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Do you know where famous record label founder Berry Gordy came up with the name for Motown Records?
Did you know that Otis Redding’s first hit, "These Arms of Mine," was recorded almost by chance?
In 2011, researchers for the Smithsonian Folklife Festival traveled to the Orinoco Plains of Colombia.
R&B bandleader, producer, promoter, songwriter, disk jockey, author, talent scout, and label owner, Johnny Otis has been called the "Godfather of Rhythm and Blues,"
In 1948, Jerry Wexler, a music journalist for Billboard magazine, coined the term "rhythm and blues."
This video features Mark Puryear, curator of the 2011 Folklife Festival program Rhythm and Blues: Tell It Like It Is.
Jerry “Swamp Dogg” Williams will be performing every day on the National Mall on June 30th to July 4th.
In partnership with the National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Festival features a special rhythm and blues (R&B) program that brings live music to our nation's front lawn
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