Percy Sledge

Percy Sledge

(born November 25, 1941 in Leighton, Alabama) is a US-American R&B and soul performer. Image File history File links File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... November 25 is the 329th (in leap years the 330th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1941 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Leighton is a town located in Colbert County, Alabama. ... Wikiquote has a collection of quotations by or about: United States Wikinews has news related to this article: United States United States government CIA World Factbook Entry for United States House. ... Rhythm and blues (or R & B) is a musical marketing term introduced in the United States in the late 1940s by Billboard magazine. ... Soul Music is a Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett, published in 1994. ...

Percy Sledge worked in the fields in Leighton before he worked as an orderly at Colbert County Hospital in Sheffield. By the mid-60s, Sledge was touring the Southeast with the Esquires Combo on weekends and working at the hospital. A former patient, who was a friend of Producer Quin Ivy, introduced the two, an audition followed and Sledge was signed to a recording contract. Colbert County is a county of the State of Alabama. ... Sheffield is a city located in Colbert County, Alabama. ... Woodstock: the iconic Sixties event The Sixties in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1960 and 1969 (see: 1960s), but the expression has taken on a wider meaning over the past 20 years. ...

Sledge's smooth voice was perfect for the series of soul ballads produced by Ivy and Marlin Greene, which rock critic Dave Marsh called "emotional classics for romantics of all ages". Dave Marsh is an American music critic. ...

"When A Man Loves A Woman" was the first song recorded, and it became not only an international hit, but was also the first gold record released by Atlantic Records. The magnificent soul anthem became the cornerstone of Sledge's career and was followed by "Warm And Tender Love", "Take Time To Know Her", and "Cover Me." The description Gold Album is applied to recorded music albums that have sold a minimum number of copies (in the US, currently 500,000 sales). ... Atlantic Records (Atlantic Recording Corporation) is a record label founded in 1947 by Ahmet Ertegun and Herb Abramson. ...

Sledge charted with "I'll Be Your Everything" and "Sunshine" during the 70s, and has become an international concert favorite throughout the world, especially in the Netherlands, Germany and on the African continent. This article provides extensive lists of events and significant personalities of the 1970s. ... Africa is the worlds second-largest continent and 3rd most populous. ...

In 2005, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, showing Lake Erie in the background The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is a museum and institution in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, dedicated, as the name suggests, to recording the history of some of the best-known and most influential...