1000 Giants Of Black Music

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CAB CALLOWAY:
Popular night club entertainer whose near-jazz singing and wryly humorous songs not only brought him a huge audience in the `30s and `40s but also greatly influenced artists like Louis Jordan.

1000 GIANTS OF BLACK MUSIC - MAY 1974: - PART THREE
Black Music May 1974: - Vol. 1 / Issue 6

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CHOKER CAMPBELL:
Detroit-based tenor sax man and band leader. His recording career (solo and backing various vocalists) stretches back to the `40s but it was Choker`s work in accompanying all the early Motown arists on stage, and often on record, which brought him his piece of R&B fame. He also recorded for the label with his own band, and several tracks have remained disco favourites in Britain.

1000 GIANTS OF BLACK MUSIC - MAY 1974: - PART THREE
Black Music May 1974: - Vol. 1 / Issue 6

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PRINCE BUSTER CAMPBELL:
One of the most important figures in Jamaican music. Born 1938, he started his own sound system in the early sixties (after working with Sir Coxon) and became a promoter/producer/artist. Early hits like "Wash Wash", "Hard Man Fe Dead" and "Black Head Chinaman" almost single-handedly established ska music, and tracks like "Al Capone" and "Ten Commandments" were hits in America and Britain. Recorded prolifically for Melodisc.

1000 GIANTS OF BLACK MUSIC - MAY 1974: - PART THREE
Black Music May 1974: - Vol. 1 / Issue 6

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GUS CANNON:
Blues singer, banjo player and leader of the legendary Cannon Jug Stompers. His happy, rolicking and bawdy songs made a major impact on pre-war blues. He was re-discovered living in poverty in Memphis in the `60s, after the Rooftop Singers version of his "Walk Right In" was a world smash.

1000 GIANTS OF BLACK MUSIC - MAY 1974: - PART THREE
Black Music May 1974: - Vol. 1 / Issue 6

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CAPITOLS:
Immortalised by their disco classic "Cool Jerk", this trio had a couple more stomping, rather banal hits for Karen in 1966-67.

1000 GIANTS OF BLACK MUSIC - MAY 1974: - PART THREE
Black Music May 1974: - Vol. 1 / Issue 6

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CARAVANS:
perhaps the most influential gospel group of all. Originally formed by Robert Anderson in 1952, its featured vocalists included over the years Bessie Griffin, James Cleveland, Dorothy Norwood, Inez Andrews, Shirley Caesar and Loleatta Holloway.

1000 GIANTS OF BLACK MUSIC - MAY 1974: - PART THREE
Black Music May 1974: - Vol. 1 / Issue 6

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CARDINALS:
Doowopers of the fifties, they clocked up some hits on Atlantic and are still remembered for their beautiful "Washed Ashore".

1000 GIANTS OF BLACK MUSIC - MAY 1974: - PART THREE
Black Music May 1974: - Vol. 1 / Issue 6

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CARL CARLTON:
Starting off as Little Carl Carlton, a 13 year old Stevie Wonder ripoff, he soon dropped the Little and developed a style of his own. His string of hits starting in `68 (all on Back Beat) have kept him a fairly big soul name.

1000 GIANTS OF BLACK MUSIC - MAY 1974: - PART THREE
Black Music May 1974: - Vol. 1 / Issue 6

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JAMES CARR:
Suffering from `poor-man`s Otis` barbs at the height of his popularity in 1966, James in fact produced a string of superb, expressive soul ballads like "You Got My Mind Messed Up" and "Pouring Water On A Drowning Man". Goldwax Records went bust in 1970 and little, save an unsuccessful Atlantic comeback, has been heard from Mr. Carr.

1000 GIANTS OF BLACK MUSIC - MAY 1974: - PART THREE
Black Music May 1974: - Vol. 1 / Issue 6

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LEROY CARR:
Black America`s most popular exponent of blues in the `30s, his gentle and mellow voice and expressive blues piano aided by Scrapper Blackwell`s guitar, made numbers like "How Long, How Long Blues", "Blues Before Sunrise" and "In The Evening" classics of the blues tradition, before his death in 1935.

1000 GIANTS OF BLACK MUSIC - May 1974: - PART THREE
Black Music May 1974: - Vol. 1 / Issue 6

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