Bull Moose Jackson

Benjamin (Bull Moose) Jackson (1919 1989) was an American blues and rhythm and blues singer and saxophonist. He acquired his nickname from members of the Lucky Millinder orchestra when he played with it in the mid-1940s; his colleagues thought he looked like a bull moose. As a singer he had several rhythm and blues hits for King Records in the late 1940s and early 1950s. he was known for both romantic ballads (for example, "All My Love Belongs to You") and risque jump blues numbers (for example, "Big Ten Inch Record"). His 1947 recording of "I Love You, Yes I Do" was the first rhythm and blues record to sell a million copies.

 

<< PreviousWord BrowserNext >>
ignaz goldziher
u.s. highway 30
limpkin
bill amend
octave crmazie
pele (mythology)
walter devereux, 1st earl of essex
jean drapeau
louis de buade de frontenac
sorley boy macdonnell
prosthetic makeup
asian financial crisis
pierre esprit radisson
baranduin
john coape sherbrooke
cycle space
georges vanier
lunar meteorite
social war
arthur adamov
pyrolysis
philly joe jones
gasification
tadd dameron
ieee 802.6
steve vai
ansgar elde
andrea gabrieli
kaokor galaxy
1988 governor general's awards
wave drag
sabbat (world of darkness)
ocd (disambiguation)
jrgen nash
bernie taupin
thomas tusser
symmetric difference
faro, yukon
public company
secondary dominant
rayleigh distribution
nonchord tone
u.s. congressional delegations from minnesota
eberhard karls university of tbingen