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American soul vocalist and songwriter

William Bell

Bell in 1971

Bell in 1971

Background information
Nascence name William Yarbrough
Born (1939-07-16) July 16, 1939 (age 82)
Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.
Genres R&B, soul
Occupation(due south) Singer, songwriter
Instruments Vocals
Years agile 1957–present
Labels Stax Records, Wilbe Records
Associated acts The Del Rios
Website http://www.williambell.com/

Musical artist

William Bell (né Yarbrough; built-in July sixteen, 1939)[i] is an American soul singer and songwriter. As a performer, he is probably best known for his debut single, 1961'south "You Don't Miss Your Water"; 1968's meridian ten hit in the United kingdom "Private Number", a duet with Judy Dirt; and his only US superlative xl striking, 1976'southward "Tryin' to Love Two", which likewise hit No. 1 on the R&B chart. Upon the death of Otis Redding, Bell released the well-received memorial song "A Tribute to a Male monarch".

As a songwriter, Bell co-authored the Chuck Jackson hit "Any Other Way" (which was a cover since Bell issued it beginning) every bit a follow-up to "You Don't Miss Your Water"; Billy Idol's 1986 hit "To Be a Lover", which was first a striking for Bell nether its original championship "I Forgot to Be Your Lover"; and the blues archetype "Built-in Nether A Bad Sign", popularized by both Albert Rex and Cream.

Although he was a longtime recording creative person for Stax Records, he is unrelated to the label'due south onetime president, Al Bell.

In 2017, Bell was awarded a Grammy for All-time Americana Album for his record This Is Where I Alive. He performed his hit "Built-in Under a Bad Sign" aslope Gary Clark Jr. at the 2017 Grammy Awards. Bell was also featured on Rolling Rock 'south "Best of the Grammys" for that year.

His music has been sampled by artists such as Kanye West, Ludacris, and Jaheim.[2]

Career [edit]

Bong was born in Memphis, Tennessee.[1] He took the final name "Bong" every bit a stage name in award of his grandmother, whose first name was Belle.

Bell sang in church as a child and considered himself a student of The Soul Stirrers, the popular gospel group led by Sam Cooke. At age ten, he began songwriting with the original composition "Lonely on a Rainy Night". At the age of 14, Bell won a talent contest and began making a proper name for himself singing in Memphis-surface area clubs.[3]

He fabricated his start leap into the music scene backing Rufus Thomas. In 1957, Bell recorded his first sides equally a member of the Del Rios,[one] a teenage vocal group that caught the eye of Stax Records.[3]

Bell was an early signing on Stax Records initially as a songwriter.[four] Other notable Stax Records artists include Otis Redding,[five] Sam and Dave,[half-dozen] Isaac Hayes,[7] and The Staple Singers.[eight]

Bong was the first male solo human action to exist signed to Stax Records and he was able to release several singles earlier joining the military. He continued to record singles while on break from deployment, including the vocal "Marching Off to War".[2]

Information technology was only later Bell finished his stint in the military that he was finally able to release his debut album,[9] 1967'south The Soul of a Bell, on Stax Records.[10] Bell'south Top xx single "Everybody Loves a Winner" was on this anthology.

Bell was a close friend of fellow Stax recording artist Otis Redding. Bong was supposed to be on the aforementioned tragic 1967 flight that led to Redding's expiry. "Information technology started snowing so bad in Chicago, the promoter upward in that location canceled my testify," recalls Bell. The tragedy led to a collaboration between Bell and Booker T. Jones (of Booker T. & the Yard.G.'s) who Bell knew from high school and church. Bell and Jones released "A Tribute to a King" in award of Redding and it quickly became a striking.[11]

In 1967, Bell co-wrote an unintended Christmas hit, "Everyday Will Be Like a Vacation". The song remains ane of Bong'southward most-recorded hits and serves as a classic R&B Christmas song.[12] In 2017, Hot Printing mag named the hit the "Greatest Christmas tape of all time".[13]

Bell moved to Atlanta, Georgia, in 1969 and started Peachtree Record Visitor, his brusk-lived soul label.[ citation needed ]

