I was trying to do Billie Holiday, because she was the voice to be heard at that time.

She was to have further hits with "I Don't Know" in 1959 and "Don't Deceive Me" in 1960 although these were more successful on the R&B chart than on the pop chart. In 1945 Brown ran away from her home in Portsmouth along with trumpeter Jimmy Brown whom Ruth Brown soon married to sing in bars and clubs. Death
Brown died in a Las Vegas-area hospital on November 17 2006 from complications following a heart attack and stroke Ruth Brown suffered after surgery in the previous month.

Following a resurgence that began in the mid-1970s and peaked in the 1980s Brown used her influence to press for musicians' rights regarding royalties and contracts which led to the founding of the Rhythm and Blues Foundation. For these contributions Atlantic became known as "The house that Ruth built" (alluding to the popular nickname for Old Yankee Stadium). Ruth Brown (January 12 1928 – November 17 2006) was an American singer-songwriter and actress also known as "Queen of R&B" noted for bringing a pop music style to R&B music in a series of hit songs for Atlantic Records in the 1950s such as "So Long" "Teardrops from My Eyes" and "(Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean".