elizabethbeller
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"Old" friends from the WAKY era knew me as "Betty", though it sounds foreign to me now!
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Post by elizabethbeller on Apr 13, 2009 0:52:47 GMT -5
Randy Cain, founding member of Delfonics, dies April 12, 2009, 1:52 PM EST PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Randy Cain, a founding member of the soul group the Delfonics, which had such hits as "La La Means I Love You," has died. He was 63.
Cain's death Thursday at his home in Maple Shade, N.J., was confirmed by investigator Rob O'Neal of the Burlington County medical examiner's office, who declined to release other details.
Brothers William and Wilbert Hart and Cain formed the group while attending Philadelphia's Overbrook High in the 1960s. The group, one of the earliest to define the smooth, soulful "Philadelphia sound," won an R&B Grammy in 1970 for their song "Didn't I Blow Your Mind This Time."
The label was printed as "Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time). What a great R & B hit.
RIP!
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elizabethbeller
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"Old" friends from the WAKY era knew me as "Betty", though it sounds foreign to me now!
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Post by elizabethbeller on Apr 13, 2009 0:56:40 GMT -5
And....
Dan Seals passed away March 25, 2009 following a valiant struggle with mantle cell lymphoma. He leaves behind thousands of fans, countless friends and a loving family. He enjoyed a musical career which spanned four decades and included hit records both as a member of pop duo England Dan and John Ford Coley, and as a solo country artist. In 1986 he won Country Music Association Awards for “Bop” and "Meet Me in Montana." He will forever be remembered for his gentle smile, easy going demeanor, his enduring faith and endless generosity.
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Post by bruiser on Jun 16, 2009 19:50:26 GMT -5
Bob Bogle, co-founder of The Ventures, passed away on 6/14, of non-Hodgkins lymphoma. Bob played lead and bass in the group. He played lead on such tunes as "Walk Don't Run", "Perfidia", "Lullaby Of The Leaves", and many others. The Ventures remain the top selling instrumental group of the rock and roll era. Some say The Ventures invented surf music. I don't know about that, but they were certainly instrumental in developing that sound. They were also the primary influence in my picking up a guitar all those years ago. Still can't play, LOL.
RIP Bob
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Post by bruiser on Jun 30, 2009 15:17:29 GMT -5
RIP Gale Storm, tv and recording star of the fifties. She hit the top ten with hits like "Ivory Tower" and "Dark Moon".
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Post by bruiser on Jul 5, 2009 13:42:30 GMT -5
Drake Levin, former lead guitarist for Paul Revere and The Raiders.
RIP Drake
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Post by bruiser on Jul 20, 2009 14:52:50 GMT -5
Gordon Waller, half of the duo of Peter and Gordon. Apparently he died of cardiac arrest at the age of 64. They were scheduled to play the state fair.
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Post by John Quincy on Jul 24, 2009 12:59:21 GMT -5
John Dawson, Country-Rock Songwriter, Dies at 64
By BEN SISARIO John Dawson, a singer and songwriter whose band New Riders of the Purple Sage began as a country-rock offshoot of the Grateful Dead but had a long life of its own, died on Tuesday in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where he lived. He was 64.
The cause was stomach cancer, said Trebbie Thomas, a family friend.
Mr. Dawson, known as Marmaduke, founded New Riders of the Purple Sage in 1969 with David Nelson and Jerry Garcia, whom Mr. Dawson had known from Mother McCree’s Uptown Jug Band Champions, a Grateful Dead predecessor formed in 1964. Mr. Dawson was looking for a band to perform his country-inflected songs, and Mr. Garcia was eager for a project in which he could indulge his newest musical obsession, pedal-steel guitar.
According to Dennis McNally’s book “A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead,” the group grew out of casual performances at the Underground coffeehouse in Menlo Park, Calif., and took its name from a 1912 Western novel by Zane Grey, “Riders of the Purple Sage.” Mickey Hart and Phil Lesh of the Grateful Dead were briefly members, and New Riders became one of the Dead’s regular opening acts, its country-leaning sound complementing the older band’s psychedelic folk-rock.
