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After a few false starts, I am ready to take my place on the internet by blogging about something that I love - Old School Music. The music that I have the love affair with is mostly from from the 1960s and 1970s with a smattering of late 1950s and e
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‘Godfather’ singer Al Martino dies in Pa. at 82
Associated Press 13 mins ago SPRINGFIELD, Pa. – Singer Al Martino, who played the Frank Sinatra-type role of Johnny Fontane in “The Godfather,” died Tuesday afternoon at his childhood home. He was 82. Publicist Sandy Friedman, of t...
Bluesman who recorded as Freddy Robinson dies
Associated Press -- Sat Oct 10, 1:33 am ET LANCASTER, Calif. – Bluesman Abu Talib, who recorded and toured with Ray Charles and Little Walter under his given name, Freddy Robinson, has died. He was 70. His daughter, Linda Chaplin, said Talib died o...
Alvin “Skip” Miller – Former president of Motown Records Died Sept. 4, 2009
Saturday, September 26, 2009 By Valerie J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times Skip Miller, a Los Angeles music industry veteran who rose from stock clerk to president of Motown Records and helped rejuvenate the black music division at RCA Records, has died. H...
Mary Travers of 1960s folk anthem trio dies at 72
By JAY LINDSAY, Associated Press 1 hr 39 mins ago BOSTON – Mary Travers, one part of the folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, which used beautiful, tranquil harmonies to convey the angst and turmoil of the Vietnam anti-war movement, racial discrimin...
Wycliffe Johnson, Boisterous Reggae Producer and Musician, Dies at 47
September 6, 2009 By ROB KENNER Wycliffe Johnson, an innovative composer and producer known as Steely, who held sway over two decades of reggae music, died on Tuesday in East Patchogue, N.Y. He was 47 and lived in Kingston, Jamaica. The cause was a h...
Wycliffe Johnson, Boisterous Reggae Producer and Musician, Dies at 47
September 6, 2009 By ROB KENNER Wycliffe Johnson, an innovative composer and producer known as Steely, who held sway over two decades of reggae music, died on Tuesday in East Patchogue, N.Y. He was 47 and lived in Kingston, Jamaica. The cause was a h...
Marie Knight, Rich-Voiced Gospel Singer, Dies at 89
By WILLIAM GRIMES Published September 2, 2009 Marie Knight, whose rich, room-filling contralto voice provided the ideal counterweight to Sister Rosetta Tharpe’s more penetrating higher register on some of the most popular gospel records of the 1940...
Marie Knight, Rich-Voiced Gospel Singer, Dies at 89
By WILLIAM GRIMES Published September 2, 2009 Marie Knight, whose rich, room-filling contralto voice provided the ideal counterweight to Sister Rosetta Tharpe’s more penetrating higher register on some of the most popular gospel records of the 1940...
Patriarch of the musical DeBarge Family has passed
I just opened my first email of the day to find this sad news … A message to all members of The DeBarge Network The DeBarge Network sorrowfully announces the passing of Robert Louis DeBarge Sr. He was the Patriarch of the world reknown De...
Ellie Greenwich, ‘Chapel of Love’ co-writer, dies
By NEKESA MUMBI MOODY, AP Music Writer 56 mins ago NEW YORK – Ellie Greenwich, who co-wrote some of pop music’s most enduring songs, including “Chapel of Love,” “Be My Baby” and “Leader of the Pack,” ...
R&B singer and Harvey-native John E. Carter dead at 75
August 21, 2009 FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS ...
Johnnie Carter of The Falcons & The Dells passed this morning
All of the members of “classicsoulmusic70sstyle@yahoogroups.com,” myself included, just received the following email: Hello everyone, sorry to have to post this very sad news, but Mr. Johnnie Carter (the world’s best tenor) of The D...
Rashied Ali, Free-Jazz Drummer, Dies at 76
By WILLIAM GRIMES Published: August 14, 2009 Rashied Ali, whose expressionistic, free-jazz drumming helped define the experimental style of John Coltrane’s final years, died Wednesday in Manhattan. He was 76. The cause was a heart attack, said his ...
Guitar legend-inventor Les Paul dies at age 94
By LUKE SHERIDAN, Associated Press Writer 2009-08-13 -20 mins ago WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. – Les Paul, who pioneered the solid-body electric guitar later wielded by a legion of rock ‘n’ roll greats, died Thursday of complications from pneum...
