Stevie Ray Vaughan was guest guitarist playing solo on " Let's Dance ".

Past winners have included Angela Lansbury ( 1988 ), Ray Charles ( 1991 ), Mel Tormé ( 1994 ), Bernadette Peters ( 1995 ), Frank Sinatra ( 2000 ), Stevie Wonder ( 2002 ), k. d.

It was updated in early 1991 to mourn the passing of Elvis Presley, Marvin Gaye, Jackie Wilson, Dennis Wilson, John Lennon, Roy Orbison, Sam Cooke, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Cass Elliot, who died a few months after the original version of the song was released.

After each Stars win the Stevie Ray Vaughan song " The House is Rockin " is played.

She later credited Stevie Ray Vaughan for his help in a Minnesota State Fair concert the night after Vaughan's 1990 death.

Among the most rare is Stevie Ray Vaughan's Texas Flood.

The show included entertainers such as Frankie Lymon, The Supremes, Marian Anderson, Louis Armstrong, Pearl Bailey, LaVern Baker, Harry Belafonte, James Brown, Godfrey Cambridge, Diahann Carroll, Ray Charles, Nat King Cole, Bill Cosby, Count Basie, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis, Jr., Bo Diddley, Rocío Dúrcal, Duke Ellington, Lola Falana, The 5th Dimension, Ella Fitzgerald, The Four Tops, Aretha Franklin, Dick Gregory, W. C. Handy, Lena Horne, The Jackson 5, Mahalia Jackson, Eartha Kitt, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Little Anthony & The Imperials, Moms Mabley, Johnny Mathis, The Miracles ( later known as Smokey Robinson & the Miracles ), Melba Moore, The Platters, Leontyne Price, Richard Pryor, Lou Rawls, Della Reese, Nipsey Russell, Nina Simone, Sly & the Family Stone, The Temptations, Martha Reeves & The Vandellas, Tina Turner ( at the time known as " The Ike & Tina Turner Revue "), Leslie Uggams, William Warfield, Dionne Warwick, Dinah Washington, Ethel Waters, Flip Wilson, Jackie Wilson, Nancy Wilson, and Stevie Wonder.

A full-length virtuoso guitar showpiece employing both the blues scale and distortion, Mack's " Memphis " ushered in the era of blues-rock guitar, a genre which reached its zenith in the later recordings of Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan.

* January 28 – Various artists, under the group name USA For Africa, including Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Michael Jackson, Billy Joel, Cyndi Lauper, Steve Perry, Kenny Loggins, Willie Nelson, Lionel Richie, Smokey Robinson, Kenny Rogers, Diana Ross, Paul Simon, Bruce Springsteen, Huey Lewis, Tina Turner, Sheila E., Harry Belafonte, Lindsey Buckingham, Kim Carnes, Dionne Warwick, Waylon Jennings, Bob Geldof and Stevie Wonder, record the song " We Are the World ".

Some rock groups from the South, such as Georgia's R. E. M., The B-52's, Widespread Panic, and Black Crowes, Florida's Sister Hazel, Blind Melon's Mississippian lead guitarist, and Texas's Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Fabulous Thunderbirds and Joe Ely incorporated Southern musical and lyrical themes without explicitly allying with any Southern rock movement.

In late 2007, Bo Bice joined veteran Southern rock legends Jimmy Hall-vocals / sax / harmonica ( Wet Willie Band ), Henry Paul-vocals / guitar / mandolin ( Outlaws, BlackHawk ), Steve Gorman-drums ( Black Crowes, Jimmy Page ), " Dangerous " Dan Toler-guitar ( The Gregg Allman Band, The Allman Brothers, Dickey Betts & Great Southern ), Reese Wynans-keyboards ( Stevie Ray Vaughan ), Mike Brignardello-bass ( Giant, renowned session player ), Jay Boy Adams-guitar ( Texas blues solo artist ) to record Brothers of the Southland celebrating Southern rock with a renewed spirit and maturity.

In 1989, they reunited once again for the album Blast Off !, which was accompanied by a tour with US blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan.

The late Austin resident and blues guitar legend, Stevie Ray Vaughan played a number of concerts at Auditorium Shores and is honored with a memorial statue on the banks.

James was also covered by blues-rock band Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble many times in concert.

The most famous of these covers is one that came by an indirect route-James ' fellow bluesman Albert King recorded a cover of " The Sky Is Crying ", and Stevie Ray Vaughan copied King's version of the song.

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* Double Trouble ( band ), the backup band of blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan and of guitarist James D. Lane

Stephen " Stevie " Ray Vaughan ( October 3, 1954 – August 27, 1990 ) was an American guitarist, singer-songwriter, and record producer.

Paul Ray recalled: " When Stevie quit, he was real sweet about it.

Stevie Ray Vaughan performing at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1982.

In December of ' 83, Stevie Ray recorded a CD and DVD session with Albert King and also that same December 1983, Double Trouble performed for a taping of Austin City Limits ; the show aired on February 28, 1984, and featured Jimmie's band, The Fabulous Thunderbirds.

Stevie Ray Vaughan performing at Carnegie Hall. The concert was sold-out with Vaughan's closest friends, and family in the audience ; the proceeds benefited the T. J. Martell Foundation's work in leukemia and cancer research.

According to the Dallas Times Herald, it took Vaughan an hour just to walk from the bar to the table across the room where his parents were sitting ; the article also said, " Stevie Ray found his father, a retired asbestos worker who hadn't taken a plane ride since the Korean War, and hugged him until they both cried.

