The Queen of Soul was born on this day in 1942. Here is more on Ms. Franklin. The great clip above is from the show “The Midnight Special.” It...
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This Day in Music reports that The Prince of Motown would have turned 76 today. It also says that on this day in 2006, Watts Branch Park in Washington, DC, was...
Valerie June Hockett — who performs as Valerie June — was born in Tennessee, lived in Memphis and has relocated to Brooklyn. (Click here or on the...
Louis Allen Rawls was born in Chicago in 1933. He was friends with Curtis Mayfield and Sam Cooke, who would play a significant role in his life. Rawls was in...
[column size=one_half position=first ]Nina Simone’s career tracks the experience of female African American artists during the middle and later part of the...
TDMB offers emails keeping you up to date on our posts. Just send me a note at this email and I will add you to the list. The Marvelettes certainly would like...
Here is part of the very good profile of Otis Redding from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame website, He was inducted in 1989: Redding’s relatively unspectacular...
It’s interesting to compare the staid, probably lip-synced and homogenized version of Bobby Hebb’s great song, Sonny (at this link) and the far...
The beginning of War is one of the signature musical moments of the Vietnam War era. It’s nice to learn that Edwin Starr contributed much more than that...
Love Train, above, has gotten a second life in Coors beer commercials. There are versions with far better audio quality than the original video — such as...
