Only a tragic backstage gun accident could have halted the rise of this wonderfully talented singer/pianist, who worked with B.B. King and Bobbie "Blue" Bland before taking off as a solo artist. Here... more

It's a cold, hard fact that some groups are crucial to their genre but aren't a big part of its chart history. Such was true for the Harptones, one of the greatest doo-wop groups but the owners of... more

Mary Wells occupies a unique niche in pop music in that she was the first female artist on any of Motown's labels to have a hit record, and she remained as the vanguard in that regard until leaving... more

What a smooth customer Mayfield was, crooning with a velvet touch and writing classics for himself as well as his longtime associate Ray Charles. Here are just about all the A- and B-sides from his... more

This continues the strand of R&B and country collections associated with Acrobat's highly popular "America's Greatest Hits" series, this one focusing on the top R&B records in the US Billboard charts... more

Very few instrumentalists can match the chart success of American pianist Roger Williams, who had well over thirty chart entries during his career, and came to fame with his 1955 debut hit "Autumn... more

Sam Cooke is widely recognised as the pioneer of soul music, creating the crossover between R&B and pop during the late '50s and hugely influential as both a performer and songwriter. He had a smooth... more