Mike Seeger, Singer and Music Historian, Dies at 75
Published August 10, 2009 By BEN SISARIO Mike Seeger, a singer and multi-instrumentalist who played an important role in the folk revival of the 1950s and ’60s, died on Friday at his home in Lexington, Va. He was 75. The cause was multiple myeloma,...
Willy DeVille, Mink DeVille Singer and Songwriter, Is Dead at 58
Published August 8, 2009 By WILLIAM GRIMES Willy DeVille, a singer and songwriter and the leader of the group Mink DeVille, whose adventurous forays into rhythm and blues, Cajun music and salsa made him one of the most original figures of the New Yor...
Gordon Waller of Peter & Gordon dead at 64
By Jimmy Created 07/17/2009 – 1:02pm Gordon Waller, half of the British rock duo, Peter and Gordon, died July 16 in Connecticut, RadarOnline.com has confirmed. Gordon and Peter Asher were part of The British Invasion, the 1960s influx into the ...
Drake Levin, of Paul Revere & the Raiders, Dies at 62
Drake Levin, who played lead guitar for the teen-idol rock band Paul Revere & the Raiders during their biggest hit-making years in the mid-1960s, died July 4 in San Francisco. He was 62. The cause was cancer, said his wife, Sandra. The NY Times O...
Allen Klein, 77, Dies; Managed Music Legends
Allen Klein, a music executive who managed the business affairs of Sam Cooke, the Rolling Stones and, for a short time, the Beatles, and who was both admired and feared for his reputation as a fierce negotiator, died on Saturday in Manhattan, where h...
Fayette Pinkney, Soulful Singer With the Three Degrees, Dies at 61
July 1, 2009 By WILLIAM GRIMES Fayette Pinkney, an original member of the Three Degrees who lent her strong, soulful voice to the 1970s hits “When Will I See You Again?” and “T.S.O.P. (The Sound of Philadelphia),” the theme song of the telev...
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Michael Jackson, Pop Icon, Is Dead at 50
This photo depicts the Jackson5 I grew up with and the Michael Joe Jackson (center) that entertained me with his sweet tenor from my school daze up until today! This morning, for example, I listened to “Dancing Machine” on the co...
Barry Beckett, Muscle Shoals Musician, Dies at 66
By BRUCE WEBER Published: June 16, 2009 Barry Beckett, an Alabama-born keyboardist who helped create the distinctly Southern amalgamation of rhythm and blues, soul and country that became known as the Muscle Shoals sound, and who as a producer record...
Bob Bogle of The Ventures Dies at 75
June 17, 2009 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Bob Bogle, the lead guitarist and co-founder of the rock band The Ventures, known for 1960s instrumental hits like “Walk, Don’t Run,” “Perfidia” and the theme from “Hawaii Five-...
Huey Long, Guitarist for Ink Spots, Dies at 105
June 13, 2009 – New York Times By WILLIAM GRIMES Frank Davis and his Louisiana Jazz Band were booked to play at the Rice Hotel in Houston in 1925. The banjo player never showed. For Huey Long, who shined shoes outside the hotel and occasionall...
Koko Taylor, Blues Queen, Dies at 80
June 3, 2009 Filed at 6:08 p.m. ET By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO (AP) — Koko Taylor, a sharecropper’s daughter whose regal bearing and powerful voice earned her the sobriquet “Queen of the Blues,” has died after complication...
Buddy Montgomery, Jazz Pianist and Vibraphonist, Dies at 79
May 22,2009 By PETER KEEPNEWS Buddy Montgomery, a jazz pianist and vibraphonist best known for his work with the guitarist Wes Montgomery, his older brother, died on May 14 at his home in Palmdale, Calif. He was 79.The cause was a heart attack, said...
Randy Cain, member of the Delfonics, dies at 63
Posted on Sat, Apr. 11, 2009 By Dan Gross Philadelphia Daily News RANDY CAIN, who was a founding member of Philly soul band the Delfonics and who sang on such hits as “La La Means I Love You,” and “Didn’t I (Blow Your Mind Th...
Nancy Overton, Singer for the Chordettes, Is Dead at 83
April 11, 2009 By DENNIS HEVESI Nancy Overton, who joined the pop group the Chordettes in 1958 and melded her mellifluous low tones into their barbershop-quartet-like harmonies on some of their later hits, died on Sunday in Blairstown, N.J. She was ...
Bud Shank, Jazz Saxophonist, Is Dead at 82
By BRUCE WEBER Published: April 7, 2009 Bud Shank, an alto saxophonist and flutist who helped propel cool-school West Coast jazz to prominence in the 1950s and fostered the melding of American and Brazilian music that created the bossa nova, died on ...
