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Gerri Hall
Gerri Hall (born August 2, 1934Encyclopedia of Louisiana Musicians-Jazz, Blues, Cajun, Creole, Zydeco, Swamp Pop, and Gospel, Author: Gene Tomko, LSU Press, March 2020) is an American R&B singer known for her works with Huey "Piano" Smith and the Clowns. Life and career Gerri Hall was born Erdine Bouise in New Orleans, Louisiana. An African, Spanish, and American Indian descent, Hall was a big fan of comedian Jerry Lewis from whom she named herself after.Huey "Piano" Smith And The Rocking Pneumonia Blues, Author: John Wirt, LSU Press, 2014, P. 60 Her surname Hall comes from her ex-husband, who was the brother of Rosemary Hall Domino, the wife of Fats Domino. Hall was working as a waitress at the famed club Dew Drop Inn where she met Huey Smith and Bobby Marchan. They invited her to join the Clowns in 1957. From then on, Hall served as one of the key members of the golden days of the Clowns singing on songs including “Don’t You Just Know It”. She also recorded with Hu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Orleans, Louisiana
New Orleans ( , ,New Orleans . ; french: La Nouvelle-Orléans , es, Nueva Orleans) is a consolidated city-parish located along the in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of . With a population of 383,997 accord ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Raelettes
The Raelettes (or occasionally The Raelets or The Raeletts) were an American girl group formed in 1958 to provide backing vocals for Ray Charles. They were reformed from the group The Cookies. Between 1966 and 1973, the Raelettes recorded on Tangerine Records as a separate act produced and accompanied by Charles. History Reformed by Ray Charles from the all-girl singing group The Cookies, Charles first invited The Cookies for a recording session in New York City, in August 1956, where they taped "Lonely Avenue", "I Want To Know" and "Leave My Woman Alone". The Cookies' lineup at the time consisted of Margie Hendrix, Dorothy Jones, and Darlene McCrea. The Raelettes were officially established in 1958. The first lineup consisted of Darlene McCrea, Margie Hendricks, Patricia Lyles, and Gwendolyn Berry. The Raelettes were an integral part of Charles' organization and provided backing vocals on various hits, such as " Night Time Is the Right Time" (1958), " What'd I Say" (1959) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ace Records (United States) Artists
An ace is a playing card. Ace(s), ACE(S) and variants may also refer to: Places * Ace, ancient name of Acre, Israel * Ace, Texas, United States, an unincorporated community * ACE Basin, the estuaries of the Ashepoo, Combahee and Edisto Rivers in South Carolina, United States * Aces (parish), Candamo, Spain * Aces (river), a river of Asia People and fictional characters * Ace (name), includes people and fictional characters with the given name, nickname, surname, ring name or stage name * Ace (musician), guitarist with Skunk Anansie * Warren Furman, Ace from ''Gladiators'' Arts, entertainment, and media Awards * ACE Awards (Award for Cable Excellence) * New York Latin ACE Awards, an award for Latino achievement in entertainment Comics * ''Ace Comics'', a 1937-1959 comic book series * Ace Magazines (comics), a 1940-1956 a comic-book and pulp-magazine publishing company Music Groups * Ace (band), a 1970s British rock group * A.C.E (South Korean band), a South Korean boy group ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
Related categories * :Year of birth missing (living people) / :Year of birth unknown * :Date of birth missing (living people) / :Date of birth unknown * :Place of birth missing (living people) / :Place of birth unknown * :Year of death missing / :Year of death unknown * :Date of death missing / :Date of death unknown * :Place of death missing / :Place of death unknown * :Missing middle or first names See also * :Dead people * :Template:L, which generates this category or death years, and birth year and sort keys. : {{DEFAULTSORT:Living people 21st-century people People by status ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhythm And Blues Musicians From New Orleans
Rhythm (from Greek , ''rhythmos'', "any regular recurring motion, symmetry") generally means a " movement marked by the regulated succession of strong and weak elements, or of opposite or different conditions". This general meaning of regular recurrence or pattern in time can apply to a wide variety of cyclical natural phenomena having a periodicity or frequency of anything from microseconds to several seconds (as with the riff in a rock music song); to several minutes or hours, or, at the most extreme, even over many years. Rhythm is related to and distinguished from pulse, meter, and beats: In the performance arts, rhythm is the timing of events on a human scale; of musical sounds and silences that occur over time, of the steps of a dance, or the meter of spoken language and poetry. In some performing arts, such as hip hop music, the rhythmic delivery of the lyrics is one of the most important elements of the style. Rhythm may also refer to visual presentation, as "timed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1998 In Music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1998. Specific locations *1998 in British music * 1998 in Norwegian music *1998 in South Korean music Specific genres * 1998 in classical music *1998 in country music *1998 in heavy metal music * 1998 in hip hop music *1998 in Latin music *1998 in jazz Events January *January 28 **Interscope Records pays a radio station in Portland, Oregon, USA, $5000 to play the Limp Bizkit single "Counterfeit" fifty