Elise LeGrow does not have an easy task at hand. On her upcoming debut album, Playing Chess, the Toronto singer will recalibrate time-tested tunes from powerhouse Chicago soul factory, Chess Records, ...

Soul and gospel singer Fontella Bass, whose 1965 hit "Rescue Me" endures as one of the most recognizable soul records of the '60s, died last week on the day after Christmas. She was 72 years old.

ST. LOUIS (AP) - Fontella Bass, a U.S. soul singer who hit the top of the R&B charts with 'Rescue Me' in 1965, has died. She was 72... ST. LOUIS (AP) — Fontella Bass, a U.S. soul singer who hit the ...

Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) Fontella Bass, a St. Louis-born soul singer who hit the top of the R&B charts with “Rescue Me” in 1965, has died. She was 72. Bass died Wednesday night at a St. Louis ...

Soul singer Fontella Bass, who hit the top of the R&B charts with “Rescue Me” in 1965, died Wednesday night in St. Louis of complications from a heart attack suffered three weeks ago. She was 72 and ...

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ST. LOUIS (AP) — Fontella Bass, a St. Louis-born soul singer who hit the top of the R&B charts with "Rescue Me" in 1965, has died. She was 72. Bass died Wednesday night at a St. Louis hospice of ...

Bass died on Dec. 27, 2012. We'll listen back to a Fresh Air interview from March 1995, in which she spoke about performing at funeral homes as a girl in St. Louis and how secular music wasn't allowed ...

ST. LOUIS — Fontella Bass, a St. Louis-born soul singer who hit the top of the R&B charts with “Rescue Me” in 1965, has died. She was 72. Bass died Wednesday night at a St. Louis hospice of ...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Fontella Bass, a St. Louis-born soul singer who hit the top of the R&B charts with "Rescue Me" in 1965, has died. She was 72. Bass died Wednesday night at a St. Louis hospice of ...

Fontella Bass, a St. Louis-born soul singer who hit the top of the R&B charts with “Rescue Me” in 1965, has died. The singer’s daughter, Neuka Mitchell, said Bass died at a St. Louis hospice Dec. 26 ...