"Hall of Fame, which is a special Grammy award established in 1973 to honor recordings that are at least twenty-five years old, and that have ""qualitative or historical significance."" The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame listed a song of Dinah Washington as one of the songs that shaped rock and roll. Dinah Washington Dinah Washington (born Ruth Lee Jones; August 29, 1924 – December 14, 1963) was an American singer and pianist, who has been cited as ""the most popular black female recording artist of the '50s"". Primarily a jazz vocalist, she performed and recorded in a wide variety"
"Louis (Blues Boy) Jones Louis Prince Jones, Jr. (April 28, 1931 – June 27, 1984), credited as Louis Jones or Louis (Blues Boy) Jones, was an American R&B singer, songwriter and musician who recorded in the 1950s and 1960s. He was born in Galveston, Texas, the son of Rebecca Prince Jackson and Louis Jones, Sr. He began singing with his mother in their church choir, and learned to play piano and drums. After attending Central High School in Galveston, he served as a medic with the US Army during the Korean war under the name Louis Prince, and worked as"
"are rumors that the cause of death was brain aneurysm but there has been no confirmation of that from either the police or the family or reps of Patty's. Patricia Darcy Jones Patricia Darcy Jones (April 2, 1953 – June 16, 2007) was an American rock singer, vocalist and Broadway actress. Patty's dynamic voice led her career spanning from singing at the Paper Moon Cabaret in Greenwich Village to backup singer for Cher as well as singing with artists: Petula Clark, Joe Cocker, Billy Joel, Tom Jones, Darlene Love, Rusty Magee, Melissa Manchester, Bette Midler, Olivia Newton-John, Robert Plant, Todd"
"on January 22, 2007, at the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, New York. Brown is buried at Roosevelt Memorial Park, Chesapeake City, Virginia. Ruth Brown Ruth Alston Brown (née Weston, January 12, 1928 – November 17, 2006) was an American singer-songwriter and actress, sometimes known as the ""Queen of R&B"". She was noted for bringing a pop music style to R&B music in a series of hit songs for Atlantic Records in the 1950s, such as ""So Long"", ""Teardrops from My Eyes"" and ""(Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean"". For these contributions, Atlantic became known as ""the house that Ruth"
"Rickie Lee Jones Rickie Lee Jones (born November 8, 1954) is an American vocalist, musician, songwriter, producer, actress and narrator. Over the course of a career that spans five decades, Jones has recorded in various musical styles including rock, R&B, blues, pop, soul, and jazz. Jones is a two-time Grammy Award winner. Additionally, she was listed at number 30 on VH1's 100 Greatest Women in Rock & Roll in 1999. Her album ""Pirates"" was number 49 on NPR's list of the 150 Greatest Albums Made by Women. Jones was born the third of four children to Richard and Bettye Jones,"
"Lee Morse Lena Corinne ""Lee"" Morse (November 30, 1897 – December 16, 1954) was an American jazz and blues singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress. Morse's greatest popularity was in the 1920s and early 1930s as a torch singer, although her career began around 1917 and continued until her death in 1954. Morse was known for her strong, deep singing voice and vocal range, which often belied her petite frame. She possessed a contralto vocal range, and one of her trademarks was her unique style of yodeling. Recording over 200 songs over her career, Morse was one of the most recorded female"
"Ruth Brown Ruth Alston Brown (née Weston, January 12, 1928 – November 17, 2006) was an American singer-songwriter and actress, sometimes known as the ""Queen of R&B"". She was noted for bringing a pop music style to R&B music in a series of hit songs for Atlantic Records in the 1950s, such as ""So Long"", ""Teardrops from My Eyes"" and ""(Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean"". For these contributions, Atlantic became known as ""the house that Ruth built"" (alluding to the popular nickname for the old Yankee Stadium). Following a resurgence that began in the mid-1970s and peaked in the"
"Betty Carter Betty Carter (born Lillie Mae Jones; May 16, 1929 – September 26, 1998) was an American jazz singer known for her improvisational technique, scatting and other complex musical abilities that demonstrated her vocal talent and imaginative interpretation of lyrics and melodies. Vocalist Carmen McRae once remarked: ""There's really only one jazz singer—only one: Betty Carter."" Carter was born in Flint, Michigan, and grew up in Detroit, where her father, James Jones, was the musical director of a Detroit church and her mother, Bessie, was a housewife. As a child, Carter was raised to be extremely independent and to"