times. The business move is widely criticized in the media as "payola", but the controversy serves to further increase publicity for the band. **"Weird Al" Yankovic gets LASIK surgery to cure his myopia. At the same time, he grows out his hair and shaves off his moustache, radically changing his signature look. **Namie Amuro's first greatest hits album, ''181920,'' is released. *January 31 – The Presidents of the United States of America play a farewell show in their hometown of Seattle. They would reunit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1963 In Music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1963. Specific locations *1963 in British music *1963 in Norwegian music Specific genres * 1963 in country music *1963 in jazz Events * January 3 – The Beatles begin their first tour of 1963 with a five-day tour in Scotland to support the release of their new single, " Love Me Do", beginning with a performance in Elgin. *January 4 – At Cortina d'Ampezzo in Italy, Dalida receives a Juke Box Global Oscar for the year's most-played artist on jukeboxes. * January 7 – Gary U.S. Bonds files a $100,000 lawsuit against Chubby Checker, claiming that Checker stole "Quarter to Three" and turned it into "Dancin' Party." The lawsuit is later settled out of court. *January 11 – " Please Please Me" is released in the United Kingdom by the Beatles, with " Ask Me Why" as the B-side. *January 12 – Bob Dylan portrays a folk singer in ''The Madhouse of Castle Street'', a radio play for the BBC in London. *February ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1962 In Music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1962. Specific locations * 1962 in British music *1962 in Norwegian music Specific genres *1962 in country music * 1962 in jazz Events *January 1 – The Beatles and Brian Poole and the Tremeloes both audition at Decca Records in London which has the option of signing one group only. The Beatles are rejected, mainly as they come from Liverpool and the others are Dagenham-based, nearer London. *January 5 – The first album on which The Beatles play, '' My Bonnie'', credited to "Tony Sheridan and the Beat Brothers" (recorded last June in Hamburg and produced by Bert Kaempfert), is released by Polydor. *January 24 – Brian Epstein signs on to manage The Beatles. *February 16 – Conductor Bruno Walter, the day before his death, ends his last letter with: ''"Despite all the dark experiences of today I am still confident that ''Palestrina'' will remain. The work has all the elements of immortality"''. *March 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1959 In Music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1959. Specific locations *1959 in British music *1959 in Norwegian music Specific genres *1959 in country music * 1959 in jazz Events *January 5 – The first sessions for Ella Fitzgerald's '' George and Ira Gershwin Songbook'' are held. *January 12 – Tamla Records is founded by Berry Gordy Jr. in Detroit, Michigan. *January 22 – Buddy Holly records some acoustic demos in his New York City apartment, the last songs he will record. Songs included "Peggy Sue Got Married", "Crying, Waiting, Hoping", "Learning the Game", "What to Do", "That's What They Say", and "That Makes It Tough." *January 29 – The first Melodifestivalen, an annual Swedish music competition that determines the country's representative for the Eurovision Song Contest, is held in Stockholm. *February 3 – " The Day the Music Died": Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper are killed in a plane crash in Iowa. Future country sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1958 In Music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1958. Specific locations * 1958 in British music * 1958 in Norwegian music Specific genres *1958 in country music *1958 in jazz Events * January – Maria Callas, due to open the Rome Opera House season with ''Norma'' with Italy's president, Giovanni Gronchi, in the audience, cancels after the first act because of voice problems. * January 24 – Paul McCartney makes his first appearance at The Cavern Club in Liverpool with The Quarrymen. * February – 45,000 people in one week watch performances of " rokabirī" music by Japanese singers at the first Nichigeki Western Carnival. * February 14 – The Iranian government bans rock & roll, claiming that this form of music is against the concepts of Islam and is a health hazard. Iranian doctors warn of the risk of injuries to the hips from the "extreme gyrations" of rock & roll dances. * February 19 ** An American singer-songwriter Carl Perkins left Sun Rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2011 In Music
This topic covers notable events and articles related to 2011 in music. Specific locations *2011 in American music *2011 in Asian music *2011 in British music *2011 in Canadian music *2011 in European music ( Continental Europe) *2011 in Irish music *2011 in Japanese music *2011 in Norwegian music * 2011 in South Korean music *2011 in Swedish music Specific genres *2011 in classical music *2011 in country music *2011 in heavy metal music *2011 in hip hop music * 2011 in jazz *2011 in Latin music *2011 in opera *2011 in rock music Albums released Deaths ; January * 29 – Milton Babbitt (94), American jazz composer, music theorist, and teacher. ; February * 3 – Eline Nygaard Riisnæs (87), Norwegian pianist and musicologist. * 14 – George Shearing (91), British jazz pianist. * 22 – Beau Dollar (69), American soul-R&B singer and drummer. ;March * 29 – Ray Herr (63), American rock guitarist ( The Ides of March). ; April * 10 – Børt-Erik Thoresen (79), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
