Stax Records cornerstone and one of R&B’s most memorable iconoclasts, Rufus Thomas, died of heart failure on December 15th in Memphis at age eighty-four. Thomas, who found fame as a radio DJ as well ...

Legendary Memphis singer Rufus Thomas, who died this past December 15th at the age of 84, was the originator of the Funky Chicken, the World’s Oldest Teenager, and the Crown Prince Of Dance. But ...

Next week, the Stax Museum of American Soul Music will celebrate a milestone anniversary for one of Memphis' most pivotal musical figures, Rufus Thomas. Known as “The World's Oldest Teenager," Thomas ...

Memphis music pioneer and Mississippi native Rufus Thomas will be honored Monday with a marker on the Mississippi Blues Trail during a ceremony in Byhalia.Thomas, a native of Cayce, Miss., and who ...

Parties given by Eugene Phillips are a part of Memphis music history many people don’t know about. I began attending birthday parties given by Phillips for Rufus Thomas about 30-plus years ago. My ...

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Pictures or it didn’t happen. Isn’t that what they say these days? But mobile phones didn’t have cameras in 1997. And even if they did have cameras back then, I didn’t own a mobile, and wouldn’t for ...

A member of Stax's first family, Marvell Thomas, died Monday following a brief, undisclosed illness. The Memphis musician was 75. The son of Bluff City entertainment icon Rufus Thomas, and the older ...

Born in Mississippi in 1917 and still performing, bluesman Rufus Thomas is known as "the world's oldest teenager." After high school in Memphis, Rufus spent 11 years in touring minstrel shows, then ...

Sign in / sign up and request admin access to the Rufus Thomas musician page. Rufus Thomas's Do the Funky Chicken, Shirley Brown's Woman to Woman, and the Dramatics' Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get are ...

MEMPHIS -- Rufus Thomas, 84, a musician whose "Bear Cat" helped Sun Records get its start and whose "Funky Chicken" gave a boost to the Stax Label, died Dec. 15 in a Memphis hospital. He had a heart ...