Kings & Queens Of Rhythm & Blues (10cd)
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RAY CHARLES - SAM COOKE - CLYDE McPHATTER - LLOYD PRICE - RUTH BROWN SOLOMON BURKE - LAVERN BAKER – BEN E. KING – BIG JOE TURNER 8222
Rhythm and blues used to be called race music", said Ray Charles. "This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it." Hidden in plain sight, banned on radio stations due to racial segregation, but still available on records and played in bars, clubs and juke joints throughout the "chitlin' circuit", the music thrived throughout the African-American communities from the early 1920s until the end of the 1940s. Due to changing attitudes towards racism, which may or may not have had something to with the enthusiastic way African-American music from Jazz to Blues was welcomed in Europe after WWII, white audiences in the US caught on to black music and race records were rebranded as "rhythm and blues."
This 10 CD box presents 20 original albums of nine of the greatest stars of Rhythm & Blues from 1956 to 1962. Queens of the genre like Ruth Brown and Laverne Baker, as well as Kings like Ray Charles, Ben E. King, Sam Cooke, Solomon Burke, Clyde McPhatter, Lloyd Price and Joe Turner give you no less than 110 chart topping songs, from "What´d I Say" via "You Send Me" to "Spanish Harlem" or "(What a) Wonderful World" and "Stand by Me". A treasure trove of the music they called Rhythm & Blues.
Tracklisting
Wilhelm Kempff
Various Artists
Stan Getz
Jim Hall
Gewandhaus Quartett
Various Artists
Quincy Jones
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli
Various Artists
Various Artists
Various Artists
Various Artists
Various Artists
Various Artists
Various Artists
Various Artists