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( Rhythm and blues)
Rhythm and blues (also known as R&B, R'n'B or RnB) is the name given to a wide-ranging genre of popular music, originally created by African Americans in the late 1940s but which has subsequently had a number of shifts of meaning. The term was originally used by record companies to refer to recordings bought predominantly by African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a heavy, insistent beat"[1] was becoming more popular. After this style of music contributed substantially to the development of rock and roll, the term "R&B" was then used from the 1960s particularly by white groups to refer to musical styles which developed from and incorporated electric blues, as well as gospel and soul music. By the 1970s, the term "rhythm and blues" was being used as a blanket term to describe soul and funk. Since the 1990s, the term "Contemporary R&B" is now mainly used to refer to a modern version of soul and funk-influenced pop music. In 1948, RCA Victor was marketing black music under the name Blues and Rhythm. In that year, Louis Jordan dominated the top five listings of the R&B charts with three songs, and two of the top five songs were based on the boogie-woogie rhythms that had come to prominence during the 1940s.[8] Jordan's band, the Tympany Five (formed in 1938), consisted of him on saxophone and vocals, along with musicians on trumpet, tenor saxophone, piano, bass and drums.[9] Lawrence Cohn described the music as "grittier than his boogie-era jazz-tinged blues".[10] Robert Palmer described it as "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a heavy, insistent beat".[11] Jordan's cool music, along with that of Big Joe Turner, Roy Brown, Billy Wright, and Wynonie Harris, is now also referred to as jump blues. Also in 1948, Wynonie Harris' remake of Roy Brown's 1947 recording "Good Rockin' Tonight" hit the charts in the _2 spot, following band leader Sonny Thompson's "Long Gone" at _1.[12][13] In 1949, the term rhythm and blues replaced the Billboard category Harlem Hit Parade.[7] Also in that year, "The Huckle-Buck", recorded by band leader and saxophonist Paul Williams, was the _1 R&B tune, remaining on top of the charts for nearly the entire year. Written by musician and arranger Andy Gibson, the song was described as a "dirty boogie" because it was risque and raunchy.[14] Paul Williams and His Hucklebuckers' concerts were sweaty riotous affairs that got shut down on more than one occasion. Their lyrics, by Roy Alfred (who later co-wrote the 1955 hit "(The) Rock and Roll Waltz"), were mildly sexually suggestive, and one teenager from Philadelphia said "That Hucklebuck was a very nasty dance."[15][16] Also in 1949, a new version of a 1920s blues song, "Ain't Nobody's Business" was a _4 hit for Jimmy Witherspoon, and Louis Jordan and the Tympany Five once again made the top 5 with "Saturday Night Fish Fry".[17] Working with African American musicians, Greek American Johnny Otis, who had signed with the Newark, New Jersey-based Savoy Records, produced many R&B hits in 1951, including "Double Crossing Blues", "Mistrustin' Blues" and "Cupid's Boogie", all of which hit number one that year. Otis scored ten top ten hits that year. Other hits include "Gee Baby", "Mambo Boogie" and "All Nite Long".[18] The Clovers, a vocal trio who sang a distinctive sounding combination of blues and gospel, had the _5 hit of the year with "Don't You Know I Love You" on Atlantic Records.[19][20][21] Also in July 1951, Cleveland, Ohio DJ Alan Freed started a late-night radio show called "The Moondog Rock Roll House Party" on WJW-AM (850).[22] Freed's show was sponsored by Fred Mintz, whose R&B record store had a primarily African American clientele. Freed began referring to the rhythm and blues music he played as rock and roll.
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Dysbiosis can result from antibiotic therapy, gastrointestinal tract infections or diarrhoea, surgery invo...
Cancer Survivors Optimal Health Tip: Rhythm and Regularity are Your 2 Allies in Your recovery by Dr.Anca Martalog,N.D.
Cancer is the general name for a group of more than 100 diseases in which cells in a part of the body begin to grow out of control. Although there are many kinds of cancer, they all start because abnormal cells grow out of control. Untreated cancers ...
It's About the Rhythm: The Best Hormone Replacement Therapy by Kristin Gabriel
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http://marcombroadband.com It's About the Rhythm: The Best Hormone Replacement Therapy
>From bacteria to blue whales, to humans, the whole universe
is all about timing. The ...
Circadian Rhythms Disorders and Sleep Phase Syndrome by Nishanth Reddy
Sleep forms part of human’s biological need to rest. As a person sleeps, the various physiological processes of a human body figuratively put into an apparent arrest and some parts of our system that were mostly exploited can be replenished for...
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