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______ Passed Away Today, RIP (4 Viewers)

The wayy back machine:

 Marvin Gaye helped to shape the sound of Motown Records in the 1960s and 1970s with a string of hits, including "Let's Get It On," "Sexual Healing" and "I Heard it Through the Grapevine." On this day in 1984, Marvin Gaye was shot and killed by his own father after he intervened in an argument between his parents. His father claimed he acted in self-defense but would later be convicted of involuntary manslaughter. Gaye died one day short of his 45th birthday. Three years after his death, Gaye was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

 
Adam Schlesinger fans, check out “Fountains of Wayne Hotline” by Robbie Fulks.  🙂

 
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zamboni said:
I know, I know. :kicksrock:
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I was walking through Metro Center in DC back in January and I passed a busker playing ‘Ain’t No Sunshine.’ When he got to that part, he actually counted the I know’s out on his fingers. Cracked me up.  RIP Bill

 
Bill Withers: The Soul Man Who Walked Away In 1970, the singer was a guy in his thirties with a job and a lunch pail. Then he wrote ‘Ain’t No Sunshine,’ and things got complicated

... (One of the songs was inspired by the 1962 Jack Lemmon-Lee Remick movie Days of Wine and Roses; Withers was watching it on TV, and the doomed relationship at the film’s center brought to mind a phrase: “Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone.”)

The album’s cover photo was taken during Withers’ lunch break at the factory; you can see him holding his lunch pail. “My co-workers were making fun of me,” he says. “They thought it was a joke.” Still unconvinced that music would pay off, he held on to his day job until he was laid off in the months before the album’s release. Then, one day, “two letters came in the mail. One was asking me to come back to my job. The other was inviting me on to Johnny Carson.” The Tonight Show appearance, in November 1971, helped propel “Ain’t No Sunshine” into the Top 10, ...

...By then, Withers was 32; he still marvels at the fact that he was able to come out of nowhere at that relatively advanced age. “Imagine 40,000 people at a stadium watching a football game,” he says. “About 10,000 of them think they can play quarterback. Three of them probably could. I guess I was one of those three.”
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Go to the link for the full  read.

 
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rockaction said:
I almost just bought a greatest hits of his, unaware of this, very aware of how soulful and good the album would be. Uruk-Hai and I had talked about him once; that he would have been known and huge but for...

RIP, sir. 
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He only had a few studio albums - maybe 6 or 7. If you like his hits, I'd buy the original LPs as even most of the album cuts are good. A compilation is a good place to start, though.

Withers was an odd duck for a rock star. He seemingly didn't like attention and he didn't like the music industry at all. His first two albums made sure he'd at least have access to money for the rest of his life. After that, he did whatever the hell he wanted to, whenever the hell he wanted to. 

His songwriting is "country" in the same way that Willie Nelson's and Otis Redding's is -  it gets to the meat of the subject without a lot of flowery, 7th grade, suburban poesy. Some of Withers records have studio embellishment on them, but that almost never detracts from what he's trying to do. 

And that voice! I had pretty much forgotten about Withers by 1980 and I hear this song come on the radio during a keg party. Starts out smooth jazz, then I hear:

"I see the crystal raindrops fall

And the beauty of it all"

I'm thinking "that sounds like Bill Withers"

Then:

"We look for love, no time for tears

wasted water's all that is

and it don't make no flowers grow"

NOBODY could syncopate those lines like Bill Withers.

Then he went away again. At least he finally got into the R&RHOF before he died, though he probably hated the attention.

 
Uruk-Hai said:
He only had a few studio albums - maybe 6 or 7. If you like his hits, I'd buy the original LPs as even most of the album cuts are good. A compilation is a good place to start, though.
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Mobile Fidelity sound just re-released Bill Withers' Greatest Hits and he also has a live (at Carnegie Hall, if I'm not mistaken) on the same label. The label is important to me, as they cut directly from analog to the album, so the sound quality isn't diminished.

eta* And now, almost ghoulishly, sold out and going for a hundred on Discogs. Well, his music still lives. 

 
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rockaction said:
Mobile Fidelity sound just re-released Bill Withers' Greatest Hits and he also has a live (at Carnegie Hall, if I'm not mistaken) on the same label. The label is important to me, as they cut directly from analog to the album, so the sound quality isn't diminished.
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I don't know how many live albums he did, but I've heard a live version of "Grandma's Hands" on various radio stations over the years that smokes the (already really good) studio version on his first album. If that's on the Carnegie Hall record, go buy it just for that song.

 
Al Kaline

:(  One of my Dad's favorites and therefore one of the first players I grew up idolizing.  Had the chance to shake his hand a couple times... was as nice as advertised.

 
Keerock said:
Al Kaline

:(  One of my Dad's favorites and therefore one of the first players I grew up idolizing.  Had the chance to shake his hand a couple times... was as nice as advertised.
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A perfect baseballer, like Musial before him. There were more thrilling ballplayers - it's kinda like there are movie stars that turn you into a cartoon character with lust but then there's ones like Donna Reed or Diane Lane where you go. "My God, that's a perfect set of features. And she makes it all glow. My God!" That's the way i felt about Stan the Man & Mister Tiger as ballplayers. RIP. Mr. K -

 
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At the age of 7 or 8 I learned a new word - flamboyant - because I read a book that said Mr Kaline was not. Had to go ask my mom how to pronounce it & what it meant.

Straight from h.s. to the big leagues, youngest to ever win a batting title, all 22 seasons with the same team. Just a class act all the way, he epitomized Detroit. Was always proud the city is associated with guys like him, the Captain, and Barry.

 
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Uruk-Hai said:
He only had a few studio albums - maybe 6 or 7. If you like his hits, I'd buy the original LPs as even most of the album cuts are good. A compilation is a good place to start, though.

Withers was an odd duck for a rock star. He seemingly didn't like attention and he didn't like the music industry at all. His first two albums made sure he'd at least have access to money for the rest of his life. After that, he did whatever the hell he wanted to, whenever the hell he wanted to. 

His songwriting is "country" in the same way that Willie Nelson's and Otis Redding's is -  it gets to the meat of the subject without a lot of flowery, 7th grade, suburban poesy. Some of Withers records have studio embellishment on them, but that almost never detracts from what he's trying to do. 

And that voice! I had pretty much forgotten about Withers by 1980 and I hear this song come on the radio during a keg party. Starts out smooth jazz, then I hear:

"I see the crystal raindrops fall

And the beauty of it all"

I'm thinking "that sounds like Bill Withers"

Then:

"We look for love, no time for tears

wasted water's all that is

and it don't make no flowers grow"

NOBODY could syncopate those lines like Bill Withers.

Then he went away again. At least he finally got into the R&RHOF before he died, though he probably hated the attention.
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I saw this in an article following Bill Withers death and thought it summed him up pretty well.

"Withers was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015 by Stevie Wonder. Withers thanked his wife as well as the R&B pioneers who helped his career, like Ray Jackson, Al Bell and Booker T. Jones. He also got in a few jabs at the record industry, saying A&R stood for "antagonistic and redundant." "

 
Mrs. Rannous said:
Honor Blackman

I can't post the name of her most famous character, but I'm pretty sure you know who it is.
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Yesterday EPIX was showing a bunch of Bond movies, and I started watching Goldfinger and all of a sudden, I was 3/4 thru the next movie (Golden Eye).

She was so good in that movie, and I loved the way Sean Connery pronounced her character's name.

 
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