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Lesley Gore: 1946-2015

24 Tuesday Feb 2015

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It's My Party. Judy's Turn To Cry, Lesley Gore

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Birth: May 2, 1946
New York
New York County (Manhattan)
New York, USA
Death: Feb. 16, 2015
Manhattan
New York County (Manhattan)
New York, USA

American Singer, Songwriter and Actress. Born Lesley Sue Goldstein, she was discovered by Quincy Jones as a teenager and signed to Mercury Records. In 1963 at age 16, she topped the charts with her song about teenage heartbreak, “It’s My Party” which raced to No. 1 on the charts, was nominated for a Grammy and sold more than 1 million copies. She followed that up with such hits as “Judy’s Turn to Cry”, “That’s the Way Boys Are”, “She’s a Fool”, “Maybe I Know”, “Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows” and “You Don’t Own Me”, which sold more than 1 million copies as well and landed her a No. 2 spot on the charts. Along with her brother, Michael, she co-wrote the Academy Award-nominated “Out Here On My Own” from the film “Fame” (1980). In the 1990s, Gore co-wrote “My Secret Love” for the film “Grace of My Heart” (1996) and a couple of years later, she appeared in “Smokey Joe’s Cafe” on Broadway. In 2005, she released “Ever Since,” her first album in 30 years. Gore, who graduated from Sarah Lawrence College with a degree in English/American literature, had been working on a stage version of her life when she died of lung cancer.First published on findagrave.com

 

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I saw Lesley Gore perform one. It was in the early 1980s and she was part of a package tour. Lou Christie and the Coasters were on the bill and Ricky Nelson was the headliner.

She was a star during the 1960s and can be considered a female teenage idol. She produced catchy songs that were pure 1960s pop. Her sound and commercial success did not continue in the 1970s but she leaves behind a strong catalogue of music and some wonderful memories.

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Jimi Jamison Of Survivor Passes Away

10 Wednesday Sep 2014

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Jimi Jamison, whose distinctive vocals helped power the rock group Survivor to 1980’s hits like “Burning Heart” and “The Search Is Over,” died of a heart attack at his Raleigh home Sunday. He was 63.

Jamison joined Survivor in 1984,.about two years after the group’s biggest hit, “Eye Of The Tiger.”

Among the other Survivor hits that Jamison sang on were “Is This Love,” “I Can’t Hold Back” and “High On You.”

“Burning Heart” was part of the “Rocky IV” soundtrack and peaked #2 on the pop chart. It was kept out of #1 by “That’s What Friends Are For” by Dionne and Friends, which became the #1 song for all of 1986.

 

Folk Legend Pete Seeger Passes Away

14 Friday Feb 2014

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American Singer, Songwriter and Activist. Seeger’s interest in music began early. His father Charles, was a musicologist and his mother Constance, was a violin teacher; both were on the faculty of the Juilliard School of Music. He learned banjo, ukulele, and guitar by his teens and became interested in American folk-music when he was 16. He began working with noted folk archivist and field recorder Alan Lomax before traveling around the country learning rural music. He attended Harvard University and served in the army in World War II. In the ’40s, he became a friend and singing associate of Woody Guthrie before forming the Weavers, which became an enormously popular folk quartet that popularized such folk standards as “On Top of Old Smokey” and Lead Belly’s “Goodnight Irene”.  In the ’50s his sympathies with humanitarian socialism led him to be blacklisted by the House UnAmerican Activities Committee, however he continued to perform wherever he could. Seeger recorded for Folkways and signed with John Hammond and Columbia Records in the early 60s. A gifted storyteller and music historian, he brought to his audiences not just the songs but the stories of the people who wrote and first sang them. He wrote a number of folk standards including “If I Had a Hammer” and “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?”. With the arrival of the Vietnam War protests, Seeger was rediscovered by a younger audience and in 1965, the Byrds had a #1 hit with his “Turn! Turn! Turn!”. From the mid ’70s on, he worked regularly with Guthrie’s son Arlo, and crusaded for ecology with the sloop Clearwater, giving concerts along the Hudson River. In 1993, he was honored with the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and in 1994, he received the Presidential Medal of the Arts, as well as a Kennedy Award. In 1996, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as an early influence and later that year, he released his first new studio album in 17 years. Seeger toured and sung around the world and his music instructional books and records have inspired generations of self-taught musicians and folksingers. He died of natural causes. (Originally published on findagrave.com)

