What an absolutely shitty month it was! Two of my all-time favourite singers — Kris Kristofferson and Frankie Beverly — died. And James Earl Jones died. Even Taggart from Beverley Hills Cop died. It was a very busy month, after the relative respite of August.
The King of Kountry
The obits and tributes have been written for Kris Kristofferson, including the Any Major Kris Kristofferson Songbook, which I posted on Monday. They all noted the great man’s incredible songwriting and his superb personal attributes, and told that amazing lifestory that included his past as a Rhodes scholar who won awards for his short stories, as a boxer, as a captain in the army and helicopter pilot, as a janitor in Nashville who wrote songs nobody wanted to hear until he was discovered by June Carter and Johnny Cash, and as a hunky actor who was Streisand’s love interest. What a life!
Kristofferson became famous in the early 1970s, but he had featured already in 1959 in Time magazine, as a student talking about his short stories and songwriting.
KK’s music was a regular companion during an emotional period in my life. It gave me comfort and solidarity in my sadness, it took me away from my troubles, and sometimes it made me laugh (“I ain’t sayin’ I beat the devil, but I drank his beer for nothing… then I stole his song.”) Few artists have touched my soul as Kristofferson did. And if I was forced to name one single “favourite” song of all time, I would name Sunday Morning Coming Down. I once made that song the subject of a Song Swarm (link is up again). The linernotes for that give a little more biographical info on KK.
The man largely signed off as a recording artist over a decade ago, and I was fortunate to catch him in concert when he toured to promote his final studio album, 2012’s Feeling Mortal. Its title track serves as a perfect testament to Kristofferson’s life. The world is an emptier place without him.
The Latin Lounge King
Like few others, Sérgio Mendes managed to fuse the music of his native Brazil with other genres, including jazz, pop, soul, funk and even hip hop.
Mendes’ roots were in Latin jazz and bossa nova, genres he managed to export to international success with his band Brasil ‘66, scoring a massive hit with Jorge Ben’s Mas Que Nada. His breakthrough had come when Cannonball Adderley in 1962 recorded with the jazz combo the young pianist had founded, the Sexteto Bossa Rio. Big stardom came with his cover of The Look Of Love in 1968, helped along the performance of the song by Mendes and Brasil ‘66 at that year’s Oscars ceremony.
A string of lounge music hits followed, but by the 1970s the hits dried up. Menders’ Brasil collective still was hot property as a live act though. In 1976, Stevie Wonder wrote the funky The Real Thing for them. In 1983, Mendes had a US #4 hit with the soul ballad Never Gonna Let You Go, with vocals by Joe Pizzulo and Leeza Miller. The following year, his song Olympia was used as a theme song for the Olympic Games in LA.
In 2012 Mendes received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song as co-writer of Real In Rio from the animated film Rio. Her retired in November 2023.
The Frontman
My biggest regret as a regular concert-goer in the 1980s was to have missed seeing Maze in concert when they played a five-nighter at the Hammersmith Odeon in London in 1985. The queue stretched around the venue when tickets went on sale, and I had to go to work. The ticket agencies offered no recourse either.
Maze’s lead singer Frankie Beverly had outsized charisma to go with his great voice, backed by the tightest band this side of the JBs. Maze’s two live albums, 1981’s Live In New Orleans and 1986’s Live In LA testify to the band’s superpower on stage. Every single track on the live sets eclipses its perfectly fine studio version. That is a rare feat indeed.
The Polyglot Star
Born in Paris to Italian parents, Caterina Valente, who has died at 93, made her breakthrough as a singer in Germany in the early 1950s before becoming one of the biggest European stars in the 1950s and ‘60s. Se also recorded success in the US and UK, with 1955’s The Breeze And I becoming her biggest hit. Valente spoke seven languages and recorded in 11, scoring hits in various genres, from schlager to chanson to pop to jazz to Latin music to novelty numbers.
A talented dancer and charming with an easy sense humour, Valente had a vibrant stage presence, and was a regular on TV screens throughout the world. She had her own TV show in Germany from 1957, and was a frequent performer on US TV shows such as The Dean Martin Show (this clip is delightful) and the Ed Sullivan Show. Valente also appeared in several films and television shows.
The Jackson
After the death of Michael 15 years ago, we now have lost the second Jackson 5 in Tito Jackson, gone at 70. He was the third-born of the famous family, after Rebbie and Jackie.
