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Television executive, record producer, songwriter, musician, recording studio owner, record company owner, music publisher and former song plugger William Doyce "Buddy" Killen was  born in Florence, Alabama on 13 November 1932.  In 1953 he was hired as a song plugger and becamed famous for "Heartbreak Hotel".  He had a number of successful compositions before he formed Dial Records especially to promote the singer Joe Tex. In 1971 he was involved in buying the Nashville Audio Recorders studio, which was renamed Sound Shop Recording Studios. Mr Killen died from pancreatic cancer in Nashville, Tennessee, 1 November 2006, age 73. Image: Sandford Myers/The Tennesseean

  Yusuf Hazziez (Joe Tex) was born Joseph Arrington Jr in Rogers, Texas, on August 8, 1935. At High School he played saxophone in a school band and also sang in a Church choir. In the mid-fifties he was singing in a group called The Sunbeams. "Yum Yum" was recorded in New Orleans in 1959 for Ace Records using Little Richard’s backing band and featuring Allen Toussaint on organ. Until he started having hits he regularly opened shows for Jackie Wilson, James Brown and Little Richard. His long association with Dial Records, mostly distributed by Atlantic, started in 1961, but the first successful recording was “Hold What You’ve Got” (1965, Dial 8106), which made No. 2 in the US R&B Chart, and which had been recorded at Fame, Muscle Shoals. Joe Tex died at Grimes Memorial Hospital in Navasota of a heart attack on August 13, 1982. He has been nominated for inclusion in the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame. He was associated for a long time with the country music producer and publish...

  Don Talty was a construction engineer who took over the operation of Formal Records of Chicago in 1959. Robert Pruter’s "Chicago Soul" notes that Talty was born on 16th August 1911 and had his own excavating business. He gave up the construction company and became a full time record producer, producing mainly rhythm and blues music, which he was keenly interested in. His production of Willie Mabon’s “Got to have some” was released on Sue WI 320. Other acts he promoted and recorded included Jan Bradley, whose output was released on Chess, The Masquerades, Guitar Red and Chuck Colbert, then a member of a group called The Trinidads. Phil Upchurch’s “You can’t sit down” is another of his productions, which was issued on Sue WI 4005. Talty was associated with Curtis Mayfield and arranged for Mayfield to work with Jan Bradley, notably on “Mama didn’t lie”. Talty became a central figure in the 1960s Chicago soul music scene but his contribution seems to be somewhat overlooked. The...

  Singer and songwriter Barrett Strong was born in West Point, Mississippi on February 5, 1941 and is mainly known for his recording of “Money”, which became the first big hit for the Motown record company, and the songs he wrote for The Temptations while he was associated with Motown Records, often in partnership with Norman Whitfield. He also worked with Marvin Gaye, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Edwin Starr and The Undisputed Truth. When Motown moved to the West Coast in 1972 he remained in Detroit and resumed his singing career. In 1995 he founded his own record label in Detroit to support aspiring musicians. Mr Strong died in La Jolla, San Diego, California, on 28 January, 2023, age 81. Image: Classic Motown

  Record producer, disc jockey, band manager and label manager Guy Stevens was born in East Dulwich, London on 13 April 1943. As well as running the Sue Label he also ran the Chuck Berry Appreciation Society and advised Pye International on their Chess release schedule. He brought Mr Berry to the UK for his first tour. He also named bands Procol Harum and Mott The Hoople. Wikipedia notes on his importance to the UK music scene in the 1960s. “In 1963, he started a weekly “R&B Disc Night” at the Scene Club in Soho, run by Ronan O’Rahilly, at which Stevens often played obscure Stax, Chess and Motown records, attracting a growing number of mod clubgoers and musicians, including members of The Who, The Small Faces, The Yardbirds, The Rolling Stones and The Beatles.” In 1964 Island Records’ Chris Blackwell hired him to run the new Sue Record label in the UK. He died on 28 August 1981 due to an overdo...

