Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Joe Liggins (July 9, 1915 – July 26, 1987) was an American R&B, jazz and blues pianist, who was the frontman in the 1940s and 1950s with the band, Joe Liggins and his Honeydrippers. He was older brother of R&B performer Jimmy Liggins.His band was often a staple on the US Billboard R&B chart in those years, with their biggest hit being \"The Honeydripper\", released in 1945. That single topped the R&B chart, then called the race chart, for 18 weeks. More than 60 years later, \"The Honeydripper\" remains tied with Louis Jordan's \"Choo Choo Ch'Boogie\" for the longest-ever stay at the top of that chart. It logged a reported two million sales."@en }
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- Joe_Liggins abstract "Joe Liggins (July 9, 1915 – July 26, 1987) was an American R&B, jazz and blues pianist, who was the frontman in the 1940s and 1950s with the band, Joe Liggins and his Honeydrippers. He was older brother of R&B performer Jimmy Liggins.His band was often a staple on the US Billboard R&B chart in those years, with their biggest hit being \"The Honeydripper\", released in 1945. That single topped the R&B chart, then called the race chart, for 18 weeks. More than 60 years later, \"The Honeydripper\" remains tied with Louis Jordan's \"Choo Choo Ch'Boogie\" for the longest-ever stay at the top of that chart. It logged a reported two million sales.".