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Fontella Bass: An appreciation
There are two works that illustrate the range of Fontella Bass' singing power. One is a gut-busting soul cry, “Rescue Me,” a propellant R&B banger from 1965 that became Bass' signature. The other, equally vital, is a nine-minute thrill...
Tags: Miles Davis, Popular Music (genre), Music Industry, Entertainment, Etta James
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Two sides of Fontella Bass, the late, great St. Louis soul singer
Los Angeles Times Pop Music CriticThis post has been updated. See below for details. Any appreciation of soul singer Fontella Bass, who died Wednesday at age 72, must first acknowledge “Rescue Me,” the propellant 1965 R&B banger that became her signature. But equally vital...Tags: Popular Music (genre), Heart Attack, Music, Aretha Franklin, Entertainment
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Rickie Lee Jones and Bettye LaVette interpret the blues
In a concert last month at Hollywood's Hotel Cafe, the buzzy English singer Paloma Faith crouched down near the floor to sing "Let Me Down Easy." It's a tough-love song associated with a number of hardy soul-music veterans, including Bettye LaVette and...
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PASSINGS: Mary Jean Pew; R.B Greaves
Mary Jean Pew Head of Catholic college, aide to Jerry Brown Mary Jean Pew, 82, a former nun who taught history and government at Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles then served as the school's acting president before it closed in 1980, died...Tags: Fordham University, Roman Catholicism, Cancer, Lung Cancer, Government
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A sale for soul singer Freda Payne
Joining the ranks of 2012 home sellers is R&B and soul singer Freda Payne, who sold her contemporary in L.A.'s "Bird Streets" area this year for $2.25 million. That should buy more than a few bands of gold.
Set on a corner lot, the city-view house has...Tags: Real Estate Sellers, Lauren Beale
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PASSINGS: George Murdock, Charles 'Skip' Pitts
George Murdock
Character actor often played the 'heavy'
George Murdock, 81, a veteran character actor who had a recurring role as Lt. Scanlon on the television sitcom "Barney Miller" and played God in the 1989 film "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier,"...Tags: Cyndi Lauper, Cancer, Music Industry, The Untouchables (movie), Television
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Donald 'Duck' Dunn dies at 70; soul music bassist
Donald "Duck" Dunn, the bassist who helped create the gritty Memphis soul sound at Stax Records in the 1960s as part of the legendary group Booker T. and the MGs and contributed to such classics as "In the Midnight Hour," "Hold On, I'm Coming" and...
Tags: Blues (genre), Music Industry, Otis Redding, John Belushi, Bob Dylan
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Southern California Close-Ups: Going Hollywood
Pity the rubes. Those wayward tourists who dawdle in their cars and tour buses along Beachwood Drive, enraging the locals as they haltingly seek that perfect Hollywood sign photo op — they know not what they do. Maybe you're not from this...Tags: Human Interest, Rudolph Valentino, Citizen Kane (movie), Ginger Rogers, Entertainment
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Don Cornelius dies at 75; creator of 'Soul Train'
The idea was simple — but groundbreaking: Create a live showcase for black music, modeled on "American Bandstand."
Don Cornelius pulled $400 from his own pocket to launch the dance show on a local Chicago TV station in 1970. As host and executive...Tags: Don Cornelius, Barry White, Popular Music (genre), Television, Music Industry
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Dobie Gray dies at 71; singer later became a songwriter
Dobie Gray, a smooth balladeer and soul singer who scored his biggest hit in the early 1970s with "Drift Away," has died. He was 71.
Gray, who had cancer, died Tuesday at his Nashville home, said Charlie Andrews, his attorney.
Before he adopted the name...Tags: Cancer, Music Industry, Uncle Kracker, Sonny Bono, John Denver
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PASSINGS: Howard Tate
Howard Tate, 72, a soul singer who got a second chance at a career three decades after being derailed by disputes with industry executives, personal tragedy and drug addiction, died Dec. 2 in Burlington, N.J., said a spokesman for the Burlington County...Tags: Music, Janis Joplin, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Addiction, Aretha Franklin
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Allen Stone aims to change perception of soul singers
Pop & HissAllen Stone, a 24-year-old white guy from tiny Chewelah, Wash., is aiming to change the perception of soul singers. The singer-songwriter is generating buzz with his self-released eponymous sophomore album, which came out in October, and his late-night...
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