Rhythm And Blues Events

1946 Dec 21 Louis Jordan's Single, "Let The Good Times Roll," Debuts
On December 21, 1946, Louis Jordan's single, "Let the Good Times Roll," debuted on the Rhythm and Blues charts. Over the next twenty-two weeks, the recording held fast to the chart, occup...
1950 May 13 Stevie Wonder is Born
Stevie Wonder (born Stevland Hardaway Judkins on May 13, 1950; name later changed to Stevland Hardaway Morris) is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer...
1962 Stevie Wonder Releases Tribute to Uncle Ray
Tribute to Uncle Ray is the second album released by Stevie Wonder during his Little Stevie Wonder phase in 1962. The album was a tribute to Wonder's mentor, fellow blind musician Ray Cha...
1962 Sep Stevie Wonder Releases The Jazz Soul of Little Stevie
The Jazz Soul of Little Stevie is the 1962 debut album by Stevie Wonder (then billed as "Little Stevie Wonder") on the Tamla (Motown) label. The LP showcases the twelve-year-old Wonder...
1963 Stevie Wonder Releases "Recorded Live: The 12 Year Old Genius"
Recorded Live: The 12 Year Old Genius is the third album and first live album by Stevie Wonder on the Tamla (Motown) label. Released in 1963, the album finally gained success for the chil...
1963 Dec 28 Stevie Wonder Releases With a Song in My Heart
With A Song In My Heart is a 1963 album by Stevie Wonder on the Tamla (Motown) label. The album was the first to drop Wonder's Little nickname as the 13-year-old singer went the same rout...
1964 Stevie Wonder Releases Stevie at the Beach
Stevie at the Beach is the fifth album by Motown singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder released on the Tamla (Motown) label in 1964. This album—with the exception of the mild hit—"Hey Harmonica...
1966 May 4 Stevie Wonder Releases Up-Tight
Up-Tight is a 1966 album by US singer Stevie Wonder. It was his sixth release. Up-Tight was the breakthrough album for Stevie Wonder, released in 1966 on Motown Records' Tamla label. T...
1966 Nov 16 Stevie Wonder Releases Down to Earth
Down to Earth is a 1966 album by Motown singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder on the Tamla (Motown) label. The album was a departure from Wonder's earlier, teen pop-driven albums. This album an...
1967 Aug 27 Stevie Wonder Releases I Was Made to Love Her
I Was Made to Love Her is an album by Stevie Wonder, released in 1967 under Motown Records.
1967 Nov 27 Stevie Wonder Releases Someday at Christmas
Someday at Christmas is an album by Stevie Wonder, released in 1967 under Motown Records.
1968 Nov 20 Stevie Wonder Releases Eivets Rednow
Eivets Rednow (prominently featuring "Alfie" by Burt Bacharach and Hal David) is a 1968 instrumental album released by Stevie Wonder under the pseudonym Eivets Rednow on the Gordy (Motown...
1968 Dec 8 Stevie Wonder Releases For Once in My Life
For Once in My Life is a 1968 soul album released by Motown singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder on the Tamla (Motown) label. Now eighteen years old, Wonder had established himself as one of M...
1969 Aug 29 Stevie Wonder Releases My Cherie Amour
My Cherie Amour is a 1969 album by American recording artist Stevie Wonder on the Tamla (Motown) label. The album yielded a couple of major hits, including the title track and "Yester-Me,...
1970 Aug 7 Stevie Wonder Releases Signed, Sealed & Delivered
Signed, Sealed & Delivered is Stevie Wonder's twelfth album on the Tamla (Motown) label, released on August 7, 1970. Along with the hit title track, the album also featured the hits "Heav...
1971 Apr 12 Stevie Wonder Releases Where I'm Coming From
Where I'm Coming From is the thirteenth studio album released by Grammy Award-winning American singer Stevie Wonder on the Motown label on April 12, 1971. This album is considered a gr...
1972 Mar 3 Stevie Wonder Releases Music of My Mind
Music of My Mind is a landmark album by Stevie Wonder, released on March 3, 1972 (see 1972 in music). It was the first of five consecutive albums widely hailed as his "classic period", al...
1972 Oct 28 Stevie Wonder Releases Talking Book
Talking Book is the fifteenth album by Stevie Wonder, released on October 27, 1972. It was the second of five consecutive albums referred to as his "classic period", along with Music of M...
1973 Aug 3 Stevie Wonder Releases Innervisions
Innervisions is an album by Stevie Wonder, released on Tamla/Motown on August 3, 1973 (see 1973 in music). It was the third of five consecutive albums widely hailed as his "classic period...
1974 Jul 22 Stevie Wonder Releases Fulfillingness' First Finale
Fulfillingness' First Finale is a landmark album by Stevie Wonder, released on July 22, 1974. It was the fourth of five consecutive albums widely hailed as his "classic period", along wit...
1976 Sep 28 Stevie Wonder Releases Songs in the Key of Life
Songs in the Key of Life is an album by American musician Stevie Wonder, released on Motown on September 28, 1976 (see 1976 in music). It was the last of five consecutive albums widely ha...
1977 Nov 30 Stevie Wonder Releases Looking Back
Looking Back, also known as Anthology, is a triple LP anthology by American soul musician Stevie Wonder, released in 1977 on Motown Records. Since its release in 12' Triple LP format, it ...
