Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
B.B. King recorded his version of "The Thrill Is Gone" in June 1969 for his album Completely Well, released the same year. King's version is a slow 12-bar blues notated in the key of B minor in 4/4 time. [4] The song's polished production and use of strings marked a departure from both the original song and King's previous material.
Live in Cook County Jail 's entry on the magazine's list of the greatest albums of all time states: "[King] won over the hostile prisoners with definitive versions of his blues standards and his crossover hit 'The Thrill Is Gone.'" [1] In 2002, Live in Cook County Jail was inducted into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame under the category of ...
King gained further visibility among rock audiences as an opening act on the Rolling Stones' 1969 American Tour. [47] He won a Grammy Award in 1970 for his version of the song "The Thrill Is Gone" [48] which was a hit on both the Pop and R&B charts. Rolling Stone magazine listed it in the number 183 spot in their 500 Greatest Songs of All Time ...
Completely Well, released in 1969, is a studio album by the blues guitarist B. B. King.It is notable for the inclusion of "The Thrill Is Gone", which became a hit on both the R&B/soul and pop charts and which earned him a Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance in 1970.
reissued in The Great B.B. King: 1960 "Got a Right to Love My Baby" b/w "My Own Fault" Kent Records (c. May 1960) Kent 333 [matrix 48] 8 — — — King of the Blues "Good Man Gone Bad" b/w "Partin' Time" Kent Records (July 1960) Kent 346 [matrix 49] 8 — — — King of the Blues "You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now" b/w "Walking Dr. Bill ...
"Sweet Little Angel" (Riley King, Jules Taub) "Never Make a Move Too Soon" (Stix Hooper, Will Jennings) "Into the Night" (Ira Newborn) "Ain't Nobody's Bizness" (Porter Grainger, Everett Robbins) "The Thrill is Gone" (Rick Darnell, Roy Hawkins) "Peace to the World" (Trade Martin) "Nobody Loves Me But My Mother" (Riley King)
The Ultimate Collection is a compilation album by B.B. King, released in 2005. Track listing Three ... "The Thrill is Gone" – 5:25 "Nobody Loves Me But My Mother ...
Live at the Regal is a 1965 live album by American blues guitarist and singer B.B. King.It was recorded on November 21, 1964, at the Regal Theater in Chicago.The album is widely heralded as one of the greatest blues albums ever recorded and was ranked at number 141 in Rolling Stone ' s 2003 edition of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list, [6] before dropping to number 299 in a 2020 ...