  Spooky Tooth were an English pop/rock/r&b band formed in 1967 in Carlisle, Cumbria. They were originally known as the VIPs and then Art but became Spooky Tooth when Chris Blackwell of Island Records introduced American keyboardist Gary Wright who joined Mike Harrison, Luther Grosvenor, Mike Kelly and Greg Ridley. The groups successful recordings for Island were produced in 1968 by Jimmy Miller. Spooky Tooth began splitting up in 1969 when Greg Ridley left to join another band. Image: Mirrorpix

New York session guitarist James “Jimmy” Spruill was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina on June 9, 1934 and appeared on many 1950s and 1960s recordings, including records by King Curtis, Little Anthony and the Imperials, the Shirelles, Tarheel Slim, and Elmore James. He plays guitar solo on both “The Happy Organ” by Dave “Baby” Cortez and Wilbert Harrison’s “Kansas City”. There are reports that he also plays on “Respect” by Aretha Franklin. James “Jimmy” Spruill died in Washington DC on February 15, 1996 of a heart attack. Image: YouTube

  The Spidells, also known as the Spi-Dells, formed originally as a doo wop group in the 1950s and were still making records into the 1960s. The lineup of Spi-Dells who recorded "Find out what’s happening" is: James Earl Smith, Nathaniel Shelton, Lee Roy Cunningham, William Lockridge and Michael Young. They went on to make more singles for Coral. William “Billy” Lockridge was still performing in 2011 but there are no recent references. Image: Doo Wop France

  Blues and background singer Haywood S.  "Little Sonny" Warner was born in Falls Church, Virginia on 30 October 1930. By the 1950s he was singing backing vocals at Atlantic Records and can be heard on "Open the door" by Van Walls. In 1957 he filled in for Lloyd Price at Harlem's Apollo Theatre. His biggest success was saxophonist Big Jay McNeely's "Something on your mind". He performed alongside James Brown, Etta James and B B King.  Sonny Warner died in Falls Church, Virginia on 12 April 2007. Image: Little Sonny Warner (foreground) with Big Jay McNeely. Copyright Control

  The Soul Sisters were Thresia Cleveland-Fitch and Ann Gissendanner. Thresia Cleveland-Fitch was born in Alabama on December 8, 1930. After her singing and touring career as a Soul Sister she retrained in 1979 and became a pastor of the Established Faith Temple Church of Christ in Tuscaloosa, Alabama and died in Tucaloosa, Alabama on March 14, 2009. Anne Gissendanner died on March 21, 2014. Image: Shaw Artists Corporation

  Singer Ocie Lee Smith (O. C. Smith) was born in Mansfield, Louisiana, on 21 June 1932. After completing university he enrolled with the US Air Force, serving in the US, Europe and Asia. After discharge in July 1955 he concentrated on a career in jazz music. In 1961 he became a featured singer with Count Basie (until 1965). He achieved some success with songs like “Little Green Apples” and “Hickory Hollers Tramp”. He founded a Church in Los Angeles and became pastor there for some sixteen years. O. C, Smith died of a heart attack in Los Angeles, California, on 23 November 2001. Image: Copyright Control

  Effie Bly (Effie Smith) was born in McAlester, Oklahoma on April 10, 1914. She is the mother of record producer Fred Smith. She was a singer and a comedienne and made a number of recordings for the World War Two effort before having her own career as a recording artiste. She sang with the orchestras of Lionel Hampton and Benny Carter. She then went to work doing artistes and repertoire and promotion at Stax Records of Memphis. Effie Smith died of cancer in Los Angeles on February 11, 1977. Effie recorded this song twice – in 1953 and in 1959 – and the Sue release on WI 4010 is thought to be the 1959 recording.  Image: Uncle Marv/Billy Vera

  Oscar Wills (“TV Slim”) was born in Bethany, Louisiana and Texas, on 10 February, 1916. He had a television repair shop and sang and recorded part time for his own record label, hence his nickname.  TV Slim died in Kingman, Arizona on 21 October, 1969 in a car accident while traveling home to Los Angeles after a performance in Chicago. Image:  Darryl Stolper/Wirz

  Singer, song writer and guitarist Alden “Allen” Bunn (Tarheel Slim) was born in Bailey, North Carolina on September 24, 1924. By his teens he was singing with gospel music groups. In 1949 he became a member of a breakaway secular group called The Larks. His first solo recording was in 1952. He then sang in a group called The Lovers, until 1958 when he went solo again. Number Nine Train was his first recording for the Fury label; it features guitarist Jimmy Spurill, but was not very successful at the time of initial release. He also recorded as Tarheel Slim and Little Ann. Ann was his wife, Anna Lee Sandford. Tarheel Slim died on August 21, 1977 from pneumonia and throat cancer. Anna Lee Sandford was born in 1935 and died in 2004. Image: Top: All About Blues Music; Lower: Seven 45 rpm

