Carla Thomas' "Gee Whiz" reached the pop Top ... For his 80th birthday in 1997, the city renamed Hernando Street as Rufus Thomas Boulevard at the intersection of Beale Street where the Palace ...

RUFUS THOMAS, who has died aged 84 ... a duet with his daughter Carla, Cause I Love You. Carla Thomas subsequently achieved much success in her own right, notably with B-A-B-Y, while Stax's ...

Members of the Thomas family — daughters Carla and Vaneese and son Marvell — are expected to be part of the Stax Music Academy concert “Rufus Thomas at 100 — A Birthday Celebration ...

As the daughter of Rufus Thomas, Carla is often referred to as the Queen of Memphis Soul, and the Stax label hoped that they'd have success similar to the aforementioned Gaye and Terrell.

It is with tremendous sadness that I report the death this morning of the great Rufus Thomas. The father of soul ... Rufus leaves two children besides Carla—Marvell, his talented musician ...

Carla Thomas, the Stax recording artist whose ... six years after she and her father, Rufus Thomas, recorded "Cause I Love You," the duet that was the first song to bring national attention ...

I had gone to his house in Tennessee a hundred years ago to interview his daughter, Carla, about charity work ... At the time, my visit to the elegant Thomas home did not seem like a particularly ...

"Chapter One: Cause I Love You": 8 p.m. Monday, May 20. Named for the father-and-daughter duet by Rufus and Carla Thomas that gave Memphis' new record company its first hit in 1960. Synopsis ...

was the son of Bluff City entertainment icon Rufus Thomas and the older brother of singing sisters Carla and Vaneese Thomas. A respected pianist, producer and arranger in his own right ...

The Concord Music Group has been re-issuing classic albums from the extensive catalogue of the Stax label. Their latest three releases, due September 13, are Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get by The ...