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Tony Russell "Charles" Brown [1] (September 13, 1922 – January 21, 1999) was an American singer and pianist whose soft-toned, slow-paced nightclub style influenced West Coast blues in the 1940s and 1950s.
Sep 9, 2024 · Charles Brown (born Sept. 13, 1922, Texas City, Texas, U.S.—died Jan. 21, 1999, Oakland, Calif.) was an American blues singer of the late 1940s and early 1950s who was best known for his melodic ballads.
- Ed Ward
- Broke Into L.A. Blues Scene
- Rock and Roll Hurt Career
- Selected Discography
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Taking a job as an elevator operator in the music-rich Central Avenue area, Brown entered an amateur-hour competition at Los Angeles’s Lincoln Theater, a blues live-performance mecca. On stage, Brown impressed the guitarist Johnny Moore, who was looking for a pianist-vocalist to complete his new group, the Three Blazers. Brown got the job and becam...
In spite of the group’s success, Brown determined to make it as a solo artist, and left the group in 1948. Although he was not well known as a solo performer, Brown had some success in the late 1940s and early 1950s, helped along by his recordings made for the new Los Angeles independent record label Aladdin. Among his hits were “Black Night,” the ...
Charles Brown Sings Christmas Songs,King, 1961. The Great Charles Brown,King, 1963. Legend,Bluesway, 1970. Race Track Blues (with Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers), Route 66, 1981. All My Life,Bullseye/Rounder, 1990. Driftin’ Blues(The Best of Charles Brown), Capitol, 1992. Just a Lucky So and So,Bullseye, 1994. The Complete Aladdin Recordings of Charl...
Books
Erlewine, Michael, et al., eds., The All Music Guide to the Blues,Miller Freeman, 1996. Graff, Gary, Josh Freedom du Lac, and Jim McFarlin, MusicHound R&B: The Essential Album Guide,Visible Ink, 1998. Larkin, Colin, ed., The Encyclopedia of PopularMusic, Muze UK, 1998.
Periodicals
Down Beat,February 1998, p. 32. Jet,February 22, 1999, p. 18; April 5, 1999, p. 26. New York Times,January 25, 1999, p. A21. People,December 5, 1994, p. 25. Variety,February 1, 1999, p. 74. —James M. Manheim
Dec 14, 2021 · In 1999 Brown was scheduled to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. But he had been in declining health for several years, and before he could receive this honor in a life that had received shamefully few of them, Charles Brown died of congestive heart failure in Oakland, California, on January 21, 1999.
Apr 22, 2024 · Brown was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1996 and three years later in 1999 into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in the Early Influences category. Charles Brown died of cardiac complications on January 21, 1999, in Oakland, California. He was 76.
Brown died of congestive heart failure in 1999 in Oakland, California, [15] and was interred at Inglewood Park Cemetery, in Inglewood, California. [10] Releases by Brown with Johnny Moore's Three Blazers are located in that discography .
Jan 25, 1999 · Charles Brown, the singer of the hit ''Merry Christmas Baby'' and a member of Johnny Moore and the Three Blazers, died on Thursday in Oakland, Calif. Mr. Brown, who was 76 and lived in Oakland,...
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