At the year’s end the R&B-smitten Jopling wrote two articles for Record Mirror, each headed 1963: Rhythm And Blues Made The News. He explained the impetus for writing the pieces, which appeared in ...
Ruth Brown, the vivacious R&B singer whose early hits established Atlantic Records, has died of complications following a stroke and a heart attack in Henderson, Nev. She was 78. (WireImage.com photo) ...