Don Everly Passes Away At The Age Of 74

07 Tuesday Jan 2014

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BURBANK, CALIFORNIA — Don Everly, who along with his brother Phil comprised rock music’s second greatest duo, died Friday (1/3/14) at a Burbank hospital from what writer Randy Lewis of the L.A. Times reported as “complications of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.” Don was 16 days away from turning 75. Until the mid-80’s, the Everly Brothers were rock music’s top duo until they were overtaken by Hall and Oates.
The ailment that took Don’s life was the result of a lifetime of smoking. 
In their incredible career from 1957 to 1984, the Everlys had 40 Cash Box Magazine pop chart singles, 23 top 40’s, a dozen top 10’s and four #1’s…”Bye Bye Love,” “Wake Up Little Susie,” “All I Have To Do Is Dream” and this, their biggest hit…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpgo3Lkns5s
The Everlys were the only act other than Elvis Presley to take a song to #1 on the pop, country and R&B charts….with this song….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnpbzmjcxQM
They were the first duo to be named to the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame, entering with the hall’s first class in 1986.
And this, without question, is my favorite Everly Brothers hit. Enjoy….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYpdLb6eKg8
For more on Don Everly…
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-phil-everly-of-the-everly-brothers-dies-at-74-20140103,0,2091176.story#axzz2pJYbxbd0
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-phil-everly-of-the-everly-brothers-dies-at-74-20140103,0,2091176.story#axzz2pOjTA7FA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Everly_Brothers

Country Legend Ray Price Passes Away

21 Saturday Dec 2013

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 Good friends like Willie Nelson and Merle haggard got more credit for their contrary ways and trend-setting ideas, but it was Ray Price who set the precedent for change in country music more than a decade earlier.

     

Price passed away Monday at his Texas home, having long outlasted most of his country music contemporaries and the prognosis doctors gave him when they discovered his pancreatic cancer in 2011. He was 87.

 

The way the Country Music Hall of Fame member fought cancer was an apt metaphor for the way he lived his life, always fiercely charting a path few others might have the fortitude to follow.

Along the way he changed the sound of country music, collaborated and inspired the genre’s biggest stars and remained relevant for more than half a century.

“Ray Price was a giant in Texas and country western music. Besides one of the greatest voices that ever sang a note, Ray’s career spanned over 65 years in a business where 25 years would be amazing,” said Ray Benson of the country music group Asleep at the Wheel.

Price, one of country music’s most popular and influential singers and bandleaders, had more than 100 hits and was one of the last living connections to Hank Williams.

Price died Monday afternoon at his ranch outside Mount Pleasant, Texas, said Billy Mack Jr., who was acting as a family spokesman. Billie Perryman, the wife of family friend and spokesman Tom Perryman, a DJ with KKUS-FM in Tyler, also confirmed his death.

Price was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2011 and it had recently spread to his liver, intestines and lungs, according East Texas Medical Center in Tyler. He stopped aggressive treatments and left the hospital last Thursday to receive hospice care at home.

At the time, his wife, Janie Price, relayed what she called her husband’s “final message” to his fans: “I love my fans and have devoted my life to reaching out to them. I appreciate their support all these years, and I hope I haven’t let them down. I am at peace. I love Jesus. I’m going to be just fine. Don’t worry about me. I’ll see you again one day.”

Perhaps best known for his version of the Kris Kristofferson song “For the Good Times,” a pop hit in 1970, the velvet-voiced Price was a giant among traditional country performers in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s, as likely to defy a trend as he was to defend one. He helped invent the genre’s honky-tonk sound early in his career, then took it in a more polished direction.

