Pico Rivera Jail. Pico Rivera Jail. The security for Pico Rivera Jail is classified as medium as the intake for prisoners is in the actual police department of Pico Rivera. The entire police force operates in the building where the cells are located, security is high.
Tommy Steele's version of Singing the Blues made number 1 in the UK Singles Chart for one week on 11 January 1957, sandwiched by two of the weeks that Guy Mitchell's version of the same song topped the charts. Steele's recording of the song was not a chart success in the US.
Gertrude Ma Rainey (1886-1939) Styled as the Mother of the Blues, Gertrude Pridgett Rainey, better known as Ma Rainey, was one of the most important of the early blues singers. In her thirty-five years of touring and recordings she made with Paramount, the Georgia native did much to establish the classic blues in American musical life.