#1 R&B Song 1946: “Hey, Ba-Ba-Re-Bop,” Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra
Born: Lawrence Payton (the Four Tops), 1938
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1955 Bo Diddley did his first demo in Chicago when he recorded “Im A Man” and “You Don’t Love Me.”
1963 The Crystals performed at Chubby Checker’s Limbo Party at San Francisco’s Cow Palace, along with Marvin Gaye, Dee Dee Sharp, Bob B. Soxx & the Blue Jeans, Bobby Freeman, the Four Seasons, and H.B. Barnum with his thirty-piece orchestra.
1967 Ray Charles won the Best R&B Solo Vocal Performance, Male or Female of 1966 at the ninth annual Grammy Awards for “Crying Time.”
1974 Gladys Knight & the Pips won Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Group for “Niether One Of Us” and Best R&B Vocal Performance for “Midnight Train To Georgia” at the sixteenth annual Grammy Awards. The Temptations won best Performance for “Masterpiece.”
1984 Gold Star Studios, the recording home of the Ronettes and the Crytals, was demolished to make way for a mini-mall featuring a Del Taco stand.
1988 Ray Charles was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the thirtieth annual Grammy Awards ceremony. The accolades referred to Charles as the “father of soul, whose unique and effervescent singing and piano playing have personified the true essence of soul music in all his recorded and personal performances of basic bules, pop ballads, jazz tunes, and even country music.” Fats Domino was also given a Lifetime Achievement Award along with being praised as “one of the most important links between rhythm and blues and rock ‘n’ roll, a most influential performer whose style of piano playing and “down home” singing have led the way for generations of other performers.”
1994 Otis Blackwell, Clarence Carter, Don Covay, Bill Doggett, Ben E. King, Johnny Otis, Little Richard, the Coasters, the Shirelles’ Mabel John, Earl Palmer, Irma Thomas, and Jerry Butler were honored with Pioneer Awards at the Rhythm & Blues Foundation’s fitfh annual awards at the Roseland Ballroom in New York City.
1995 Seven years to the day after earning a Lifetime Achievement Award from NARAS, the Grammy people, Fats Domino received he Ray Charles Lifetime Achievement Award from the Rhythm & Blues Foundation in Los Angeles at their sixth annual Pioneer Awards presentation. Also receiving awards were Lloyd Price and Cissy Houston, whose daughter, Whitney, made the presentation.
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