In 1980, Rawls began the Lou Rawls Parade of Stars Telethon which benefits the United Negro College Fund.
Lou Rawls (right) at Baltimore's Inner Harbor (1980) being interviewed by local news anchor Curt Anderson, promoting the Lou Rawls Parade of Stars Telethon Rawls charted with a cover of "Bring It On Home to Me" in 1970 (with the title shortened to "Bring It On Home"). In 1962 he signed a contract with Capitol Records and sang backing vocals on " Bring It On Home to Me" and " That's Where It's At", both written by Cooke. "In My Little Black Book" and "80 Ways" were released a year later by Candix Records. His first two singles were "Love, Love, Love" and "Walkin' (For Miles)" for Shar-Dee Records, a label owned by Herb Alpert.
With Dick Clark as master of ceremonies, Rawls was able to perform at the Hollywood Bowl in 1959. He considered the crash a life-changing event.
He spent a year recuperating and several months before his memory returned. He was pronounced dead before arriving at the hospital, where he stayed in a coma for five and a half days. In 1958, while touring the South with the Travelers and Sam Cooke, Rawls was in a car crash. He left the Army three years later as a Sergeant and rejoined the Pilgrim Travelers (then known as the Travelers). He served in B Co 2/505th Parachute Infantry and made 26 jumps.
In 1955, Rawls enlisted in the United States Army as a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division. Rawls was hired by the Chosen Gospel Singers and moved to Los Angeles, where he joined the Pilgrim Travelers. In 1951, he replaced Cooke in the Highway QC's after Cooke departed to join The Soul Stirrers in Los Angeles. Career Īfter graduating from Dunbar Vocational High School, he sang briefly with Cooke in the Teenage Kings of Harmony, a gospel group, and then with the Holy Wonders. He began singing in the Greater Mount Olive Baptist Church choir at the age of seven and later sang with local groups through which he met Sam Cooke, who was nearly three years older, and Curtis Mayfield. Rawls was born in Chicago on December 1, 1933, and raised by his grandmother in the Ida B.
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