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Another year of life, growth, and blessings! 🎉🙏🏾

First, I thank God for another year and every opportunity along the way. To my parents and my brother Julian, thank you for always being part of my foundation.

Special thanks to Carla Cooke, my brother Dave Menzo, and Jason Ridgel of Guidance Whiskey for believing in me, opening doors, and being part of my journey.

I'm grateful for everyone who has impacted my life. I've come a long way, but I'm just getting started!

Happy Birthday to me! 🎂🥳❤️

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Elvis Presley said my grandfather was one of his greatest vocal influences and inspirations. And Beyoncé gave him his flowers on her “Cowboy Carter” album!

So why isn’t Roy Hamilton in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame? The New York Times asked the question back in 2007, and here we are almost 20 years later.

This is bigger than my family.

This is about music history.

My grandfather, Roy Hamilton, was one of the most powerful and influential voices of his generation. His emotional delivery, phrasing and vocal style influenced countless singers—and Elvis Presley credited Roy as a vocal mentor and one of his greatest vocal inspirations.

Roy is already an inductee of the Georgia Music Hall of Fame.

And just recently, he was inducted into the Las Vegas Black Music Hall of Fame.

Now, we believe the time has come for Epic Records and Sony Music to put Roy Hamilton forward for consideration for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

But we need the music community and music business community behind us.

🙏🏽 If you’re an artist, singer, songwriter, producer, musician, A&R, record executive, DJ, music journalist, historian, broadcaster, music educator or fan, we are asking you to help us tell this story.

✅ Tag Epic Records. Tag Sony Music. Tag the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Tag the people in music who can help make this happen.

✅ Share this post & Repost. ♻️

✅ Start the conversation.

✅ Tell someone who doesn’t know the name Roy Hamilton who he was—and what he meant to the history of music.

✅ Because the Rock & Roll story isn’t complete without the voices that helped create it.

🤴🏽The voice that inspired Elvis.
🎶The artist who inspired generations.
⏳The legacy that deserves to be recognized.

‼️Will you help us get Roy Hamilton into consideration for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame?

Sources: @nytimes | @jerseycitynj | @lasvegasblackmusicawards

With Love & Light,
The Hamilton Family Estate 🌳
The Singer’s Company ™️
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#RoyHamilton #blackhistory #RockAndRollHallOfFame #elvispresley #musicindustry

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#ohheyyy back with my girl @thecarlacooke ❤️

📍 @pazzoredbanknj

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Our dear friend Carla Cooke is joining the party this Thursday, June 4th! GARY U.S. BONDS’ Birthday Party Concert at The Vogel at the Count Basie Center in Red Bank NJ! Click here for tickets + info! https://thebasie.org/events/gary-us-bonds/

#happybirthday #rocknroll #legend #garyusbonds #samcooke

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MOTOWN MONDAY: Billy Davis - Guitarist 🎸

J.C. "Billy" Davis is a Detroit R&B and blues guitar legend. Before Motown Records was officially founded, his early band, Billy Davis & The Upsetters, served as Berry Gordy's first in-house live band. He is also widely celebrated for his decades-long tenure touring with Hank Ballard & The Midnighters.

Davis was born in Bentonia, Mississippi and moved to Memphis, Tennessee in childhood. He became inspired to play guitar at the age of 8, when he heard "That's All Right" by Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup. In 1951, at the age of 13, Davis moved to Detroit, Michigan. There he lived in the predominantly-Black area of the city known as "Black Bottom" and took guitar lessons from Bosie Gatlin, who taught him how to play Muddy Waters' song "Baby, Please Don't Go"

In 1951, Davis met his mother's friend from Mississippi, John Lee Hooker. Hooker in turn introduced Davis and Jackie Wilson, who became close friends and collaborated musically throughout their lives.

In 1957, after graduating from Miller High School in Detroit, he formed Billy Davis & The Upsetters, and they worked for Motown founder Berry Gordy, backing up musicians such as Smokey Robinson and The Miracles. Marv Johnson at live performances.

In 2001, The Midnighters were among the first to be inducted into the Doo-Wop Hall of Fame, in Boston, Massachusetts.
In 2012, Davis was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as a member of The Midnighters. A special subcommittee, appointed by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, addressed the question of recognizing members of pioneering groups that had not been inducted when their front men were inducted. As a result of this committee's decision, The Midnighters were automatically inducted.
In 2015, Davis, as a member of Hank Ballard & the Midnighters, was inducted into the Rhythm and Blues Music Hall of Fame.
In 2017, Davis along with Wayne Craycraft, won a competition put on by the Detroit Blues Society, to represent them by competing in the duo category at the 33rd International Blues Challenge in Memphis, Tennessee, to be held on January 16–20, 2018, where they made it to the semi-finals.

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#ohheyyy @thecarlacooke it was so amazing having dinner with you, Luther, Carrie, John and family at @nobuatlanticcity

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Showing Uncle Sam some love before I hit the stage here in the Bahamas. Let’s goooo! #samCooke #gavynRhone #kingRhone

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Attention! Attention! This is a show you don't want to miss!!!

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Thank you to everyone who rocked out with us at our Iridium’s sold out show on Saturday night! We loved having Carla Cooke join us as a special guest! We’ll see you all very soon! ❤️
@thecarlacooke #rocknroll #rockandroll #samcooke #60s #legend

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Our Publisher Scott Barbarino recommends some of the best shows this week in NYC Broadway, Jazz & Cabaret

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MOTOWN MONDAY:

The Walking, Working, Legendary, Billy Davis!!! Jimi Hendrix' influence.
Writer of "The Twist", back up band for Motown, Best friend of Sam Cooke ❤️ Inducted member of The R&B Hall of Fame and The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame!!!

It's a lot y'all... so hold on!!

J. C. Davis (born April 29, 1938), known as Billy Davis, is an American rock and blues guitarist, singer and songwriter, best known for his work with Hank Ballard & the Midnighters. He is a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee.

Davis was born in Bentonia, Mississi
Davis then moved back to New York, where he did more session work, playing on recordings by many acts including Martha Reeves & the Vandellas.

In 1967, Davis played lead guitar on his childhood friend Jackie Wilson's recording "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher", and they also toured together. The song reached No. 1 in the US Billboard R&B chart and, in November, peaked on the Billboard Hot 100 at No. 6.[11] The song was ranked No. 246 on Rolling Stone's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999. The track was also sampled by many artists, including The Chemical Brothers.

Davis signed with A&M Records as Billy "Guitar" Davis in 1969, and released "You Put Me in a Groove" backed with "As I Grow Old", as well as "Stanky (Get Funky)" backed with "I've Tried".

Davis got married in 1979, and had two children. In 1974 he moved back to Detroit with the plan of getting out of the music business, and became a trained counselor for underprivileged youth. He effectively retired from playing professionally for nearly nine years, except for occasional gigs and appearances.

In 1983, Sam & Dave called on Davis to put together a band to back them at a concert at Pine Knob, where they were opening for James Brown. Brown, who had been a friend of Davis since the 1950s, gave Hank Ballard's phone number to him, and suggested he call Ballard to reunite The Midnighters. Davis phoned Ballard, which led to The Midnighters reuniting, and they began to tour steadily for the next few years.

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#MOTOWN #motownrecords #hankballardandthemidnighters #jimihendrixstyle #jamesbrown

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