allen (murdered 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.
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Allen's precise date of birth is unknown. He served in World War II.
Murder of Herbert Lee[link]
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 legislator in Mississippi's House of Representatives. When a coroner's inquest was conducted hours later, Allen and other witnesses were pressured into giving false testimony, claiming that Hurst had shot Lee in self-defense. The all-white jury deemed the death self defense and Hurst was not prosecuted.
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 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."[1]
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."[2]
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 culminated 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.[3]
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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.
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No further investigation 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 are since deceased.
Jones also emerged as the prime suspect when the FBI reopened Allen's case in 2007. Jones' father was a high-ranking "Exalted 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 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.
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References[link]
- ^ Cold case: The murder of Louis Allen, 60 Minutes (CBS), 10 April 2011
- ^ Louis Allen Murdered (Jan), CRMVet.org (Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement)
- ^ 60 Minutes, Ibid.
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| Smokey Robinson | |
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 Robinson in concert at the Chumash Casino Resort in Santa Ynez, California, on August 17, 2006. |
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| Birth name | William Robinson, Jr. |
| Born | (1940-02-19) February 19, 1940 (age 72) |
| Origin | Detroit, Michigan, United States |
| Genres | R&B, soul, pop, adult contemporary |
| Occupations | Singer, songwriter, record producer, record executive |
| Instruments | Vocals, piano |
| Years active | 1955–present |
| Labels | Motown, Universal, SBK, Liquid 8, Robso |
| Associated acts | The Miracles, The Temptations, Mary Wells, Marvin Gaye |
| Website | Official website |
William "Smokey" Robinson, Jr. (born February 19, 1940) is an American R&B singer-songwriter, record producer, and former record executive. Robinson is most notable for being the founder and front man of the popular Motown vocal group, The Miracles, for which he also served as the group's chief songwriter and producer. Robinson led the group from its 1955 origins as The Five Chimes until 1972 when he announced a retirement from the stage to focus on his role as Motown's vice president.
However, Robinson returned to the music industry as a solo artist the following year, later having solo hits such as "Baby That's Backatcha", "Quiet Storm", "The Agony and the Ecstasy", "Cruisin'", "Being With You" and "Just to See Her". Following the sale of Motown Records in 1988, Robinson left Motown in 1990. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.
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Early life and early career[link]
Robinson was born in Detroit and raised in the city's North End section. At one point, he and Diana Ross were next-door neighbors; he said he has known Ross since she was eight.[1] Robinson later told reporters when he was a child, his uncle christened him "Smokey Joe", which Robinson assumed was a "cowboy name for me" until he was later told that smokey was a pejorative term for dark-skinned Blacks. Robinson, who is mainly of African American descent and is light-skinned, remembers his uncle saying to him, "I'm doing this so you won't ever forget that you're black."[2] Robinson grew up as a fan of Western films.[2]
Robinson said his interest in music started after hearing the groups Nolan Strong & The Diablos and Billy Ward and His Dominoes on the radio as a child. Robinson later listed Strong, a Detroit native, as a strong vocal influence during an interview with Goldmine as he and Strong shared similar vocals. In 1955, he formed the first lineup of what became The Miracles with childhood friend Ronald White and classmate Pete Moore. Two years later, in 1957, they were renamed The Matadors and included Bobby Rogers. Another member, Emerson Rogers, was replaced by Bobby's sister Claudette Rogers. The group's guitarist, Marv Tarplin, joined them sometime in 1958. The Matadors began touring Detroit venues around this time.