1979 Oct 30 Stevie Wonder Releases Journey through the Secret Life of Plants
Stevie Wonder's Journey Through "The Secret Life of Plants" is an album by Stevie Wonder, originally released on the Tamla Motown label on October 30, 1979 (see 1979 in music). It is the ...
1980 Sep 29 Stevie Wonder Releases Hotter than July
Hotter than July is an album by Stevie Wonder, originally released on Motown's Tamla label on September 29, 1980. Despite the wide critical acclaim for Wonder's previous works such as Son...
1982 May 4 Stevie Wonder Releases Stevie Wonder's Original Musiquarium
Stevie Wonder's Original Musiquarium I is a compilation album of R&B/soul musician Stevie Wonder's greatest hits from his 1970s albums, released on the Tamla label in 1982. The album reac...
1984 Apr 1 Marvin Gaye is murdered by his father
On March 31, 1984, Marvin's parents had a domestic argument over misplaced business documents while Marvin, ill from drug use, lay in bed. Upon hearing this, he woke up and told his dad t...
1984 Aug 28 Stevie Wonder Releases The Woman in Red
The Woman In Red Soundtrack is the second soundtrack album released by Motown singing great Stevie Wonder on the Tamla (Motown) label. Also featuring Dionne Warwick, the LP was released i...
1985 Sep 13 Stevie Wonder Releases In Square Circle
"In Square Circle" is a 1985 album released by Grammy Award-winning American R&B/soul singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder (his twentieth overall). The album features the hits "Part-Time Lover...
1985 Sep 30 T-Pain (Faheem Rasheed Najm) Born in Tallahassee, Florida
T-Pain was born Faheem Rasheed Najm on September 30, 1985 in Tallahassee, Florida. At the age of ten, Najm reworked his bedroom into a small studio with a keyboard, beat machine and four-...
1987 Nov 6 Stevie Wonder Releases Characters
Characters is a Grammy Award-nominated album by American recording artist Stevie Wonder, released by Motown Records on November 6, 1987 in the United States. This is Stevie Wonder's twent...
1991 May 28 Stevie Wonder Releases Jungle Fever
"Jungle Fever" is the 1991 soundtrack album by Stevie Wonder released on Motown to Spike Lee's movie Jungle Fever. Wonder was asked by director Spike Lee to compose the film soundtrack an...
1995 Mar 21 Stevie Wonder Releases Conversation Peace
Conversation Peace is an album released by American musician Stevie Wonder, released on the Motown label in 1995. The album was Wonder's first full-length non-soundtrack studio album sinc...
1995 Nov 21 Stevie Wonder Releases Natural Wonder
Natural Wonder is a live album by American musician Stevie Wonder, released in 1995 and recorded in Japan.
2005 Jan R. Kelly Releases Chapters 1-6 of "Trapped in the Closet"
"Trapped in the Closet" is an urban opera, R&B opera, or hip-hopera released by contemporary R&B singer R. Kelly in 2005. The songs relate an ongoing narrative, which Kelly and Jive Recor...
2005 Oct 18 Stevie Wonder Releases A Time to Love
A Time to Love is a 2005 award-winning studio album by Stevie Wonder, his first since 1995's Conversation Peace. Originally to have been completed in 2004, it was finally released to stor...
2006 Aug John Mayer releases "Waiting on the World to Change" single
"Waiting on the World to Change" is the first single released from John Mayer's 2006 studio album, Continuum. The song enjoyed commercial success as a single and won the Grammy for Best M...
2006 Sep 9 John Mayer releases his third studio album "Continuum"
Continuum is the third major label studio album from John Mayer and was officially released in the United States on September 12, 2006. It marked a change in Mayer's musical style, and in...
2006 Nov John Mayer releases "Belief" single
"Belief" was the second single from John Mayer's 2006 album Continuum. The song features Ben Harper on guitar. Despite its success on the American adult album alternative chart and the...
2007 Jan 31 John Mayer releases "Gravity" single
"Gravity" is a song by American singer-songwriter guitarist John Mayer and is featured on two of his releases: the 2005 live album Try! by the John Mayer Trio and his 2006 studio album Co...
2007 Feb 20 "Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin')" by T-Pain Is Released
"Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin')" is a song by American producer/singer-songwriter T-Pain. It was released on February 20, 2007. The song is the first official single from T-Pain's album ...
2007 Jul 4 John Mayer releases "Dreaming with a Broken Heart" single
"Dreaming with a Broken Heart" is a song by John Mayer from his 2006 album Continuum. It was released as digital download single in July 2007. The single entered the U.S Billboard Hot ...
2008 Jul 1 John Mayer releases live album "Where the Light Is: John Mayer Live in Los Angeles"
Where the Light Is: John Mayer Live in Los Angeles, commonly referred to as Where the Light Is, is a live album and concert film by American blues-rock musician John Mayer. Released on Ju...
2009 Jun 22 Singer Chris Brown Sentenced to Five Years Probation
(CNN): A plea deal has been reached in the assault case against singer Chris Brown, defense attorney Mark Geragos said in a hearing Monday. Under terms of the agreement, Brown will ser...