Fay Adams

According to music historian and writer Marv Goldberg, it is possible that she may have died on November 2, 2016, but this is unconfirmed.

She was given a Pioneer Award by the Rhythm and Blues Foundation in 1998.

By 1963 she had retired from the music industry. She remarried and, as Fannie Jones, returned to her gospel roots and family life in New Jersey.

In 1954, Adams had two more R&B chart toppers with "I'll Be True" (later covered by Bill Haley in 1954 and by a young Jackie DeShannon in 1957) and "It Hurts Me to My Heart". During this period, she left the Morris band and was billed as "Atomic Adams". She appeared in the 1955 film Rhythm & Blues Revue. In 1957 she moved to Imperial Records, but her commercial success diminished. By the late 1950s she was seen as an older recording artist whose time had come and gone, although she continued to record for various small labels until the early 1960s. Alan Freed called Adams the "little gal with the big voice".

Under her married name, Faye Scruggs, she became a regular performer in New York nightclubs in the late 1940s and early 1950s. While performing in Atlanta, Georgia, she was discovered by the singer Ruth Brown, who won her an audition with the bandleader Joe Morris of Atlantic Records. Having changed Scruggs's name to Faye Adams, Morris recruited her as a singer in 1952, and signed her to Herald Records. Her first release was Morris's song "Shake a Hand", which topped the US Billboard R&B chart for ten weeks in 1953 and reached number 22 on the US pop chart. It sold one million copies and was awarded a gold disc.

Faye Adams (born Fanny Tuell, May 22, 1923) is an American singer who recorded and performed rhythm and blues and gospel from the late 1940s until the early 1960s. She had several chart hits in the early 1950s, before retiring from the music business.

He began his rodeo career in the early 1920s and was very successful at many rodeos across the United States (including Madison Square Garden) and Canada, and won many titles including World Champion Calf Roper. Cowboy star Hoot Gibson helped Fay get into the film business and he appeared in many westerns, usually uncredited, before his untimely death. While working for rancher Bud Parker's outfit, at the railroad corral nine miles north of Nogales, Arizona, and practicing steer-roping for an upcoming rodeo in El Paso, Texas, his horse got tangled in the rope, stumbled and threw him off, and then the horse fell on his head.

Fay Glen Adams was born in Diaz, Chihuahua, Mexico to William Adams and Domer Jones Adams. He was the sixth of 11 children. His mother died giving birth to a stillborn on July 1, 1912. After being notified of the mother's death, her daughter, Edith, and a family friend drove from Columbus, New Mexico, to be with the family and attend the funeral. Being in a hurry, they neglected to take care of all the paperwork at that time required to enter Mexico and were approached by seven federal soldiers after arriving at the family home in Diaz, where mother Domer Adams body was awaiting burial. The federales demanded the immediate departure of Edith and her friend. Her father asked for an extra day so the full family could be present at the burial. The soldiers got angry and drew their weapons and, as Edith jumped in front of her father, one of them fired a shot. The bullet went just over Edith's head and entered the neck of Will Adams, killing him instantly. Both of them were buried the next day. Fourteen-year-old Fay, as well as the other children who were of working age, were left to take care of themselves and their younger siblings (one of whom was only two years old). Fay worked on numerous ranches throughout the American southwest and into California.