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Ruth Brown

Ruth Brown
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About the artist

Ruth Brown (1928–2006) was a U.S. rhythm and blues singer and actress, noted for bringing a popular music style to rhythm and blues in a series of hit songs for fledgling Atlantic Records in the 1950s, such as "So Long", "Teardrops from My Eyes", and "(Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean". Born Ruth Alston Weston on 30th January 1928 in Portsmouth, Virginia, she attended I. C. Norcom High School, a historically black high school. Brown's father was a dockhand who directed the local church choir

Top songs

  1. I Don't Know
  2. Looking Back
  3. 5-10-15 Hours
  4. Mama He Treats Your Daughter Mean
  5. Teardrops from My Eyes
  6. Lucky Lips
  7. Wild Wild Young Men
  8. Sweet Baby of Mine
  9. As Long as I'm Moving
  10. Oh What a Dream
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  1. Mambo Baby
  2. Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean
  3. I'll Wait for You
  4. So Long
  5. Good Day For The Blues
  6. Daddy Daddy
  7. This Little Girl's Gone Rockin'
  8. I'll Get Along Somehow
  9. Mama He Treats Your Daughter Mean - Single/LP Version
  10. (Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean
  11. Hello Little Boy
  12. If I Can't Sell It, I'll Keep Sittin' On It
  13. Cabbage Head
  14. Sentimental Journey
  15. I Want to Do More
  16. I Know
  17. Somebody Touched Me
  18. I Can See Everybody's Baby
  19. Ice Water In Your Veins
  20. It's Love Baby (24 Hours Of The Day)
  21. Old Man River
  22. Love Contest
  23. Why Me
  24. One More Time
  25. I Gotta Have You
  26. Mend Your Ways
  27. I Wanna Do More
  28. Love Has Joined Us Together
  29. I'm Just A Lucky So And So
  30. You're A Stone Groovy Thing
  31. Shine On
  32. I Can't Hear a Word You Say
  33. It's Love Baby
  34. Please Don't Freeze
  35. Mama He Treats Your Daughter Mean - Single/
  36. That Train Don't Stop Here
  37. You're The Boss
  38. Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out
  39. Have a Good Time
  40. Takin' Care of Business
  41. Be Good To Me Tonight
  42. Oh, What a Dream
  43. Am I Blue
  44. I Can Dream, Can't I
  45. Mama (He Treats Your Daughter Mean)
  46. Why Don't You Do Right
  47. Ever Since My Baby's Been Gone
  48. I Dont Know
  49. Brown Sugar
  50. Never Let Me Go
  51. 5-10-15 Hours - Single/
  52. Hangin' By A Shoestring
  53. Go On Fool
  54. Bye Bye Young Men
  55. I Know - Single Version
  56. Don't Deceive Me
  57. Hey Pretty Baby
  58. Don't Cry
  59. Just Too Much
  60. I Know (Single Version)
  61. St. Louis Blues
  62. I'm Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town
  63. Jack O'Diamonds
  64. Break It To Me Gently
  65. Wild, Wild Young Men
  66. Somebody Touched Me (LP Version)
  67. Standing On the Corner
  68. Be Anything
  69. Get Here
  70. I'll Come Back Someday
  71. I Would If I Could
  72. Ruth Brown - I Dont Know
  73. Shine On (Bright Moon Shine On)
  74. It's All for You
  75. R. B. Blues
  76. When I Get You Baby
  77. 5-10-15 Hours - Single/LP Version
  78. TRUE
  79. Book Of Lies
  80. In Another World
  81. R.B. Blues
  82. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
  83. Miss Brown's Blues
  84. Too Little Too Late
  85. False Friend Blues
  86. A Lover Is Forever
  87. You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
  88. The Richest One
  89. It's Love Baby (24 Hours a Day)
  90. It Could Happen to You

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