Don D. Robey was a record label executive from Houston, Texas, the founder of Peacock Records and the owner of Duke Records. Jump to: navigation, search City nickname: Space City Location Location in the state of Texas Government Counties Harris County Fort Bend County Montgomery County Mayor Bill White Physical characteristics Area      Land      Water 601. ... Peacock Records was a record label started in 1949 by Don D. Robey. ... Duke Records was a record label started in 1952 by David J. Mattis and Bill Fitzgerald. ...

Robey was responsible for nurturing the careers of Bobby Bland, Little Richard, Junior Parker and many other rhythm and blues artists in the 1950s and 1960s. He was known for unscrupulous business practices, like many other owners of independent record labels at the time, especially those who put out music intended for African-American audiences and who worked with African-American performers. Bobby Blue Bland (born January 27, 1930) is an American singer and was an original member of The Beale Streeters. ... Little Richard Little Richard (born Richard Wayne Penniman, December 5, 1932 in Macon, Georgia) is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist, and an early pioneer of rock and roll. ... Junior Parkers style influenced early rockabilly artists, such as Elvis Presley. ... Jump to: navigation, search Rhythm and blues (or R&B) was coined as a musical marketing term introduced in the United States in the late 1940s by Jerry Wexler at Billboard magazine, used to designate upbeat popular music performed by African American artists that combined jazz and blues. ... Jump to: navigation, search // 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 height of the... Jump to: navigation, search The 1960s 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. ... Jump to: navigation, search An African American (also Afro-American, Black American, or simply black), is a member of an ethnic group in the United States whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Africa. ...

Although white (of Jewish ancestry), Robey was often mistakenly thought to be a light skinned African American by his artists and employees, all of whom were African American. This was the origin of his nickname, "The Black Jew". The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination of these attributes. ... African Americans, also known as Afro-Americans or black Americans, are an ethnic group in the United States of America whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Sub-Saharan and West Africa. ...