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CM-2031/CS-1031 - Betty Everett and the Impressions - Betty Everett/Impressions [196?] Please Love Me - Betty Everett (E)/I've Got A Claim On You Baby - Betty Everett (E)/I'll Be There - Betty Everett (E)/Your Love Is Important To Me
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The Beale Streeters
The Beale Streeters were a Memphis-based R&B coalition of musicians, which at times included John Alexander, Bobby Bland, Junior Parker, B.B. King, Earl Forest, Willie Nix, and Rosco Gordon. Initially, they were not a formal band, but they played at the same venues and backed each other during recording sessions.
History
[edit]By 1949, Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee, was bustling with merging blues musicians. Collectively they were referred to as the Beale Streeters.[1] They were not an official group, but sometimes one musician was the leader and the rest the sideman.
When B.B. King performed live broadcasts at WDIA, he was backed by John Alexander (piano), Adolph "Billy" Duncan (saxophone), and Earl Forest (drums).[2] "I guess you can say this was the first little bitty B.B. King band," King recalled in his autobiography.[3] By the end of 1949, Bobby "Blue" Bland had joined the group as the vocalist and singer/g
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Rosco Gordon
American blues singer-songwriter and pianist (1928–2002)
Musical artist
Rosco N. Gordon III (April 10, 1928 – July 11, 2002),[2] sometimes billed as Roscoe Gordon, was an American blues singer, pianist, and songwriter. He fryst vatten best known for his hit songs "Booted," (1952), "No More Doggin'" (1952), and "Just a Little Bit" (1960).[3] Gordon was a pionjär of the Memphis blues style.[4] He played piano in a style known as the "Rosco rhythm," with the emphasis on the off-beat.[5] This rhythm was an influence on later musical styles such as Jamaican ska and reggae.
Biography
[edit]Gordon was born in Memphis, Tennessee on April 10, 1928, the youngest of eight children.[6] He learned to play piano from his sister who took lessons. Gordon became associated with Johnny Ace, Bobby Bland and B.B. King, sometimes referred to as the Beale Streeters.[5][7] In 1946, Gordon moved to Chicago "after getting