"Jack Jones (singer) John Allan Jones (born January 14, 1938) known professionally as Jack Jones, is an American actor and jazz and pop singer, popular during the 1960s. He is the son of actor/singer Allan Jones and actress Irene Hervey. Jones is primarily a straight-pop singer (even when he recorded contemporary material) whose ventures in the direction of jazz are mostly of the big band/swing variety. Jones has won two Grammy Awards. He continues to perform concerts around the world and remains popular in Las Vegas. Jones is widely known for his recordings of ""Wives and Lovers"" (1964 Grammy Award,"
"Peggy Jones (musician) Peggy Jones or Peggy Malone (married name) (July 19, 1940 – September 16, 2015), known on stage as Lady Bo in recognition of her relationship with Bo Diddley, was an American musician. A pioneer of rock and roll, Jones played rhythm guitar in Bo Diddley's band in the late 1950s and early 1960s, becoming one of the first (perhaps ""the"" first) female rock guitarists in a highly visible rock band, and was sometimes called the ""Queen Mother of Guitar"". Born in Harlem, New York City, in 1940, Jones grew up in the Sugar Hill section, and attended"
"Ruth Etting Ruth Etting (November 23, 1897 – September 24, 1978) was an American singing star and actress of the 1920s and 1930s, who had over 60 hit recordings and worked in stage, radio, and film. Known as ""America's sweetheart of song"", her signature tunes were ""Shine On, Harvest Moon"", ""Ten Cents a Dance"" and ""Love Me or Leave Me"". Her other popular recordings included ""Button Up Your Overcoat"", ""Mean to Me"", ""Exactly Like You"" and ""Shaking the Blues Away"". As a young girl in Nebraska, Etting had wanted to be an artist; she drew and sketched everywhere she was"
"Puma Jones Sandra ""Puma"" Jones (October 5, 1953—January 28, 1990) was an American singer, best known as a member of the Grammy Award-winning reggae group Black Uhuru. Born in Columbia, South Carolina, Jones graduated from Columbia University with a masters degree and served as a social worker in New York City. She studied dance with the Chuck Davis troupe where she took a particular interest in African dance. After becoming disillusioned with city life she declared a need to ""discover her roots"" and moved to Jamaica. Deciding to build a singing career, Jones briefly sang with Miriam Makeba (then using"
"1953, one commentator noted that Grant and Wilson had moved from New York to Los Angeles and were in financial hardship. According to blues archivists Bob Eagle and Eric LeBlanc, Grant (Leola B. Johnson) died in Riverside County, California, in 1970, aged 77. Her entire recorded work, with and without Wilson, was issued in three volumes by Document Records in 1988. Coot Grant Coot Grant (June 11 or 17, 1893 – December 26, 1970) was an American classic female blues, country blues, and vaudeville singer and songwriter. On her own and with her husband and musical partner, Wesley ""Kid"" Wilson,"
"Ruth Terry Ruth Mae Terry (born Ruth Mae McMahon, October 21, 1920 – March 11, 2016) was an American singer and actress in film and television from the 1930s to the 1960s. She claimed her stage name came from Walter Winchell, who combined the names of two then-famous baseball players, Babe Ruth and Bill Terry. Terry was born in Benton Harbor, Michigan, the daughter of Irish-American parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. E. McMahon. She attended St John's Catholic School in Benton Harbor. Terry won a number of prizes for singing before singing with the Paul Ash Theater Orchestra at the"
"1985, aged 62, in Richmond, Virginia, having moved there in 1974. Muriel Smith (singer) Muriel Burrell Smith (February 23, 1923 – September 13, 1985) was an American singer. In the 1940s and 1950s, she was a star of musical theater and opera, and was also the off-film ghost singer in several hit movies. She is perhaps best known in the UK for her 1953 #3 hit single, ""Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me"", which was first covered in 1965 by Mel Carter (and which remains a staple of easy listening and oldies radio to this day) and later in 1994"
"Lil Green Lil Green (December 22, 1919 (some sources give 1901 or 1910) – April 14, 1954) was an American blues singer and songwriter. She was among the leading female rhythm and blues singers of the 1940s, with a sensual soprano voice, she possessed with an ability to bring power to ordinary material and compose superior songs of her own, with gospel singer R.H. Harris, lauding her beautiful voice, and her interpretation of religious songs Originally named Lillian Green or Lillie May Johnson, she was born in Mississippi. After the early deaths of her parents, she begain performing in her"