The group’s formal association with the Grateful Dead did not last long: Mr. Hart and Mr. Lesh departed before New Riders’ self-titled debut album was released in 1971, and Mr. Garcia left shortly thereafter. But the band remained closely connected to many of the top psychedelic groups of the era: Mr. Nelson had played guitar in Big Brother and the Holding Company, and Spencer Dryden, formerly of Jefferson Airplane, joined as drummer in late 1970.
New Riders released a dozen albums into the early ’80s. One, “The Adventures of Panama Red,” from 1973, went gold, and a track from that album, “Panama Red” — a novelty song about marijuana, not so thinly veiled — became a staple. With Mr. Garcia and Robert Hunter, the longtime Grateful Dead lyricist, Mr. Dawson also wrote the song “Friend of the Devil,” which appears on the Grateful Dead’s 1970 album “American Beauty.”
The original New Riders of the Purple Sage disbanded in 1982, but Mr. Dawson continued to use the name, with all new musicians, for 15 years. He retired to Mexico in the late 1990s and by the 2000s was too ill to take part in reunion tours, said Buddy Cage, who replaced Mr. Garcia on pedal steel.
Mr. Dawson’s wife, Elanna Wyn-Ellis Dawson, died in 2004. He is survived by his mother, Ruth Bioletti of Hood River, Ore.; two brothers, Richard, of Fremont, Calif., and Bruce, of Tucson; and a sister, Mary Dawson of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
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Post by bruiser on Jul 31, 2009 15:37:51 GMT -5
There was a singing cowboy act that was The Riders Of The Purple Sage. I don't recall when they were formed, but they had permission from Zane Grey himself to use the name. They were later known as Foy Willing and The Riders Of The Purple Sage. My guess is the New Riders were well aware of the original group of that name, and added new to the name. The original Riders were fairly popular. In fact, they were popular enough to take the place of The Sons Of The Pioneers in some of Roy Rogers' movies. They also had their own network radio show, "All Star Western Theater". Their biggest hit was a tune entitled "Texas Blues". Here's a link to some "All Star Western Theater" shows. www.freeotrshows.com/otr/a/All_Star_Western_Theater.htmlRIP John Dawson.
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Post by bruiser on Aug 3, 2009 9:19:23 GMT -5
RIP Billy Lee Riley. He was a pioneering rockabilly and rock and roll artist on the Sun label. He found some success with "Flying Saucer Rock and Roll", and renamed his band The Little Green Men. Jerry Lee Lewis and Ace Cannon were members. Riley followed up with "Red Hot", which was beginning a gigantic move up the charts. Well, until Sam Phillips pulled the promotion of the record. Phillips gave the push to "Whole Lotta Shakin'". I don't think Billy ever got over that, as I've read some interviews where he blamed Phillips for killing his career. Can't say as I blame him. But, I don't understand why Phillips would not want to have two chart smashes at the same time.
RIP Billy Lee.
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Post by Max on Aug 23, 2009 19:01:08 GMT -5
Larry Knechtel, guitarist and keyboardist for Bread has passed away at the age of 69 from a heart attack. In addition, Larry was an often used session musician on bass in addition to the above instruments.
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Post by John Quincy on Aug 25, 2009 12:09:39 GMT -5
Along with being a decent guitarist, Larry played piano on Simon & Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water"...a song with one of the most recognizable intros in rock history.
