Lou Rawls

Louis Allen Rawls (December 1, 1933 – January 6, 2006) was an American baritone singer, record producer, composer and actor. Rawls released 61 albums, sold more than 40 million records, and had numerous charting singles, most notably the song "You'll Never Find Another Love like Mine". He also worked as a film, television and voice actor. He was a three-time winner of the Best Male R&B Vocal Performance Grammy Award.
==Links to Peel==
Rawls had been successful in the USA during 1967, notably with "Dead End Street", not the Kinks' hit, but a song about growing up in the Chicago ghetto streets.. He was also the only soul artist apart from Otis Redding to perform at the Monterey International Pop Festival, but didn't make the UK charts until the mid-1970s and never seemed to be a Peel favourite.
On his session he was backed by the Johnny Watson Concept, who, given Musicians' Union restrictions on US performers visiting Britain, may have been a British band led by the African-American singer John L. Watson, who became resident in Britain during the 1960s. They had also backed Chris Clark on her 1967 Top Gear session, broadcast a few weeks later. Watson later formed the jazz/blues band the Web, who recorded for Deram Records at the start of the 1970s and were praised in the music press, but never did a session for Peel.
==Sessions==
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1. Recorded with Maxine Brown and the Johnny Watson Concept: 1967-10-03. First Broadcast: 08 October 1967
*Yesterday's Heroes / Street Of Dreams / It's An Uphill Climb To The Bottom / On Broadway / Love Is A Hurting Thing
==Other Shows Played==
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==External Links==
*Wikipedia
*Discogs
Category:Artists