DaveInSaoMiguel wrote:
About five or so years ago I saw him in SF, sitting in the front row right there staring at Burt Freakin Bacharach.
Near the end he announced it was time for everyone to sing along (Raindrops) then leaned off mic and, to himself, went “promises promises…” and chuckled.

When he was done a few people jumped up to shake his hand, and he was just a few feet away, and my Better Half™ looked puzzled at me and asked if I were going to get up. “No. I don’t deserve it.”

Two things of his that are slightly off the beaten path to share with you. One, his song for his autistic daughter Nikki.  Click on this and be surprised. Those of us a Certain Age have it seared into our brains. 

The other, one of the greatest  existential pop songs (via Hal David).

 DaveInSaoMiguel wrote:
He wrote a lot of brilliant tunes.  Some were quite complex ones really - odd time signature changes and unusual "jazzy" chord progressions.

 DaveInSaoMiguel wrote: 
He wrote some great music and Hal David put some beautiful words to it. He was special. RIP and thankyou for the music.

Burt Bacharach, Oscar-winning composer, dead at 94

Bobby Hull passed away at 84.

Bob Born...the father of peeps.  Age 98  



In case you're asking "what the hell is a peep"...  An eastern PA invention of sugar.  Started with Easter...but are now available for most holidays.

 maryte wrote:

"Money" will always be on my lists of greatest songs, then there is all the other ones he co-wrote: 

NEW YORK (AP) — Barrett Strong, one of Motown’s founding artists and most gifted songwriters who sang lead on the company’s breakthrough single “Money (That’s What I Want)” and later collaborated with Norman Whitfield on such classics as “I Heard It Through the Grapevine,” “War” and “Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone,” has died. He was 81.

 maryte wrote:

"Money" will always be on my lists of greatest songs, then there is all the other ones he co-wrote: 

NEW YORK (AP) — Barrett Strong, one of Motown’s founding artists and most gifted songwriters who sang lead on the company’s breakthrough single “Money (That’s What I Want)” and later collaborated with Norman Whitfield on such classics as “I Heard It Through the Grapevine,” “War” and “Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone,” has died. He was 81.

 geoff_morphini wrote:

I had a mad crush; she was adorable.

 Red_Dragon wrote:

Dammit! I remember her so well in American Graffiti. Her Happy Days and Laverne and Shirley stuff was also great. What's happening to my "yute"?

Cindy Williams

 kurtster wrote:

That’s what she WANTS you to think. Don’t get too close.

Barrett Strong's "War" will always be connected to my listening to it and discussing it with my eldest sister when I was a little girl.
https://apnews.com/article/bar...

Lisa Loring, Wednesday in Original ‘Addams Family’ Series, Dies at 64

‘70’s Southern rocker, Atlanta Rhythm Section hitmaker Dean Daughtry has died

 maryte wrote:

A shame. Great musician.

https://consequence.net/2023/0...

 black321 wrote:

yeah that's great
here's leland's take (i do enjoy his stories)

 Lazy8 wrote:

David Crosby: Remember My Name (on European TV)

German overdub, some English:
https://arteptweb-a.akamaihd.n...

In French, sutitles, some English:
https://arteptweb-a.akamaihd.n...

These documentary links given may not be available in all countries.