Camille Howard (March 29, 1914 – March 10, 1993) was an American R&B pianist and singer.
Howard was born in Galveston, Texas. When in California in the 1940s, she became the featured piano player with Roy Milton’s Solid Senders, playing on all their early hits on the Juke Box and later the Specialty record label, including "R. M. Blues" (1946).
After that record‘s success, she featured on more of Milton’s records, occasionally as singer. Record label head Art Rupe also began recording her as a solo artist, with her biggest hit coming with "X-Temporaneous Boogie".
She continued to record successfully in the early 1950s, but the growth of rock and roll and her own religious convictions ended her career.
Howard died in Los Angeles in March 1993
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The Boogie And The Blues Camille Howard Rock Me Daddy Vol. 1 ? 2006 Blues Jazz, Jump Blues, Early R&B |
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Rock Me Daddy Camille Howard Rock Me Daddy Vol. 1 ? 2006 Blues Jazz, Jump Blues, Early R&B |
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The Mood I’m In Camille Howard Rock Me Daddy Vol. 1 ? 2006 Blues Jazz, Jump Blues, Early R&B |
The cd is a 25-song reissue of her 1947-52 Specialty material, about half previously unreleased. Includes "You Don’t Love Me" and "Money Blues," but not the chart hits "Fiesta In Mexico" and "XTemporaneous Boogie." Perhaps too suave and refined for the R&B/rock era, and as comfortable with jazzy ballads as boogies, Howard was nonetheless an important, and nowadays overlooked, star of the transitional era between jump blues and R&B.
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