Famous person is dead. R.I.P. [R]

Discussion in 'Movies, TV and Music' started by That Phat Hat, Mar 16, 2011.

  1. taosjohn

    taosjohn Member+

    Dec 23, 2004
    taos,nm
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    "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)
     
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  2. Auriaprottu

    Auriaprottu Member+

    Atlanta Damn United
    Apr 1, 2002
    The back of the bus
    Club:
    Atlanta
    Nat'l Team:
    --other--
  3. falvo

    falvo Member+

    Mar 27, 2005
    San Jose & Florence
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    San Jose Earthquakes
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    Italy
  4. taosjohn

    taosjohn Member+

    Dec 23, 2004
    taos,nm
    Tom Verlaine, 73. Tom Verlaine was 2 years older than I am...
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    "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)
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  5. msilverstein47

    msilverstein47 Member+

    Jan 11, 1999
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    United States
    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
     
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  6. unclesox

    unclesox BigSoccer Supporter

    Mar 8, 2003
    209, California
    Club:
    FC Barcelona
    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)"
     
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  7. chaski

    chaski Moderator
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    Mar 20, 2000
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    Lisburn Distillery FC
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    Turks and Caicos Islands
    Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong
    Are here to make everything right that’s wrong
     
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  8. taosjohn

    taosjohn Member+

    Dec 23, 2004
    taos,nm
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  9. Goodsport

    Goodsport Moderator
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    May 18, 1999
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  10. Goodsport

    Goodsport Moderator
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    May 18, 1999
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    San Jose Earthquakes
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    United States
  11. msilverstein47

    msilverstein47 Member+

    Jan 11, 1999
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  12. HerthaBerwyn

    HerthaBerwyn Member+

    May 24, 2003
    Chicago
    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.
     
  13. Nacional Tijuana

    Nacional Tijuana St. Louis City

    St. Louis City SC
    May 6, 2003
    San Diego, Calif.
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    Seattle Sounders
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    United States
  14. chaski

    chaski Moderator
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    Mar 20, 2000
    redacted
    Club:
    Lisburn Distillery FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Turks and Caicos Islands
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  15. falvo

    falvo Member+

    Mar 27, 2005
    San Jose & Florence
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  16. Auriaprottu

    Auriaprottu Member+

    Atlanta Damn United
    Apr 1, 2002
    The back of the bus
    Club:
    Atlanta
    Nat'l Team:
    --other--
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  17. unclesox

    unclesox BigSoccer Supporter

    Mar 8, 2003
    209, California
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    FC Barcelona
  18. song219

    song219 BigSoccer Supporter

    Apr 5, 2004
    La Norte
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    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    Vanuatu
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    Jun 26, 2014
  20. Auriaprottu

    Auriaprottu Member+

    Atlanta Damn United
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    Atlanta
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    --other--
    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.
     
  21. taosjohn

    taosjohn Member+

    Dec 23, 2004
    taos,nm
    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...
     
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  22. song219

    song219 BigSoccer Supporter

    Apr 5, 2004
    La Norte
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    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    Vanuatu
  23. falvo

    falvo Member+

    Mar 27, 2005
    San Jose & Florence
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    Nat'l Team:
    Italy
  24. falvo

    falvo Member+

    Mar 27, 2005
    San Jose & Florence
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    Nat'l Team:
    Italy
  25. taosjohn

    taosjohn Member+

    Dec 23, 2004
    taos,nm
    Huey "Piano" Smith, 89.

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    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
     

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