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The Inaugural Rhythm & Blues Music Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony was held on August 17, 2013 at the Waetjen Auditorium at Cleveland State University in Cleveland. [11] The first class of inductees included recording acts The Supremes, The Temptations, The Marvelettes, The O'Jays, [9] Martha & The Vandellas (Martha Reeves, Rosalind Holmes, and Annette Helton), The Dramatics, Ruby & The ...
In 2010, Robinson decided to pursue the idea of building a rhythm and blues museum that would include everything from radio personalities and owners of record companies to hip-hop and gospel music. Robinson founded the National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame later that year and the first induction ceremony was held on August 17, 2013. [5]
Chess Records was an American record company established in 1950 in Chicago, specializing in blues and rhythm and blues. It was the successor to Aristocrat Records, founded in 1947. It expanded into soul music, gospel music, early rock and roll, and jazz and comedy recordings, released on the Chess and its subsidiary labels Checker and Argo/Cadet.
The "Bo Diddley beat" is essentially the clave rhythm, one of the most common bell patterns found in sub-Saharan African music traditions. [110] One scholar found this rhythm in 13 rhythm and blues recordings made in the years 1944–55, including two by Johnny Otis from 1948. [111] Bo Diddley gave different accounts of how he began to use this ...
The Blues Hall of Fame is a music museum operated by the Blues Foundation at 421 S. Main Street in Memphis, Tennessee. Initially, the "Blues Hall of Fame" was not a physical building, but a listing of people who have significantly contributed to blues music.
Rhythm and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is a genre of popular music that originated within the African-American community in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to African Americans, at a time when "rocking, jazz based music ...
Highway 61 Blues Museum – Leland [164] Rhythm and Blues Music Hall of Fame (planned) – Marks [165] Hartley Peavey Visitor Center, dedicated to Peavey – Meridian [166] Highland Park, dedicated to Jimmie Rodgers – Meridian; Charles H. Templeton Sr. Music Museum, musical collection – Starkville [167]
Rhythm and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is a genre of popular music that originated within the African-American community in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to African Americans, at a time when "rocking, jazz based music ...