In the procession of early Jackson 5 to the final Jackson’s album in 1990, Tito was ever-present. In the Jackson 5, he was recognisable as being the other tall brother who wasn’t Jermaine, usually with a guitar. Tito fancied himself a fine player — it was Tito’s talent for the instrument that had helped convince patriarch Joseph to form The Jackson Brothers in 1963 — but Motown insisted on session players doing the job. Tito played guitar on the brothers’ post-Motown recordings, and later also did session work.
In his 50s, Tito started a solo career as a blues and soul singer, scoring a chart entry with 2016’s Get It Baby, a pleasing song that channels the upbeat vibes of Pharrell Williams’ Happy.
The West Coast Rock Writer
By the time he had his big hit, 1979’s You’re Only Lonely (featured on Not Feeling Guilty Vol. 2), JD Souther had contributed to some classics in what used to be called West Coast rock, or country-rock, or AOR. He co-wrote Eagles classics like Best Of My Love, James Dean, Doolin-Dalton, New Kid In Town, and Heartache Tonight. He wrote for his one-time romantic partner Linda Ronstadt, with whom he also recorded a few duets. Ronstadt hits co-written and sometimes co-produced by Souther include Faithless Love and White Rhythm And Blues.
He also co-wrote James Taylor’s 1981 hit Her Town Too, on which Taylor shares vocals with Souther, and Don Henley’s 1989 hit The Heart Of The Matter.
After releasing his eponymously-titled solo debut in 1972, he formed the country-rock supergroup the Souther-Hillman-Furay Band with Chris Hillman and Richie Furay. They split after two albums.
Souther also had stints as an actor, including as a series regular on thirtysomething.
The Bass Player
One of the most recognisable basslines in rock must be that of Lou Reed’s Walk On The Wild Side. The man who came up with it was Herbie Flowers. In fact, it is two basslines: one played on double bass and overlaid by fretless jazz bass. The English bassist said he did that so as to be paid two fees for the session.
While Flowers helped shape one of the coolest songs in rock, two years earlier he had co-written one of the least cool UK #1s, Clive Dunne’s Grandad. Before that, Flowers was a member of Blue Mink, scoring a UK #3 hit with Melting Pot, a song that is sure to annoy the so-called “woke” (a stupid weapopnised word) as well as the embittered Anti-Wokers. He later was a member of CCS, whose cover of A Whole Lotta Love became the Top Of The Pops theme song, as well as of the final T. Rex line-up, and then of Sky, who had a big hit in 1980 with a rock rework of Bach’s Toccata. Flowers, who also played the tuba, released a bunch of not particularly brilliant records under his own name.
But it was as a session musician that Flowers was most prolific. He played on David Bowie’s Space Oddity, Diamond Dogs, and Rebel Rebel; Lou Reed’s Goodnight Ladies and (on tuba) Perfect Day and Satellite Of Love; David Essex’s Rock On; Elton John’s Shooting Star, Burn Down The Mission, and Country Comfort; Harry Nilsson’s Jump Into The Fire; Al Kooper’s New York City (You’re A Woman); Olivia Newton-John’s If Not For You; Sally Oldfield’s Mirrors; Paul McCartney’s No More Lonely Nights and many more…
The Jazz Composer
Jazz saxophonist Benny Golson had a fine career as an instrumentalist and bandleader, and as a leading force in the development of hard bop. But his most memorable contribution to the genre was as a composer.
Jazz fans will know the standards he wrote and were first recorded by others: Killer Joe (Quincy Jones), Stablemates (Mikes Davis), Blues March (Blue Mitchell), Whisper Not (Dizzy Gillespie), Along Came Betty (Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers), and the lament I Remember Clifford (Donald Byrd), in memory Clifford Brown, a jazz trumpeter who died in a car crash in 1956 at the age of 25.
In the 1960s, Golson left jazz to become a composer of TV music for shows such as Mannix, Ironside, Room 222, M*A*S*H, The Partridge Family and Mission: Impossible. He later returned to jazz.
Golson featured on the famous “A Great Day in Harlem” photograph of 57 jazz musicians,taken by Art Kane on August 12, 1958 (see below). The photo was a subject in the 2004 film The Terminal, in which Tom Hanks’ character travels to the US to obtain Golson’s autograph. Golson made a cameo appearance in the film. With Golson’s death, only one of the 57 musicians in the Harlem photo is still alive, 94-year-old Sonny Rollins.
