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It should also be noted that Estelle Bennett of the Ronettes passed away. She's the sister of Veronica 'Ronnie' Bennett, who we all know better as Ronnie Spector. RIP...
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Dan Seals(February 8, 1948 – March 25, 2009) who was the "England Dan" half of the soft rock duo England Dan and John Ford Coley, who are best known for their hit single "I'd Really Love to See You Tonight". Dan Seals had several country hits in the 80's including "Bop", "Everything That Glitters (Is Not Gold" & "Meet Me In Montana" (Duet with Marie Osmond)
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Thanks for the notification, KaraokeKing. I always thought that England Dan and John Ford Coley's I'd Really Love to See You Tonight was one of the defining 70's pop songs. I've got that song on a karaoke disc, as well as his country song Big Wheels in the Moonlight, another favorite of mine that he sang. I also liked his song, Bop. From the Wikipedia article ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Seals ) it looks like he had quite a few hits. But just having that one great song, I'd Really Love to See You Tonight, would be credit enough for a musician's career...
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Is that the same "Seals"? I didnt know that was the same guy. I thought Dan Seals was only from "England Dan and John Ford Coly".
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he is, Seals and Crofts was his brother. Dan Seals was England Dan
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Jimmy Seals is the Seals and Crofts guy and was Dan's brother. Jimmy was in the Champs (of "Tequila" fame) long before that.
A few other famous members of the Seals family: Brady Seals (he's either another brother or a cousin, not sure which), who first came to fame as the lead singer of Little Texas, then attempted a solo career, but is now the lead singer of Hot Apple Pie; Troy Seals, their cousin, who's had a minor career as a recording artist but was much more successful as a country songwriter; and Johnny Duncan (who passed away not too long ago himself) was another cousin--he was Charley Pride's right-hand man before striking out on his own successful country singing career in the '70s.
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Ex Coral Reefer, Tim Krekel died June 24, 2009. He would be best known for his two sints in the Buffet Coral Reefer Band and his contributions to the "Son of a Son of a Sailor" Album.
Tim has enjoyed success on many levels: He’s earned acclaim by writing hit songs for numerous artists, toured the States and Europe a few times, and collaborated live and in the studio with many performers. He also found time to record several critically acclaimed albums of his own prolific brand rock and roll tunes that are as about as infectious as they come.
Tim’s songs have been recorded by artists such as Rick Nelson, Lonnie Mack, Jerry Reed, Dr. Feelgood, Shakin’ Stevens, Canned Heat, Kathy Mattea, Jason & the Scorchers, Vern Gosdin, BJ Thomas, Delbert McClinton Aaron Tippin, Deana Carter and Kim Ritchey. Many artists have had great success with Tim’s songs. Crystal Gayle had a number one hit with Turning Away in 1984. Patty Loveless also went to number one with You Can Feel Bad, a song Tim co-wrote with Matraca Berg and that also earned Tim a BMI Country Award in 1997. Cry on the Shoulder of the Road, another Krekel/Berg penned tune was a chart topper for Martina McBride. Kim Richey’s version of Come Around, a song she co-wrote with Tim, was used in the 1999 Kevin Costner film, For Love of the Game.
There have been many people who have been thrilled to play with Tim Krekel. Some of them are well-known, but it’s also important to emphasize that Tim regularly encourages other musicians to join him for a song: His humility onstage makes it easy for those performers to do their best. They might be a little more nervous if they realized that Tim has played with performers like Jimmy Buffett, Billy Swan, Bo Diddley, Delbert McClinton, Skeeter Davis, Steve Forbert, Tracy Nelson, Pam Tillis, Marshall Chapman, Lonnie Mack, and Sam Bush. Tim has appeared with Mark Germino on Late Night with David Letterman. He has also performed on NPR’s Mountain Stage with Matraca Berg.
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WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — Les Paul, who invented the solid-body electric guitar later wielded by a legion of rock 'n' roll greats, died Thursday of complications from pneumonia. He was 94.
According to Gibson Guitar, Paul died at White Plains Hospital. His family and friends were by his side.
As an inventor, Paul also helped bring about the rise of rock 'n' roll with multitrack recording, which enables artists to record different instruments at different times, sing harmony with themselves, and then carefully balance the tracks in the finished recording.
The use of electric guitar gained popularity in the mid-to-late 1940s, and then exploded with the advent of rock in the mid-'50s.
"Suddenly, it was recognized that power was a very important part of music," Paul once said. "To have the dynamics, to have the way of expressing yourself beyond the normal limits of an unamplified instrument, was incredible. Today a guy wouldn't think of singing a song on a stage without a microphone and a sound system."
A tinkerer and musician since childhood, he experimented with guitar amplification for years before coming up in 1941 with what he called "The Log," a four-by-four piece of wood strung with steel strings.
"I went into a nightclub and played it. Of course, everybody had me labeled as a nut." He later put the wooden wings onto the body to give it a tradition guitar shape.
In 1952, Gibson Guitars began production on the Les Paul guitar.
Pete Townsend of the Who, Steve Howe of Yes, jazz great Al DiMeola and Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page all made the Gibson Les Paul their trademark six-string.
Over the years, the Les Paul series has become one of the most widely used guitars in the music industry. In 2005, Christie's auction house sold a 1955 Gibson Les Paul for $45,600.
