Hadda Brooks--Rare 1994 TV Interview
Legendary singer-pianist Hadda Brooks, winner of a Pioneer Award from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation, for such great hits as "That's My Desire," "Trust in Me" and "You Won't Let Me Go," discusses her life and career, including an appearance with Humphrey Bogart in the Nicholas Ray classic "In a Lonely Place," in this 1994 appearance with cable TV host Skip E Lowe.
About Rhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is a genre of popular music that originated within African American communities in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to African Americans, at a time when "rocking, jazz based music ... [with a] heavy, insistent beat" was starting to become more popular. In the commercial rhythm and blues music typical of the 1950s through the 1970s, the bands usually consisted of a pi...
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