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Junior Wells

1934 - 1998

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Junior Wells (born Amos Wells Blakemore Jr.; December 9, 1934 – January 15, 1998) was an American singer, harmonica player, and recording artist. He is best known for his signature song "Messin' with the Kid" and his 1965 album Hoodoo Man Blues, described by the critic Bill Dahl as "one of the truly classic blues albums of the 1960s". Wells himself categorized his music as rhythm and blues.Wells performed and recorded with various notable blues musicians, including Muddy Waters, Earl Hooker, and Buddy Guy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Junior Wells has received more than 475,515 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Junior Wells is the 1,289th most popular singer (down from 1,153rd in 2019), the 6,935th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,336th in 2019) and the 341st most popular American Singer.

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  • 480k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.02

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.82

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.69

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SINGERS

Among singers, Junior Wells ranks 1,289 out of 3,528. Before him are Barney McKenna, Seo In-guk, Tetsuya Komuro, Kvitka Cisyk, Taos Amrouche, and Lasse Berghagen. After him are Olga Guillot, Álvaro Soler, Daniel Powter, Betty Carter, Karina, and Luz Casal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Junior Wells ranks 346. Before him are Tonina Torrielli, Chuck McCann, Gulzar, Ole Madsen, Gilbert Strang, and Phạm Minh Mẫn. After him are Sam Panopoulos, Jaegwon Kim, Peter Maxwell Davies, Eddy Pieters Graafland, Mário de Araújo Cabral, and Joseph Bologna. Among people deceased in 1998, Junior Wells ranks 208. Before him are Ed Ablowich, Stokely Carmichael, Marion Donovan, Wanda Jakubowska, Kvitka Cisyk, and Raymond E. Brown. After him are Betty Carter, Aurélio de Lira Tavares, Alice Faye, Stu Ungar, Fred Alderman, and Åke Seyffarth.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Junior Wells ranks 6,935 out of 18,182. Before him are Eleanor Powell (1912), Raymond E. Brown (1928), Harold Budd (1936), William Haines (1900), Warren Farrell (1943), and Mike Farrell (1939). After him are Chuck Grassley (1933), Connie Britton (1967), Jeffrey Eugenides (1960), Gilbert Kaplan (1941), Frank Wykoff (1909), and Frankie Genaro (1901).

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Among SINGERS In United States

Among singers born in United States, Junior Wells ranks 341. Before him are Johnny Mathis (1935), Telma Hopkins (1948), Marilyn Miller (1898), Jello Biafra (1958), Tina Weymouth (1950), and Kvitka Cisyk (1953). After him are Betty Carter (1929), Leonard Warren (1911), Skeeter Davis (1931), Johnny Rivers (1942), Sheila E. (1957), and Randy Meisner (1946).

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