Bobby "Blue" Bland (born January 27, 1930) is an American singer and was an original member of The Beale Streeters. He released a couple of unsuccessful singles for Chess Records in 1951 and Modern Records in 1952. That year, Bland entered the Army and returned to music upon his discharge in 1955. His first successful single was "It's My Life Baby", showcasing a new, more mature sound. He was singned to the Duke Records label in 1956. January 27 is the 27th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1930 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... This is an article about the phonograph record label Chess Records. For records in the game of Chess, see World records in Chess. ... 1951 was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... Modern Record was a record label formed in 1945 by Jules, Saul, Lester and Joe Bidhari. ... 1952 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Army is the branch of the United States armed forces which has primary responsibility for land-based military operations. ... 1955 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Duke Records was a record label started in 1952 by David J. Mattis and Bill Fitzgerald. ... 1956 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Guitarist Pat Hare contributed to Bland's first national hit, "Farther up the Road" (1957). Clarence Holliman was his guitarist for most of his 1950s sides, including "Loan a Helping Hand", "I Smell Trouble", "Don't Want No Woman" and "Teach Me (How to Love You)". In the 1960s, Bland was working with Wayne Bennett, including "Turn on Your Love Light" (1961) and "Yield Not to Temptation" (1962); he was by then a superstar and world-famous entertainer. Other popular records from this period were "Grits Ain't Groceries," "Little Boy Blue," "I Pity the Fool," "Stormy Monday Blues" and "Two Steps from the Blues." Pat Hare (20 December 1930 - 26 September 1980) was a blues and rockabilly guitarist and singer. ... 1957 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Millennia: 1st millennium - 2nd millennium - 3rd millennium // Events and trends The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-type consumer society built on credit and boom-times, as well as the... The 1960s, or The Sixties, in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1960 and 1969, but the expression has taken on a wider meaning over the past twenty years. ... Wayne Bennett was a blues guitarist. ... 1961 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1962 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...

After Duke was sold to ABC Records in 1973, Bland's career began to diminish. Though he continued recording throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Bland never regained his former fame on recordings but toured and became a major influence on the Soul blues sound. ABC Records started in 1955 as ABC-Paramount, the recording arm of American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres. ... 1973 was a common year starting on Monday. ... // Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 1960s and 1970s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ... // Events and trends The 1990s are generally classified as having moved slightly away from the more conservative 1980s, but keeping the same mind-set. ... Soul blues is a style of blues music developed in the early late 1960s and 1970s and combining eliments of soul music and urban contemporary music. ...