  Otis Verries Hicks “Lightnin’ Slim” was born in either St. Louis or Good Pine, Missouri, on March 13, 1913. He moved to Baton Rouge in his teens, was taught to play guitar by his older brother Oldfield, and was playing blues guitar in clubs by the late 1940s. Regarded as one of the premier blues musicians of the 1950s, he was often associated with his brother-in-law Slim Harpo and with the harmonica player Lazy Lester. In the 1960s he worked for a time in a foundry, where his hands were badly affected. In the 1970s he toured extensively in Europe and the UK. Lightnin’ Slim died in Detroit on July 27, 1974 of stomach cancer. Image: Amazon

  Singer, song writer and electric and acoustic blues guitarist Frankie Lee Sims was born on April 30, 1917, in New Orleans, Louisiana. The musician Little Hat Jones taught him to play the guitar and he ran away from home when he was twelve. After four years in the US marines, he returned to his music with renewed focus and by the late 1940s had established himself in the Dallas blues scene. He was a cousin of Lightning Hopkins, and is now seen as an important figure in postwar Texas country blues. Frankie Lee Sims died in Dallas, Texas, of pneumonia, age 53, on May 10, 1970. At the time of his death he was under investigation for a “shooting incident”. Image: Copyright Control

  Soul singer Joe Simon was born in Simmisport, Louisiana on September 2, 1943. “Say” was first released in 1964 on the famed Vee Jay label. The track was released in the UK on Sue LP ILP 943 “Dr Soul”. In his career, he had 14 top ten hits including three number one positions on the US R&B chart. Billboard notes: “In 1983, he gave up what he called “worldly music,” according to his grandson, to become an ordained minister, working as a traveling pastor, beginning with a sermon to 4,000 people at the Rapides Coliseum near New Orleans. He made the change after a dramatic onstage moment before 10,000 fans when he forgot the words of the pop and R&B hits he’d been singing for 25 years.” Joe Simon died on Dec. 13, 2021 in his hometown near Chicago. He was 85. Image: Ace Records/Spring Records

  Famed doo-wop group Shep and the Limelights were James “Shep” Sheppard, Clarence Bassett and Charles Baskerville. “Oh what a feeling” was originally the B side of their recording of “Three steps from the altar”, and was released in the US in September, 1961. “Oh what a feeling”, Hull 747, UK Sue LP ILP 943 “Dr Soul”. James Sheppard was born on September 24, 1935 and died on January 24, 1970. Clarence Bassett was born on March 13, 1936 and died on January 25, 2005. Charles Baskerville was born on July 6, 1936 and died on January 18, 1995. Image; Copyright Control

  Roscoe Shelton was born on August 22, 1931. He first came to attention singing with gospel groups The Fireside Gospel Singers and The Fairfield Four. In the book “Just my soul responding”, Brian Ward notes that Shelton once had to hide under his car to escape being beaten up by Klansmen in Mississippi. Roscoe Shelton  died on July 27, 2002 of unknown causes.   “Strain on my heart” was his best selling record and was made in 1964. It was issued on Sue WI 354. On many copies, the labels were reversed. Thanks to Mike Atherton for the information. Image: Copyright Control

  Bernard Bobroff (Doug Sheldon) was born in London in 1936. He is a former singer and actor and a novelist. He shared a flat in London with three other unknown actors including Michael Caine and Sean Connery. After appearing in the war firm The Guns of Navarone he was offered a recording contract with Decca Records. He then became a novelist and has also appeared in television dramas including “Dr Who”. The Sue recording on WI 332 was made in London. I am now informed that this single was quickly withdrawn from sale. Image: Copyright Control

  Singer and drag artiste Jackie Shane was born in Nashville, Tennessee on 15 May 1940 and became well known in Toronto, Canada’s rhythm and blues scene in the 1960s. A pioneering transgender person, Jackie Shane recorded a number of sides for US Sue, and last performed in 1971. Jackie Shane died in Nashville, Tennessee on  22 February 2019. Image: Bandcamp

  The group line up on the recording of "Oh how Happy"  is understood to be Nick Marinelli, Ernie Dernai, Linda Allen, and Bob Kerr. The song was r ecorded in Detroit in the spring of 1966, and was the group’s biggest success.     The Shades of Blue  are still performing, but the original line up disbanded around 1970. Nick Marinelli also recorded with the Motown group The Valadiers. Image: Restored by Google

