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Sykes, Roosevelt
Bey, Roosevelt Sykes
Bragg, Dobby
Johnson, Easy Papa
Kelly, Willie
blues singer, piano, vocals, piano, vocals
| born: 31 Jan 1906 |
Elmar, Arkansas / state, USA |
Source: 1 |
| born: 1906 |
Helena, Arkansas / state, USA |
Source: 2 |
| died: 11 Jul 1983 |
New Orleans, Louisiana / state, USA |
Source: 1 |
| date of Variety obit: 20 Jul 1983 |
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Personenindex
p. 482-514 In:
Rauhaut, Birgit
Rauhut, Michael
Amiga : die Diskographie aller Rock- und Pop-Produktionen 1964-1990; mit uber 1500 teilweise farbigen Abbildungen
Berlin: Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, 1999, 575 p.
Number of People : 3,286
Index
The above item is part of :
Larkin, Colin
The encyclopedia of popular music
Third edition
New York: Macmillan, 1998, 8 v.
Number of People : 43,747
[Artist Index]
The above item is part of :
Ruppli, Michel
The Decca labels. A discography. Volume 6
Record numerical listings & general artist index
Compiled by Michel Ruppli
Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1996, 958 p.
Number of People : 10,351
Cowdery, Charles K.
Blues legends
Salt Lake City: Gibbs-Smith Publisher, 1995, 96 p.
Sonnier, Austin M.
A guide to the blues : history, who's who, research sources
Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1994, 287 p.
Blues-Les incontournables
Turin: Citanes Jazz Productions, 1994, 237 p.
Artist Index
The above item is part of :
Ruppli, Michel
Novitsky, Ed
The Mercury labels : a discography
Compiled by Michel Ruppli and Ed Novitsky
Vol. V: record and artist indexes
Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1993, 882 p.
Number of People : 9,175
St. Pierre, Roger
The best of the blues : the essential CD guide
San Francisco: Collins Publishers, 1993, 144 p.
Larkin, Colin
The Guinness encyclopedia of popular music
Edited by Colin Larkin
Enfield, Middlesex: Guinness Publishing, 1992, 4V p.
Number of People : 5,680
Debord, Brigitte
Herzhaft, Gerard
Encyclopedia of the blues
Translated by Brigitte Debord
Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1992, 513 p.
Artist Index
p. 705-727 In:
Ruppli, Michel
The Aladdin/Imperial labels : a discography
Compiled by Michel Ruppli
Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1991., xiv, 727 p.
Number of People : 1,756
Arniac, Jean-Pierre
Encyclopedie du blues
Photographies de Jean-Pierre Arniac
Barlow, William
Looking up at down
The emergence of blues culture
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989, 404 p.
Country Blues-Biographien
p. 161 In:
Moll, Dieter
Das Buch des Blues
Konigswinter: Heel, 1989, 245 p.
Silvester, Peter J.
Harbinson, Denis
A left hand like God : a study of boogie-woogie
With a special contribution from Denis Harbinson
London: Quartet Books, 1988, 324 p.
Sadie, Stanley
Hitchcock, H. Wiley
The new Grove dictionary of American music
edited by H. Wiley Hitchcock and Stanley Sadie
New York, N.Y. : Grove's Dictionaries of Music, 1986. 4 v.
Number of People : 3,993
Index to music necrology : 1983 necrology
Notes (Music Library Association), 1984, p. 754
Roosevelt Sykes.
Sing Out! 29, no. 4 (October/November/December 1983);: 52-53.
Final Bar : Roosevelt Sykes.
Down Beat 50, no. 10 (October 1983):13.
Roosevelt Sykes, 1906-83.
Pickin' the Blues [Scotland] no. 17 (August 1983):4.
Schweitz, Hans
In Memoriam : Roosevelt Sykes, 1906-1983.
Jefferson [Sweden] no. 62 (Fall 1983) :48.
Koester, Bob
Roosevelt Sykes.
Living Blues no. 57 (Autumn 1983):11-12.
Southern, Eileen
Biographical dictionary of Afro-American and African musicians
Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1981, 478 p.
Number of People : 1,184
McKee, Margaret
Chisenhall, Fed
Beale black & blue : life and music on black America's Main Street
By Margaret McKee and Fed Chisenhall
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1981, 265 p.
Index
The above item is part of :
Perry, Jeb H.
Variety obits. An index to obituaries in Variety, 1905-1978
Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1980, 311 p.
Number of People : 101,729
Harris, Sheldon
Blues who's who
A biographical dictionary of blues singers
New Rochelle, New York: Arlington House, 1979, 775 p.
Number of People : 560
Artists' Index
p. 1754-1845 In:
Rust, Brian
Jazz records 1897-1942
4th revised and enlarged edition
Vol. 2: Abe Lyman to Bob Zurke
New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House Publishers, 1978, 1996 p.
Number of People : 9,605
Kaslow, Allison Miner
Talking to "The Honey-dripper"
An Interview with Roosevelt Sykes.
Sing Out! 26, no. 3 (September/October 1977): 2-6.
Godine, David R.
Blues
Boston: David R. Godine, 1975
Connor, Anthony
Neff, Robert
Blues
Boston: David R. Godine, 1975. 141 p.
London: Latimer New Directions, 1976. 141 p.
Kriss, Eric
Six Blues-Roots Pianists
Down Beat 41 (9 May 1974):33~~
New York: Oak, 1973. 104 p.
Note: Rev.: Coda (Canada) 3 (1975):32.
Smith, Al
Roosevelt Sykes : Dirty Double Mother
Bentley, John
The Honeydripper : Roosevelt Sykes.
Living Blues no. 9 (Summer 1972):21-23.
Bogaert, Karel
Blues Lexicon : blues, Cajun, boogie woogie, gospel
Antwerp: Standaard Uitgeverij, 1971, 480 p.
Number of People : 556
Bohlander, Carlo
Holler, Karl Heinz
Reclams Jazzfuhrer
Von Carlo Bohlander und Karl Heinz Holler
Stuttgart: Philipp Reclam, 1971, 991 p.
Number of People : 1,780
Feather, Leonard
Lewis, John
The encyclopedia of jazz in the sixties
Foreword by John Lewis
New York: Horizon Press, 1966
Number of People : 1,137
Mossel, Eric
Every Day I Heard the Blues.
Blues World [England] no. 8 (May 1966):11-18.
Oliver, Paul
Dobby Bragg : Again!
Blues Unlimited [England] no. 23 (June 1965):7-8.
Parsons, Jack
Honeydripper Blues
A Survey of Roosevelt Sykes on Record.
Blues Unlimited [England] no. 12 (June 1964) :6-8.
Albertson, Chris
The Return of Roosevelt Sykes
Prestige/Bluesville 1006, n.d
Bentley, John
Roosevelt Sykes is Blue and Ribald ...
A "Dirty Mother" for You
Koester, Bob
Roosevelt Sykes in Europe.
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