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	VH1.com : Ruth Brown : Biography - Urge Music Downloads
		Ruth Brown's regal hitmaking reign from 1949 to
		Unfortunately, Brown's debut session for the firm was delayed by a nine-month hospital stay caused by a serious auto accident en route to New York that badly injured her leg.
		Brown belted a series of her hits on the groundbreaking TV program Showtime at the Apollo in 1955, exhibiting delicious comic timing while trading sly one-liners with MC Willie Bryant (ironically, ex-husband Jimmy Brown was a member of the show's house band).
	www.vh1.com /artists/az/brown_ruth/bio.jhtml (606 words)

	Ruth Brown - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ruth Weston, January 30, 1928 in Portsmouth, Virginia) is a singer known for a series of hit songs for Atlantic Records.
		Ruth Brown's father was a dockhand who directed the local church choir, but the young Ruth showed more of an interest in singing at USO shows and nightclubs.
		Ruth Brown is a favorite artist and inspiration of a later blues artist, Miss Bonnie Raitt.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ruth_Brown (426 words)

	Ruth Brown - "Miss Rhythm"
		Ruth Brown began singing in public as a teenager, performing at U.S.O. gatherings in her hometown of Portsmouth during World War II.
		Ruth Brown, born Ruth Alston Weston in 1928, is among the first group of inductees into the Legends of Music Walk of Fame on Granby Street in downtown Norfolk.
		Although a stroke three years ago has left her unable to perform at the ceremony, Ruth Brown will be at the Roper Center for the Performing Arts to see her name enshrined on the walk of fame, and to bask in the applause of the region that's proud to call her one of its own.
	www.jimnewsom.com /PFW-RuthBrown.html (1489 words)

	1950s R&B star Ruth Brown dies at age 78 - Boston.com
		Brown, whose recordings of "Teardrops in My Eyes," "5-10-15 Hours" and "(Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean" shot her to rhythm-and-blues stardom in the 1950s, has died.
		Brown, who later in life won a Grammy and a Tony, died Friday of complications from a stroke and heart attack at a Las Vegas-area hospital, said Lindajo Loftus, a publicist for the Rhythm and Blues Foundation, which Brown helped establish.
		Brown enjoyed a career renaissance in the mid-70s when she began recording blues and jazz tunes for a variety of labels and found success on the stage and in movies.
	www.boston.com /ae/music/articles/2006/11/17/1950s_rb_star_ruth_brown_dies_at_age_78 (536 words)

	Ruth Brown, Charlie Brown CD profieles on Rev. Rabia BLUES UP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		As young Ruth was much inspired by jazz divas Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday and Dinah Washington, that she run away from home in 1945 to hit the road with trumpeter Jimmy Brown whom she soon married.
		Brown won Grammy award for her album ''Blues on Broadway.'' Ruth found Board of Trustees of the Rhythm and Blues Foundation based in the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.
		Brown himself was heavily influence by Robert Johnson, Louis Jordan and (singer) Pha Terrell.
	www.bluesup.com /CDreviewsBr.html (763 words)

	Straight.com Vancouver \| Movies \| Lightning in a Bottle Bravely Belts Out R & B
		Brown is one of more than 50 stars of Lightning in a Bottle--a concert documentary blended with blues history--that was shot by Antoine Fuqua (Training Day) at Salute to the Blues, a benefit concert produced by Martin Scorsese at New York's Radio City Music Hall last February.
		For Brown, the concert was especially meaningful because a few years ago she was told she'd never sing again.
		Brown's memories of her early touring days are worth a movie of their own.
	www.straight.com /content.cfm?id=6560 (739 words)

