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He was one half of the hit-making duo Mickey and Sylvia in the late '50s and can be heard on hundreds of records. Baker also wrote one of the most... Guitarist Mickey Baker Dies; Had Hits In The '50s, ...

An in-demand R&B session man who played with the likes of Ray Charles, Louis Jordan and LaVern Baker, he also co-wrote and performed the 1957 classic "Love Is Strange." By Erik Pedersen Mickey “Guitar ...

Mickey Baker, guitarist for the duo Mickey & Sylvia, died of heart and kidney failure on Tuesday at his home in France, The New York Times reports. He was 87 years old. Baker developed a genre-bending ...

Mickey Baker, who has died aged 87, was one of the most versatile and prolific guitarists of his era. During the 1950s, any producer making R&B or rock'n'roll records in New York would have Baker's ...

Mickey "Guitar" Baker, a guitarist who forged a link between rhythm-and-blues and early rock music and whose 1956 recording of "Love Is Strange" with singer Sylvia Robinson became a pop classic ...

When Mickey Baker was a down-and-out teenager in New York, he couldn’t afford a trumpet—his preferred instrument—so he bought a cheap guitar instead. Generations of music lovers will thank him for ...

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As a session player, Baker’s keening, bluesy guitar riffs featured on the newly-formed Drifters’ 1953 hit Money Honey, and on Big Joe Turner’s Shake, Rattle and Roll, which topped the American R&B ...

Mickey Baker, one half of the hit-making duo Mickey and Sylvia in the late '50s and an influential guitarist whose work can be heard on hundreds of records, has died at his home near Toulouse, France.