"And I caught you then in your moment of glory Your last dramatic scene against a night sky stage With a memory so clear it's as if you were still before me Once in a lifetime star of an age" (Emily Saliers) "Set that baggage down brother Set that baggage down Throw it in the water Let that baggage drown Leave it at the station Leave it in the street Toss it in the gutter Set it down by your feet Walk on, walk on Walk on down the road Walk on, walk on No need to carry that load No more, no more, no more, no more No more, no more" (Shane Fontayne/David Crosby)
Tom Verlaine, 73. Tom Verlaine was 2 years older than I am... "But I love disaster Oh, and I love what comes after Oh, no (Ain't that nothin') Why don'tcha... (Tell me somethin') Tragedy (Ain't that nothin') Why don'tcha... (Tell me somethin')" (Tom Verlaine)
Rolling Stone Barrett Strong, the Motown artist who sang the label’s first major hit “Money (That’s What I Want)” and wrote for the Temptations and others, has died at age 81
Co-wrote many great hits with Norman Whitfield including... "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" "War" "Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today)" "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" "Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)"
"Lisa Loring, Wednesday in Original ‘Addams Family’ Series, Dies at 64" (Variety.com - Sunday, 1/29/23)
"Annie Wersching, ‘24’ Actor and Tess in ‘The Last of Us’ Video Game, Dies at 45" (Variety.com - Sunday, 1/29/23)
A man I once tripped over in Binny's Liquors, Highland Park, IL. He had arrived early for a signing and just couldnt quite make it through.
https://news.yahoo.com/laverne-shir...ams-233048244.html?.tsrc=notification-brknews Cindy Williams, Shirley on Laverne & Shirley, 75.
Burt Bacharach 94 natural causes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_written_by_Burt_Bacharach
And since he was a songwriter only (generally did not record his own stuff. Carole King recorded her stuff and then others did it better...), there wasn't always a Burt version... I do think he played piano on some of the Dionne stuff, and the CB-S stuff.
That and how many decades later people are still covering them. Stephen Foster has the whole antebellum "Old Black Joe"/"Swannee River" thing going against him and polluting almost his whole songbook; and yet each year another few people discover "Hard Times (Come Again No More)" and record it. Some of them probably think JT or Gram Parsons wrote it, but still the song sells itself...
Trugoy the Dove https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/trugoy-dove-la-soul-dies-155931328.html?fr=yhssrp_catchall
Belgian goalkeeper Arne Espeel dies aged 25 - ESPN Belgian goalkeeper Arne Espeel died after he collapsed on the pitch on Saturday moments after saving a penalty for his team. He was 25. https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/belgian-goalkeeper-dies-winkel-sport-29203804
Huey "Piano" Smith, 89. Huge part of early Rock and Roll; more than just "Sea Cruise" and "Doncha Just Know It"-- he was the piano on the original recording of "I Hear You Knockin,'" cut the originals of "Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu," "Tubercalucas and the Sinus Blues," "Blow Wind Blow" and "High Blood Pressure." He played for and with the likes of Little Richard, Lee Allen, Guitar Slim, Earl King, Earl Palmer, "Scarface" Williams, Smiley Lewis, Gerri Hall, and Curley Moore. He was a major influence on Dr. John. He was the real thing though his profile was lower than a lot of weaker derivatives. An ordinary looking guy at an ordinary looking piano in a 50's looking paneled room-- but he could get you off your seat and standing on it in less time than it took you to get to it. "Say a prayer for me You think I'm lying If the boogie woogie kills me Then I don't mind dying" RIP