“Rescue Me” Singer Fontella Bass Dies at 72

ST. LOUIS — Fontella Bass, a St. Louis-born soul singer who hit the top of the R&B charts with “Rescue Me” in 1965, has died. She was 72. Bass died Wednesday night at a St. Louis hospice of complications from a heart attack suffered three weeks ago, her daughter, Neuka Mitchell, said. Bass had also suffered a series of strokes over the past seven years. “She was an outgoing person,” Mitchell said of her mother. “She had a very big personality. Any room she en...