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- Title
Faye Adams: 'The Little Gal with The Big Voice'.
- Authors
Tapp, Richard
- Abstract
Faye Adams was one of the big names of the Golden Age of Rhythm & Blues. This was when this exciting music form was being championed by disc jockey Alan Freed but before it really crossed over to the popular market. Faye burst onto the scene in the fall of 1953 with her massive hit 'Shake A Hand' -- one of the best selling R & B hits of the year, and followed up with two more R & B No. 1 hits. She enjoyed great popularity with black audiences and over the next two years was a headliner on several of the big R & B package tours which criss-crossed the States. Despite a fine catalogue of recordings on the Herald, Imperial and Warwick labels, Faye is comparatively unknown and under- appreciated. Perhaps this is because, unlike Ruth Brown, Faye didn't have a subsequent big hit in the heyday of rock 'n' roll. As with Ruth, Faye's grounding was in the church and gospel music and it is there, some ten years later, she chose to return and live in relative obscurity, turning her back on the world of rhythm & blues. This article aims to bring overdue recognition to one of the luminaries of the original R & B era.
- Subjects
ADAMS, Faye; RHYTHM &; blues music; RHYTHM &; blues musicians; WOMEN singers; FREED, Alan
- Publication
American Music Magazine, 2017, Issue 144, p4
- ISSN
0284-706X
- Publication type
Article