The Wordsmith
You may well have sung along to words written by Will Jennings — and perhaps turned off some of his songs. Those I have often sung along to include The Crusaders’ Street Life and One Day I’ll Fly Away (both with vocals by Randy Crawford), Soul Shadows (with Bill Withers), and I’m So Glad I’m Standing Here Today (with Joe Cocker). Jennings also wrote prolifically for Steve Winwood, on songs like Higher Love, Valerie, Back In The High Life Again, Roll With It, The Finer Things, and Don’t You Know What the Night Can Do.
Jennings, who reached the good age of 90, also had big success as the lyricist of big hits such as Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes’ Up Where We Belong, Celine Dion’s My Heart Will Go On, Eric Clapton’s Tears In Heaven, Whitney Houston’s Didn’t We Almost Have It All, Dionne Warwick’s I’ll Never Love This Way Again, Tim McGraw’s Please Remember Me, Rodney Crowell’s Many A Long And Lonesome Highway, Barry Manilow’s Looks Like We Made It, Helen Reddy’s (and Manilow’s) Somewhere In The Night, and Tina Arena’s I Want To Spend My Lifetime Loving You.
Apart from the Titanic and An Officer And A Gentleman tracks, Jennings also wrote the lyrics of songs for movies such as Splash, How The Grinch Stole Christmas and A Beautiful Mind.
The Rock & Roller
The general narrative tends to date the 1970s rock & roll revival to the 1973 film American Graffiti (set in 1962, so to its original viewers that was as 2013 is to us now!). I’d go with those who time that revival to August 1969, when rock & roll revival band Sha Na Na played at Woodstock (preceding Jimi Hendrix). Screamin’ Scott Simon, who has died at 75, was not on stage that day, but joined the following year, and remained with the band until they split in 2022.
Along the way, Sha Na Na had Bruce Springsteen as their opening act, and played with John Lennon and Yoko Ono. In 1978 Sha Na Na appeared in the movie Grease. Simon contributed a new song to the film, the hit song Sandy, which John Travolta’s Danny sings after his love interest decides that he has no game. Simon co-wrote Sandy with Louis St Louis.
From 1977-81, Sha Na Na had their own eponymously-titled TV show. A mixture of music and sketches involving big-name guests, the show Sha Na Na was a massive hit.
The Loop-de-Looper
A regular in lists of one-hit wonders, on account of his 1963 novelty hit Loop-de-Loop, R&B singer Johnny Thunder has died at 93. The singer received renewed attention in 2016, when Samsung used his rock-flavoured 1969 track I’m Alive to advertise its Galaxy Edge S6 phone. I’m Alive never was a hit, but Bob Dylan singled it out as his favourite record of that year.
Years earlier, in 1962, Thunder recorded the original version of Tell Him, which became a huge hut for The Exciters, under his real name Gil Hamilton.
For Loop-de-Loop, Hamilton changed his name to Johnny Thunder, and claimed (or was made to claim) to be in his early 20s rather than the 32-year-old he was. The backing singers on the single were The Bobettes, who featured on the ABC of the 1950s mix.
The ABBA Beater
If you have followed the career of ABBA, you may know that the year before they broke through with Waterloo at the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest, they had come only third in the national Swedish qualifiers for the contest. The death of half of the duo that won the Swedish competition gives us an opportunity to hear the song which managed to beat ABBA’s Ring Ring. To be fair, Nova’s folky You Are Summer is not a bad song — any Eurovision song that includes similes for breasts can’t be all bad — but it very much is no Ring Ring.
Nova were Claes af Geijerstam and Göran Fristorp; the latter has died at 76. Originally called Malta, they had to rename their act in case Eurovision viewers might confuse the two Swedes with the island nation of Malta (which wasn’t even competing). Nova finished a creditable 5th, in a year when the Top 3 were really outstanding.
The ABBA Drummer
And playing drums on the Malta/Nova song was Roger Palm, who also died in September. On Ring Ring the drums were by Ola Brunkert, who died in 2008. Between the two of them, they drummed on all ABBA hits up to 1977. We hear Palm on hits such as Dancing Queen, Mamma Mia, Fernando, Take A Chance On Me, Thank You For The Music, So Long, and I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do. After 1977, Palm no longer drummed for ABBA.
Palm also drummed for Swedish hit acts such as Harpo, Lill-Babs, Svenne & Lotta, Ted Gärdestad and Thomas Ledin.
