Any Major Dude With Half A Heart

For Easter, here’s a mix of random songs featuring the word “heaven” in the title. It’s a fairly eclectic bunch of tracks, so standard Any Major fare — and thus great fun, I hope.

In song, ”heaven” can mean all kinds of things: from Christian salvation to sweaty sex. And metaphor, Oh, don’t forget metaphor! All of those feature here, including a mini-sermon, US preacher-style (with the accent!), by the wonderful Paul Heaton of The Housemartins on their cover of Stevie Wonder’s Heaven Help Us All.

The showstopper here might be Dolly Parton giving Led Zep’s Stairway To Heaven the bluegrass treatment. It is marvellous.

The addendum Vol. 1 tips you off that I have more of the same on the subject of Heaven. Let me know whether you would like that.

With that, I wish you a great and, if you are so inclined, holy Easter weekend.

As always, CD-R length and home-saved covers. PW in comments.

1. The Skyliners – Pennies From Heaven (1959)
2. Dexys Midnight Runners – Jackie Wilson Said (I’m In Heaven) (1982)
3. The Cure – Just Like Heaven (1987)
4. The Presidents – The Sweetest Thing This Side Of Heaven (1971)
5. The Elgins – Heaven Must Have Sent You (1966)
6. John Prine – He Was in Heaven Before He Died (1975)
7. Wilco – Airline To Heaven (2005)
8. Steve Earle & Allison Moorer – Heaven Or Hell (2011)
9. Talking Heads – Heaven (1979)
10. James Taylor – Anywhere Like Heaven (1970)
11. Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway – Only Heaven Can Wait (For Love) (1979)
12. Maxine Nightingale – If I Ever Lose This Heaven (1973)
13. Pacific Express – Heaven (I’ve Found In You) (1976)
14. Pieces – Heaven Must Have Made You (1979)
15. The Stylistics – You’ll Never Get To Heaven (If You Break My Heart) (1972)
16. Peggy Lipton – Wear Your Love Like Heaven (1968)
17. Sister Rosetta Tharpe – Beams Of Heaven (1956)
18. Carl Smith – Air Mail To Heaven (1963)
19. Dolly Parton – Stairway To Heaven (2002)
20. Meat Loaf – Heaven Can Wait (1977)
21. The Housemartins – Heaven Help Us All (1986)

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At the beginning of the chronological Any Major Soul series, I lumped the years 1960–63 into one mix, the better to get quickly to the glory years of soul, starting with 1964. The reasoning was that during the first few years of the 1960s, soul was still establishing and defining itself. By 1964, it was a fully-fledged genre.

But fusing these first four years of the 1960s into one mix was doing the burgeoning genre an injustice which demands remedy. So, while there still will be an Any Major Soul 1985 to get your jheri curls swaying, here’s the first of four mixes to catch up with the early 1960s. Any Major Soul 1960-63 is still up, and I have tried not to repeat any of the tracks in that collection here.

The title Any Major Soul 1960 is a bit imprecise and ex post facto. In 1960, “soul music” wasn’t a thing yet. The first known use of the term was in 1961. But by now, the shape of soul was emerging.

In the 1950s, popular music became fluid and, to some extent, transcended race. Still, most black artists were labelled R&B, allocating them to a specific market. Meanwhile, many white artists were given R&B songs, recorded them (usually in inferior versions), and then had the bigger hits with them. The most absurd example of that was Pat Boone covering a sanitised version of Little Richard’s Tutti Frutti. Boone reached #12 on the pop chart; Little Richard only #21 (before that, Boone did the same to Fats Domino’s Ain’t That a Shame).

A turning point was Sam Cooke’s You Send Me, recorded in 1957. The Man tried to milquetoast Cooke’s already tame original with versions by Teresa Brewer and The Four Lads. This time, Cooke’s version was the bigger hit.

So as the 1950s turned into the ’60s, R&B drew from all those ingredients it had gifted rock & roll: the smooth harmonies of doo wop (which had emerged from urban Black communities, especially in the northeast of the US), blues, early jazz, sometimes a hint of country (especially what would be called southern soul) and — the key ingredient — gospel.