On October 3, 1991, former Texas governor Ann Richards proclaimed " Stevie Ray Vaughan Commemoration Day ", during which a memorial concert was held at the Texas Theatre.

Danny Galindo played bass with Jimmie Vaughan's ( Stevie Ray's older brother ) band Storm in Austin, Texas during the 1970s.

By the 1970s, Texas blues had lost its popularity, but was revived by the blues rock stylings of artists like Johnny Nitzinger, Johnny Winter, Edgar Winter, ZZ Top, Bugs Henderson and The Fabulous Thunderbirds, who set the stage for Stevie Ray Vaughan's blues revival in the 80's.

* Stevie Ray Vaughan: a reproduction of " Number One ", Vaughan's favorite guitar.

A childhood friend, Stone Gossard, went to one of the band's shows and appreciated McCready's work after hearing him perform Stevie Ray Vaughan's " Couldn't Stand the Weather ".

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From roughly 1985-2005, Little Martha, along with Stevie Ray Vaughan's " Stang's Swang ", was played on Kentucky Educational Television during a scroll of significant sponsors at the end of the broadcast day.

The song was written as a eulogy to Jimmie Vaughan's brother, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and, by extension, many other fallen guitarists.

Prior to Grady, Johnson was the frontman for Big Sugar, Layton was the drummer for Stevie Ray Vaughan's Double Trouble rhythm section, and Richardson was with The Phantoms in Toronto.

In the 1970s Clark formed several Austin bands with various names, which included as members Jimmie Vaughan, Vaughan's brother, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Lou Ann Barton, Billy Gibbons and Angela Strehli.

Shannon moved between Dallas and Austin, and saw Stevie Ray Vaughan at The Fog with Vaughan's group Blackbird.

It is perhaps best known for Stevie Ray Vaughan's signature and iconic performance in 1983, including memorably epic takes of " Third Stone From the Sun ," " Texas Flood ," " Little Wing ," and " Lenny.

New York City impresario Steve Sylvester and producer Sal Abbetiello launched Stevie Sly's Freestyle Party show at the Manhattan live music venue Coda on April 1, 2004.

After a 1982 meeting with Stevie Wonder, in which the latter lamented the divide in capabilities and qualities between electronic synthesizers and traditional musical instruments, Kurzweil was inspired to create a new generation of music synthesizers capable of accurately duplicating the sounds of real instruments.

Motown Records artists such as Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder and Smokey Robinson contributed to the evolution of soul music, although their recordings were considered more in a pop music vein than those of Redding, Franklin and Carr.

A notable pioneer of cassette culture and ' outsider ' music in the United States is R. Stevie Moore, who, through the ' R.

Stevie Moore Cassette Club ', has been releasing DIY, home-recorded music steadily since the 1970s.

As a female vocalist who is known more for her acoustic guitar, her music tends to be classified in the folk sections of record stores, despite her strong roots in blues, soul and rock music, and her cover versions of songs by Isaac Hayes, Stevie Wonder and Browning Bryant.

His contribution in pioneering soul music led to the rise of Aretha Franklin, Bobby Womack, Al Green, Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, and popularized the likes of Otis Redding and James Brown.

This style would influence the recordings of other artists such as Stevie Wonder and Barry White making the concept album format a part of 1970s R & B music.

* March 27 – The South African Broadcasting Corporation bans Stevie Wonder's music in response to Wonder dedicating the Oscar he had won the night before to Nelson Mandela.

" However, Burke ’ s chart decline coincided with the years when most other exemplars of soul music ( including Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding, James Brown, Marvin Gaye, the Temptations, and Stevie Wonder ) were " solidifying their respective stardoms.

" Along with Marvin Gaye's What's Going On and Stevie Wonder's Innervisions, this album ushered in a new socially conscious, funky style of popular soul music.

He was exposed to the soul music of Motown, Stax, James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Al Green, Stevie Wonder, Curtis Mayfield, Gladys Knight, The Isley Brothers and Gamble and Huff growing up who were key influences on his musical style.

In a 1997 article for the Los Angeles Times, music journalist Cheo Hodari Coker cited the album as having " largely sparked the soul music revival that has opened the door for a new generation of singers who build on the tradition of Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder ".

The poem was also set to music by singer-songwriter Vic Chesnutt on his debut album Little with a spoken introduction from a Stevie Smith recording.

Palladino admits that « Of all my influences, I would say what ’ s always in the back of my mind is early Stevie Wonder, like Talking Book and Innervisions ; that music is really in my blood .»

The show gave many new music artists their first exposure to national audiences, including Ike and Tina Turner, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Stevie Wonder, Talking Heads and Simon & Garfunkel.

On December 9, 2008, bassist Stevie Benton was quoted by the Associated Press as considering it an honor that the U. S. military was using Drowning Pool's music to bother captured prisoners.

McCready frequently soloed, and added a blues touch to the music ( influenced by Stevie Ray Vaughan ).

She also lent her voice to an international music documentary on BBC radio about Stevie Wonder.

Dewey attempts to befriend her through Rock music, by playing her favorite song " Edge of Seventeen " by Stevie Nicks on a jukebox while visiting a bar.

She has said her parents ' albums by Patti Smith, the Carter Family, Stevie Wonder, Robert Johnson, Talking Heads, The Clash, Steve Miller, The Beatles, Philip Glass, and traditional music influenced her when she was growing up.

Every weekend, the band would play the opening set for touring bands such as Earth, Wind and Fire, Stevie Wonder, James Brown and Kool & The Gang, and the charangueros became huge fans of both the music and stage shows of North American R & B.