MARCH 8th BLUES and R 'n B RECORDINGS WERE IMPORTANT TO THE EVOLUTION OF ROCK 'n ROLL...
On this date in 1936, using the name Bessie Jackson, the always risque blues vocalist Lucille Bogan records Skin Game Blues for Columbia Records in New York City, USA…
In 1950, Billie Holiday records two cuts:
This Is Heaven To Me …
God Bless The Child…
(This was Billie’s final Decca Records session in Los Angeles, California, USA. Orchestral accompaniment is by Gordon Jenkins And His Orchestra)
And in 1953, Memphis DJ Rufus Thomas records Bear Cat and Walking In The Rain at Sun Records studio, 706 Union, Memphis, Tennessee, USA...
Bear Cat is an answer song to Big Mama Thornton's 1953 R 'n B hit Hound Dog...
BLUES AND RnB: MAIN INGREDIENTS IN THE DNA OF ROCK 'n ROLL...
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