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Ruth Brown

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A fox is a wolf who sends flowers.


— Ruth Brown


#fox #sends #who #wolf

But of course it's different now, the blues is no longer blues, it's green now.


— Ruth Brown


#course #different #green #longer #now

I sang on Church Street, every place that had a stage.


— Ruth Brown


#every #had #i #place #sang

I thought the best thing you were supposed to do was find somebody and try to sound like them.


— Ruth Brown


#find #i #like #somebody #sound

I was trying to do Billie Holiday, because she was the voice to be heard at that time.


— Ruth Brown


#billie #billie holiday #heard #holiday #i

If you are speaking about my own songs, I would think so because we were talking about that particular era and I was singing one of my songs that I recorded 50 years ago.


— Ruth Brown


#ago #because #era #i #my own

There are stories that people don't want to talk about that brought this music through.


— Ruth Brown


#brought #music #people #stories #talk

We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues.


— Ruth Brown


#blues #forever #lives #place #prove

When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause.


— Ruth Brown


#duke #duke ellington #ellington #got #i

When I saw all of the people I have known all these years, when we got together, it was scary because B.B King and I lived in the same place in Nevada.


— Ruth Brown


#got #i #king #known #lived






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She was to have further hits with "I Don't Know" in 1959 and "Don't Deceive Me" in 1960 although these were more successful on the R&B chart than on the pop chart. In 1945 Brown ran away from her home in Portsmouth along with trumpeter Jimmy Brown whom Ruth Brown soon married to sing in bars and clubs. Death
Brown died in a Las Vegas-area hospital on November 17 2006 from complications following a heart attack and stroke Ruth Brown suffered after surgery in the previous month.

Following a resurgence that began in the mid-1970s and peaked in the 1980s Brown used her influence to press for musicians' rights regarding royalties and contracts which led to the founding of the Rhythm and Blues Foundation. For these contributions Atlantic became known as "The house that Ruth built" (alluding to the popular nickname for Old Yankee Stadium). Ruth Brown (January 12 1928 – November 17 2006) was an American singer-songwriter and actress also known as "Queen of R&B" noted for bringing a pop music style to R&B music in a series of hit songs for Atlantic Records in the 1950s such as "So Long" "Teardrops from My Eyes" and "(Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean".

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