Showing posts with label greatness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label greatness. Show all posts

6.14.2011

let me

eddie floyd-dont tell your mama


...killer single on stax records written by booker t and steve cropper. sounds sweet to me



1.30.2011

real good time

don pierce-this funky thing


...spook-a-delic


...great funky 7inch.




1.08.2011

the impressions-she dont love me.


...curtis. always done it right.

10.02.2010

world views

whitefield brothers- safari strut...what a great video? makes me want to pack up and leave for foreign lands. mental track as well. prob the best off the earthology album.






8.24.2010

nothing to do, love in the middle of the avenue


spritulized-i think im in love/home of the brave


...electricity


...ladies and gentalment we are floating in space

8.05.2010

more deaths


Bobby Hebb - Sunny
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Bobby Hebb, Singer of 1966 Hit ‘Sunny,’ Dies at 72
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NASHVILLE (AP) — Bobby Hebb, whose 1966 hit “Sunny” became a pop classic, died here on Tuesday. He was 72. His death, at Centennial Medical Center, was announced by his family. No cause was given.

“Sunny” reached No. 2 on the Billboard pop chart. At the height of the song’s popularity, Mr. Hebb opened for the Beatles on their last United States tour.

“Sunny” was recorded by many other singers, including Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Dusty Springfield, Wilson Pickett, José Feliciano and Cher.

The song is an upbeat ode to a woman whose smile “really eased the pain” when the singer’s “life was filled with rain.” It features the catchy refrain “Sunny one so true, I love you.”

Mr. Hebb said in several interviews that he wrote it to lift his spirits when his brother was killed outside a Nashville nightclub in 1963, shortly after the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

Mr. Hebb never had another hit as big as “Sunny,” but remained active as both a singer and a songwriter. In 1971, Lou Rawls won a Grammy award for “A Natural Man,” which Mr. Hebb wrote with Sandy Baron. As recently as 2007, Mr. Hebb was still writing songs and had his own publishing company and record label, Hebb Cats.

Born to blind parents and raised in Nashville, Mr. Hebb played trumpet in a Navy jazz band and later worked with the country singer Roy Acuff, becoming one of the first black musicians to perform at the Grand Ole Opry.

Survivors include a daughter and four sisters.

via nytimes


video tip off from voodoo village

7.26.2010