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Title: B.B. King - The Thrill Is Gone: 1993/Live At B.B. King's Blues Club, Blues Summit
Description: Music video by B.B. King performing The Thrill Is Gone: 1993/Live At B.B. King's Blues Club, Blues Summit
with Steve Purcell, Antony Payne, Lynn Rabren, Melissa Gearhart, Ned Hall, Elliot Scheiner
(C) 1995 Geffen Records
Title: B.B. King - Key to the Highway
Description: BB plays and sings, but there's more of the latter than his famous guitar. Taken from the DVD "The Road to Memphis" (part of a series on the blues by Martin Scorsese)
Title: BB King - Sweet Sixteen
Description: When I first met you baby
baby you were just sweet sixteen
When I first met you baby
baby you was just sweet sixteen
Just left your home then baby
the sweetest thing I'd ever seen
But you wouldn't do nothing for me baby
You wouldn't do anything I asked you to
You wouldn't do nothing for me baby
You wouldn't do anything I asked you to
You know you ran away from your home baby
And now you wanna run away from old me too
You know I love you baby
I love you before I could call your name
You know, you know I loved you baby
Baby I loved you, I love you before I could call your name
It seems like everything I do now baby
Everything I do is in vain
Treat me mean baby
But I'll keep on loving you just the same
Treat me mean baby
I'll keep on loving you just the same
But one of these days baby
You're gonna pay alot of money
Just to hear someone call my name
Yes sweet sixteen baby... sweet sixteen... oh yes
The sweetest thing baby
Oh yese, the sweetest thing I ever seen
You know I'm having so much troublebaby
Baby I wonder
Yes I wonder
Baby I wonder
Oh, I wonder what in the world's gonna happen to me
Title: bb king & Gladys night, please send me someone to love
Description: Blues bb king & friends..gladys night, yhe best of the blues..
Title: Philadelphia - B.B. King (1974)
Description: B.B. King - Philadelphia. Billboard: #19 Soul; #64 Pop; #6 Club
Title: BB King : How Blue Can You Get
Description: Live Sing Sing Prison 1972
Joan Baez in the crowd
Title: Guitar Center KOTB - John Lee Hooker "Boogie Chillin'"
Description: Guitar Center King of the Blues exclusive: John Lee Hooker's "Boogie Chillin'" featuring John Lee Hooker, Eric Clapton & The Rolling Stones - from the Eagle Rock Entertainment Release "Come & See About Me, The Definitive DVD. DVDs available at all store or online @ www.eaglerockent.com
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Title: Atlanta Artist Corey Barksdale BB King Sketch/Speed Drawing
Description: Atlanta artist Corey Barksdale has created a drawing/sketch video about the life of famous Blues musician BB King. At the beginning of the video Corey Barksdale sketches a portrait of BB King using a ball point pen and sharpie marker.
As a painter, Corey Barksdale explores the artistic landscape inspired by the music of jazz greats like Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Charlie Parker. The result is a stunning collection of paintings that celebrate the jazz experience.
Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) February 5, 2005 -- As a painter, Corey Barksdale's work is continually inspired by jazz. "It frees me to do what I feel when I'm painting," Barksdale says. When he's in the studio creating, he often listens to jazz greats like Charlie Parker, Miles Davis and John Coltrane. The result is a stunning collection of more than 30 paintings that celebrate the jazz experience.
B. B. King arrived in Memphis for the first time in 1946 to work as a musician, but after a few months of hardship he left, going back to Mississippi. There he decided to prepare himself better for the next visit and returned to Memphis two years later. Initially he worked at the local R&B radio channel WDIA as a singer. In 1949, he began recording songs under contract with Los Angeles-based RPM Records. Many of King's early recordings were produced by Sam Phillips, who later founded Sun Records. King was also a disc jockey in Memphis, where he gained the nickname "Beale Street Blues Boy", later shortened to "B. B." Before his RPM contract, B. B. had debuted on Bullet Records by issuing the single "Miss Martha King" (1949), which got a bad review in Billboard magazine and did not chart well.
In the 1950s, B. B. King became one of the most important names in R&B music, amassing an impressive list of hits including "You Know I Love You," "Woke Up This Morning," "Please Love Me," "When My Heart Beats like a Hammer," "Whole Lotta Love," "You Upset Me Baby," "Every Day I Have the Blues," "Sneakin' Around," "Ten Long Years," "Bad Luck," "Sweet Little Angel," "On My Word of Honor," and "Please Accept My Love." In 1962,B.B. King signed to ABC-Paramount Records, which was later absorbed into MCA Records, and then his current label, Geffen Records.
In November 1964, King recorded the Live at the Regal album at the Regal Theater in Chicago, Illinois.
B. B. King in concert in France (1989)
B. B. King in concert in France (1989)
King's first success outside the blues market was his 1969 remake of Roy Hawkins' tune "The Thrill Is Gone." King's version became a hit on both pop and R&B charts, which was rare for an R&B artist. It also gained the number 193 spot in Rolling Stone's Top 500 Songs Of All Time. He gained further rock visibility as an opening act on The Rolling Stones much-ballyhooed 1969 American Tour. King's mainstream success continued throughout the 1970s with songs like "To Know You Is to Love You" and "I Like to Live the Love."
[edit] Going mainstream
The 1980s, 1990s and 2000s saw King recording less and less. Yet throughout this time he maintained a highly visible and active career, appearing on numerous television shows and performing 300 nights a year. In 1988 King reached a new generation of fans with the single "When Love Comes To Town," a collaborative effort between King and the Irish band U2 (on their Rattle and Hum album). In 2000, King teamed up with guitarist Eric Clapton to record Riding With the King. In 1998 B. B. King appeared in "The Blues Brothers 2000" playing the part of the lead singer of the Louisiana Gator Boys, along with Eric Clapton, Dr. John, Koko Taylor, and Bo Diddley.
In 2003, King shared the stage with the rock band Phish in New Jersey, performing three of his classics and jamming with the band for over 30 minutes.
In June 2006, King was present at a memorialization of his first radio broadcast at the Three Deuces Building in Greenwood, Mississippi, where an official marker of the Mississippi Blues Trail was erected.Blues Artist, Blues Musician, Blues Music.
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Title: Christina Aguilera and B.B. King live "Merry Christmas baby"
Description: Christina Aguilera and B.B. King live "Merry Christmas baby" in Washington (1999)
Title: BB King Live
Description: The King of Blues is back! The legendary blues guitarist B.B. King lights up the stage with his trusty, lifelong companion Lucille and his remarkable touring band in the new concert, LIVE! Recorded in Tennessee at his two famous eponymous blues clubs, it features many of B.B.'s classic hits like "The Thrill Is Gone" and "When Love Comes To Town," along with several songs never before recorded by blues great, including "You Are My Sunshine" and "When The Saints Go Marching In." Experience the blues like never before from this musical icon.
Title: Eric Clapton & BB King - 3 O'Clock Blues
Description: Eric Clapton & BB King - 3 O'Clock Blues
Title: B.B. King - Bad Luck Soul
Description: B.B. King - Bad Luck Soul
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Title: Linda Hopkins & BB King - Every Day I Have the Blues
Description: Linda Hopkins and B.B. King Duet
Title: Kid Carlos Blues Band ("Guess Who" B.B. King)
Description: III Rock and River Blues Festival 07
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Title: BB King ft Dionne Warwick - Hummingbird
Description: BB King ft Dionne Warwick - Hummingbird [1997,Deuces Wild]