R&b greaves biography

Greaves had built a career both in the Caribbean and in the UK, where he performed under the name Sonny Childe with his group the TNTs.
Ronald Bertram Aloysius Greaves III was an American singer who had chart success in 1969 with the pop single "Take a Letter Maria".
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R.B. Greaves Dies At Age 68

R.B. Greaves, who painted a picture of moving on from his cheating wife in the 1969 hit Take a Letter Maria, passed away last Thursday in Los Angeles. He was 68.

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Greaves, born Ronald Bertram Aloysius Greaves III, had an multi-national background as a child, being born at the Air Force Base in Georgetown, Guyana and moving with his family to a Seminole Indian reservation. At the age of 20, he moved to England where he started his career under the name of Sonny Childe with the group the TNTs.

A song Greaves had written, Take a Letter Maria, had been recorded by both Tom Jones and Stevie Wonder before Ahmet Ertegun of Atlantic Records insisted that Greaves record it himself. His deubt single went to number 2 on the U.S. Singles chart and 10 on the R&B Singles at the end of 1969, selling 2.5 million copies.

Greaves started 1970 with a cover of the Burt Bacharach/Hal David song Always Something There to Remind Me which made it to 27 on the Hot 100 and 3 on Adult Contemporary. It would be his last move into the higher parts of the char

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Ronald Bertram Aloysius Greaves III (28 November 1943 – 27 September 2012) was an American singer who had chart success in 1969 with the pop single "Take a Letter Maria". A number two hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, this single sold one million copies, and it earned gold record certification from the Recording Industry Association of America. Greaves also reached the Top 40 in early 1970 with "(There's) Always Something There to Remind Me".

Ronald Bertram Aloysius Greaves III, born in British Guiana, South America at the US Air Force Base at Atkinson Field (now Timehri). A nephew of Sam Cooke, he is of African American and Seminole Indian decent and grew up on aSeminole reservation in California. He moved to England in 1963. Greaves had built a career both in the Caribbean and in the UK, where he performed under the name Sonny Childe with his group the TNTs and recorded a few singles between 1965 -1968. (Without Childe/Greaves, The TNT became the backing band for P.P. Arnold, probably best known for her versions of “The First Cut is the Deepest” an

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R. B. Greaves

American singer (1943–2012)

Musical artist

Ronald Bertram Aloysius Greaves III (28 November 1943 – 27 September 2012)^[2] was an American singer who had chart success in 1969 with the pop single "Take a Letter Maria". A number two hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, this single sold one million copies, and it earned gold record certification from the Recording Industry Association of America. Greaves also reached the Top 40 in early 1970 with "(There's) Always Something There to Remind Me".^[3]

Biography

Greaves was born in 1943 on the US Army Air Forces base at Georgetown, Guyana.^[1] A nephew of Sam Cooke, he grew up on a Seminole Indian reservation in the United States, but he moved to England in 1963.^[4]

Greaves had built a career both in the Caribbean and in the UK, where he performed under the name Sonny Childe with his group the TNTs. His debut recording, "Take a Letter Maria", was released under the name R.B. Greaves and produced by the president of Atlantic Records, Ahmet Ertegün.^{[citation needed}