Ruth Brown - Tears In Heaven

This is an absolutely beautiful rendition of Eric Clapton's song. Ruth was born way back in 1928 and sadly died in 2006, but she sang this in her later years.

Too Little Too Late

The late and very great Ruth Brown with a Blues standard. Powerful voice and presence! Rest in Peace Ruth.

I Can't Hear a Word You Say

Ruth Alston Brown ( nee Weston) Was born in 1928 in Portsmith Virginia where her father was a dock hand who led choir in the Baptist Church. Ruth was more interested in the great jazz singers like Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday and Dinah Washington and ran away from home at 17 to marry trumpeter Jimmy Brown! She began singing for Atlantic records, my favourite company, and had many hits for them causing some to say Atlantic was the House that Ruth built ( refers to Yankee Stadium being called the House that ( Babe) Ruth built!) She produced some 23 albums and won many awards, 1989 RnB Pioneer Award, 1992 Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame,1993 Rock and roll Hall of Fame, 1996 Gleason Award for Music Journalism, and posthumously 2013 Virginia Music Hall of Fame, 2016 Lifetime Grammy award and 2017 National RnB Hall of Fame. Her awards speak for themselves. She was still performing at 78 in 2006 when sadly she died of a heart attack following some surgery.A memorial service was held in the Abyssinian Baptist Church Harlem. Rest in Peace Ruth. here she performs a Lieber and Stoller song produced by Ahmed Ertegun the founder of Atlantic.

Love Letters

This song is strongly associated with Ketty Lester who performed it last year at a concert at the age of 88 to great acclaim. But here is Ruth Brown performing it at the age of 83 I believe. Another take on it but showing she had not lost the power which put her at number 147 on Billboards best 200 voices.