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A fox is a wolf who sends flowers.
All of these years that I have been singing, no one has done a documentary about my music as far as I'm concerned.
And, of course, I was singing cheap.
But of course it's different now, the blues is no longer blues, it's green now.
I did it by sneaking out at home to get on the ferryboat and get over to Norfolk.... (more Ruth Brown quotes)
In the 1950's she was nick-named "Queen of the Jukebox."
Ruth Brown was a close friend and mentor to singer Bonnie Raitt.
Ruth Brown was close personal friends with Bonnie Raitt, Redd Fox and Cab Calloway.
In 2006, Ruth Brown recorded songs for "Honeydripper", by John Sayles, and was about to fly to ... (more Ruth Brown trivia)
| The Dismissal of Miss Ruth Brown: Civil Rights, Censorship, and the American Library by Louise S. Robbins | |
| Miss Rhythm: The Autobiography of Ruth Brown, Rhythm and Blues Legend by Ruth Brown and Andrew Yule | |
| Women Inventors: Margaret Knight, Cynthia Westover, Elizabeth Hazen and Rachel Brown, Ruth Handler (Capstone Short Biographies) by Jean F. Blashfield |