	NothinButDaBlues November Featured Artist: Miss. Rhythm: RUTH BROWN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Ruth was thrust into the role of single parent raising two boys alone, forcing her to take jobs as a maid, driving a school bus, and as a head start teacher.
		Ruth is on the mend and eager to start singing again but still needs a bit more time to recuperate before resuming her schedule.
		Miss Rhythm is a candid and revealing autobiography of rhythm and blues legend Ruth Brown, her music, her landmark confrontation with Atlantic Records and her much lauded comeback as one of the music scene's most dynamic and versatile performers.
	nothinbutdablues.bizland.com /FeaturedArtistNovember.chtml (2069 words)

	Metroactive Books \| Ruth Brown
		And if Ruth Brown ("[Mama] He Treats Your Daughter Mean," "5-10-15 Hours") has anything to do with it, those early linchpins of today's popular-music industry will at the very least be remembered by the big dealers and wheelers cashing in on the business.
		BROWN'S BUSINESS relationship with Atlantic Records (dubbed "the house that Ruth built" by her peers) and her subsequent role as indefatigable champion of fl artists "served" by the system are both poignant and revelatory.
		Brown provides a frank account of how RandB pioneers were suckered out of the kind of loot today's rock gods take for granted, and she is not afraid to name names, either.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/05.30.96/brown-9622.html (683 words)

	Ruth Brown, Atlantic Records, Miss Rhythm, Ray Charles, Bobby Darin, Teardrops From My Eyes, 5-10-15 Hours, Mama, He ...
		Ruth Brown had a style all her own with a little throaty rasp that no one else could duplicate, whether on a ballad or an up tempo record.
		Ruth appeared in the movie "Under the Rainbow" in 1981 and the TV shows "Hello Larry" and "Checking In" in the 1980s and was great in the movie "Hairspray" in 1988.
		Ruth had been denied her just royalties and finally this injustice was repaid by Atlantic records to Ruth and others.
	www.soul-patrol.com /soul/ruthbrown.htm (1593 words)

	Book Review: The Dismissal of Miss Ruth Brown [Progressive Librarian]
		It was Ruth Brown's anti-racism, anti-discrimination and support of interracial programs that were perceived as the threat to the comfortable life of many in the community where an adequate supply of Negro manual labor was always available to do the daily chores.
		Ruth Brown was one of those who battled censorship, but no one knows how many chose to avoid any problems by not purchasing potentially controversial publications.
		Ruth Brown's story became the basis of the film Storm Center, starring Bette Davis, when a screenwriter read an eloquent letter to the editor in the Saturday Review written by a friend of Brown's, describing the events surrounding Brown's firing (p.128).
	libr.org /pl/18_Horn.html (1344 words)

	Ruth Brown
		Though Brown never learned to read a note, her ear for music--jazztrumpeter Dizzy Gillespie once said, "Ruth Brown could hear a rat wee oncotton"--and her ability to deliver every tender nuance and doubleentendre soon had nightclubs abuzz.
		Ruth Brown was almost left for dead until someonetried to extricate her from the wreck by her legs.
		While Brown is in New York, she reconnoiterswith Sneed to brainstorm a way to revive the arts and education programof International Art of Jazz, which, after thirty years of bringingmusicians into the schools, and concerts to poor communities, has lostits funding.
	pace.unipi.it /MakeItFair/restitution/ruth_brown.php (4135 words)

	Scratch Crib: Ruth Brown's Rainbow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Ruth Brown was bigger than New York, where she cut her R&B chops and she was larger than Las Vegas, where she died from complications of a stroke and a heart attack on Nov. 17.
		By 1989 Brown's career had been on the ascent after John Waters cast her as Motormouth Mabel in the film version of "Hairspray." As a result of the hit film, Brown was invited to a White House correspondents' dinner.
		Ruth Brown ought to be on a postage stamp,, Mt Rushmore, and while your at it: Name some streets for her -- Good job Dave -- she was and is a giant.
	blogs.suntimes.com /hoekstra/2006/11/post_1.html (1266 words)

