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  News2 months ago

  Craft Recordings Ready To ‘Rip It Up’ With Specialty Records Celebration

  The compilation 'Rip It Up: The Best of Specialty Records' features 18 key recordings in rock’n’roll, R&B, soul, and blues.

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  News3 months ago

  Famed Rhythm & Blues Star, Writer, Businessman Lloyd Price Dies At 88

  Price was a hugely significant figure on the R&B scene in the days leading into the new rock'n'roll craze, with four No.1s in the 1950s.

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  Features5 months ago

  Nat King Cole’s ‘Straighten Up and Fly Right’: More Than A Mere ‘Jive Ditty’

  The far-reaching song inspired the African-American military pilots who fought in World War II, and it went on to enter the Grammy Hall of Fame.

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  Features6 months ago

  ‘Stagger Lee’: The Strange Story Of A Folk Legend

  This blues classic has gone by many names, but perhaps the best known version is Lloyd Price’s ’Stagger Lee’ that topped the US Hot 100 in February 1959.

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  Features2 years ago

  Death Of The Century Man Of New Orleans, Dave Bartholomew

  Bartholomew helped shape the sound of R&B with his recording, writing and production for so many Crescent City artists.

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  News5 years ago

  Death Of Herbert Hardesty, Sax Man With Fats Domino

  Herbert Hardesty, whose tenor saxophone was a feature of countless hits for his longtime collaborator Fats Domino, died on 3 December, 2016 in Las Vegas