* Dick Heckstall-Smith ( 2004 ), The Safest Place in the World: A Personal History of British Rhythm and blues, Clear Books.

Rhythm and blues, often abbreviated to R & B and RnB, is a genre of popular African-American music that originated in the 1940s.

The term " rhythm and blues " was used by Billboard in its chart listings from June 1949 until August 1969, when its " Hot Rhythm & Blues Singles " chart was renamed as " Best Selling Soul Singles ".

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* 1943 – Georgie Fame, English singer and pianist ( Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings )

* 1965 – Mike Gordon, American singer, musician, and filmmaker ( Phish, Rhythm Devils, and SerialPod )

* 1903 – Bing Crosby, American singer and actor ( The Rhythm Boys ) ( d. 1977 )

Around the time he was starting out with The Kings of Rhythm, Turner and Ernest Lane became unofficial roadies for blues singer Robert Nighthawk, who often played live on WROX.

Some famous residents of Sebastopol include: The horticulturist Luther Burbank who established an Gold Ridge Environmental Farm in the township in the late 19th century ; Johnny Otis, Rhythm and Blues pioneer ; Willard Libby, inventor of carbon dating went to Analy High School ; the cartoonist Charles Schulz ; rapper Smoov-E ; actress Karen Valentine of the television show Room 222 ; actress Schuyler Grant of the 1985 adaptation of Anne of Green Gables ; and the musicians Les Claypool of Primus, singer / songwriters Nick Gravenites, and both Jerry Garcia and Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead ; novelist Francine Rivers ; actor Peter Krause.

In 1959, having chosen singer Art Lassiter to front the Kings of Rhythm, Ike had written a song for Lassiter he called " A Fool in Love ".

* Frankie Lymon, African-American rock and roll / Rhythm and blues singer

In 1998 she left Rhythm Avenue to appear as a backing singer for Swedish stars like Eric Gadd, Carola, Robyn and Charlotte Nilsson.

Tina Charles appears on a YouTube video singing ' Slave to the Rhythm ' with The Producers and Horn reveals that Tina was the singer and originator of the " Oh Ah-Oh Ah-Oh " part of ' Video '; fellow 5000 Volt member Martin Jay was also a session musician on The Buggles record.

A few have been released commercially and become popular hits ; examples include the title theme from Rawhide, performed and recorded by popular singer Frankie Laine ; the theme to Happy Days ( from 1974-84 ), performed by Pratt & McClain ( in Top 5, 1976 ); the theme to Laverne & Shirley, performed by Cyndi Grecco (# 25, 1976 ); the theme to Friends, " I'll Be There For You ", which was a hit for The Rembrandts ; the theme from S. W. A. T., which was a hit for Rhythm Heritage ; and the theme song from Drake & Josh, which was a hit for Drake Bell.

Salman Ahmed, lead vocalist of the band, confirmed, during his tour to India, in an interview that he has collaborated with singer Sunidhi Chauhan recording two songs, " Yaaron " and " Kaise Bolun ", for Vicky Kumar's Bollywood movie, Rhythm.

The singer Grace Jones sported a haircut shaped like a CX in a prominent series of advertisements for the GTi Turbo in 1985, and included the CX prominently in her 1985 music video " Slave to the Rhythm ".

After the addition of his new wife Anna Mae Bullock ( Tina Turner ) as lead singer, Turner changed the name of the band from The Kings of Rhythm to the Ike & Tina Turner Review.

Moore holds distinctions as a survivor of the 1940 Natchez Rhythm Club Fire and as the first blues singer to perform at Carnegie Hall.

Famously during the time of Rhythm and Blues, WWF announcer Gorilla Monsoon would proclaim every time Valentine got on the microphone and sang that " if you hung The Hammer for being a good singer you would hang an innocent person ".

Many people participated in the Corona project, including: Francesco Bontempi ( songwriting, arrangement, producing, mixing ), Francesco Alberti ( engineering ), Graziano Fanelli ( engineering ), Olga Souza singer ( vocals ), Jenny B ( real name Giovanna Bersola ) singer for the first single " The Rhythm of the Night ", ( vocals ) songwriters-Antonia Bottari, Ivana Spagna, G. Spagna, Annerley Gordon, Fred Di Bonaventura, Gaffurini, V. Marcolin, M. Marcolin, M. Anthony, Michael Gaffey, Pete Glenister, F. Martinelli, A. Puntillo, Marco Baroni, A. Bellucci, L. Ratti, S. Tonelli, N. Heathen, I. G.

* The title of Rhythm of Black Lines guitarist, singer Clint Newsom's solo project

Bing Crosby, the most popular singer of that time, recorded numerous cowboy and Western songs as well as starring in Rhythm on the Range ( 1936 ).

The group began as a Jacksonville cover band consisting of guitarists Buddy Buie, J. R. Cobb, Walter Eaton, keyboardist Joe Wilson, and singer Dennis Yost ( Buie ( as producer ) and Cobb would form The Atlanta Rhythm Section with Candymen drummer Robert Nix ( died on May 20, 2012, at the Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, at age 67 from complications following surgery in April ; he suffered from diabetes and multiple myeloma ), also from Jacksonville, and keyboardist Dean Daughtry in 1974 ).

" Miss You Much " is the lead single from American R & B and pop singer Janet Jackson's fourth studio album, Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814 ( 1989 ).

" Rhythm Nation " is the second single from American R & B and pop singer Janet Jackson's fourth studio album, Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814 ( 1989 ).

" Escapade " is the third single from American R & B and pop singer Janet Jackson's fourth studio album, Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814 ( 1989 ).

" Alright " is the fourth single from American R & B and pop singer Janet Jackson's fourth studio album, Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814 ( 1989 ).