During his time in Atlanta, he took interim lessons and played Stanley Kowalski in a production of A Streetcar Named Desire. Bell later signed a two-yr bargain with Mercury Records, where he released the 1977 single "Trying to Love Ii", which hit No. 1 on the R&B charts and No. 10 on the popular charts, and sold a 1000000 copies.[14]

In 1985, he founded some other label, Wilbe, and issued Passion, which found its most receptive audiences in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland.[i]

Two years later, Bong was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame and received the Rhythm & Dejection Foundation'southward R&B Pioneer Award that aforementioned year. Starting in 1992, Bong took a hiatus from the recording studio, while still performing regularly. In 2000, he released an anthology of all-new material on Wilbe entitled A Portrait Is Forever. In 2003, he was honored with the W.C. Handy Heritage Honor. It wasn't until six years afterward his previous album that he released the album New Lease on Life.

2010s to present [edit]

In 2016, Bong reactivated the Stax Records label to release a new anthology. Produced past John Leventhal, This Is Where I Alive featured Bell performing a batch of new songs, along with a revived recording of "Born Under a Bad Sign".[1] In 2017, the album was awarded a Grammy for Best Americana Album,[15] which took Bong'due south career to new heights including a featured operation alongside other legendary Stax acts at BBC'south 50 Years of Soul event at Royal Albert Hall in London, UK.[16] Additionally, Bong was one of the final performances at BB King's Blues Society in NYC before it closed in the spring of 2018.[17]

Bell was featured in the 2014 documentary film Accept Me to the River that explored the heart of the enduring Memphis music scene. He was featured alongside other artists including Bobby Bland, Mavis Staples, and Snoop Dogg.[eighteen] Bell is currently involved in the sequel to the pop documentary, and he calls it "a powerful little film".[11]

In 2016, Bell recorded This Is Where I Live, his first major label album in over 30 years.[xix] Bong was awarded a Grammy for Best Americana Album in 2017, which, in turn, had such a strong consequence on his streaming information that Rolling Stone called him "the biggest winner of the night".[twenty]

His song "You Don't Miss Your Water" is featured in the trailer and the first episode of the Cinemax Idiot box series Quarry, which debuted in 2016.[21]

On 1 September 2017, age 78, Bell performed live at the Imperial Albert Hall BBC Proms with Jools The netherlands and his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra in a tribute concert to 50 years of Stax Records synonymous with Southern Soul music.

Bell spent time in 2017 and 2018 touring with a group of featured artists from Accept Me to the River. The touring group was named i of the "10 Bands to Meet This Yr" by Parade magazine.[22]

In 2017, Bell performed twice on NPR Music'south Tiny Desk Concerts. He performed with his own band and again with the touring Accept Me to the River group.[2]

Bell released the single "In a Moment of Weakness" in 2018 as function of the Amazon Original Produced Past series. His song was produced by the Grammy Accolade-winning Matt Ross-Spang.[2]

Bell performed at the Mempho Music Festival in Memphis, Tennessee on October 6, 2018 equally part of a tribute set dedicated to Purple Studios.[23] In 2019, Bong collaborated with Southern Artery on their single "We've Got the Music".[24]

Bell performed at the 2019 Blues Music Awards, where he was nominated for Best Soul Blues Male Artist.[25]

Guitar fable Eric Clapton released a video for his 2018 cover of Bong'south vacation song "Everyday Volition Be Like a Holiday".[26] Bong joined several other soul legends for BB Male monarch's tribute concert at the Capitol Theatre on February 16, 2020.[27] A few months later, the National Endowment for the Arts named Bong i of their 2020 fellows, the "nation's highest award in the folk and traditional arts. These lifetime honour awards of $25,000 are given in recognition of both artistic excellence and efforts to sustain cultural traditions for time to come generations."[28]

Covered by [edit]

