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Overview
"Somebody has to pay the dues," says LaVern Baker. Here are the remarkable stories of six dazzlingly talented performers who blazed the R & B trail--the story of the performers' music and also of their struggle against racism and financial exploitation: Ruth Brown and LaVern Baker, two of the most popular female black singers of the 1950s; Little Jimmy Scott, whom Madonna calls the only singer who ever really made her cry; Charles Brown, master of the "club blues" style; Floyd Dixon, a more rambunctious fellow-traveler; and the earthy, urbane Jimmy Witherspoon, who recorded some of the biggest R & B hits ever.
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- ISBN-13: 9780306809194
- ISBN-10: 0306809192
- Publisher: Da Capo Press
- Publish Date: January 2000
- Dimensions: 8.99 x 6.02 x 0.76 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
- Page Count: 344
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