  Various Artists - The Best Of Sue Records - Collectables COL 5123 (2007) Track Listing: It’s gonna work out fine – Ike and Tina Turner (Seneca)| Mocking Bird – Inez and Charlie Foxx (Foxx, Foxx)| A handful of memories – Baby Washington (Porter, Miller) | Itchy twitchy feeling – Bobby Hendricks (Oliver) | I can’t stand it – The Soul Sisters (MacSAllister) | Poor Fool – Ike and Tina Turner (Turner) | She blew a good thing – The Poets (Lewis, Murray) | I know – Barbara George (George) | I’ve got a woman – Jimmy McGriff  (Charles) | A fool in love – Ike and Tina Turner (Turner) | The real thing – Tina Britt (Ashford, Simpson, Armstead)  | Vengeance will be mine – The Matadors (Garfield) | Let’s work together – Wilbert Harrison (Harrison) | That’s how heartaches are made – Baby Washington (Raleigh, Halley) | Stick shift – The Duals (Bellinger) | A Thousand dreams – Bobby Hendricks (Oliver) | She put the hurt on me – Prince La La (Nelson) | May I have this dance – The Senors ...

  I've Got A Feeling - The Best of Baby Washington - Stateside  474 4472 Track Listing: The Ballad of Bobby Dawn (Halley) | There he is (Weiss, Edwards) | Leave me alone (Weiss, Edwards, Maurer) | That's how heartaches are made (Raleigh, Halley) | Careless hands (Miles) | Standing on the pier (Washington) | Hush heart (Washington) | I've got a feeling (Washington) | You and the night and the music (Dietz, Schwartz) | It'll never be over for me (Blagman, Bobrick) | Only those in love (Kaempfert, Singleton) | I can't wait until I see my baby again (Taylor, Ragavoy) | A handful of memories (Porter, Miller) | No time for pity (Weiss, Edwards) | I'm on the outside looking in (Randazzo, Weinstein) | Take me like I am (Bailey, Clark) | All around the world (Turner) | I got it bad and that ain't good (Webster, Ellington) | People sure act funny (Turner) | I'm calling you baby (Carroll, Glover) | Get a hold on yourself (Reeves) | This old world (Glover) | At last...

  Baby Washington - The Sue Singles - Kent  CDKEND 136 Track Listing: No tears (Washington) | Go on (Rodriguez) | A handful of memories (Porter, Miller) |  Careless hands (Miles) |   I've got a feeling (Washington) |  Hush heart (Washington) |   Standing on the pier (Washington) | The clock (Washington) |  That's how heartaches are made (Raleigh, Halley) |   There he is (Weiss, Edwards) | Leave me alone (Weiss, Edwards, Maurer) |  Hey lonely (Jackson, Murray) |  I can't wait until I see my baby again (Taylor, Ragavoy) |  Who's going to take care of me (Washington) |  It'll never be over for me (Blagman, Bobrick) |  Move on drifter (Washington) | Run my heart (Taylor, Farrell) | Your fool (Washington) |  Only those in love (Kaempfert, Singleton) |   No time for pity (Weiss, Edwards) |   You and the night and the music (Dietz, Schwartz) |  Doodlin' (Silver, Hendricks) |  The Ballad of Bobby Dawn (Hal...

Various Artists - I Can't Stand It - The Best Of Sue Records (   | EMI-Liberty (Toshiba, Japan) Barcode 4 988006 701007,  2014) Track Listing: CD1: The groove – Ike Turner  (Turner) | A fool in love – Ike and Tina Turner (Turner) | Itchy twitchy feeling – Bobby Hendricks (Oliver) | Psycho – Bobby Hendricks (MKcPhatter) | Believe it or not – Don Covay (Randolph) | Night ridin’ -The Night Riders (Van Walls) | I idolise you – Ike and Tina Turner (Turner) | It’s gonna work out fine – Ike and Tina Turner (McCoy, Robinson) | My man Rockhead – Eloise Carter (Turner) | Keep your business to yourself – Pearl Woods (Woods, Kirkland) | Don’t start me talking – Johnny Darrow (Williamson) | Trouble up the road – Jackie Brenston (Turner) | That’s all I Need – Ike Turners’ Kings of Rhythm (Turner) | Stick shift – The Duals (Bellinger, Langeman) | I’ve got a woman – Jimmy McGriff (Charles) | Hitch hike – Russell Byrd (Berns) | Annie Don’t Love me no more – The Hollywood Flames (Berry, Ja...

