Some Blues, Soul & R&B Figures From The 50's, 60's & 70's

Mary Wilson - 76 - Detroit singer with 1960's & 70's Soul group the Supremes ("Stop In The Name Of Love", "Where Did Our Love Go")

THE SUPREMES ~ "STOP IN THE NAME OF LOVE";


THE SUPREMES ~ "WHERE DID OUR LOVE GO";


THE SUPREMES ~ "BABY LOVE";


THE SUPREMES ~ "COME SEE ABOUT ME";


Lloyd Price ~ 88 ~ American 1950's & 60's R&B singer ("Personality", "Lawdy Miss Clawdy", "Stagger Lee")

LLOYD PRICE ~ "PERSONALITY"


LLOYD PRICE & LITTLE RICHARD ~ "LAWDY MISS CLAWDY";


Charles Connor ~ 86 ~ Drummer with Little Richard ("Tutti Frutti", "Keep A Knocking"), James Brown, Smiley Lewis, Jack Dupree, Shirley and Lee, Sam Cooke, Jackie Wilson, The Coasters, Big Joe Turner, Larry Williams, Don Covay, Dee Clark and The Upsetters

LITTLE RICHARD ~ "TUTTI FRUTTI";


LITTLE RICHARD ~ "KEEP A KNOCKING";


Pee Wee Ellis ~ 80 ~ American R&B sax player with James Brown, also Van Morrison, Maceo Parker, George Benson, Ginger Baker, Jack McDuff, Sonny Stitt, Shirley Scott, Leon Thomas

JAMES BROWN ~ "PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE";


JAMES BROWN ~ "NIGHT TRAIN";


Nolan Porter ~ 68 ~ American Soul singer "Keep On Keeping On";

NOLAN PORTER ~ "KEEP ON KEEPING ON";


Purvis Staples ~ 85 ~ Singer with the Staple Singers from the 1960's onward

THE STAPLES SINGERS ~ "GREAT DAY";


THE STAPLE SINGERS ~ "SIT DOWN SERVANT";


THE STAPLE SINGERS ~ "PRAY ON";


THE STAPLE SINGERS ~ "RESPECT YOURSELF";


Sarah Dash ~ 76 ~ American singer w/Labelle "Lady Marmalade";

LABELLE ~ "LADY MARMALADE";


LABELLE ~ "YOU TURN ME ON";


Ralph Tavares - 79 - Singer with 1970's R&B group Tavares ("Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel")

TAVARES ~ "HEAVEN MUST BE MISSING AN ANGEL";


Ronnie Wilson - 73 - Keyboard & horn player with R&B The Gap Band

THE GAP BAND ~ "YOU DROPPED A BOMB ON ME";


THE GAP BAND ~ "PARTY TRAIN";


Regi Hargis - 70 - Singer, guitarist & bassist with 1970's American band Brick

BRICK ~ "DAZZ";


Morris "B.B." Dickerson ~ 71 ~ Bassist and singer with Eric Burdon & War ("Low Rider", "Spill The Wine" "Why Can't We Be Friends")

WAR ~ "SPILL THE WIND";


WAR ~ "LOW RIDER";


WAR ~ "WHY CAN'T WE BE FRIENDS"


Dennis Thomas ~ 70 ~ Saxophonist with 1970's & 80's R&B band Kool & the Gang ("Celebrate")

KOOL & THE GANG ~ "GET DOWN ON IT";


KOOL & THE GANG ~ "CELEBRATE";


Paul Mitchell ~ Singer with 1970's Soul vocal group the Floaters ("Float On")

THE FLOATERS ~ "FLOAT ON";


Grady Gaines ~ 86 ~ R&B Saxman w/The Texas Upsetters, Little Richard, Sam Cooke, Jackie Wilson, Joe Tex, Gatemouth Brown, Curtis Mayfield, Little Willie John, James Brown, Dee Clark, Big Walter Price, Joe Hughes

BUDDY & STACEY WITH THE UPSETTERS ~ "SHOT GUN";


GRADY GAINES & THE TEXAS UPSETTERS ~ "FULL GAIN";


James Burke - 70 - Singer from 1960's American Soul group Five Stairsteps ("Oh Child")

THE FIVE STAIRSTEPS ~ "DANGER SHE'S A STRANGER";


THE FIVE STAIRSTEPS ~ "OH CHILD";