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In August 1958, Robinson met songwriter Berry Gordy, who had recently stopped writing songs for Jackie Wilson after getting into a royalty dispute with Wilson's Brunswick label. Robinson and his group auditioned right in front of him. Gordy was said to have been impressed more at the fact that Robinson was a writer than he was as a singer. Gordy agreed to work with them and with his help, the Matadors released their first single, "Got a Job", an answer song to the Silhouettes' hit single "Get a Job". Following this, the group changed its name to The Miracles after Claudette Rogers replaced Emerson Rogers and signed with End that November, with Gordy as its main producer. During this time, Robinson attended college, starting classes in January 1959, studying electrical engineering.[3] However, after the Miracles released their first record, Robinson dropped out after only two months.[3]
After a number of failures and difficulties with money, Robinson suggested to Gordy to start his own label, which Gordy agreed. Following the forming of Tamla Records, later reincorporated as Motown, the Miracles became one of the first acts signed to the label. In late 1960, the group recorded their first hit single, "Shop Around", which became Motown's first million-selling single. Between 1960 and 1970, Robinson would produce 26 top forty hits with the Miracles as lead singer, chief songwriter and producer, including several top ten hits such as "You've Really Got a Hold on Me", "Mickey's Monkey", "I Second That Emotion", "Baby Baby Don't Cry" and the group's only number-one hit during their Robinson years, "Tears of a Clown", while other notable hits such as "Ooo Baby Baby", "Going to a Go-Go", "The Tracks of My Tears", "(Come Round Here) I'm The One You Need", "The Love I Saw in You Was Just a Mirage" and "More Love" peaked at the top twenty. In 1965, the Miracles was the first Motown group to adapt a name change when they were listed as Smokey Robinson & The Miracles on the cover of their 1965 album, also titled, Going to a Go-Go. Their name change would be confirmed on singles after 1966.
Between 1962 and 1966, Robinson would also be one of the in-demand songwriters and producers for Motown, penning several hit singles such as "The One Who Really Loves You", "You Beat Me to the Punch" and "My Guy" for Mary Wells, "The Way You Do The Things You Do", "My Girl", "Since I Lost My Baby" and "Get Ready" for The Temptations, "When I'm Gone" and "Operator" for Brenda Holloway, "Don't Mess With Bill" and "My Baby Must Be a Magician" and "I'll Be Doggone" and "Ain't That Peculiar" for Marvin Gaye. His top rank as songwriter and producer however dropped by the arrivals of Holland-Dozier-Holland and the team of Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong, and even Motown artists such as Gaye and Stevie Wonder. He later contributed lyrics and musical composition for the works of The Contours' "First I Look at the Purse", the Four Tops' "Still Water" and The Supremes' "Floy Joy".
By 1969, Robinson had voiced his opinion on wanting to retire from the road to focus on raising a family with wife Claudette and their two children, and also focus his duties as Motown's vice president, a job he earned by the mid-1960s after Esther Gordy Edwards had left the position and began mentoring Motown acts on the label's Motortown Revues. However, the late success of the group's track, "Tears of a Clown", caused Robinson to stay with the group until 1972. Robinson's last performance with the group was in July 1972 in Washington, D.C.
Solo career[link]
After a year of retirement, Robinson announced his comeback with the release of the eponymous titled Smokey album, in 1973. The album included the Miracles tribute song, "Sweet Harmony" and the hit ballad "Baby Come Close". That same year, former Beatle George Harrison featured the track "Pure Smokey" as a tribute to his idol. Harrison and fellow Beatles John Lennon and Paul McCartney were also fans of Robinson's songwriting. In 1974, Robinson's second album, Pure Smokey was released but failed to produce hits. Robinson struggled to compete with his former collaborators Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder and former Temptations member Eddie Kendricks as all three had multiple hit singles during this period.
Robinson answered his critics the following year with A Quiet Storm, released in 1975. The album launched three singles - the number-one R&B hit "Baby That's Backatcha", "The Agony & The Ecstasy" and "Quiet Storm". However, Robinson's solo career continued to struggle as Robinson mainly focused as Motown's vice president, rather than work on his own career. As a result, several albums including Smokey's Family Robinson, Deep in My Soul, Love Breeze and Smokin, suffered from dismal promotion and even more dismal reviews from critics. Robinson had by then relied on other writers and producers to help with his albums.
Following these albums, Robinson got out of a writer's block after his close collaborator Marv Tarplin, who joined him on the road in 1973 after Robinson left the Miracles, presented him a musical composition he had composed on his guitar. Robinson later wrote the lyrics that became his first top ten pop single, "Cruisin'". The song peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100 and became his first solo number one hit ever in New Zealand. Robinson would follow a similar approach with his next album, Warm Thoughts, which produced another top 40 hit, "Let Me Be the Clock", though it didn't repeat the success of "Cruisin'". In 1981, Robinson achieved a massive hit with another ballad, "Being with You", which peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 and reached number-one in the UK, becoming his most successful single to date. The parent album sparked a partnership with George Tobin and with Tobin, Robinson released his next several Motown albums, Yes It's You Lady, which produced the hit, "Tell Me Tomorrow"; Touch the Sky and Essar. In 1983, Robinson teamed up with fellow Motown label mate Rick James recording the R&B ballad, "Ebony Eyes".
