Ruth Brown
Sign in to saveAmerican singer-songwriter (1928-2006)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 20 May 1941
- Died
- 2006-11-17
- Works
- 47
Top works
- L'Homme aux oiseaux
- La Sorcière aux trois crapauds
- L'ours
- Silver Tales - Our Puppy's Holiday
- If at First You Do Not See
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Film & TV
Acting
Ruth Brown (January 12, 1928 – November 17, 2006) was an American rhythm and blues singer and actress, widely regarded as one of the key figures in popularizing R&B music in the 1950s. Known as “Miss Rhythm,” she recorded a series of major hits for Atlantic Records, including “So Long,” “Teardrops from My Eyes,” and “(Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean,” helping establish the label’s early…
Known for
- Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards — Singer (segment "Black and Blue") (archive footage)2005
- Bonnie Raitt: Road Tested — Self - Guest star - Vocals1996
- B.B. King: Blues Summit1995
- Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child — Tortoise / Ant (voice)1995
- Shake, Rattle and Rock! — Ella1994
- Rebel Highway — Ella Baldwin1994
- Black and Blue: A Musical Revue — Singer1993
- Hallelujah — Mrs. Sherman1993
- True Identity — Martha1991
- Montreux Jazz Festival 1991 — Self1991
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 252,238
- Total plays
- 1,313,695
Tags
bluessoulrhythm and bluesjazzfemale vocalists
Ruth Brown (1928–2006) was a U.S. rhythm and blues singer and actress, noted for bringing a popular music style to rhythm and blues in a series of hit songs for fledgling Atlantic Records in the 1950s, such as "So Long", "Teardrops from My Eyes", and "(Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean". Born Ruth Alston Weston on 30th January 1928 in Portsmouth, Virginia, she attended I. C. Norcom High School, a historically black high school. Brown's father was a dockhand who directed the local church choir
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
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Key dates
- Born
- 31 January 1928
- Died
- 17 November 2006
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Brown
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Portsmouth
- Place of death
- Las Vegas
- Occupation
- musician
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
Gallery (2)
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Categories
1928 births2006 deaths20th-century African-American actresses20th-century African-American women singers20th-century American actresses20th-century American singers20th-century American singer-songwriters20th-century American women singers21st-century African-American musicians21st-century African-American women singersActresses from Virginia