He reached the Billboard Hot 100 eight times from 1958-73 and had seven No. 1 hits and more than 100 titles on the Billboard country chart from 1952 to 1989. “For the Good Times” was his biggest crossover hit, reaching No. 11 on the Billboard pop music singles chart. His other country hits included “Crazy Arms,” ”Release Me,” ”The Same Old Me,” ”Heartaches by the Number,” ”City Lights” and “Too Young to Die.”

Price was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1996, long after he had become dissatisfied with Nashville and returned to his home state of Texas.

His importance went well beyond hit singles. He was among the pioneers who popularized electric instruments and drums in country music. After helping establish the bedrock 4/4 shuffle beat that can still be heard on every honky-tonk jukebox and most country radio stations in the world, Price angered traditionalists by breaking away from country. He gave early breaks to Nelson, Roger Miller and other major performers.

His “Danny Boy” in the late 1960s was a heavily orchestrated version that crossed over to the pop charts. He then started touring with a string-laden 20-piece band that outraged his dancehall fans.

In the 1970s he sang often with symphony orchestras — in a tuxedo and cowboy boots.

Like Nelson, his good friend and contemporary, Price simply didn’t care what others thought and pursued the chance to make his music the way he wanted to.

“I have fought prejudice since I got in country music and I will continue to fight it,” he told The Associated Press in 1981. “A lot of people want to keep country music in the minority of people. But it belongs to the world. It’s art.”

In the same 1981 interview, he credited the cowboy for the popularity of country music.

“Everyone loves the cowboy. He’s nice, humble and straightforward. And country music is the same thing. The kids have discovered what mom and pop told ’em.”

Price continued performing and recording well into his 70s.

“I have to be in the business at least five or 10 more years,” Price said in 2000, when he and his band were doing 100 shows a year.

“Two or three years ago, we did 182,” he said. “Fans come to the shows, bless their hearts, they always come.”

In 2007, he joined Haggard and Nelson on a double-CD set, “Last of the Breed.” The trio performed on tour with the Texas swing band Asleep at the Wheel.

“I’ll be surprised if we don’t all get locked up somewhere,” Price joked at the time.

Over the years, Price came in and out of vogue as traditional country music waxed and waned on the radio. He was a constant advocate for the old days and ways of country music, and more recently re-entered the news when he took offense to comments Blake Shelton made about classic country music that included the words “old farts.” The dustup drew attention on the Internet and introduced Price to a new generation of country fans.

“You should be so lucky as us old-timers,” Price said in a happily cantankerous post in all capital letters. “Check back in 63 years (the year 2075) and let us know how your name and your music will be remembered.”

Price earned his long-standing fame honestly, weaving himself into the story of modern country music in several ways.

As a young man, Price became friends with Williams, toured with the country legend and shared a house with him in Nashville. Williams even let Price use his band, the Drifting Cowboys, and the two wrote a song together, the modest Price hit “Weary Blues (From Waiting)”.

By 1952 Price was a regular member of the Grand Ole Opry.

The singer had one of country music’s great bands, the Cherokee Cowboys, early in his career. His lineup included at times Nelson, Miller and Johnny Paycheck.

His 1956 version of “Crazy Arms” became a landmark song for both Price and country music. His first No. 1 country hit, the song rode a propulsive beat into the pop top 100 as well. Using a drummer and bassist to create a country shuffle rhythm, he eventually established a sound that would become a trademark.

“It was strictly country and it went pop,” Price said of the song. “I never have figured that one out yet.”

Price was born near Perryville, Texas, in 1926 and was raised in Dallas. He joined the Marines for World War II and then studied to be a veterinarian at North Texas Agricultural College before he decided on music as a career.

Soft-spoken and urbane, Price told the AP in 1976: “I’m my own worst critic. I don’t like to hear myself sing or see myself on television. I see too many mistakes.”

He was one of the few who saw them.

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