#1 R&B Song 1975: “Low Rider,” War
Born: Laura Webb (the Bobbettes), 1941; Gerald Alston (the Manhattans), 1942, Minnie Riperton, 1947
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1952 B.B. King and his legendary guitar, Lucille, had their second #1 &B in a row with “Darling, You Know I Love You,” also his second chart single. At the time, B.B. had his own radio show in Memphis called The Sepia Swing Show. Lucille was named when a fight broke out at a show and a fire started. B.B., realizing that he had left his guitar inside during the confusion, rn back in for it. He later found out the fight was over a girl named Lucille. (Hmm. . . .I always thought that Lucille acquired her name before that fire, but, I do know that B.B. did make the statement that he would never do such a reckless life-endangering act again, nor to rush back into a burning building———-even if it was to save Lucille.
1969 The Supremes’ swan song as an entity including Diana Ross, “Someday, We’ll Be Together,” was the last of the group’s twelve #1s, but, technically, it was not the Supremes at all. Diana wound up recording the song with vocal backing studio pros the Waters, along with Johnny Bristol on bass, and if you litsen closely…on background vocals as well.
1970 The Four Tops performed on The Ed Sullivan Show on CBS-TV.
1991 Barry White was a guest on The Arsenio Hall Show.
1997 The O’Jays’ “Baby You Know” charted, reaching #34 RB and #76 pop, giving them a total of fifty-nine R&B hits and thirty pop winners over a thirty-four year chart life.
1999 Gwen Gordy Fuqua, who had convinced her family to stake brother Berry Gordy Jr. the $800 he needed to start Motown Records, died in San Diego. Gwen, former wife of Moonglows’ lead singer Harvey Fuqua, started Motown’s artist development department, guiding the careers of acts like the Supremes and the Temptations. She was seventy-one.
Marvin Gaye, Anna Gordy Gaye, Gwen Gordy Fuqua, and Harvey Fuqua. (SOURCE)
BEAUTIFUL, ALSO, ARE THE SOULS OF MY BLACK SISTERS 