In 1987, following a period of personal and professional issues, Robinson made a comeback with the album, One Heartbeat and the singles, "Just to See Her" and "One Heartbeat", which both peaked at the top ten, with "Just to See Her" winning Robinson his first Grammy Award in 1988. The album became Robinson's most successful to date, selling half a million copies. In the same year Robinson released One Heartbeat, he was inducted as a solo artist to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, later igniting controversy as the committee had only inducted Robinson but not members of his group, the Miracles, which Robinson himself was personally offended by.[4][5] In 2012, however, the committee ratified that mistake announcing that the group would be inducted on their own merit. Though Robinson was not listed as an inductee, the musician is due to induct his former group at the ceremony in April 2012. The same year he was inducted, the UK group, ABC released a tribute song, "When Smokey Sings".
After Motown was sold off to MCA in 1988, Robinson relinquished his position as vice president. Following the release of the album, Love Smokey, in 1990, Robinson left Motown for a deal with SBK Records in 1991. However, the album, Double Good Everything failed to chart. Robinson remained virtually quiet during the nineties making a brief comeback in 1999 when he re-signed with Motown and issued the album, Intimate, which included the song "Easy to Love". In 2003, he once again split ties with Motown, releasing the gospel album, Food for the Soul on Liquid 8 Records in 2004. Two years later, Robinson released the standards album, Timeless Love, in 2006 on Universal Records. In 2009, he issued the album, Time Flies When You're Having Fun on his own label, Robso Records. Time Flies has been the last album Robinson has released.
Personal life[link]
Robinson married his fellow Miracles member Claudette Rogers in 1959. The couple had two children, daughter Tamla Robinson (b. 1969) and son Berry Robinson (b. 1968), named after Motown's first label and Berry Gordy respectively. Robinson has another son, Trey (b. 1984), with another woman, during his marriage to Claudette. After Robinson admitted this, he filed for legal separation and, later, divorce, which was granted in 1986. The Robinsons had separated once before, in 1974, and Robinson conducted an extramarital affair that became the concept of the song, "The Agony & The Ecstasy", later featured on A Quiet Storm.
Until the late sixties, Robinson was teetotal, drug-free, a vegetarian and a self-described "health nut". However, by the time he was in his late twenties, Robinson began using marijuana. By the seventies, he was also dabbling in cocaine, however, Robinson said he only used it for recreation. By the early eighties, however, he had begun developing a cocaine addiction. Following the deaths of his father and close label mate Marvin Gaye, the demise of his marriage and his own career troubles, Robinson developed an addiction to crack.
Robinson got clean in 1986 after visiting a church under the advice of longtime friend Leon Kennedy. Robinson has said that since the church visit, he has been clean and sober. In 1989, Robinson wrote the memoirs, Inside My Life, in which he opened up about his drug use. In 2004, Robinson married his second wife, Frances Robinson. The couple currently lives in Los Angeles. That same year, his company, SFGL Foods, launched a gumbo brand called "Smokey Robinson's The Soul is in the Bowl Gumbo", which was produced after the release of Robinson's gospel album.
Awards and accolades[link]
In 1987, Robinson was inducted to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Two years later, in 1989, he was inducted to the Songwriter's Hall of Fame. In 1993, Robinson was awarded a medal at the National Medal of Arts. Two years before, he won the Heritage Award at the Soul Train Music Awards. In 2005, Smokey Robinson was voted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends online Hall of Fame as a solo artist.[6] The Miracles were voted into Michigan Rock and Roll Legends in 2006.[7] At its 138th Commencement Convocation in May 2006, Howard University conferred on Robinson the degree of Doctor of Music, honoris causa. In December 2006 Robinson was one of five Kennedy Center honorees, along with Dolly Parton, Zubin Mehta, Steven Spielberg and Andrew Lloyd Webber.
On March 20, 2009, The Miracles were finally honored as a group with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Smokey was present with original Miracles members Bobby Rogers, Pete Moore, (Bobby's cousin) Claudette Rogers, and Gloria White, accepting for her husband, the late Ronnie White, whose daughter Pamela and granddaughter Maya were there representing him as well. Smokey's replacement, 1970s Miracles lead singer, Billy Griffin was also honored. Controversially, original Miracle Marv Tarplin was not honored, against the wishes of his fellow Miracles, and the group's fans, who felt that he should have also been there to share the honor.
