Willis, Harold Chuck

Willis, Harold Chuck 31 January 1928; Atlanta, GA – 10 April 1958; Atlanta, GA Back in the late 1950s, almost every R&B fan had a copy of Chuck Willis’s The King of the Stroll. It was one of the ten essential LPs, upon which all R&B was based. “ That Train Is Gone ,” “C. C. Rider,” “ Betty and Dupree ,” “ It’s Too Late ”—all were classics whose influence could be felt in dozens of performers who followed. We thought that the R&B masters of the 1950s were Bobby Blue Bland, James Brown, Ray…