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Roy Milton
Roy Milton, born Roy Bunny Milton on July 31, 1907, in Wynnewood, Oklahoma, was
an American R&B and jump blues singer, drummer, and bandleader. He joined the
Ernie Fields band in the late 1920s and later formed his own band, the Solid
Senders, after moving to Los Angeles in 1933. Milton's breakthrough came with
"R.M. Blues" in 1945, which reached number 2 on the Billboard R&B chart and
helped establish Art Rupe's Specialty Records. He recorded 19 top 10 R&B hits,
including "Hop, Skip and Jump" (1948) and "Information Blues" (1950). Milton
left Specialty in 1955 and continued perf...