Joe Simon - 85 - American soul and R&B singer ("The Chokin' Kind", "Get Down, Get Down (Get on the Floor)", "Power of Love")

JOE SIMON ~ "POWER OF LOVE";


JOE SIMON ~ "GOING THROUGH THESE CHANGES";


Willie Winfield - 91 - Singer with American Doo-Wop group The Harptones

THE HARPTONES ~ "THAT'S THE WAY IT GOES";


John Dee Holeman ~ 92 ~ American Piedmont blues guitarist, singer and

JOHN DEE HOLMAN & ALGIA MAE ~ "CROW JANE";


JOHN DEE HOLMAN ~ "ONE BLACK RAT";

Some 1970's & 80's R&B and Jazz Figures

Jerry Lawson ~ 75 ~ American singer with Doo-Wop group the Persuasions from the late sixties onward

THE PERSUASIONS ~ "UP ON THE ROOF";


THE PERSUASIONS ~ "DOO WOP MEDLEY";


Art Neville - 81 - New Orleans singer-songwriter and keyboardist w/The Meters & The Neville Brothers

THE NEVILLE BROS ~ "FLY LIKE AN EAGLE";


THE NEVILLE BROS ~ "EVERYBODY PLAYS THE FOOL";


Frankie Smith ~ 66 ~ American 1980's funk and R&B musician "Double Dutch Bus"

FRANKIE SMITH ~ "DOUBLE DUTCH BUS";



Lonnie Simmons ~ 70s ~ American record producer, founder of Total Experience Records (The Gap Band)

THE GAP BAND ~ "YOU DROPPED A BOMB ON ME"



Chuck Barksale ~ Singer with vocal group the Dells;

THE DELLS ~ "WICHITA LINEMAN";


THE DELLS ~ "OH WHAT A NIGHT";


Willie Ford ~ Singer with the Dramatics;

THE DRAMATICS ~ "IN THE RAIN";


THE DRAMATICS ~ "WHATCHA SEE IS WHAT YOUNG GET";


John Gary Williams ~ Singer with the Mad Lads;

THE MAD LADS ~ "COME CLOSER TO ME";



James Ingram ~ 66 ~ American 1980's Grammy winning R&B singer-songwriter ("Baby, Come to Me", "I Don't Have the Heart", "Yah Mo B There")


JAMES INGRAM & LINDA RONSTADT ~ "SOMEWHERE OUT THERE";



Harold Mabern ~ 83 ~ American jazz pianist and composer solo and with Roland Kirk, the Jazztet, George Coleman, Art Farmer, Jimmy Heath, Lee Morgan, Wes Montgomery, Jackie McLean, Gene Ammons, Stanley Turrentine, George Benson, Tiny Grimes

GEORGE COLEMAN OCTET w/ HAROLD MABERN ~ "WALTZING WESTWARD"


Edwin Birdsong ~ 77 ~ American 1970's & 80's funk keyboardist

EDWIN BIRDSONG ~ "NIGHT OF THE FULL MOON";



Joseph Jarman ~ 81 ~ American Jazz sax and clarinetist with the Art Ensemble of Chicago;

THE ART ENSEMBLE OF CHICAGO & CECIL TAYLOR;



Jack Sheldon; Jazz trumpeter w/Stan Kenton, Art Pepper and Gerry Mulligan and the voice of the "Schoolhouse Rocks" toons "I'm Just A Bill" and "Conjunction Junction"

SCHOOLHOUSE ROCKS ~ "I'M JUST A BILL";


SCHOOLHOUSE ROCKS ~ "CONJUNCTION FUNCTION";


Davey Williams - 66 - American avant-garde Jazz guitarist (Curlew) and music critic

CURLEW ~ "ST CROIX";



Irv Williams ~ 100 ~ American Big Band Jazz sax and clarinet player w/Ella Fitzgerald, Fletcher Henderson, Mary Lou Williams, Billy Eckstine, Sarah Vaughan, Dizzy Gillespie, Johnny Hodges and as band leader from the 1940's onward

IRV WILLIAMS;


Vic Vogel ~ 84 ~ Hungarian born Montreal Jazz pianist, composer and conductor from the 1960's onward also recorded with Prog-Fusion band Offenbach

OFFENBACH & VIC VOGEL ~ "GEORGIA ON MY MIND";