On May 9, 2009, Smokey Robinson received an honorary doctorate degree and gave a commencement speech at Berklee College of Music's commencement ceremony.
Discography[link]
Main article: Smokey Robinson discography
References[link]
- ^ Hubbard, Steven and Ross, Scott. "Interview with Smokey Robinson." The 700 Club. Retrieved April 12, 2007.
- ^ a b "Smokey Robinson". EW.com. 1940-02-19. http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,276227_3,00.html. Retrieved 2012-04-24.
- ^ a b Interview. (2009) An Evening with Smokey Robinson, PBS
- ^ "Smokey Robinson". www.rockhall.com. http://www.rockhall.com/inductee/smokey-robinson. Retrieved 2009-10-20.
- ^ "Rock & Roll Hall of Fame still missing 3 Motown stalwarts | Goldmine Magazine". goldminemag.com. http://www.goldminemag.com/blogs/mary-miracles-marvelettes-motowns-missing-from-rock-hall. Retrieved November 9, 2011.
- ^ [http://www.michiganrockandrolllegends.com/mrrl-hall-of-fame/79-smokey-robinson
- ^ [http://www.michiganrockandrolllegends.com/mrrl-hall-of-fame/88-miracles-smokey-robinson-a
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| Short description | Singer, songwriter, record producer, record executive |
| Date of birth | 1940-2-19 |
| Place of birth | Detroit, Michigan, U.S. |
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Tom Moulton (born November 29, 1940)[1] is an American record producer, and originator of the remix, the breakdown section, and the 12-inch single vinyl format.
Life and career[link]
Thomas Jerome Moulton was born in Schenectady, New York, United States.[1]
Moulton worked as a model at the Bookings and Ford agencies, before beginning his production career. Before that, he had worked in the music industry, holding a sales and promotion job at King Records (from 1959 to 1961), and similar positions at RCA and United Artists. He eventually left due to his disgust at the industry's dishonesty.[2] His music career re-started in the late 1960s, with a self-made tape of overlapping songs created for the Fire Island bar and restaurant, The Sandpiper.[3]
He was responsible for the first continuous-mix album side, on Gloria Gaynor's disco album, Never Can Say Goodbye, earning him the title the "father of the disco mix".[4] Among some of his other success in mixing songs are The Three Degrees' "Dirty Ol' Man", MFSB featuring The Three Degrees "Love Is The Message", B.T. Express' "Do It ('Til You're Satisfied)", The Trammps' "Disco Inferno", The People's Choice's "Do It Any Way You Wanna", Andrea True's "More, More, More", plus First Choice's "Doctor Love" and Claudja Barry's album, The Girl Most Likely.[1]
Between 1977 and 1979, he produced Grace Jones' first three albums,[5] including one of the singer's biggest hits, her rendition of Édith Piaf's "La Vie en rose".
Moulton's innovative work was honored at the 2004 Dance Music Hall of Fame ceremony in New York City, when he was inducted for his achievements as a remixer. He is the official archivist of the Bethlehem Jazz and Salsoul music catalogues, and has overseen all of the digital remastering. In late 2006, Moulton remixed the Brand New Heavies (featuring N'Dea Davenport) single "I Don't Know (Why I Love You)".
A Tom Moulton Mix was used as the title of a compilation[6] of Moulton's remixes on Soul Jazz Records.[1]
More recently, Moulton was a regular guest on Disco935, an internet radio station which features disco music. He remains working, remixing classics as well as new songs, and has two releases forthcoming in 2012.
References[link]
- ^ a b c d Andy Kellman. "Tom Moulton". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p107949/biography. Retrieved November 22, 2011.
- ^ Shapiro, Peter. Turn the Beat Around: the Secret History of Disco. New York: Faber and Faber, Inc., 2005., p.40
- ^ Shapiro, Peter. Turn the Beat Around: the Secret History of Disco. New York: Faber and Faber, Inc., 2005., p.42
- ^ "Meco Monardo and the Disco Sound of the 1970s". DiscoMusic.com. http://www.discomusic.com/people-more/39_0_11_0_C. Retrieved 2007-12-12.
- ^ Portfolio (Grace Jones album)
- ^ Stylusmagazine.com
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