  • Linda Ronstadt covered "Everybody Loves a Winner" on her 1973 album Don't Weep At present.[29]
  • Homer Simpson of The Simpsons sang "Born Under a Bad Sign" on the 1990 album The Simpsons Sing the Blues.[30]
  • Cream covered "Built-in Under a Bad Sign" on their 1968 album Wheels of Burn.[30]
  • Jimi Hendrix covered "Born Under a Bad Sign" on his album Blues, released posthumously in 1994.[31]
  • Etta James covered "Born Under a Bad Sign" on her album Life, Beloved, and the Dejection released in 1998.[32]
  • 911 covered "Private Number" for their 1999 album At that place It Is.
  • Warren Haynes covered "Every Day Will Be Similar a Holiday" on his 2011 album Man In Movement.[33]
  • Carole King covered "Every Twenty-four hours Will Be Like a Holiday" on her 2011 anthology A Vacation Carole.
  • Hall & Oates covered "Every Day Volition Be Like a Vacation" on their 2006 album Home for Christmas.
  • The Byrds covered "You Don't Miss Your Water" on their 1968 album Sweetheart of the Rodeo.
  • The Revelations and Tre Williams covered "I Forgot to Be Your Lover" on the 2012 soundtrack of the film The Homo with the Atomic number 26 Fists.
  • Robert Cray covered "I Forgot to Be Your Lover" on his 2005 anthology Xx.[34]
  • Melissa Etheridge covered "I Forgot to Be Your Lover", "Whatever Other Way", and "Born Under a Bad Sign" on her 2016 album Memphis Stone and Soul.[35]
  • Brian Eno covered "Y'all Don't Miss Your Water" on the soundtrack to the Jonathan Demme film Married to the Mob.

Awards and honors [edit]

  • Due west.C. Handy Heritage Accolade from the Memphis Music Foundation (2003)[36]
  • BMI Songwriters Award (2003)[37]
  • Featured in the Stax Museum of American Soul Music (2003)[38]
  • Lifetime Achievement Honour from Americana Music Association (2016)[39]
  • Memphis Music Hall of Fame inductee (2016)[xl]
  • Grammy Laurels win: Best Americana Album for This Is Where I Live (2017)
  • Grammy Award nomination: Best Traditional R&B Functioning for "The Three of Me" (2017)[fifteen]
  • Four Dejection Music Laurels nominations: Album (This Is Where I Live), Soul Dejection Album (This Is Where I Alive), Soul Dejection Male Creative person (2017) (The Dejection Foundation, 2018), Best Soul Dejection Male Artist (2019)[25]
  • Epitome of Soul Award presented to Bell past Stevie Wonder at The Consortium MMT issue at the Horseshoe Tunica (2017)[41]
  • National Heritage Fellowship awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts (2020)[42]

Notable performances [edit]

  • Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington, D.C. (2011)[43]
  • Memphis Symphony Orchestra (2012)[44]
  • "You Don't Miss Your Water" at the White Firm for "In Performance at the White House: Memphis Soul" (2013)[45]
  • Billboard Live in Tokyo (2015)[46]
  • Music Hall of Fame induction anniversary aslope Justin Timberlake (2015)[47]
  • The Cutting Room and MetroTech Eatables every bit office of the Brooklyn University of Music'southward Rhythm and Blues Festival Serial (2016)[48]
  • Royal Albert Hall in London (2017)[eleven]
  • "Built-in Nether a Bad Sign" with guitarist Gary Clark Jr. at the Grammy Awards (2017)[49]
  • Dakota Jazz Club in Minneapolis, Minnesota (2018)[11]
  • Bayfront Dejection Festival in Duluth, Minnesota (2018)[11]
  • Mempho Music Festival in Memphis, Tennessee (2018)[23]
  • Blues Music Awards (2019)[25]

Discography [edit]

Studio albums [edit]

Twelvemonth Album Tiptop nautical chart positions Label
U.s.a.
[50]
US R&B
[50]
1967 The Soul of a Bell Stax 709
1969 Spring to Happen 49 Stax 2014
1971 Wow ...William Bell Stax 2037
1972 Phases of Reality Stax 3005
1973 Waiting for William Bong Stax 3012
1974 Relating Stax 5502
1977 Coming Back for More 63 15 Mercury
It's Time You Took Another Mind
1983 Survivor Kat Family
1985 Passion 39 Wilbe
1989 On a Roll
1992 Bedtime Stories 96
1999 A Portrait Is Forever
2006 New Lease on Life
2016 This Is Where I Live Stax
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Compilation albums [edit]

