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[Ojai Sam]

Iconic Claremont musician David Lindley dead at 78 | The Claremont COURIER

Acclaimed Claremont musician and songwriter David Lindley has died. Lindley died today after reportedly being in ill health for several months. He was 78. He was known for his startling, wide-screen musicality, was conversant on dozens of stringed instruments, and was one of the progenitors of...

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[Unsomnambulist]

SST Records Producer Glen 'Spot' Lockett Dead at 72

Musician, engineer, photographer, and writer helmed records by Black Flag, Minutemen, and Descendents

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[Ojai Sam]

Jerry Samuels, the Northeast Philly artist behind the 1966 hit novelty song ‘They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!,’ has died at 84

Mr. Samuels performed the unusual song under the stage name Napoleon XIV. It peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100.

www.inquirer.com

 

[Ojai Sam]

Jim Gordon, World-Class Drummer for Clapton, Cocker & More —And Convicted Killer—Dies - Best Classic Bands

He was one of the elite Hollywood studio musicians known as the Wrecking Crew and member of landmark rock bands including Derek & the Dominos

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What a sad life story.

 

[axolotl]

The rapper Coolio has died at 59

The artist, one of hip-hop's biggest names of the 1990s with hits including "Gangsta's Paradise" and "Fantastic Voyage," died Wednesday at age 59, his manager said.

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Rapper Coolio’s cause of death revealed, report says

Coolio, who died at age 59, won a Grammy for best solo rap performance for 'Gangsta’s Paradise.'

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[Nickyboy]

Rapper Coolio’s cause of death revealed, report says

Coolio, who died at age 59, won a Grammy for best solo rap performance for 'Gangsta’s Paradise.'

www.silive.com

He died last year? Who knew?!

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Jazz pianist Ahamad Jamal has died

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/16/846207919/ahmad-jamal-obituary

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Harry Belafonte has died

Harry Belafonte, activist and entertainer with a ‘rebel heart,’ dies at 96 | CNN

Harry Belafonte, the dashing singer, actor and activist who became an indispensable supporter of the civil rights movement, has died, his publicist Ken Sunshine told CNN.

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[axolotl]

Harry Belafonte has died

Harry Belafonte, activist and entertainer with a ‘rebel heart,’ dies at 96 | CNN

Harry Belafonte, the dashing singer, actor and activist who became an indispensable supporter of the civil rights movement, has died, his publicist Ken Sunshine told CNN.

amp.cnn.com

A group of Black students approached Belafonte in Harlem in 2016 and asked if there was anything he was still looking for, despite his advanced age.

"What I've always been looking for: Where resides the rebel heart?" Belafonte replied. "Without the rebellious heart, without people who understand that there's no sacrifice we can make that is too great to retrieve that which we've lost, we will forever be distracted with possessions and trinkets and title."

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Gordon Lightfoot has died

Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot dies at 84

Canadian musician Gordon Lightfoot, the prolific singer-songwriter known for such folk-pop hits as "If You Could Read My Mind" and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," died on Monday in a Toronto hospital. He was 84.

www.reuters.com

 

[Ojai Sam]

Gordon Lightfoot has died

Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot dies at 84

Canadian musician Gordon Lightfoot, the prolific singer-songwriter known for such folk-pop hits as "If You Could Read My Mind" and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," died on Monday in a Toronto hospital. He was 84.

www.reuters.com

I saw Gordon live a couple of times. He was an excellent performer with great audience rapport. He always seemed bemused by his success and fame after “Read My Mind”.

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

I saw Gordon live a couple of times. He was an excellent performer with great audience rapport. He always seemed bemused by his success and fame after “Read My Mind”.

What a tale his thoughts must have told

 

[axolotl]

What a tale his thoughts must have told

That song just seemed to come together as a perfect storm for him. Reminiscent of another one he wrote.

 

[Ojai Sam]

“Family Bible” Singer, ‘The Tall Texan’ Claude Gray Has Died -...

He stood 6'5" tall, which is why people referred to him as "The Tall Texan." He was the first performer to record and release the song "Family Bible" written by Willie Nelson.

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Claude charted a couple of dozen times over three decades starting in 1960 but only four hit the top 10. This is my favorite, and it still gets airplay on Sirius/XM's Willie's Roadhouse:

 

[Nickyboy]

They called him the Tall Texan because he was from Texas and he was tall.
Damned. You can't slip nothing past those Texan folk.

Randy Bachmann from Bachmann Turner Overdrive died the other day, too.

 

[axolotl]

They called him the Tall Texan because he was from Texas and he was tall.
Damned. You can't slip nothing past those Texan folk.

Randy Bachmann from Bachmann Turner Overdrive died the other day, too.

Close. It was Tim Bachmann, his brother.

Tim Bachman, guitarist, co-founder of Bachman–Turner Overdrive, dies at 71

The brother of guitarist/singer Randy Bachman and drummer Robbie Bachman, Tim Bachman played on seminal BTO tracks like Takin' Care of Business and Let It Ride

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Randy was showing off his guitars the other day.

The Guess Who's Randy Bachman shows off guitar collection and the stories behind it at National Music Centre exhibit

"We both took our Gretsch guitars and rode out into the world and started making music," Bachman says.

calgaryherald.com

 

[Nickyboy]

"My brother died? Look at my guitars".

Those Bachnan's are some cold-blooded people.

 

[Ojai Sam]

Grace Bumbry, 1st Black singer at Bayreuth, dies at 86

Grace Bumbry, a pioneering mezzo-soprano who became the first Black singer to perform at Germany's Bayreuth Festival during a career of more than three decades on the world’s top stages, has died

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[axolotl]

Grace Bumbry, 1st Black singer at Bayreuth, dies at 86

Grace Bumbry, a pioneering mezzo-soprano who became the first Black singer to perform at Germany's Bayreuth Festival during a career of more than three decades on the world’s top stages, has died

abcnews.go.com

Bumbry, known mostly as a mezzo but who also performed some soprano roles. was inspired when her mother took her to a recital of Marian Anderson, the American contralto who in 1955 became the first Black singer at New York's Metropolitan Opera. Bumbry became part of a generation of acclaimed Black opera singers that included Leontyne Price, Shirley Verrett, George Shirley, Reri Grist and Martina Arroyo.

What? No Jessye Norman?

 

[Nickyboy]

Andy Rourke, bassist for the Smith, dead at 59: https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/new...p&cvid=e507d5c37ab94522b8e7d1715745eaab&ei=12