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The 5K run is a long-distance road running competition over a distance of five kilometres (3.107 mi). Also referred to as the 5K road race, 5 km, or simply 5K, it is the shortest of the most common road running distances. It is usually distinguished from the 5000 metres track running event by stating the distance in kilometres, rather than metres.
On February 2, Gene Barge died at the age of 98. [4] On the same day, the 67th Annual Grammy Awards were held. [5] Beyoncé won Album of the Year for Cowboy Carter. Muni Long won Best R&B Performance for "Made for Me (Live on BET)".
Rhythm and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is a genre of popular music that originated within the Black 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 ...
From 1967 to 1968 the award was known as Best Rhythm & Blues Group Performance, ... Run-D.M.C. for Raising Hell; ... 5 nominations References
"5-10-15 Hours" is a rhythm-and-blues song written by Rudy Toombs in 1952 for Ruth Brown and was one of several number-one R&B hits he wrote for her. [1] When Brown was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame , her induction said that "her best work was to be found on such red-hot mid-Fifties R&B sides as '5-10-15 Hours'".
B.B. King (pictured in 1971) topped the juke box chart for three non-consecutive weeks with "Please Love Me".. In 1953, Billboard magazine published two charts specifically covering the top-performing songs in the United States in rhythm and blues and related African-American-oriented music genres: National Best Sellers and Most Played in Juke Boxes.
Cozy Cole (center) was the second artist to top the combined Hot R&B Sides chart, introduced in October.. At the start of 1958, Billboard magazine published two charts specifically covering the top-performing songs in the United States in rhythm and blues (R&B) and related African-American-oriented music genres.
Billboard Top R&B Records of 1957 is made up of two year-end charts compiled by Billboard magazine ranking the year's top rhythm and blues records based on record sales and disc jockey plays. [1] [2] Due to the extent of cross-over between the R&B and pop charts in 1957, the song's rank, if any, in the year-end pop chart is also provided.