The song often regarded as the proto-soul song, Ray Charles’ 1954 hit I Got a Woman, was itself based on a gospel song, It Must Be Jesus by the Southern Tones (listen to it here).

 

The transition from R&B and doo wop to soul music around 1960 was both musical and cultural, influenced by evolving styles, changing audiences, urbanisation, and the momentum of the civil rights movement. Soul music was also a vehicle for black pride and the civil rights movement; it became a cultural identifier of black identity.

Labels like Motown in Detroit (founded in 1959), Stax in Memphis, Vee Jay and Chess in Chicago, Atlantic Records/Atco and Scepter/Wand in New York, King in Cincinnati, and Decca subsidiary Brunswick helped popularise soul in the early 1960s, also outside black communities and even across the Atlantic.

Tamla/Motown was still new in 1960, and Gordy and pals were still to hit on the familiar recipe for success. But here we already have The Miracles, whose Smokey Robinson was key to developing that famous sound, as well as Barrett Strong with his follow-up to Money, Herman Griffin (a singing acrobat who married Mary Wells that year), Sherri Taylor & Singin’ Sammy Ward, and Mable John, who was Tamla’s first female singer but later became better known as a Stax act. Marv Johnson, who had scored Motown’s first crossover hit in 1959, had by then moved to United Artists.

Some of the tracks on this mix obviously still recall the sound of the 1950s; some are giving us a glimpse into the future of soul. Some do both. Take Annie Laurie, who by 1960 had already enjoyed a long career going back to the 1940s and a few hits as an R&B singer. Her hit If You’re Lonely evokes that past but also anticipates the sound of Memphis soul.

This collection shows that soul did not appear spontaneously but evolved from R&B and what before that was called “race records”, so it provides a snapshot of where soul was coming from and where it was going.

As always, the mix is timed to for on a standard CD-R, includes home-callandresponded covers, and the present text in a PDF document. PW in comments.

1. Hank Ballard – Let’s Go, Let’s Go, Let’s Go
2. Jimmy Jones – Good Timin’
3. Marv Johnson – I Love The Way You Love
4. Sam Cooke – Sad Mood
5. Brook Benton & Dinah Washington – Baby (You’ve Got What It Takes)
6. Sugarpie Desanto – I Want To Know
7. Jackie Wilson – A Woman, A Lover, A Friend
8. Jerry Butler – He Will Break Your Heart
9. Mable John – You Made A Fool Out Of Me
10. Bobby Marchan – You’re Still My Baby
11. Annie Laurie – If You’re Lonely
12. James Brown and The Famous Flames feat. Bea Ford – You’ve Got The Power
13. Etta James – All I Could Do Was Cry
14. The Shirelles – Tonight’s The Night
15. The Drifters – Lonely Winds
16. LaVern Baker & Ben E. King – How Often
17. Sherri Taylor & Singin’ Sammy Ward – Lover
18. Barrett Strong – Whirlwind
19. Joe Jones – You Talk Too Much
20. Clyde McPhatter – Ta Ta
21. Carla & Rufus Thomas – ’Cause I Love You
22. Herman Griffin – True Love
23. Lloyd Price – Wont’cha Come Home
24. Rosco Gordon – Just A Little Bit
25. Ray Charles – Sticks And Stones
26. Ruth Brown – Don’t Deceive Me
27. Dee Clark – You’re Looking Good
28. Wade Flemons – Easy Lovin’
29. Sammy Turner – Paradise
30. The Miracles – Way Over There

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The Reaper’s attack on soul and funk music that marked February continued unabated in March, as if there is some doge policy going on. One of this month’s deaths sort of shocked me as a reminder that every day, I inch closer to my own mortal moment, whenever that a may be.

Stedman Pearson, who has died of 60 from diabetes-related causes, was a member of the English pop-soul-dance band 5 Star, along with his three sisters and a brother. They were all roughly in my age group — Stedman a bit older than me, the others a bit younger — though their music wasn’t quite my jam.

