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The Clyde Otis Music Group Signs Admin Deal with Third Side Music (BMI - Broadcast Music lnc)

Edit Public Technologies 09 Jun 2016
Otis' catalogue, which is managed by his son, Isidro Otis, includes hits by Nat 'King' Cole, Aretha Franklin, BB King, Ray Charles, Brook Benton, Dinah Washington, The Isley Brothers and Wilson Pickett, along with modern ......

Playlist for precipitation: Scores of super songs for a soupy rainy day

Edit The Examiner 16 Mar 2016
Dig up these downloads for a downpour. Raindrops and thunder claps may be musical to many folks. Others may fear or dread such wet and noisy weather ... “Rainy Days and Mondays” was also recorded by Paul Brooks, Olivia Newton-John, Freda Payne, Dusty Springfield, Sarah Vaughan, Paul Williams, Roger Williams and other artists ... Written in 1962 by Tony Joe White, “A Rainy Night in Georgia” became a hit in 1970 for R&B singer Brook Benton ... ....

Music Monday: Country Singer Leon Ashley and Legacy (Covington-Newton County Chamber of Commerce)

Edit Public Technologies 07 Mar 2016
(Source. Covington-Newton County Chamber of Commerce). For today's Music Monday, we bring you a legendary local country singer. Have you ever heard the twangy tunes of Leon Ashley? Leon Ashley was a country western musician and innovator who found success as both a singer and songwriter ... By 1960, he released his first single on Goldband Records ... Brook Benton and Frankie Laine both recorded versions of the hit ... 19, just three years later....

Music Monday: Country Singer Leon Ashley and his Legacy (Covington-Newton County Chamber of Commerce)

Edit Public Technologies 07 Mar 2016
(Source. Covington-Newton County Chamber of Commerce). For today's Music Monday, we bring you a legendary local country singer. Have you ever heard the twangy tunes of Leon Ashley? Leon Ashley was a country western musician and innovator who found success as both a singer and songwriter ... By 1960, he released his first single on Goldband Records ... Brook Benton and Frankie Laine both recorded versions of the hit ... 19, just three years later....

Award-Winning Event App Impresses Judges Internationally CadmiumCD's eventScribe Mobile App Chosen as a Finalist for the Global EvenTex Awards

Edit PR Newswire 26 Feb 2016
FOREST HILL, Md., Feb ... Brooke Benton, one of CadmiumCD's Project Managers, will attend the EvenTex Awards to represent a product that she has put copious amounts of time and effort into day in and day out throughout the transition and launch of all the features associated with the eventScribe App.  . "Working on the mobile app has been an extremely challenging and rewarding experience," said Benton ... For more information ... ....

RIP Sonny James, Who Proved Nice Guys Can Finish First 16 Times in a Row

Edit Huffington Post 23 Feb 2016
Sonny James, who appeared in the classic 1967 movie Hillbillys in a Haunted House, was also one of the most popular and endearing country singers of the late 20th century ... 1 ... Nothing fancy, no dramatic new arrangements ... Some of his hits in that 16-record No. 1 streak included "Since I Met You Baby," from Ivory Joe Hunter, Brook Benton's "It's Just a Matter of Time" and the Jimmy Reed blues classic "Bright Lights, Big City." ... ....

Top 10 Rain Songs

Edit About.com 21 Feb 2016
These are 10 of the best ... Courtesy Atlantic 1.  Brook Benton - "Rainy Night In Georgia" (1970). With the single line, "I believe it's rainin' all over the world," soul legend Brook Benton brings the melancholy spirit of the rain home. This record went to #4 on the pop singles chart in 1970 and was the last of Brook Benton's top 10 pop hits. The song has been covered by a wide range of other artists ... Watch Video ... ....

The 10 Greatest R&B; Hits of 1958

Edit About.com 21 Feb 2016
Then in '58, Brook Benton presented him with this song he'd co-written, and it did the trick, outfitted with the smooth, swinging, slightly countryish style that would launch Brook himself into the mainstream the following year. (Despite the legend, that isn't Benton providing the vocal bass line.) Unfortunately, Clyde would never be ......

The Diamonds: In the Spotlight

Edit About.com 21 Feb 2016
Other members have included Mike Douglas, Evan Fisher, John Felten, and Jim Malone "Little Darlin'" was actually recorded quickly for the b-side of a song called "Faithful and True," which went nowhere Brook Benton taught the group the proper way to sing "The Stroll"Somerville later went on to sing with his other idols, ......

The 10 Greatest R&B; Hits of 1961

Edit About.com 21 Feb 2016
And girls were singing about boys ... 1.  "Blue Moon," The Marcels ... fondly, bur never reverentially ... Yet these two were already giving with the stage patter better than Dinah Washington and Brook Benton, better than even Mickey and Sylvia, arguably, and between his clockwork-tight guitar rhythm and her wailing, which seemed even at 21 to well up from the very center of her being, well, it was hard not to be mightily entertained ... ....

In the Spotlight: Irma Thomas

Edit About.com 21 Feb 2016
Irma Thomas facts and trivia.Early vocal influences included Percy Mayfield, Brook Benton, and Mahalia JacksonKept the name "Thomas" from her second marriage"Wish Someone Would Care" was written by Irma herself about, among other things, her second marriageHer first recording was a version of her high school's alma mater ......

Fats Domino's 10 Biggest Hits

Edit About.com 21 Feb 2016
Even more impressive, Domino scored 37 top 40 hits during his career, most of those coming in one five-year stint between 1956 and 1961, not even counting the dozen top ten R&B hits he'd had before that ... And its popularity may be evergreen ... By the time he did get a chance to drive to the big city, he'd written a song about just that very subject, and, invested with some very Brook Benton-like strings, it was a natural hit ... ....

The 10 Greatest R&B; Hits of 1964

Edit About.com 21 Feb 2016
R&B began the year 1964 as a dead entity, at least as far as Billboard magazine was concerned ... waybackattack.com 1.  "Harlem Shuffle," Bob & Earl ... 2.  "Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um," Major Lance ... 4.  "Out of Sight," James Brown ... Curtis Mayfield was the acceptable face of the new soul movement, delivering his brand of "Chicago soul" by taking the lessons of Brook Benton and the Drifters to heart at the same time ... ....
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