  • The Best of William Bell (1988)
  • The Very Best of William Bell (2007)

Singles [edit]

Yr Label & Cat No Title Peak nautical chart positions
US Hot 100
[50]
US R&B
[50]
Britain
[51] [52]
1961 Stax 116 "You Don't Miss Your Water" 95
1962 Stax 128 "Any Other Style" 131
1963 Stax 132 "I Told Yous So"
Stax 135 "Just as I Thought"
Stax 138 "Somebody Mentioned Your Proper name"
Stax 141 "I'll Show You"[53]
1964 Stax 146 "Who Will Information technology Be Tomorrow"
1965 Stax 174 "Crying All by Myself"
1966 Stax 191 "Share What Y'all Got (Only Keep What Y'all Need)" 27
Stax 199 "Never Like This Earlier" 29
1967 Stax 212 "Everybody Loves a Winner" 95 18
Stax 227 "Eloise (Hang on in There)"
Stax 237 "Everyday Will Be Like a Holiday" 33
1968 Stax 248 "Every Man Ought to Have a Woman" (A-Side) 115
Stax 248 "A Tribute to a King" (B-Side) 86 16 31
Stax 0005 "Private Number" (with Judy Dirt) 75 17 eight
Stax 0015 "I Forgot to Exist Your Lover" 45 10
Stax 0017 "My Baby Specializes" (with Judy Clay) 104 45
1969 Stax 0032 "My Whole World Is Falling Downward" 39
Stax 0038 "Happy" 129
Stax 0040 "Soul-A-Lujah"
(with Johnnie Taylor, Eddie Floyd, Pervis Staples,
Carla Thomas, Mavis Staples and Cleotha Staples)
Stax 0043 "Dear's Sweet Awareness" (with Mavis Staples)
Stax 0044 "I Can't Stop" (with Carla Thomas) 106
Stax 0054 "Born Under a Bad Sign"
1970 Stax 0067 "All I Have to Practice Is Dream" (with Carla Thomas)
Stax 0070 "Alone Soldier"
1971 Stax 0092 "A Penny for Your Thoughts"
Stax 0106 "All for the Dearest of a Adult female"
1972 Stax 0128 "Salvage Us"
1973 Stax 0157 "Lovin' on Borrowed Time" 101 22
Stax 0175 "I've Got to Go on Without You" 54
1974 Stax 0198 "Gettin' What You Want (Losin' What You Got)" 39
Stax 0221 "Go Information technology While It'south Hot"
1976 Mercury 73829 "Tryin' to Dear Ii" 10 1
1977 Mercury 73922 "Coming Back for More" 66
Mercury 73961 "Easy Comin' Out (Hard Goin' In)" 30
1983 Kat Family 03502 "Bad Time to Break Up" 65
Kat Family 03995 "Playing Hard to Get"
1985 Wilbe 201 "Lovin' on Borrowed Fourth dimension" (new version)
1986 Wilbe 202 "I Don't Want to Wake Up (Feelin' Guilty)" (with Janice Bulluck) 59
Wilbe 204 "Headline News" 65 70
"Passion" 96
Wilbe 205 "Please Come Home for Christmas"
1989 Wilbe 508 "Getting Out of Your Bed"
1990 Wilbe 515 "Need Your Love And then Bad"
1992 Wilbe 619 "Bedtime Story"
1995 Wilbe 624 "Shake Hands (Come Out Lovin')"
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were non released in that territory.

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External links [edit]

  • William Bell official website
  • Soulwalking website discography
  • William Bong story and interview, part 1 (1956–69), at Soul Express
  • William Bell feature, part two (1970–2008), with a consummate discography at Soul Express
  • Amny.com
  • William Bell characteristic on NYTimes.com
  • William Bell Interview - NAMM Oral History Library (2016)
  • An interview with Soul Express in August 2017

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