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Post by John Quincy on Sept 21, 2009 12:50:11 GMT -5
Arthur Ferrante, the remaining half of the piano duo of Ferrante and Teicher, died Saturday (September 19) at his home in Longboat Key, Florida. He was 88. Born in 1921 in New York City, Arthur met Louis Teicher while they were both students at the famed Julliard School of Music in Manhattan (Lou was five and Art was eight when they started studies). They then went on to teach at the facility after graduation, while recording and performing avante garde music using "prepared" pianos-- fitted with clothes pins and sandpaper to create unusual sounds. Their big break occurred when they switched from Columbia Records to United Artists in 1960 and created a lush arrangement of the Oscar-winning film, "The Apartment". It reached #10 that year and was followed by themes from "Exodus" (#2-1960 and a million-seller), "One-Eyed Jacks" (#37-1961)and "Tonight" from "West Side Story" (#8-1961). One last top forty single was the theme from "Midnight Cowboy" (#10) in 1970. As successful as their singles were, though, the duo's albums became instrumental standards. Art and Lou charted 30 times in a dozen years before retiring in 1989. Louis died in August of 2008.
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Post by Max on Jul 9, 2010 21:44:08 GMT -5
I was very sad to learn of this! Now I have even more reason to learn his solo on "Goodbye to Love".... LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Tony Peluso, the lead guitarist with the Carpenters for 12 years and a successful Motown and Latin music producer, died June 5 of heart disease in Los Angeles. He was 60. Peluso got his start as musical director for Bobby Sherman, played guitar for Paul Revere and the Raiders, produced records for the likes of Smokey Robinson and Michael Jackson, and collaborated with Gustavo Santaolalla on the soundtrack of the Oscar-winning "Brokeback Mountain." Raised in a musical family, he teamed up with Richard and Karen Carpenter when he was 21. Perhaps his most memorable work with the siblings was on the 1972 power ballad "Goodbye to Love," where he conceived and played the masterful, melodic solo and outro. After Karen Carpenter's death in 1983, Peluso partnered for a decade with the top talent scout at Motown Records and co-produced dozens of records for such artists as Robinson, Jackson, the Temptations, and the Four Tops. He also produced and/or engineered for artists such as Kenny Loggins, Seals & Crofts, Apollonia, Player, Animotion, Stephanie Mills, the Fixx, Dave Koz and Boyz II Men.
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Post by Travis on Jul 10, 2010 7:01:36 GMT -5
I've often thought that those licks heard in The Fixx's "Saved By Zero" were similar, in tone, to those in The Carpenter's "Goodbye to Love" and now I know why. Thanks Max.
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Post by John Quincy on Jul 28, 2010 3:46:06 GMT -5
Al (Albert Willie) Goodman, who sang bass in the Moments and later as part of its succesor-- Ray, Goodman & Brown-- died Monday (July 26) in a Newark, New Jersey hospital where he had gone for undisclosed tests. Its reported the 63 year-old had been battling liver disease. Al, Harry Ray and Billy Brown were brought in by Sylvia Robinson's Stang Records to replace the original Moments group in 1969 (though early records featured a variety of old and new members). That group had already charted that with "Not On The Outside." The new group's re-recording of "Love On A Two-Way Street" established them as the definitive Moments, reaching #3 Pop and #1 R&B in 1970. It was followed by such R&B hits as "If I Didn't Care" (#44 Pop, #7 R&B-1970) and "All I Have" (#56 Pop, #9 R&B-1971) and "Sexy Mama," which topped at #17 Pop and #3 R&B in 1974. All in all, the different incarnations of the Moments scored 15 charted Pop and 28 R&B songs from 1969 to 1981. Creative differences with Sylvia however, led to their own departure in 1979, where they were forced to rename themselves Ray Goodman & Brown. Signing with Polydor Records, they struck gold with their first recording-- "Special Lady" (#5 Pop, #1-R&B-1980), following it up with two more Pop chart records and nine more R&B hits, including "Take It To The Limit" (#8, R&B-1987). Harry left the group briefly for a solo career in the '80s and died in 1992, but Al and Billy continued performing, even backing Alicia Keyes on her songs in the last decade.
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Post by bruiser on Aug 5, 2010 17:52:12 GMT -5
We can add Mitch Miller and Bobby Hebb to the list.
Guess Mitch is singing along with an angel chorus, and Bobby will always be where it's sunny.
RIP to both.
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