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Delores LaVern Baker (November 11, 1929 – March 10, 1997) was an American R&B singer who had several hit records on the pop chart in the 1950s and early 1960s. Her most successful records were "Tweedle Dee" (1955), "Jim Dandy" (1956), and "I Cried a Tear" (1958). Baker was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991. The Hall remarked that her "fiery fusion of blues, jazz and R&B showcased her alluring vocals and set the stage for the rock and roll surge of the Fifties". From 1955 to 1965, 20 of her songs made the R&B charts. Over the years, Elvis Presley recorded eight Baker songs

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NINA SIMONE 21/2/1933 - 21/4/2003

R.L. Burnside played the harmonica and dabbled with playing guitar at the age of 16 learned mostly from Mississippi Fred McDowell. He credited singing at church and fife-and-drum picnics as influences in his music, along with Muddy Waters, Lightnin' Hopkins, and John Lee Hooker as influences later on in life. R.L. had a powerful, expressive voice, that did not fail with old age but rather grew richer, and he played both electric and acoustic guitar, with and without a slide. He was the grandfather to Cedric Burnside.

R.L. Burnside died September 1, 2005 in Memphis, Tennessee at the age of 78.

Mona Baptiste was a 21-year-old Trinidadian blues singer, registered as a clerk for the voyage. Six weeks after disembarking, she was singing on the BBC's Light Programme, and would go on a successful tour of English theatres and perform on TV shows, including the Ken Dodd show on the BBC. She went on to develop a hugely successful career as a singer in the UK and Germany.

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Ben Harper, blues.

La cantante blues Bessie Smith posa per un ritratto a New York, 1925

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Happy 78th Birthday Maggie Bell, born 12th January 1945 in Glasgow.

Sometimes the music industry and indeed the people who buy the music can be fickle, if ever there was a voice that screams out quality and deserves to be recognised commercially it is that of Maggie Bell’s

Her career began in the mid-60s as the featured singer in several resident dancehall bands. She made her recording debut in 1966, completing two singles with Bobby Kerr under the name Frankie And Johnny. Bell then joined guitarist Leslie Harvey, another veteran of the same circuit, in Power, a hard rock outfit that evolved into Stone The Crows. This earthy, soul-based band, memorable for Harvey’s imaginative playing and Bell’s gutsy, heartfelt vocals, became a highly popular live attraction and helped the singer win several accolades. Bell’s press release at the time insisted that she would loosen her vocal chords by gargling with gravel!

Harvey, who was Bell’s boyfriend at the time, was tragically electrocuted on stage in 1972. The band, still rocked by his death, split up the following year.

Bell, now managed by Peter Grant, embarked on a solo career with Queen Of The Night, which was produced in New York by Jerry Wexler and featured the cream of the city’s session musicians. The anticipated success did not materialize and further releases failed to reverse this trend. The singer did have a minor UK hit with ‘Hazell’ (1978), the theme tune to a popular television series, but ‘Hold Me’, a tongue-in-cheek duet with B.A. Robertson, remains her only other chart entry. Bell subsequently fronted a new group, Midnight Flyer, but this tough, highly underrated singer, at times redolent of Janis Joplin, has been unable to secure a distinctive career and can still be seen on the blues club circuit. Her interpretations of songs such as Free’s ‘Wishing Well’ and Lennon / McCartney’s ‘I Saw Her Standing There’ are excellent. Bell’s greatest asset remains her uncompromisingly foxy voice.

At 78 I suppose mainstream success has passed Maggie by but she is much admired by many musicians in the business.

The song is the Taggart Theme No Mean City, live at the Ferry in Glasgoe.

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American singer and songwriter Janis Joplin (1943 - 1970) in concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London, 21st April 1969. (Photo by Estate Of Keith Morris/Redferns/Getty Images)