	R&B queen Ruth Brown dies - Listen Up - USATODAY.com
		Ruth Brown, an RandB pioneer with robust pipes, a seductive, swaggering style and a brash sense of humor, died today in a Las Vegas area hospital from complications after a stroke and heart attack.
		Brown was among the lucky soul veterans to be acknowledged and rewarded in her lifetime.
		Brown also was given a Pioneer Award by the Rhythm and Blues Foundation, founded partly as a result of her campaign to raise awareness of the achievements of RandB musicians.
	blogs.usatoday.com /listenup/2006/11/rb_queen_ruth_b.html (2529 words)

	Ruth Brown Remembered
		Ruth Brown was the second most popular female RandB singer of the early and mid-1950s, right behind Dinah Washington.
		Ruth had to finish out her time at the Crystal Caverns, which had stretched from one week to 16.
		It was the first Ruth Brown record to feature her back-up group, the Rhythmakers, who were usually Atlantic's ubiquitous Cues, but on this session were actually the Drifters.
	www.spectropop.com /remembers/RuthBrown.htm (2453 words)

	LivinBlues- Ruth Brown
		Ruth Brown was born Ruth Weston in Portsmouth, Virginia on January 12, 1928.
		Ruth began to sing at the local AME church where her father was the choir director.
		Ruth Brown's story as an entertainer could have ended with her "retirement" in the early 60s, but by the mid-70s her career was back on track.
	www.livinblues.com /bluesrooms/ruthbrown.asp (494 words)

	Ruth Brown CD Review
		Ruth Brown is a septuagenarian chanteuse of impeccable pedigree.
		Her latest album is a tasteful blend of blues and jazz, dominated by a classy and noticeably New Orleans brass section.
		This CD is for those who already own Ruth Brown CDs, who even now are reaching for their credit cards.
	www.mnblues.com /cdreview/cd-ruthbrown.html (424 words)

	Pieta Brown
		The daughter of two preacher's kids, Brown spent her childhood in Iowa and Alabama amidst a bohemian and musical family.
		Rambling, in her early 20s, Pieta Brown picked up a Maybell archtop guitar and honed her influences for what quickly became the songs on her eponymous first album.
		Brown has recently started collaborations with indie band Calexico and is also currently working on her next album, due in 2007.
	www.rosebudus.com /brown (344 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Features -- Blues singer Ruth Brown dies at 78
		In 1989 Ruth Brown received a Grammy Award for the album "Blues On Broadway." In 1993, she was inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
		Brown was given a Pioneer Award from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation, an organization which was founded as a direct result of her efforts to foster wider recognition and provide financial assistance to Rhythm and Blues musicians of any stature.
		Ruth is survived by her two sons, Earl Swanson and Ron Jackson, and siblings: Leonard Weston, Delia Weston, Benjamin Weston and Alvin Weston.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/features/20061117-1632-ruth_brown.html (780 words)

	Ruth Brown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		But Brown's saving her heart for tomorrow, when she'll pour it out in a funny, captivating, poignant set of little over a half-hour that makes the day's headliners -- especially Patti LaBelle playing her cookie-cutter RandB/pop -- seem shallow.
		When Brown's hits stopped, in the '60s, she stayed busy in nightclubs and made albums for various labels.
		Yet it seems that music has always fired Brown's creative passions the brightest -- right from the days she started singing as a child in the churches of Virginia, where she was born, and North Carolina, where her family worked farms in the summer.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/music/97/10/23/RUTH_BROWN.html (1409 words)

	Ruth Brown
		"In the Fifties, Ruth Brown was known as “Miss Rhythm,” a testament to her stature as a female rhythm and blues singer whose only serious competition was Dinah Washington.
		Brown’s two dozen hit records helped Atlantic secure its footing in the record industry, a track record for which the young label was referred to as “the House That Ruth Built.”
		However, while en route to New York to sign it, Brown was involved in a serious car accident, which landed her in a Philadelphia hospital for a year.
	www.rockhall.com /hof/inductee.asp?id=72 (655 words)

