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Ruby Wilson (February 29, 1948 – August 12, 2016) was an American blues and gospel singer. She was known as "The Queen of Beale Street" as she sang in clubs on Beale Street, Memphis, Tennessee, for over 40 years.
Beale Street in 1974 Beale Street in 2014 Rex Billiard Hall for Colored, Beale Street, 1939.Photo by Marion Post Wolcott.. Beale Street was created in 1841 by entrepreneur and developer Robertson Topp (1807–1876), who soon named it later in the decade for Edward Fitzgerald Beale, a military hero from the Mexican–American War.
A ticket can be seen before the Elvis: Back in Memphis concert on Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2024, at the Graceland Soundstage in Memphis. The concert was part of Elvis Week 2024 and celebrated the music ...
ELVIS WEEK: Thousands of fans honor the King and Lisa Marie Presley at Candlelight Vigil Born Jan. 8, 1935, in Tupelo, Mississippi, Elvis relocated to Memphis with his parents when he was 13.
King of Memphis may refer to: Young Dolph - Adolph Robert Thornton Jr. (July 27, 1985 – November 17, 2021) King of Memphis, an album by Young Dolph
Set for release Aug. 9, "Memphis" includes 111 tracks spanning Presley’s recordings in the city, with 88 of those tracks newly remixed by local Grammy-winning engineer/producer Matt Ross-Spang ...
Elvis Presley and Bernard Lansky in 1956. Lansky Bros. was started in 1946 at 126 Beale Street in downtown Memphis, Tennessee. It started as a store that sold leftover Army supplies from World War II, Bernard took advantage of the elevating Beale Street music scene and looked to provide clothing for the typical characters of Beale who wanted to dress dapper.
Loyd Jowers (November 20, 1926 [1] – May 20, 2000) was an American restaurateur and the owner of Jim's Grill, a restaurant near the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968. For the first 25 years after the assassination of King, Jowers testified that he was in the restaurant at the time of ...