  CD: Various Artists - Sticks And Stones - The Sue Records Story (2013) Track listing: Ike and Tina Turner – A fool in love (Turner) | Bobby Hendricks – Itchy Twitchy Feeling (Oliver) | The Duals – Stick Shift (Bellinger, Lageman)| Sonny Jackson – My Babe (Dixon)  | Baby Washington – Hush Heart (Washington) | Barbara George – Send for me if you need some lovin’  (George) | Don Covay – Betty Jean (Randolph, Oliver) | Jimmy Barnes – If by any chance (Barnes, Jackson) | Mighty Hannibal – The biggest cry (Shaw) | Mamie Bradley – I feel like a million (Gibson) | The Honey Dos – Honey dew (Robinson)  | Eloise Carter – My man Rock Head (Turner)  | Johnny Darrow – Don’t start me talking (Williamson) | Jimmy McGriff – I’ve got a woman Pt 1 (Charles) | Sammi Lynn – You should know I’m still your baby (Nitzsche)  | Ike and Tina Turner – It’s gonna work out fine (McCoy, Robinson) | Johnnie Mae Mathews – My little angel (Bennet, Matthews) | The Matadors – Pennies from ...

  Businessman, record producer, arranger, A&R man, music publisher, guitarist and songwriter Marshall Estus Sehorn was born on June 25, 1934. He attended North Carolina State University and while at University played guitar for local bands. He graduated in 1958 and went to New York to work with Bobby Robinson as an A&R man. He ran sessions for Robinson’s Fire and Fury labels until they closed in 1963, then he moved south and became Allen Toussaint’s business partner. He started in the record industry in 1958 when he joined Bobby Robinson in New York. He moved south and played a major part in the development of rhythm and blues and soul music in New Orleans during its most creative period. He discovered Wilbert Harrison, Lee Dorsey and Bobby Marchan. He will be forever associated with his partnerships with Lee Dorsey, Allen Toussaint, Betty Harris and many more artists. In the 1970s he changed his focus to management of music licensing rights, which landed him in trouble wit...

  R&B trumpeter, bandleader, songwriter, arranger, record producer and A&R man for Duke/Peacock Records, Joseph Wade “Joe” Scott, was born in in Texarkana, Texas on December 2, 1924 and settled in Houston, Texas, around 1950. He wrote and arranged songs for Johnny Ace, Big Mama Thornton, Bobby Bland and Junior Parker, as well as leading their touring bands, and is regarded as the man who created the big horn sound for blues bands. His big bands created the “Duke sound”. Joe Scott moved back to California in around 1970 and died in Culver City, California on March 6, 1979, aged 54. Image: Discogs/Copyright Control

  The Sapphires, a vocal group from Philadelphia, were Carol Jackson, George Garner and Joe Livingston. This was their first single, and features Leon Huff and Thom Bell on keyboards. Philadelphia session men Bobby Eli and Bobby Martin are also on the recording. The record did not chart. The Sapphires went on to make more singles and an album but broke up in 1966. Image: Geezer Music Club

  Musician, singer, composer, record producer, talent scout, session musician, arranger, record label owner, social entrepreneur and boxer William James Dixon was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, one of 14 children,  on 1 July 1915. He is one of the most prolific song writers with more than 500 published songs, and together with Muddy Waters' helped to shape the sound and style (and success) of 20th century rhythm and blues music. Most of his songs were written during the peak years of Chicago's Chess Records, 1950 to 1965.  Dixon was also an important link between blues music and rock and roll music. Dixon was six feet six inches tall and won a boxing championship in 1937. He met Leonard Caston at a boxing gym, and Caston persuaded him to take a more active role in music. By 1951 he was a full time staff member at Chess. He was one of the founders of the Blues Heaven Foundation. Willie Dixon died from diabetes and heart failure in Burbank, California, on 29 January 1992. ...

An apparently pirate edition of ILP 917 was issued around 1982. Image: Collection of Paul Sawtell.

  IWP 5 - Various Artists - This Is Blues (1969) Track listing:  Homesick James - Crossroads (Johnson, James) | J B Lenoir - I sing um the way I feel (Lenoir) | Elmore James - It hurts me too (James, Sehorn) | Buster Brown - Doctor Brown  (Brown, Brown) | Sonny Boy Williamson - No nights by myself (Miller) | Willie Mae Thornton - Tom cat (Murphy, Allen) | Freddy King - Driving sideways  (King, Thompson, Bridge) | Lowell Fulson - Talking woman blues (Fulson)  | Lightnin' Hopkins - Wonder what is wrong with me (Hopkins)  | Frankie Lee Sims - What will Lucy do (Sims, Vincent) | Otis Rush - I can't quit you baby (Dixon) | Junior Wells - Prison bars all around me (London, Blakemore) | Sammy Myers - Sleeping in the ground (Myers) | Tarheel Slim - Number nine train (Bunn) Image: Collection of Martin Whitell.

