Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
on YouTube " I Belong to You (Every Time I See Your Face) " is a song co-written and performed by American contemporary R&B singer Rome . It is the opening track on his eponymous debut album and was issued as the album's first single .
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 November 30, 1963 to January 23, 1965 there was no Billboard R&B singles chart. Some publications have used Cashbox magazine's stats in their place. No specific reason has ever been given as to why Billboard ceased releasing R&B charts, but the prevailing wisdom is that the chart methodology used was being questioned, since more and more white acts were reaching number-one on the R&B chart.
While incarcerated at Trenton State Prison in 1968, founding member Reginald Prophet Haynes began practicing doo-wop singing with other incarcerated people. In 1970, after members of the group were transferred to Rahway State Prison, they first performed as the Escorts at a prison talent show, where they caught the attention of former Motown producer George Kerr.
D-TV is a music video television series produced by Charles Braverman [1] and edited by Ted Herrmann. Premiering on May 5, 1984 on the Disney Channel, [2] the series combined both classic and contemporary popular music with various footage of vintage animated shorts and feature films from The Walt Disney Company, created out of the trend of music videos on cable channel MTV, which inspired the ...
Mariah Carey (pictured in 2010) had her first chart-topper with "Vision of Love".. Billboard published a weekly chart in 1990 ranking the top-performing singles in the United States in African American–oriented genres; the chart's name has changed over the decades to reflect the evolution of black music and has been published as Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs since 2005. [1]
It reached #9 on the U.S. pop chart and #28 on the U.S. R&B chart in 1961. [2] The song ranked #69 on Billboard magazine's Top 100 singles of 1961. [3] At the time, the song referred to songs from the Great Depression and WWII era (about 1930–1945), acts like Bing Crosby and Rudy Vallee, which would have been oldies at the time.
Esther Phillips, then billed as Little Esther, was the featured vocalist on three number ones for the band led by Johnny Otis.. In 1950, Billboard magazine published two charts covering the top-performing songs in the United States in rhythm and blues (R&B) and related African-American-oriented music genres: Best Selling Retail Rhythm & Blues Records and Most Played Juke Box Rhythm & Blues ...