The Chart-topper
Two years after ABBA won the Eurovision Song Contest, the UK copied the recipe of two men and two women singing a pop song, and won. That entry was the catchy and corny Save Your Kisses For Me by Brotherhood Of Man, whose leader Martin Lee has died at 77. The band continued to take inspiration from ABBA, most notoriously with the Fernando clone Angelo, a UK #1 in 1977.
The formula seemingly was to imagine what ABBA might do, and compensate for the lack of genius by adding loads of sugar to it. Brotherhood Of Man produced lowest common-denominator pop. The result was a string of catchy hits which the critics hated, and the British public bought. They had three UK #1s, all co-written by Lee, with Save Your Kisses For Me, Angelo, and the objectively horrible Figaro, plus a Top 10 hit in 1977 with the agreeable Oh Boy, a cover version of Diana Trask Australian hit.
Taking the ABBA template even further, Lee married one of the group’s female singers, Sandra Stevens (in fairness, their relationship preceded ABBA’s fame). Martin Lee is a good example of how young men looked much older back in the day. At the Eurovision in 1976, from which the photo above comes, Lee was a mere 29.
Brotherhood Of Man had a few earlier hits in 1970, but that version didn’t include any of Lee’s line-up.
The CD Singer
Every instalment of the In Memoriam series, by its nature, includes some songs of historical importance, or at least connection to something of significance or remarkable novelty. One track here satisfies all three, despite being rather unexceptional: Pirates by Florence Warner, an album track from 1982, featured on the first CD in circulation, by way of its inclusion on a demonstration disc that came with the first compact disc players.
Warner released three albums between 1974 and 1980, did a lot of TV commercials work — US viewers will have heard her on ABC’s 1984 network campaign “We’re With You” — and scored a big hit in the Netherlands in a duet with Demis Roussos of Air Supply’s Lost In Love. The vocals are fine, but the arrangement is quite awful.
She also did backing vocals for acts like Steely Dan, Dan Fogelberg, Jimmy Buffett, Donovan and Bobby Bare.
The famous “A Great Day in Harlem” photograph of 57 jazz musicians, taken by Art Kane in 1958. The late Benny Golson is in the back at left, wearing glasses. The sole survivor now is Sonny Rollins, standing in the third row from front, wearing shades. Open in new window/tab for a bigger version of the photo.
As always, this post is reproduced in illustrated PDF format in the package, which also includes my personal playlist of the featured tracks. PW in comments.
Teresa Bright, 64, Hawaiian music guitarist and ukulele player, on Sept. 1
Teresa Bright – Poli’ahu (1990)
Mike Billard, 60, drummer of Canadian jazz band Jeff Johnston Trio, on Sept. 1
Pat Lewis, 76, soul singer, announced Sept. 2
Pat Lewis – No One To Love (1967)
Isaac Hayes – Feelin’ Alright (1973, on backing vocals)
James Darren, 88, singer and TV actor, on Sept. 2
James Darren – Goodbye Cruel World (1961)
Göran Fristorp, 76, singer-songwriter of Swedish pop duo Malta/Nova, on Sept. 3
Nova – You Are Summer (1973)
Oswald d’Andréa, 90, French pianist and film composer, on Sept. 4
Sérgio Mendes, 83, Brazilian bossa nova musician, songwriter, bandleader, on Sept. 5
Cannonball Adderley & Sexteto Bossa Rio – Groovy Samba (1962, on piano)
Sérgio Mendes & The New Brasil ‘77 – The Real Thing (1976)
Sérgio Mendes feat. India.Arie – Timeless (2006)
Herbie Flowers, 86, English bassist, tuba player and songwriter, on Sept. 5
Blue Mink – Melting Pot (1969, as member on bass)
Lou Reed – Satellite Of Love (1972, on tuba)
Sky – Toccata (1980, as member and on bass)