Recorded by the Courier label of Ohio, very little is known of the Santelles, who may have also been known as the Shantelles. The record was issued in 1964 or 1966 and was produced by Robert T, Brown, the owner of Courier Records, who may now be deceased, and has not updated  his facebook page  for nine years.

  Issued by The Decca Company in 1965 on their London-American label, index no. HAC 8239, in mono only. It was the UK issue of an American Sue LP issued first under the name of “The Sue Story Volume 1” and later re-issued as “Sue Old Goodies” on index no. US Sue LP 1021. This compilation album was not issued by Island/Sue but is included for completeness. The track listing is: I can’t stand it – The Soul Sisters (McAllister) | Mockingbird – Inez and Charlie Foxx (Foxx, Foxx) | That’s how heartaches are made – Baby Washington (Raleigh,  Halley)  | I’ve got a woman – Jimmy McGriff (Charles) | I know – Barbara George (George) | It’s gonna work out fine – Ike and Tina Turner (McCoy, Robinson) | Stick Shift – The Duals (Bellinger) | She put the hurt on me – Prince La La (Nelson) | A fool in love – Ike and Tina Turner (Turner) | Itchy Twitchy Feeling – Bobby Hendricks (Oliver) | ...

Martin Whitell has obtained this double vinyl album set of the two UK Sue Story LPs. They were issued on the Line/Outline label, index number OLDLP 8022 DX, 1983. Track listing: LP1 is the same as ILP 925 The Sue Story. Chris Kenner - Land of 1000 dances (Kenner)  | Ike and Tina Turner - I can't believe what you say (Turner) | Donnie Elbert - A little piece of leather (Elbert, Dallas) | Harold Betters - Do anything you wanna (Betters, Ramsey) | The Daylighters - Oh mom (Colbert) | Irma Thomas - Don't mess with my man (Labostrie) | Bobby Peterson - Rockin' Charlie (Peterson) | Otis Redding - Fat girl (Redding) | Wilbert Harrison - Let's stick together (Harrison) | The Pleasures - Music City (Howard) | Bob and Earl - Harlem Shuffle (Relf, Nelson) | James Brown - Night train (Forrest, Simpkins, Washington) | The Olympics - The bounce (Frizer, Lewis, Ward) | Joe Tex - Yum yum yum (Tex) | Paul Revere and The Raiders - Like long hair (Revere) | Bobby Parker - Watch your step ...

  Chicago based blues musician Samuel “Magic Sam” Gene Maghett was born in Grenada, Mississippi, on February 14, 1937. He learned to play blues music by listening to records by Muddy Waters and Little Walter. He moved to Chicago in 1956 and quickly found work in the West Side clubs. Then he was drafted into the U.S. Army. He deserted, spent six months in prison for desertion, and received a dishonourable discharge. Among others, he is associated with the record producer Willie Dixon, who highly regarded his unusual playing style. He toured Britain and Europe in the late 1960s. In 1969 he appeared at the Ann Arbor Blues Festival, which led to fame. Magic Sam suddenly died in Chicago, Illinois, on December 1, 1969 of a heart attack, aged only 32. Image: Past Blues

  Blues musician Otis Rush Jr was born in Philadelphia, Mississippi, on April 29, 1935. He was a left handed player whose style greatly influenced guitarists including Michael Bloomfield, Peter Green and Eric Clapton. He worked on a family farm during his childhood. He taught himself how to play guitar when he was eight, and also sang in church choirs. Rush moved to Chicago in 1949, was inspired by Muddy Waters and began playing in blues clubs on the South and West Side of the city. “I can’t quit you baby” was his debut single for Cobra records, with whom he recorded from 1958 to 1960; when Cobra went bust he moved to the Chess label. In April 2018, the Jazz Foundation of America honoured him with a lifetime achievement award. Otis Rush died from complications after a stroke in Chicago, USA on September 29, 2018. Image:  Jack Vartoogian/Getty Images

  The vocal group Rosie and the Originals were best known for their single, “Angel Baby” and are understood to have been Rosie Hamlin, Noah Tafolla, David Ponce, Tony Gomez, Carl Von Goodat and Alfred Barrett.  They are unconnected with the Motown group The Originals. Rosalie “Rosie” Méndez Hamlin, July 21, 1945 – March 30, 2017 Barrett, Alfred Bentley, James Gomez, Tony Tafolla, Noah Ponce, David Image: Wikipedia | Undated