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Roy Milton
Roy Milton
American R&B and jump blues singer, drummer and bandleader
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Joe Liggins
Joe Liggins
American R&B, jazz and blues pianist
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Art Rupe
Art Rupe
American music industry executive
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Jimmy Liggins
Jimmy Liggins
American R&B guitarist and bandleader
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Ernie Freeman
Ernie Freeman
American musician
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Wynona Carr
Wynona Carr
American musician
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Roy Brown
Roy Brown
American R&B singer, songwriter and musician
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Betty Hall Jones
Betty Hall Jones
American singer
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Joe Lutcher
Joe Lutcher
American musician
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Johnny Vincent
Johnny Vincent
American record producer
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Mabel Scott
Mabel Scott
American singer
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Frankie Lee Sims
Frankie Lee Sims
American singer-songwriter and electric blues guitarist
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Sam Cooke
Sam Cooke
American recording artist; singer-songwriter and entrepreneur
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Roy Hawkins
Roy Hawkins
American musician
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Floyd Dixon
Floyd Dixon
American rhythm and blues pianist and singer
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Lloyd Price
Lloyd Price
American singer, songwriter
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Ray, Goodman & Brown
Ray, Goodman & Brown
band
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Little Milton
Little Milton
American singer and guitarist
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Johnny Moore's Three Blazers
Johnny Moore's Three Blazers
American vocal group in the 1940s and 1950s
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Pee Wee Crayton
Pee Wee Crayton
American R&B and blues guitarist and singer
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Dinah Washington
Dinah Washington
American singer, songwriter, pianist
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Ernie Fields
Ernie Fields
African American trombonist, pianist, arranger and bandleader
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Jona Lewie
Jona Lewie
English singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist
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Ivana Santilli
Ivana Santilli
Canadian singer
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Little Walter
Little Walter
American blues harmonica player
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Jimmy Witherspoon
Jimmy Witherspoon
American jump blues singer
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Dorothy Moore
Dorothy Moore
American singer
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Jo Armstead
Jo Armstead
singer and songwriter
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Margie Day
Margie Day
American musician
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Fontella Bass
Fontella Bass
American singer
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Leon Haywood
Leon Haywood
American singer and songwriter
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Shirley Goodman
Shirley Goodman
American singer
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Cecil Gant
Cecil Gant
American musician
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Martha and the Vandellas
Martha and the Vandellas
American vocal group
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Sonny Thompson
Sonny Thompson
American R&B bandleader and pianist
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Percy Mayfield
Percy Mayfield
American singer and songwriter
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Miki Howard
Miki Howard
American singer, actress
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Billy Eckstine
Billy Eckstine
American musician
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Wynonie Harris
Wynonie Harris
American blues shouter and rhythm and blues singer
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Snooky Pryor
Snooky Pryor
Chicago blues harmonica player
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Hal Singer
Hal Singer
American musician
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Ike & Tina Turner
Ike & Tina Turner
American musical duo
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Little Willie Littlefield
Little Willie Littlefield
American R&B pianist and singer
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Larry Williams
Larry Williams
American rhythm and blues and rock and roll singer, songwriter, producer, and pianist
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Chuck Jackson
Chuck Jackson
American recording artist; R&B singer
45
Tyrone Davis
Tyrone Davis
American musician
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Camille Howard (March 29, 1914 – March 10, 1993) was an American rhythm and blues pianist and singer, who first came to prominence in Roy Milton's Solid Senders in the 1940s. Her most successful recordings included "R. M. Blues" (as Milton's pianist, 1945), "Thrill Me" (as singer with Milton, 1947), and her own "X-Temporaneous Boogie" (1948).