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 1950's and 60's Rockers

Kieth Olsen ~ 74 ~ American bassist with 1960's Garage band the Music Machine ("Talk Talk") and later producer w/Rick Springfield, Fleetwood Mac, Ozzy Osbourne, the Grateful Dead, Whitesnake, Pat Benatar, Heart, Santana, Saga, Scorpions, Foreigner, Journey, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Joe Walsh, Eric Burdon, Joe Walsh, the James Gang, Fleetwood Mac, the Babys, Starship, Sammy Hagar, Kim Carnes, 38 Special, Bad Company, Night Ranger, Kingdom Come, Eddie Money

THE MUSIC MACHINE ~ "TALK TALK";


THE MUSIC MACHINE ~ "MASCULINE INTUITION";


THE MUSIC MACHINE ~ "CHERRY CHERRY";


Chris Darrow ~ 75 ~ Singer/Bassist/Mandolinist with 1960's US Psyche band Kaleidoscope and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

KALEIDOSCOPE ~ "LIE TO ME";


Jerry Slick ~ Drummer for San Francisco Psyche band The Great Society (who did the original versions of "Somebody To Love" and "White Rabbit") and husband of Grace Slick

THE GREAT SOCIETY ~ "SOMEBODY TO LOVE";


THE GREAT SOCIETY ~ "WHITE RABBIT";


THE GREAT SOCIETY ~ "FREE ADVICE";


Bo Winberg ~ 80 ~ Guitarist for the 1960's Swedish Instro band the Spotnicks ("Johnny Guitar", "The Rocket Man"

Bob Lander ~ 78 ~ Guitarist w/1960's Swedish Rock band The Spotnicks

THE SPOTNICKS ~ "THE ROCKET MAN";


THE SPOTNICKS ~ "JOHNNY GUITAR";



THE SPOTNICKS ~ "AMAPOLA";


THE SPOTNICKS ~ "SPANISH GYPSY DANCE";


THE SPOTNICKS ~ "LAST ROCKET TRAIN";


Ed Kookie Byrnes ~ 87 ~ American actor ("77 Sunset Strip" & "Grease") who had a 1959 hit novelty song "Kookie Kookie Give Me Your Comb" as a duet with Connie Francis

ED KOOKIE BYRNES & CONNIE FRANCIS ~ "KOOKIE KOOKIE GIVE ME YOUR COMB";


Leslie Cauchi ~ 77 ~ Singer & keyboardist with 1960's Doo Wop groups The Del Satins (w/Dion; "The Wanderer", "Donna The Prima Donna", "Drip Drop") and the Brooklyn Bridge

DION & THE DEL SATINS ~ "DONNA THE PRIMA DONNA";


DION & THE DEL SATINS ~ "THE WANDERER";


DION & THE DEL SATINS ~ "RUNAROUND SUE";


Wayne King ~ bassist for 1960's Louisville Ky band Tommy Cosmo & The Counts and the Uptown Band

COSMO & THE COUNTS ~ "A LITTLE MIXED UP";


COSMO & THE COUNTS ~ "SWEETHEART PLEASE DON'T GO";


Bobby Comstock ~ 78 ~ Singer with 1960's American rock band Bobby Comstock & the Counts ("Tennessee Waltz", "I Wanna Do It", "Let's Stomp")

BOBBY COMSTOCK & THE COUNTS ~ "I WANT TO DO IT";


BOBBY COMSTOCK & THE COUNTS ~ "LET'S STOMP";


Barbara Martin ~ 76 ~ Singer with the original Supremes

THE SUPREMES ~ "HE'S 17";


THE SUPREMES ~ "AFTER ALL";


Phil Phillips ~ 94 ~ 1950's New Orleans R&B singer ("Sea Of Love")

PHIL PHILLIPS ~ "SEA OF LOVE";


Steve Martin Caro 71 ~ Singer with 1960's US pop band The Left Banke ("Walk Away Renee")

Tom Finn ~ 71 ~ Bassist with 1960's Pop band The Left Banke ("Walk Away Renee")



Marty Grebb ~ 74 ~ Keyboardist for American progressive pop band the Buckinghams ("Kind Of A Drag", "Mercy Mercy Mercy", "Susan") and Chicago;

THE BUCKINGHAMS ~ "KIND OF A DRAG";


THE BUCKINGHAMS ~ "DON'T YOU CARE";


THE BUCKINGHAMS ~ "MERCY MERCY MERCY";


Bob Nave ~ 75 ~ Keyboardist with 1960's American Psychedelic band The Lemon Pipers ("My Green Tambourine")

THE LEMON PIPERS ~ "MY GREEN TAMBOURINE";


THE LEMON PIPERS ~ "NO HELP FROM ME";


Simon Posthuma ~ 81 ~ Dutch artist and musician with 1960's Psychedelic Art & Music collective The Fool

THE FOOL;


THE FOOL ~ "WONDERWALL";


THE FOOL ~ "ACTION PAINTING";