"in 1951, but she was already in poor health. She died of pneumonia in Chicago in 1954 and is buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, in Gary, Indiana. Lil Green Lil Green (December 22, 1919 (some sources give 1901 or 1910) – April 14, 1954) was an American blues singer and songwriter. She was among the leading female rhythm and blues singers of the 1940s, with a sensual soprano voice, she possessed with an ability to bring power to ordinary material and compose superior songs of her own, with gospel singer R.H. Harris, lauding her beautiful voice, and her interpretation of"
"the University of Southern California, focusing on pottery and beads of early southwestern Americans. Rhodes died on December 27, 2011, at the age of 90. Betty Jane Rhodes Betty Jane Rhodes (April 21, 1921 – December 27, 2011) was an American actress and singer, most active in film during the late 1930s and the World War II era. She was also known as Jane Rhodes. Rhodes was born in Rockford, Illinois, on April 21, 1921. She began her broadcasting career when she was just eight years old. Before Rhodes appeared on screen, she worked in films as a ghost singer"
"complications of pneumonia, aged 87. † Ruby Murray with Anne Warren Ruby Murray Ruby Florence Murray (29 March 1935 – 17 December 1996) was a Northern Irish singer and actress. One of the most popular singers in the British Isles in the 1950s, she scored ten hits in the UK Singles Chart between 1954 and 1959. She also made pop chart history in March 1955 by having five singles in the Top Twenty in a single week. Ruby Florence Murray was born on Donegall Road in south Belfast, Northern Ireland, the youngest child in a Protestant family. Her voice's distinctive"
"Patricia Darcy Jones Patricia Darcy Jones (April 2, 1953 – June 16, 2007) was an American rock singer, vocalist and Broadway actress. Patty's dynamic voice led her career spanning from singing at the Paper Moon Cabaret in Greenwich Village to backup singer for Cher as well as singing with artists: Petula Clark, Joe Cocker, Billy Joel, Tom Jones, Darlene Love, Rusty Magee, Melissa Manchester, Bette Midler, Olivia Newton-John, Robert Plant, Todd Rundgren, Ronnie Spector, Styx and The Young Rascals. On November 13, 1987 she appeared on Late Night with David Letterman in the iconic reunion of ""Sonny and Cher"" singing"
"Helen Grayco Helen Grayco (born Helen Greco; September 20, 1924) is an American singer, performer, and actress active from the 1930s to the 1960s. She was most famous for appearances with her husband Spike Jones on ""The Spike Jones Show"" in the 1950s and the 1960s. She is also the mother of actor and producer Spike Jones, Jr. and Leslie Ann Jones, a Grammy award-winning recording engineer. Grayco was born Helen Greco on September 20, 1924 in Tacoma, Washington. She was the tenth of eleven children born to parents Battiste and Rosina ""Rose"" Greco. She had five brothers; John, Ralph,"
"Pat Boone Charles Eugene ""Pat"" Boone (born June 1, 1934) is an American singer, composer, actor, writer, television personality, motivational speaker, and spokesman. He was a successful pop singer in the United States during the 1950s and early 1960s. He sold more than 45 million records, had 38 top-40 hits, and appeared in more than 12 Hollywood films. According to ""Billboard"", Boone was the second-biggest charting artist of the late 1950s, behind only Elvis Presley, and was ranked at No. 9 in its listing of the Top 100 Top 40 Artists 1955–1995. Until the 2010s, Boone held the ""Billboard"" record"
"election. Terry died on March 11, 2016 at the age of 95. Ruth Terry Ruth Mae Terry (born Ruth Mae McMahon, October 21, 1920 – March 11, 2016) was an American singer and actress in film and television from the 1930s to the 1960s. She claimed her stage name came from Walter Winchell, who combined the names of two then-famous baseball players, Babe Ruth and Bill Terry. Terry was born in Benton Harbor, Michigan, the daughter of Irish-American parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. E. McMahon. She attended St John's Catholic School in Benton Harbor. Terry won a number of prizes"
"Ruby Wilson Ruby Wilson (February 29, 1948 – August 12, 2016) was an American blues and gospel singer and actress. She was known as ""The Queen of Beale Street"" as she sang in clubs on Beale Street, Memphis, Tennessee, for over 40 years. She also had a successful touring and recording career, and appeared in a number of films. Wilson was born in Fort Worth, Texas, United States, the youngest in a family of six children. Her mother was a maid, her father was self-employed, and Wilson grew up picking and chopping cotton - work she later described as hot"
"ended in divorce. Her second husband, Lawrence Brown, left her after her accident in 1962. Her third marriage to professional baseball player Chet Kehn lasted from 1965 until his death in 1984. Susan Johnson-Kehn died of emphysema in 2003 in Sacramento, California, aged 75. Susan Johnson (actress) Susan Johnson (July 6, 1927 – February 24, 2003), also known as Susan Johnson-Kehn, was an American actress and singer. She is most well known for her Broadway performances during the 1950s, but also appeared in several films and television shows. Susan Johnson was born as Marilyn Jeanne Johnson in Columbus, Ohio. She"
