Ruth Brown

   
Artist: Ruth Brown

   Genre(s): 
R&B: Soul
   Rock
   Gospel
   Blues
   

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Discography:


   
 Good Day for the Blues

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 12


   
 Fine and Mellow

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 10


   
 Miss Rhythm CD1

   Year: 1989   
Tracks: 20


   
 Blues on Broadway

   Year: 1989   
Tracks: 9


   
 Gospel Time

   Year: 1962   
Tracks: 11


   
 Miss Rhythm (Disc 2)

   Year: 1953   
Tracks: 20


   
 Rockin' In Rhythm

   Year:    
Tracks: 23


   
 Collection (Boogie Woogie)

   Year:    
Tracks: 1

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They called Atlantic Records "the house that Ruth reinforced" during the fifties, and they weren't referring to the Sultan of Swat. Ruth Brown's imperial hitmaking reign from 1949 to the close of the '50s helped tremendously to base the New York label's predominance in the R&B field. Later, the business sector all but forgot her -- she was forced to labor as domestic help for a time -- only she returned to the top, her condition as a postwar R&B open up (and hardworking counselor-at-law for the rights and royalties of her peers) recognised world-wide.


Young Ruth Weston was elysian initially by jazz chanteuses Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday, and Dinah Washington. She ran away from her Portsmouth home in 1945 to hit the road with trumpeter Jimmy Brown, whom she shortly marital. A month with bandleader Lucky Millinder's orchestra in 1947 complete abruptly in Washington, D.C., when she was tinned for delivering a round of drinks to members of the isthmus. Cab Calloway's babe Blanche gave Ruth a gig at her Crystal Caverns cabaret and sham a managerial role in the youth singer's life. DJ Willis Conover dug Brown's behave and recommended her to Ahmet Ertegun and Herb Abramson, bosses of a fledgeling imprint named Atlantic. Unfortunately, Brown's debut school term for the firm was delayed by a nine-month hospital quell caused by a serious automobile accident en route to New York that badly injured her peg. When she eventually made it to her first gear date in May 1949, she made up for helpless time by waxing the blowtorch ballad "So Long" (backed by guitarist Eddie Condon's band), which proved to be her first gear hit.


Brown's seductive vocal delivery shone incandescently on her Atlantic smashes "Teardrops in My Eyes" (an R&B chart-topper for 11 weeks in 1950), "I'll Wait for You" and "I Know" in 1951, 1952's "5-10-15 Hours" (some other number one rocker), the germinal "(Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean" in 1953, and a tender Chuck Willis-penned "Oh What a Dream," and the seasonable "Mambo Baby" the next year. Along the way, Frankie Laine labelled her "Miss Rhythm" during an booking in Philly. Brown belted a series of her hits on the groundbreaking TV programme Beginning at the Apollo in 1955, exhibiting yummy comic timing piece trading dodgy one-liners with MC Willie Bryant (ironically, ex-husband Jimmy Brown was a member of the show's house isthmus).


After an tied xXIV R&B chart appearances for Atlantic that concluded in 1960 with "Don't Deceive Me" (many of them featuring raising hell tenor saxophone solos by Willis "Gator" Jackson, wHO many mistakenly believed to be Brown's hubby), Brown attenuated from view. After lift her deuce sons and working a nine-to-five job, Brown began to reconstruct her musical career in the mid-'70s. Her comedic signified served her well during a TV situation comedy stretch co-starring with MacLean Stevenson in How-do-you-do, Larry, in a meaty role in conductor John Waters' 1985 sock-hop satire film Hairspray, and her 1989 Broadway stellar call on in Black and Blue (which south Korean won her a Tony Award).


On that point were more records for Fantasy in the '80s and '90s (notably 1991's jump Fine and Mellow), and a protracted tenure as host of National Public Radio's Harlem Hit Parade and BluesStage. Brown's nine-year ordeal to recoup her plowshare of royalties from all those Atlantic platters light-emitting diode to the formation of the nonprofit organization Rhythm & Blues Foundation, an system dedicated to helping others in the same frustrating situation. In 1993 Brown was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and 1995 saw the release of her autobiography, Miss Rhythm. Brown suffered a fondness plan of attack and solidus following oR in October 2006 and never full cured, departure on November 17, 2006.





Bachir Attar