Moraes Moreira ~ 72 ~ Guitarist and singer w/Brazilian Folk Rock group Novos Baianos

NOVOS BAIANOS ~ "MISTEREO DO PLANETA";


NOVOS BAIANOS ~ "SAMBA DA MINHAS TERRA";


Barry Mayger ~ 73 ~ Bassist with 1960's British pop band Chicory Tip

CHICORY TIP ~ "SON OF MY FATHER";


Ljiljana Petrović ~ 81 ~ Serbian 1960's pop singer

LJILJANA PETROVIC ~ "NEKE DAVNE ZEDZVE";


Kamit Sanbayev ~ 78 ~ Kazakh singer with USSR 1960's &70's pop group Dos Mukasan

DOS MUKASAN;

Stompin Tom, Reg; The Other Presley, and some other other early Rockers

Reg Presley was the singer for the British Beat group The Troggs who of did the classic hits "Wild Thing", (a massive hit which has since been covered by Jimi Hendrix, X, The Cult, Runaways, Cheap Trick, Divinyls, um...Sam Kinison and lord knows how many other bands), "I Can't Control Myself" and "Love is All Around". He was 71

THE TROGGS ~ "WILD THING";


THE TROGGS ~ "I CAN'T CONTROL MYSELF";


George Shadow Morton ~ Songwriter and Producer with 1960's Girl Group The Shangri-La's with classic hits "The Leader of The Pack" & "(Remember) Walking in the Sand" and later Janis Ian, Vanilla Fudge, Iron Butterfly and The New York Dolls ~ 72

THE SHANGRI-LA'S ~ "THE LEADER OF THE PACK";


VANILLA FUDGE ~ "YOU KEEP ME HANGING ON";


THE NEW YORK DOLLS ~ "PERSONALITY CRISIS";


THE NEW YORK DOLLS ~ "LOOKING FOR A KISS";


Alvin Lee, singer guitarist for Blues Rock super group Ten Years After, best known for their epic performance at Woodstock ~ 68

TEN YEARS AFTER ~ "I'M GOING HOME";


TEN YEARS AFTER ~ "SPOONFUL";


Rick Huxley ~ English bassist with 1960's Beat Band The Dave Clark Five w/ hits like "Glad All Over", "Bits & Pieces" (later covered by Joan Jett), "I Like it Like That", "Catch us if You can" ~ 72

THE DAVE CLARK FIVE ~ "DO YOU LOVE ME" & "GLAD ALL OVER";


THE DAVE CLARK FIVE ~ "BITS AND PIECES";


THE DAVE CLARK FIVE ~ "I LIKE IT LIKE THAT";


Tony Sheridan ~ British 1960's Skiffle and Mersey Beat singer, had The Beatles as his back-up band and did their first recordings ~ 72

TONY SHERIDAN ~ "SHAKE IT SOME MORE";


John Doyle ~ Singer/Guitarist with 1960's Miami Garage Punk band The Evil ~

THE EVIL ~ "FROM A CURBSTONE";


Cecil Womack was one of the Womack Brothers (including Bobby, Harry, Friendly and Curtis) who started out in Cleveland as a Gospel group and were discovered by Sam Cooke who signed them to his S.A.R. Record label in 1961 renamed as The Valentinos. They recorded the original version of "It's All Over Now" which was later covered by The Rolling Stones. After Cooke's death in 1964 S.A.R Records folded and Bobby Womack left the group and married Cooke's widow which created some outrage from Cooke's fans. The remaining brothers kept the band together and signed to Chess Records and recorded a few singles which failed to chart. They then signed to Jubilee Records with no greater success. The Valentinos broke up when Henry Womack was stabbed to death by his girlfriend. The renaming brothers became backup singers for their by no more successful brother Bobby's solo career.

THE VALENTINOS ~ "IT'S ALL OVER NOW";


Deke Richards ~ Songwriter and Producer for Motown. Wrote hits like "Love Child" for The Supremes and produced songs like "I Want You Back" and "ABC" for The Jackson 5 ~ 68

THE SUPREMES ~ "LOVE CHILD";


Bluesman Magic Slim was a cousin of the great Magic Sam, he would go on to record several respected albums for Alligator Records died at 75

MAGIC SLIM & THE TEARDROPS ~ "LET ME LOVE YOU BABY";


And of course Stompin Tom Connors, the legendary Canadian Folk/Country singer died at 77. It's been a little hard for Canadians to explain to Americans exactly what made Stompin Tom such an icon. Or even to come up with a real comparison. Woody Guthrie? Sort of, both were working man's troubadours and champions of a nationalism that was never right wing or racist. Johnny Cash? Both wore black and both were coolly charismatic. But Connors had a goofy sense of humour that Guthrie and Cash would have found undignified. The closest I can come up with is Guthrie as done by Lonnie Donnegan.

STOMPIN TOM CONNORS ~ "BUD THE SPUD";


STOMPIN TOM CONNORS ~ "MARGO'S GOT THE CARGO";