R. B. Greaves
Sign in to saveAlso known as Ronald Bertram Aloysius Greaves III
American singer (1943–2012)
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It sits within the topics 1943 births, 2012 deaths and 20th-century American male singers.
Its subject is documented across 5 Wikipedia language editions.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Lays by the way
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1944-11-28
- Active to
- 2012-09-27
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 36,912
- Total plays
- 143,561
Tags
Ronald Bertram Aloysius "R. B." Greaves III (November 28, 1943, Georgetown, Guyana, - September 27, 2012) was a singer who had chart success in 1969 with the pop single "Take a Letter Maria". A #2 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, this single sold one million copies and earned a gold certification from the Recording Industry Association of America. Greaves also had a Top 40 pop hit a year later with "Always Something There to Remind Me". Greaves was born in 1943 on the United States Air Force base
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Georgetown
- Place of death
- Granada Hills
- Occupation
- singer
- Genre
- soul
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Atco Records
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- date of death
- 2012-09-27
- date of birth
- 1943-11-28
- cause of death
- prostate cancer
- manner of death
- natural causes
- start of work period
- 1969-00-00
- place of burial
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Sources (3)
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