Martin France, 60, British jazz drummer, on Sept. 5
Rich Homie Quan, 33, rapper, on Sept. 5
Rich Homie Quan – Flex (Ooh, Ooh, Ooh) (2015)
Mapaputsi, 45, South African kwaito musician, on Sept. 5
Mapaputsi – My Love (2003)
Roy Cape, 82, Trinidadian calypso saxophonist, on Sept. 5
Will Jennings, 80, lyricist, on Sept. 6
Dionne Warwick – I’ll Never Love This Way Again (1979, as lyricist)
Randy Crawford with the Crusaders – One Day I’ll Fly Away (1980, as lyricist)
Steve Winwood – Back In The High Life Again (1986, as lyricist)
Screamin’ Scott Simon, 75, pianist and singer with Sha Na Na, on Sept. 6
Sha Na Na – Bounce In Your Buggy (1972)
Sha Na Na – Born To Hand Jive (1978)
John Travolta – Sandy (1978, as co-writer)
Mark Moffatt, 74, Australian musician and producer, on Sept. 6
The Saints – (I’m) Stranded (1976, as co-producer)
Yothu Yindi – Treaty (1991, as producer)
Johnny Thunder, 93, R&B singer, on Sept. 7
Gil Hamilton – Tell Her (1962, under his real name)
Johnny Thunder – Loop De Loop (1963)
Johnny Thunder – I’m Alive (1969)
Jimmy Gilmer, 83, singer and leader of rock & roll group The Fireballs, on Sept. 7
The Fireballs – Sugar Shack (1963)
Zoot Money, 82, English singer and keyboardist, on Sept. 8
Zoot Money & Big Roll Band – A Big Time Operator (1966)
Alvin Dyers, 71, South African jazz guitarist, on Sept. 8
Alvin Dyers – Wesley Street (2005)
Caterina Valente, 93, French-Italian singer and actress, on Sept. 9
Caterina Valente – Ganz Paris träumt von der Liebe (1954)
Caterina Valente – The Breeze And I (1955)
Caterina Valente – Samba de una nota (1989)
Arthur Edgehill, 98, jazz drummer, on Sept. 10
Shirley Scott – A Shot In The Dark (1958, on drums)
Frankie Beverly, 77, singer and songwriter of soul group Maze, producer on Sept. 10
Frank Beverly & The Butlers – If That’s What You Wanted (1967, also as writer)
Maze Featuring Frankie Beverly – Look At California (Live) (1981, also as writer)
Maze Featuring Frankie Beverly – Before I Let Go (live) (1986, also as writer)
Maze Featuring Frankie Beverly – Silky Soul (1989, also as writer)
Daddae Harvey, 60, musician and songwriter with Soul II Soul, on Sept. 10
Soul II Soul – Get A Life (1990, also on shared vocals)
Billy Sherrill, 77, sound engineer, on Sept. 10
Kenny Rogers – The Gambler (1978, as engineer)
Doug Hood, 70, New Zealand producer, on Sept. 10
Gabriel Gonzalez, 57, former trumpeter of No Doubt, on Sept. 12
Papa Kojak, 68, Jamaican reggae deejay and singer, on Sept. 12
Kojak & Liza – Fist To Fist Rub A Dub (1979)
Robin Guy, 54, British rock and punk drummer, on Sept. 12
Rachel Stamp – Spank (1999, as member)
Moisés Canelo, 74, Honduran singer-songwriter, on Sept. 13
Tommy Cash, 84, country singer, Johnny’s brother, on Sept. 13
Tommy Cash – Six White Horses (1969)
Chalmers Davis, 73, country keyboardist, on Sept. 13
The Shooters – Borderline (1989, as member)
Gerry Robinson, 76, musician of UK rock band The Purple Gang, on Sept. 14
Purple Gang – Granny Takes A Trip (1967)
Tito Jackson, 70, singer with The Jackson 5/Jacksons, on Sept. 15
The Jackson 5 – The Love You Save (1970)
The Jacksons – Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground) (1979, also on guitar)
Tito Jackson feat. Big Daddy Kane – Get It Baby (2016, also as co-writer)
Kenny Hyslop, 73, Scottish drummer of pop bands Slik, Zone, on Sept. 15
Slik – Forever And Ever (1976, as member)
Simple Minds – Promised You A Miracle (1982, on drums)
Roli Mosimann, 68, Swiss-born drummer (Swans) and producer, on Sept. 15
The The – Sweet Bird Of Truth (1986, as producer)
David Davis, 63, bluegrass mandolinist, in traffic accident on Sept. 15
David Davis & The Warrior River Boys – Blues Stay Away From Me (2002)
Billy Edd Wheeler, 91, country singer, songwriter (Coward of The County), on Sept. 16