	Ruth Brown: The Book of Ruth
		Ruth Brown was inducted into Norfolk’s Legends of Music Walk of Fame in September, 2002, but she hasn’t yet seen the star with her name embedded in the Granby Street sidewalk in person.
		The film crew is coming here to capture Ruth’s return home to Portsmouth, where she was born Ruth Alston Weston on January 12, 1928, the daughter of the choir director of Emanuel A. Church, and to Norfolk, where her singing career began.
		In fact, her record label, Atlantic, was called “the house that Ruth built” in the 1950s, for the decade-long string of hits she recorded for them beginning with “So Long” in 1949.
	www.jimnewsom.com /PFW05-RuthBrown.html (1035 words)

	Ruth Brown
		Ruth Brown is best remembered as a recording star in the mid-'50s, at a time when she was sharing the "Atlantic Records" spotlight with such luminaries as Joe Turner, Clyde McPhatter, LaVern Baker, and the Clovers.
		In addition, Ruth Brown is very much alive and well and performing on a regular basis.
		And for those of you who have burrowed down this far, why not take a look at my handsome son and his wife proudly posing with Ruth Brown at the autograph session during the 1997 Blues Cruise.
	www.geocities.com /~jimlowe/randb/ruth-b.html (453 words)

	Ruth Brown, R&B Singer and Actress, Dies at 78 - New York Times
		Ruth Brown, the gutsy rhythm-and-blues singer whose career extended to acting and crusading for musicians’ rights, died on Friday in Las Vegas.
		Brown sustained a career for six decades: first as a bright, bluesy singer who was called “the girl with a tear in her voice” and then, after some lean years, as the embodiment of an earthy, indomitable fl woman.
		Brown was born Ruth Weston on Jan. 12, 1928, in Portsmouth, Va., the oldest of seven children.
	www.nytimes.com /2006/11/17/arts/music/17cnd-brown.html?ex=1321419600&en=690a3b1f281c5508&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (924 words)

	The Seattle Times: Nation & World: R&B pioneer Ruth Brown, 78
		Ruth Brown was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993.
		Ruth Brown, the pioneering singer whose 1950s hits, including "Teardrops From My Eyes" and "(Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean," helped establish the rhythm-and-blues form and Atlantic Records as the genre's pre-eminent record label, died Friday in a Las Vegas-area hospital.
		Brown had to support herself and her two children through a variety of menial jobs in the 1960s and '70s, after musical tastes changed and other artists took over the charts.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2003436752_brownobit18.html (419 words)

	The Dismissal of Miss Ruth Brown: Civil Rights, Censorship, and the American Library by Louise S. Robbins
		In truth, however, Brown was fired because she had become active in promoting racial equality and had helped form a group affiliated with the Congress of Racial Equality.
		This combination of forces ensnared Ruth Brown and her colleagues-for the most part women and African Americans-who championed the cause of racial equality.
		Relevant today, Ruth Brown's story helps us understand the matrix of personal, community, state, and national forces that can lead to censorship, intolerance, and the suppression of individual rights.
	www.bartlesville.org /html/ruthbrown.html (477 words)

	Ruth Brown - Biography and Recommendations
		Born Ruth Alston Weston, 'Miss Rhythm' is perhaps best known by younger audiences through her role as DJ Motormouth Mabel in the John Waters film Hairspray; in the 1950s however, it's not too extreme a position to suggest that the wonderful Atlantic Records label was built almost entirely around her early R&B successes.
		From around 1949 through to the end of the 1950s, Ruth had a string of R&B successes, although when the hits tried up in the early 60s, the industry was quick to forget about her as she worked as a domestic to make ends meet.
		The young Ruth Weston was a huge fan of Dinah Washington and Sarah Vaughn and she initially performed in the style of those performers with the trumpeter Jimmy Brown, whom she also married (and later divorced).
	www.rhythmandtheblues.org.uk /artists/ruthbrown.shtml (936 words)

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