Years before Aretha Franklin was crowned Queen of Soul, Ruth Brown reigned as the Original Queen of R&B. She achieved a distinct style, sassy and streetwise, which made her one of the more influential ...

LOS ANGELES - Singer Ruth Brown, whose recordings of "Teardrops in My Eyes," "5-10-15 Hours" and "(Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean" shot her to rhythm-and-blues stardom in the 1950s, has died. She ...

Ruth Brown, the vivacious R&B singer whose early hits established Atlantic Records, has died of complications following a stroke and a heart attack in Henderson, Nev. She was 78. (WireImage.com photo) ...

Ruth Brown was a trailblazer, a singer whose run of hits in the ’50s included "I Don't Know" and "Mama He Treats Your Daughter Mean." Decades later, she won Tony and Grammy awards. She starred as ...