"of cancer in 1992, aged 44. In 1969 she married the show business millionaire Harold Davison, after which she retired. She died at age 67 in Boca Raton, Florida, United States. Marion Ryan Marion Ryan (4 February 1931 – 15 January 1999) was a popular British singer in the 1950s. Born in Middlesbrough, North Riding of Yorkshire, England, she attended Notre Dame Collegiate School for Girls in Leeds, now Notre Dame Catholic Sixth Form College. She was once called ""the Marilyn Monroe of popular song"", Marion Ryan was a pop singer of the 1950s in the early years of British"
"Los Angeles with him when he opened a restaurant called Gatsby's in L.A. Rosen died in 2002. Helen Grayco Helen Grayco (born Helen Greco; September 20, 1924) is an American singer, performer, and actress active from the 1930s to the 1960s. She was most famous for appearances with her husband Spike Jones on ""The Spike Jones Show"" in the 1950s and the 1960s. She is also the mother of actor and producer Spike Jones, Jr. and Leslie Ann Jones, a Grammy award-winning recording engineer. Grayco was born Helen Greco on September 20, 1924 in Tacoma, Washington. She was the tenth"
"Kay Starr Katherine Laverne Starks (July 21, 1922November 3, 2016), known professionally as Kay Starr, was an American pop and jazz singer who enjoyed considerable success in the late 1940s and 1950s. She is best remembered for introducing two songs that became No. 1 hits ""Wheel of Fortune"" in 1951 and ""(The) Rock and Roll Waltz"" in 1955. Starr was successful in every field of music she tried, such as jazz, pop, and country; but her roots were in jazz. Billie Holiday called her ""the only white woman who could sing the blues."" Kay Starr was born Katherine Laverne Starks"
"George Jones George Glenn Jones (September 12, 1931 – April 26, 2013) was an American musician, singer and songwriter. He achieved international fame for his long list of hit records, including his best known song ""He Stopped Loving Her Today"", as well as his distinctive voice and phrasing. For the last twenty years of his life, Jones was frequently referred to as the greatest living country singer. Country music scholar Bill Malone writes, ""For the two or three minutes consumed by a song, Jones immerses himself so completely in its lyrics, and in the mood it conveys, that the listener"
"singer Olafunke. Jones returned to the United States for treatment and died at age 36 on January 28, 1990. She was buried near her family home in South Carolina. Puma Jones Sandra ""Puma"" Jones (October 5, 1953—January 28, 1990) was an American singer, best known as a member of the Grammy Award-winning reggae group Black Uhuru. Born in Columbia, South Carolina, Jones graduated from Columbia University with a masters degree and served as a social worker in New York City. She studied dance with the Chuck Davis troupe where she took a particular interest in African dance. After becoming disillusioned"
"Lula Reed Lula Reed (born Lula Marietta McClelland, March 21, 1926 – June 21, 2008) was an American rhythm and blues and gospel singer who recorded in the 1950s and 1960s. She had two R&B hits in 1952 as vocalist with pianist and bandleader Sonny Thompson, and later recorded with guitarist Freddy King. She was occasionally credited as Lulu Reed. Reed was born in Mingo Junction, Jefferson County, Ohio. As a child her family moved to Port Clinton, Ohio, where she sang in her local church choir. She was mentored by blind gospel singer Professor Harold Boggs, before winning an"
"Patti Page Clara Ann Fowler (November 8, 1927 – January 1, 2013), known by her stage name Patti Page, was an American singer of pop and country music. She was the top-charting female vocalist and best-selling female artist of the 1950s, selling over 100 million records during a six-decade long career. She was often introduced as ""the Singin' Rage, Miss Patti Page"". New York WNEW disc-jockey William B. Williams introduced her as ""A Page in my life called Patti"". Page signed with Mercury Records in 1947, and became their first successful female artist, starting with 1948's ""Confess"". In 1950, she"
"Rusty Draper Farrell Haliday ""Rusty"" Draper (January 25, 1923 – March 28, 2003) was an American country and pop singer who achieved his greatest success in the 1950s. Born in Kirksville, Missouri and nicknamed ""Rusty"" for his red hair, he began performing on his uncle's radio show in Tulsa, Oklahoma in the mid-1930s. Draper moved on to work at radio stations in Des Moines, Iowa—sometimes filling in for sports announcer Ronald Reagan—and in Illinois before settling in California. There he began to sing in local clubs, becoming resident singer at the Rumpus Room in San Francisco. By the early 1950s"