Judy Henske – High Flying Bird (1963, as writer)
Johnny Cash & June Carter – Jackson (1967, as co-writer)
JD Souther, 78, rock singer-songwriter and actor, on Sept. 17
John David Souther – Run Like A Thief (1972, also as writer)
Eagles – Best Of My Love (1974, as co-writer)
The Souther-Hillman-Furay Band – Mexico (1975, also as writer)
John David Souther & Linda Ronstadt – If You Have Crying Eyes (1976, also as writer)
Rise Kagona, 62, member of Zimbabwean band Bhundu Boys, on Sept. 17
Bhundu Boys – My Foolish Heart (1987)
Evin Agassi, 78, Iranian-born US singer, on Sept. 17
Tony Haynes, 83, English world jazz composer, bandleader of Grand Union Orchestra, on Sept. 17
Grand Union Orchestra – Can’t Chain Up Me Mind (2022)
Dick Diamonde, 76, Dutch-born bassist of Australian group The Easybeats, on Sept. 18
The Easybeats – Friday On My Mind (1966)
Juan Brujo, 61, singer of metal band Brujeria, on Sept. 18
Nick Gravenites, 85, blues-rock musician and producer, on Sept. 18
Big Brother & The Holding Company – Be A Brother (1970, on lead vocals, as writer, producer)
Brewer & Shipley – One Toke Over The Line (1971, as producer)
Zulya Kamalova, 55, Russian-born Australian singer, on Sept. 18
Florence Warner, 77, pop singer, on Sept. 19
Steely Dan – The Fez (1976, on backing vocals)
Florence Warner – Hold Me Once (1980)
Florence Warner – Pirate (1982)
Daniel McMahon, 41, musician, producer and engineer, on Sept. 19
Kim Richmond, 84, jazz saxophonist and composer, on Sept. 20
Kim Richmond Concert Jazz Orchestra – Stella By Starlight (2003)
Sayuri, 28, Japanese singer-songwriter, on Sept. 20
Benny Golson, 95, jazz saxophonist and composer, on Sept. 21
Miles Davis – Stablemates (1956, as composer)
Roger Guérin & Benny Golson – I Remember Clifford (1959, also as composer)
Quincy Jones – Killer Joe (1969, as composer)
Roger Palm, 75, Swedish drummer for ABBA, on Sept. 21
Nova – You Are Summer (1973, on drums. See entry for Göran Fristorp)
ABBA – Mamma Mia (1975, on drums)
Paul Cripple, guitarist of punk band Reagan Youth, on Sept. 21
Eddie Low, 81, New Zealand pop and country singer, on Sept. 21
Eddie Low – Merci Cheri (1970)
Hugh Prestwood, 82, country singer-songwriter, on Sept. 22
Crystal Gayle – The Sound Of Goodbye (1983, as writer)
Randy Travis – Hard Rock Bottom Of Your Heart (1989, as writer)
Mikie Harris, pop session singer, songwriter, announced Sept. 22
Mikie Harris – Love Is All I Need (1969, also as writer and producer)
Freddie Salem, 70, guitarist of southern rock band Outlaws, announced Sept. 23
Outlaws – White Horses (1980, also as writer)
Osmar Milito, 83, Brazilian jazz and bossa nova pianist and composer, on Sept. 23
Osmar Milito e Quarteto Forma – Hey Shazam (1972)
Cat Glover, 62, singer, rapper, model and choreographer, on Sept. 24
Prince – Alphabet St (1988, on vocals)
John McNeil, 76, jazz trumpeter, on Sept. 27
Pit Passarell, 56, Argentine singer and bassist of Brazilian metal group Viper, on Sept. 27
Kris Kristofferson, 88, country singer-songwriter and actor, on Sept. 28
Kris Kristofferson – Killing Time (1967, also as writer)
Kris Kristofferson – To Beat The Devil (1970, also as writer)
Kris Kristofferson – Josie (1972, also as writer)
Kris Kristofferson – Feeling Mortal (2012, also as writer)
Martin Lee, 77, English singer with Brotherhood of Man, songwriter, on Sept. 29
Brotherhood Of Man – Lady (1974, also as co-writer)
Brotherhood Of Man – Save Your Kisses For Me (1976, also as co-writer)
Brotherhood Of Man – Oh Boy (The Mood I’m In) (1977)
Fayo, 46, Canadian singer-songwriter, on Sept. 30
Dave Allison, 68, ex-guitarist of Canadian metal band Anvil, on Sept. 30
Anvil – Make It Up To You (1983)
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