In the late 1960s, Paul retired from music to concentrate on his inventions. His interest in country music was rekindled in the mid-'70s and he teamed up with Chet Atkins for two albums. The duo were awarded a Grammy for best country instrumental performance of 1976 for their "Chester and Lester" album.
With Mary Ford, his wife from 1949 to 1962, he earned 36 gold records for hits including "Vaya Con Dios" and "How High the Moon," which both hit No. 1. Many of their songs used overdubbing techniques that Paul had helped develop.
"I could take my Mary and make her three, six, nine, 12, as many voices as I wished," he recalled. "This is quite an asset." The overdubbing technique was highly influential on later recording artists such as the Carpenters.
Released in 2005, "Les Paul & Friends: American Made, World Played" was his first album of new material since those 1970s recordings. Among those playing with him: Peter Frampton, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton and Richie Sambora.
"They're not only my friends, but they're great players," Paul told The Associated Press. "I never stop being amazed by all the different ways of playing the guitar and making it deliver a message."
Two cuts from the album won Grammys, "Caravan" for best pop instrumental performance and "69 Freedom Special" for best rock instrumental performance. (He had also been awarded a technical Grammy in 2001.)
Paul was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2005.
Paul was born Lester William Polfus, in Waukseha, Wis., on June 9, 1915. He began his career as a musician, billing himself as Red Hot Red or Rhubarb Red. He toured with the popular Chicago band Rube Tronson and His Texas Cowboys and led the house band on WJJD radio in Chicago.
In the mid-1930s he joined Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians and soon moved to New York to form the Les Paul Trio, with Jim Atkins and bassist Ernie Newton.
Meanwhile, he had made his first attempt at audio amplification at age 13. Unhappy with the amount of volume produced by his acoustic guitar, Paul tried placing a telephone receiver under the strings. Although this worked to some extent, only two strings were amplified and the volume level was still too low.
By placing a phonograph needle in the guitar, all six strings were amplified, which proved to be much louder. Paul was playing a working prototype of the electric guitar in 1929.
His work on taping techniques began in the years after World War II, when Bing Crosby gave him a tape recorder. Drawing on his earlier experimentation with his homemade record-cutting machines, Paul added an additional playback head to the recorder. The result was a delayed effect that became known as tape echo.
Tape echo gave the recording a more "live" feel and enabled the user to simulate different playing environments.
Paul's next "crazy idea" was to stack together eight mono tape machines and send their outputs to one piece of tape, stacking the recording heads on top of each other. The resulting machine served as the forerunner to today's multitrack recorders.
In 1954, Paul commissioned Ampex to build the first eight-track tape recorder, later known as "Sel-Sync," in which a recording head could simultaneously record a new track and play back previous ones.
He had met Ford, then known as Colleen Summers, in the 1940s while working as a studio musician in Los Angeles. For seven years in the 1950s, Paul and Ford broadcast a TV show from their home in Mahwah, N.J. Ford died in 1977, 15 years after they divorced.
In recent years, even after his illness in early 2006, Paul played Monday nights at New York night spots. Such stars as Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page, Dire Straits' Mark Knopfler, Bruce Springsteen and Eddie Van Halen came to pay tribute and sit in with him.
"It's where we were the happiest, in a `joint,'" he said in a 2000 interview with the AP. "It was not being on top. The fun was getting there, not staying there — that's hard work."
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Trying to update this page. It appears that this thread has been dormant for too long!
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George David Weiss, songwriter, has died at the age of 89. Some of his best-known tunes are "The Lion Sleeps Tonight", "Can't Help Falling In Love", and Louie Armstrong's "What A Wonderful World".
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Gerry Rafferty passed away today. He was noted for top hit songs from the 1970's such as Baker Street, Right Down the Line, Stuck in the Middle.
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Legendary blues rock guitarist Gary Moore who was famous for being guitarist with Irish rock group Thin Lizzy (famous for songs like "The Boys Are Back In Town") and famous for his solo stuff such as "Still Got The Blues", "Empty Rooms", "Parisienne Walkways" etc have died at the age of 58 in a hotel room. R.I.P Gary!
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RIP Clarence Clemons saxophonist for Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band also famous for his hit with Jackson Browne featuring Daryl Hannah on backing vocals "You're A Friend Of Mine".
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He was also one of the Three Most Important People In The World from "Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure"
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RIP Amy Winehouse who joined the 27 club like Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Brian Jones etc all who died at the age of 27. I hope your dealer gets caught.
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quote:Originally posted by sabathiel: RIP Amy Winehouse who joined the 27 club like Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Brian Jones etc all who died at the age of 27. I hope your dealer gets caught.
But she said "no no no".
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And now she's dead. But the sad thing is people will not learn about the stupidity of drug and alcohol abuse. What gets me is people going on that she joined the "27" and saying it like one should be proud of it rather than with pity.
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No it's not being stated like it's a cool honor, it's definitely a macabe club, but coincidently several are in it because they all died at the age of 27 - and most were because of substance abuse. She is just another sad statistic in that 'club'.
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R.I.P. Mikey Welsh. He was Weezer's bass player when they recorded the Green Album. Sure, there are many people who think that Blue Album and Pinkerton were the much better releases in the Weezer discography, but Mikey Welsh will greatly be missed (he helped make "Hash Pipe" and "Island In the Sun" pretty popular hits).
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R.I.P. Adam Yauch (MCA). He was my favourite member of the Beastie Boys and its a shame that the cancer he was diagnosed with since 2009 got the best of him.
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