Billy Stewart
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Biography
[Edit]Pianist and singer Billy Stewart was a distinctive and influential R&B vocalist whose stuttering delivery and word-repetition technique borrowed liberally from the jazz practice of scat singing. Born in Washington, D.C., in 1937, Stewart started singing publicly with his mother's group, the Stewart Gospel Singers, as a teenager. He moved into secular music by filling in occasionally for the Rainbows, a D.C.-area vocal group led by future soul star Don Covay; like fellow Rainbows substitute Marvin Gaye, Stewart never recorded with them. Despite winning a local talent contest with a unique rendition of Gershwin's "Summertime," Stewart was first discovered as a pianist, not a singer — while passing through on a tour, Bo Diddley heard him playing backstage and offered him a job as a backing musician. Thanks to his connection with Diddley, Stewart cut his first solo single, "Billy's Blues," for Chess in 1956. He moved to Okeh in 1957 and recorded "Billy's Heartache" backed by the Marquees, another D.C.-area group featuring Gaye.
Stewart would not return to his solo career until 1962, when he returned to Chess and cut a song called "Fat Boy," a nickname he'd acquired for straightforward reasons. He scored his first charting single on the R&B side with "Reap What You Sow," recorded at the same session, and began to hit his creative stride with the warm "Strange Feeling" in 1963. The following year's "Count Me Out" was only a regional hit, but Stewart broke through in 1965 with two lovely R&B ballad hits, "I Do Love You" (which became the title track of his first album) and "Sitting in the Park." Stewart toured heavily behind those two successes, and also charted the following year with "How Nice It Is" and "Because I Love You." Later in 1966, he returned to the Chess studio to cut an album of jazz and pop standards, Unbelievable. Stewart's unique vocal stylings were in full flower, earning him the new nickname "Motormouth," and his revisitation of "Summertime" landed in the Top Ten on both the pop and R&B charts; it still ranks among the more radical reinterpretations of the oft-recorded warhorse. A waxing of Doris Day's "Secret Love" just missed the R&B Top Ten. However, the hits subsequently dried up, and Stewart's weight problem had worsened into diabetes. In 1969, he suffered minor injuries in a motorcycle accident, but the real tragedy struck on January 17, 1970, when the car Stewart was driving went off the road and plunged into the Neuse River in North Carolina, killing Stewart and the three bandmembers riding with him. He was not quite 33.
Title: 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Billy Stewart
Artist: Billy Stewart
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Rock
Title: May I Walk In Your Shadow (In Memory of Gordon Stewart) - Single
Artist: Billy Stewart
Genre: Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: Best Of Billy Stewart
Artist: Billy Stewart
Genre: Blues
Collections
Title: Chess Chartbusters, Vol. 3
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Pop
Title: The Okeh Rhythm & Blues Story 1949-1957
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Pop
Title: Top of the Chart & Doo Wop, Vol. 7
Genre: Rock
Title: Greatest Big Hits of 1962, Vol. 36
Genre: Pop
Title: Popcorn Jet Setters Vol. 10
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Pop
Title: Oldies & Goldies Crooners
Genre: Pop
Title: Songs of Summer
Genre: Pop, Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Chess Chartbusters, Vol. 1
Title: By George and Ira - Red Hot On Gershwin
Genre: Jazz
Title: Early R and B, Vol. 3
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: A Mix of Hits, Vol. 1
Genre: Rock
Title: Soul Review Volume 15
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Pop
Title: Chess Pieces Volume 4
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Pop
Title: Chess Pieces
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Pop
Title: Chess Pieces Volume 2
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Pop
Title: Soul Cargo Volume 5
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Pop
Title: Gentle Giants
Genre: Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Underground Oldies Vol. 2
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: Masterpiece David Rodigan - Ministry of Sound
Genre: Reggae
Title: Best of the Blues, Vol. 3
Genre: Jazz
Title: Best of Blues, Vol. 1
Genre: Blues
Title: Vintage Music Collectors Series CD 8
Genre: Pop Rock
Title: Vintage Music Collectors Series CD 10
Genre: Pop Rock
Title: Nice And Easy Collection - Edition X
Genre: Pop, Instrumental
Title: Beg, Scream & Shout! The Big Ol' Box Of '60s Soul
Genre: Soul
Title: Sweet Soul Music 1965
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Gospel
Title: Teen-Age Dreams - Vol. 25 (CD1)
Genre: Pop
Title: The Chess Story 1947-1975 (CD10)
Genre: Blues
Title: The Chess Story 1947-1975 (CD11)
Genre: Blues
Title: Soul Shots Vol. 1
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Funk
Title: Most Wanted 60s R&B
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Blues
Title: Anthology Of American Music Vol. 9
Genre: Rock, Rock & Roll, Rockabilly
Title: True Soul (CD1)
Title: The Birth Of Funk
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Funk
Title: 50 Greatest Soul
Title: Book Of Love: The Argo Records Story 56-62 (CD1)
Genre: Blues, Rockabilly
Title: Chess Rhythm & Roll (CD4)
Genre: Blues, Rock & Roll
Title: Felix Hernandez Presents Rhythm Revue (CD3)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B
Title: R&B And Classic Soul Vol. 1
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: OKeh Doo-Wop Groups Vol. 3
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B
Title: Dreamboats & Petticoats - Summer Holidays (CD2)
Genre: Rock, Rock & Roll, Pop
Title: Go Go Power
Title: A Soul Awakening From Sacred To Secular (CD3)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B
Title: Classic 60s Pop 3CD (CD1)
Genre: Rock & Roll, World Music, Country, Pop, Folk
Title: 101 Hits Northern Soul 2018 (CD5)
Genre: Soul
Title: American Soul Connexion (1954-1962) (CD3)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Funk
Title: 1960s Classic R&B For Kids
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B
Title: Lowrider Oldies Cruisin: Chrome Series Vol. 3
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B
Title: Chess Sing A Song Of Soul
Title: Hit - List Vol. 3 (CD2)
Genre: Blues, Blues Rock
Title: Hit - List Vol. 3 (CD2)
Genre: Blues
Featuring albums
Title: Underground Oldies - Rare and Hard to Find Oldies Vol. 2
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B
Title: Ultimate Collection 5CD (CD2)
Artist: Northern Soul
Title: Jody Williams In Session: Diary Of A Chicago Bluesman (1954-62)
Artist: Jody Williams
Genre: Blues