Favorite Songs: Dead Musicians Edition

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Well hellooooo there everyone! It's Tuesday night, so you know it - it's that time again! Time to leave the bad news and politics behind and instead jam to some of our favorite songs!

Well, I've just really had a hankering for making this an annual edition and it's been about a year...

Tonight's theme is songs by artists who are deceased. They can be songs by single artists or songs by groups which have lost at least one band member.

So are what are some of your favorite songs by musicians that are no longer with us?

Come on in for some of mine!

Also, one quick note: In an effort to try to cut the upload time, if you can remember, when you go to embed in the comments, you can change the size to a smaller one, like 350 width. Maybe this will help. If it doesn't, back to the drawing board. And no worries if you don't want to or don't remember - no big! :D

Lawyers, Guns, and Money:

You Got It:

Man in the Mirror:

The Warmth of the Sun:

D'yer Maker:

And one more in the first comment!

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And the third loss.

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Following a performance at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa, on February 2, 1959, Holly chartered a small airplane to take him to the next stop on the tour. Holly, Valens, Richardson and the pilot were killed en route to Moorhead, Minnesota, when their plane crashed soon after taking off from nearby Mason City in the early morning hours of February 3.[21] Bandmate Waylon Jennings had given up his seat on the plane, causing Holly to jokingly tell Jennings, "I hope your ol' bus freezes up!" Jennings shot back facetiously, "Well, I hope your ol' plane crashes!" It was a statement that would haunt Jennings for decades.[22] "Although the plane came down only five miles northwest of the airport, no one saw or heard the crash", wrote rock performer, archivist and music historian, Harry Hepcat, in his article about Buddy Holly. "The bodies lay in the blowing snow through the night...... February indeed made us shiver, but it was more than the cold of February that third day of the month in 1959. It was the shiver of a greater, sometimes senseless, reality invading our sheltered, partying, teenaged life of the 50s."[23]
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my first idol

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I really got into Buddy Holly's music after he was gone. I was a little kid and got my copy of "The Buddy Holly Story" which had all the classics. I've still got it. The cover is all taped because it fell apart and the record itself is all scratchy. He was my #1 fave until the Beatles so hearing the Beatles do Buddy's "Words of Love" was like heaven for me.

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Israel Kamakawiwoʻole--a beautiful man

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Kamakawiwoʻole was known for promoting Hawaiian rights and Hawaiian independence, both through his lyrics, which often stated the case for independence directly, and his life. His song Hawai'i '78 demonstrates the beliefs and hopes that he had for the people of Hawai’i: the life of this land is the life of the people, and that to care for the land is to care for the Hawaiian culture. The state motto of Hawai'i is a recurring line in the song and encompasses the meaning of Iz's message: Ua Mau ke Ea o ka ʻĀina i ka Pono (Roughly translated: The life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness)
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At my age...

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I should be posting Joplin, Morrison or Jimi, Perhaps some Whipping Post or some Keith Moon.

But nooooooo....

That dude change music the way Puccini did, a revolution I tell you.

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Heh. I hadn't read your comment yet...

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.... when I posted mine down below. But yeah, I said the same thing. Why, at my age, did Kurt's death hit me so hard? Very, very strange. He was much older than my two sons, but they cried that day. He was much younger than my wife and I, but we cried too. What was so special about Kurt? I'm still not quite certain...

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Only 3 or 4 artists was I really....

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... emotional about when they died. One was John Bonham, not so much for him personally, but I knew it was the end of the band. That made me really mad. There were two others that I actually cried about when I heard the news. One was John Lennon, as I'm sure can be said for most of you guys. But the other was a little odd, considering we're not of the same generation.... Kurt Cobain. I don't know why, but that hit me pretty hard. But there's one more. The only person I STILL get emotional about when I hear his music. Which is why I'm not even gonna post any of his songs here tonight.

That would be Harry Chapin. A brilliant, brilliant artist.... and an even better human being.

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Thanks for bringing him in

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He was on my mind. As usual, I was late getting it. The loss of more years of creativity from him--it's too much to contemplate. More tragic than losing five years in the prime of Ali's career, not seeing that genius in the ring because he had the integrity not to go to Vietnam. These losses of genius, you can never get it back. He's gone and he ain't gonna do no more.

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Zeppelin is far from dead

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Just the great stick man.

"We wish it to be known that the loss of our dear friend, and the deep sense of undivided harmony felt by ourselves and our manager, have led us to decide that we could not continue as we were"
-Led Zeppelin
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Can't Wait to Check out a cupla those

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Hanks Williams. It seems a bit weird that I feel nostalgic about him. I wasn't aware of him at the time he died. Only much later, through hearing others perform his music, such as a great version of Can't Get You Out of My Mind. I started feeling nostalgic about his sad life. Then this genius, exquisite song, in which Loudon Wainwright alleges to have "visited Hank Williams grave the day Fred Rogers died". Sometimes, I soothe myself, thinking of the lines

He passed away one New Years Day
Slumped over in the back.
I hope he had is cardigan on,
in that cadillac.

You have no idea what an accomplishment to wait this out and get this song here. This is one of my favorite songs.

That entire cd is great except for the title song, Here Come the Choppers!

Another gorgeous song about the death of a musician is Greg Brown's, the train that carried Jimmie Rogers home. Iris Dement, Greg's wife, does that song also, but Greg's version can't be topped. In the song, the parents carry their young song to see the train with Roger's body passing by, passing the memory down to the next generation of a beloved singer/musician, song-writer, etc.

It's too slow. I'm not going looking for that song. I think it wasn't there last time I tried. I'm really glad I got Hank and Fred on here.

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