R&B legend Ron Isley says that he knows "right away when it's a special song, if you feel it's going to be a hit song." For more than half a century, Isley has been writing and performing some of ...

Lloyd Price, the R&B singer-songwriter and Rock and Roll Hall ... He later joined the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame and the National Rhythm and Blues Hall of Fame. Kenner celebrates Lloyd Price ...

Hy Weiss, 84, a music executive during rock ‘n’ roll ... after working as a salesman for several small labels that specialized in R&B.; Among Old Town’s biggest hits in the late 1950s ...

Lloyd Price, the ‘50s R&B vocalist ... day music festival in Kinshasa, Zaire, tied to the Muhammad Ali-George Foreman heavyweight championship fight there and headlined by James Brown, B.B ...

In the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, soul and R&B music dominated the charts in America ... He sounds the same way he did in the 50s and 60s, just more seasoned, which blew me away.

stemming all the way from R&B’s invention as a record industry marketing term for popular music made by and promoted to African-Americans back in the 1940s. Rolling through jazz, blues and '50s ...

Bruder was a big fan of old R&B, so he decided to write about a singer, drummer, and bandleader named TNT Tribble, a well-known figure in DC’s bygone music scene ... In the 1940s and early ’50s, there ...

Music journalist Larry LeBlanc, formerly Billboard’s Canadian bureau chief, noted in a 2006 interview that Toronto was “a strong R&B town” in the 50s, 60s and early 70s. Yet, “that scene ...

Let’s test your music knowledge with three ... could be heard afternoons in the ’50s on WAAF 950-AM. The first station to adopt an exclusive R&B format on a daily basis was WBEE in Harvey.

Lloyd Price, the R&B singer-songwriter and Rock and Roll Hall ... He later joined the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame and the National Rhythm and Blues Hall of Fame. Kenner celebrates Lloyd Price ...