John Lennon

Today, I still take some musicians passing with a bit of a jolt. These wonderful artists have been in our hearts and minds for so many years, they touched us and we shall never forget the impact they had on us. I know older people in especially smaller towns will scan the obituaries in their daily local paper to see if an old friend or acquaintance has died. I guess for music I get a similar experience when my Rolling Stone phone app pops up to tell me this kind of news.
2016 has been an exceptionally hard as many giants of music have passed this year. I went to this web site, We Heart Music and got the monthly list to prepare for this blog. I like their across the board approach as they acknowledge many lesser know artists in the music business.
As I get older myself, I'm sure this might be an annual blog on my part. At the Grammy's and Oscar's I now always get a bit teary-eyed when they do their annual remembrance segment. The beautiful thing about people in the arts is that we have their performances preserved in various media formats that we can enjoy again and again.
Here, I've embedded a memorable track under each artist.
Happy eggnog and wishing you a healthy year and as Glenn would say, "Take it Easy."
Here, I've embedded a memorable track under each artist.
Happy eggnog and wishing you a healthy year and as Glenn would say, "Take it Easy."
2016 Remembrance
January
2/6 - Dan Hicks, 74 (Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks)
3/8 - George Martin, 74 (Beatles Producer Extraordinaire, "The 5th Beatle")
3/10 - Keith Emerson, 74 (Emerson, Lake and Palmer)
4/6 - Merle Haggard, 79
6/3 - Mohammad Ali, 74 ("Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee")
7/24 - Marni Nixon, 86 (Best known for dubbing the singing voices of the leading actresses in films, including The King and I, West Side Story, and My Fair Lady.
8/11 - Glenn Yarbrough, (The Limeliters)
9/1 - Fred Hellerman, 89 (The Weavers (Fred on Guitar),
Fred also produced Alice's Restaurant for Arlo Guthrie)
11/7 - Leonard Cohen, 82
12/7 - Greg Lake, 69 (Emerson, Lake and Palmer)