TGIF '80s Friday Music Thread and all others are welcome.Perhaps I'll try and post some '80s music later, that sounded good the other day but for now...
https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/january/12So, some birthdays, I never want to short anyone.
Mississippi Fred McDowell:
"Long Way From Home"
! No longer availableAnd with the classic, "Baby, Please Don't Go"!
! No longer availableTex Ritter and John Ritter's father? Correct?
"Git Along Little Dogies"
! No longer availableRay Price:
"Much To Young To Die"
! No longer availableRuth Brown, "I'm going home on the morning train"
! No longer availableGlen Yarborough of the Limeliters:
"The Honey Wind Blows"
! No longer availableWilliam Lee Gloden of the Oak Ridge Boys:
"Jesus is coming soon", they also have quite a few commercial songs like "Elvira":
! No longer availableLong John Baldry, "Let the heartaches begin"
! No longer availableI'll bet you didn't know this, I didn't, I've heard of him all my life, I've heard some of his music but not much.
In 1968, Elton John tried to commit suicide after relationship problems with a woman, Linda Woodrow. Bernie Taupin, the lyricist, and Baldry[11] found him and Baldry talked him out of marrying her, helping make Elton John comfortable with his sexuality. The song "Someone Saved My Life Tonight" from Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy was about the experience.[12]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_John_Baldry
He certainly had a lot of singles.
Ricky Van Shelton, mainly a country artist, has done some gospel:
"Come Home, It's Suppertime":
! No longer availableCynthia Robinson, trumpeter for Sly and the Family Stone:
Here they are playing "If you want me" on Soul Train, that was some show, I'd often watch it on Saturdays, there happens to be quite a bit of footage of this trumpeter, Cynthia in this video:
! No longer availableChris Bell of Big Star, "In the street":
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