Barry
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Post by Barry on Jun 20, 2014 17:09:04 GMT
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Barry
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Post by Barry on Jun 20, 2014 17:17:44 GMT
Sad to learn today of the death of Gerry Goffin. Along with lyricist and one-time wife Carol King, Goffin and King wrote a whole stream of successful hit tunes performed by Diana Ross, The Everly Brothers, The Shirelles, Bobby Vee, Whitney Houston, and Gladys Knight and the Pips amongst others. www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-27934624 |
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Post by MartinT on Jun 20, 2014 17:17:59 GMT
I didn't know that, Barry. Thanks.
Carole King's music is very familiar to me, and I have an album of his daughter's, Louise Goffin, whom I saw live back in the 1980s.
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Post by ChrisB on Jun 20, 2014 18:15:39 GMT
He wrote so many of those utterly wonderful songs.
RIP
We sadly lost Horace Silver yesterday as well.
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Post by MartinT on Jun 20, 2014 19:16:08 GMT
That's a nice bit of footage, Chris.
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Post by John on Jun 20, 2014 19:21:28 GMT
Agree I do find myself leaning a lot to jazz and world music these days......maybe I am mellowing
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Post by MartinT on Jun 20, 2014 19:22:57 GMT
Heh - not so many of your edges in jazz!
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Post by ChrisB on Jun 20, 2014 19:25:15 GMT
......maybe I am mellowing Well, there's some pretty rampant jazz about! |
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Barry
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Post by Barry on Jun 20, 2014 19:53:01 GMT
Well that's my evening's listening sorted.
All in all, a bad day for music.
RIP Horace
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Post by John on Jun 20, 2014 20:00:29 GMT
Plenty of edges in Jazz
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Post by MartinT on Jun 20, 2014 20:10:00 GMT
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Post by The Brookmeister on Jun 28, 2014 13:08:03 GMT
RIP Bobby Womack
Shocked and saddened are the words I use, a trued legend, will be sadly missed, I have nearly worn out his newset LP The bravest man in the universe I play it that much.
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Post by MikeMusic on Jun 28, 2014 14:46:32 GMT
Always a blow when the good ones go  |
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Post by John on Jun 28, 2014 19:26:32 GMT
Yes sad to see him past away but left loads of music
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Post by MartinT on Jun 28, 2014 20:03:06 GMT
Indeed, I just hadn't thought he was particularly old. Very sad to hear it this morning.
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Post by The Brookmeister on Jun 28, 2014 20:09:47 GMT
He was 70 and if you were into 1980's soul and funk he was a demi-god. His latest LP was written with Damon Albarn and its played at my house every other day.
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Post by ChrisB on Jun 28, 2014 20:18:16 GMT
There was more to what he did than that though - he was Sam Cooke's guitarist and also played on some of Aretha Franklin's early albums for example.
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Post by Slinger on Jul 12, 2014 11:42:10 GMT
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Post by Slinger on Jul 15, 2014 12:26:19 GMT
Lorin Maazel, the first American and the first Jew in the postwar period to conduct at Bayreuth has passed away at the age of 84. We also lost Claudio Abbado back in January; it's not been a good year for the giants of the baton thus far.
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Post by MartinT on Jul 15, 2014 13:39:22 GMT
I was sad at Abbado's passing and celebrated Maazel's life with some excellent recordings of his.
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