They were big for three years, scoring 12 Top 20 hits between 1985 and 1988, and then faded from the scene. So, to me, they were eternally teenagers. Being confronted with the realisation that these eternal teenagers are not young anymore was a slightly troubling reminder that I am not young anymore either, quite contrary to what my own mental image is trying to tell me, and no matter how much denial I muster every time I see that middle-aged stranger in the mirror.

The Jazz-funkster
One of the most-sampled musicians ever, Roy Ayers was a pioneer of jazz-funk and acid jazz. Born in 1940, he began his career as a jazz vibraphonist, notably backing Herbie Mann, but released his debut album as early as 1963.

Ayers’ early career saw him working with notable jazz artists like flutist Herbie Mann, who helped introduce him to a wider audience. His 1963 debut album, West Coast Vibes, a fine jazz set. By the late 1960s, he was shifting towards a more groove-oriented jazz-funk, founding his band the Roy Ayers Ubiquity in the early 1970s, named after his 1970 album.

Success came in 1970s, first with the serious funk of the soundtrack for the Blaxploitation movie Coffy, then with his jazz-funk-soul-fusion sound that produced classics like 1976’s Everybody Loves The Sunshine (featured on Any Major Summer Vol. 1) and the seriously funky Running Away. His biggest chart success came in 1979 with the dance classic Don’t Stop The Feeling.

In the 1980s, Ayers continued to explore different musical styles, touring and collaborating with Nigerian Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti and experimenting with electronic sounds.

Ayers also played for other acts, such as Rick James, Whitney Houston (a vibraphone solo on 1987’s Love Will Save The Day), Erykah Badu and, more recently, Tyler the Creator.

The Nu-Soul Legend
Singer Angie Stone, who has died at 63, is best remembered as a leader in the nu-soul movement of the late 1990s/early 2000s, especially her hit No More Rain (In This Cloud), which is one of the finest soul songs of the ’90s. But her career started 20 years earlier when she made history as a rapper, going by the name Angie B.

In 1979, Angie and two school friends in South Carolina had a band called The Sequence. One day they grabbed the opportunity of a Sugar Hill Gang gig to “audition” backstage for Sylvia Robinson, owner of Sugar Hill Records. Robinson signed the trio, and her label released the single Funk You Up, after Rappers’ Delight the second single issued by the label. History was made as it was the first rap record released by a female group (Angie’s rap kicks off at 4:49).

Fast-forward almost 40 years, and The Sequence members sued Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars for plagiarising Funk You Up for their Uptown Funk. I don’t know what came of that suit, though Ronson and Mars lost a suit to the Gap Band and settled out of court with Zapp and the Minneapolis band Collage.

In the early 1990s, Stone — she took the surname of her husband — was a member of the soul trio Vertical Hold, and worked as a songwriter and backing vocalist for acts such as Lenny Kravitz and D’Angelo, with whom she had a son. The breakthrough came with her superb 1999 debut solo album Black Diamond. She sustained a successful singing career, and also ventured out to be a TV, film and stage actress.

On March 1, Stone and her band members were traveling to Atlanta after playing a gig in Mobile, Alabama, when their van overturned and then was hit by truck. Stone was the only fatality.

The Soul Guitarist
I was newly married when soul trio Tony! Toni! Toné! Had guys with their sexy anthems Lay Your Head On My Pillow (which featured on Any Major Babymaking Music Vol. 1 ) and Anniversary (featured here in the full-length album version). Both are still purple-pill-on-acid tracks.

The group was formed in Oakland, California, by guitarist D’Wayne Wiggins, who has died at the age of 64, with his brother Raphael Saadiq (born Charles Ray Wiggins) and their cousin Timothy Christian Riley.

Tony! Toni! Toné! were pioneers of what would be called, for a while, New Jack Swing, with their 1988 album Who? (which featured the breakthrough hit Little Walter) and 1990’s The Revival, whose singles all topped the R&B charts.

Their most acclaimed album was 1993’s Sons of Soul, with lead single If I Had No Loot and the aforementioned Anniversary and Pillow, on both of which Wiggins played exquisite guitar parts.

After their final album, the platinum-certified House of Music, in 1996, the group disbanded. In 2003, Wiggins and Riley teamed up to record the hit Diary with Alicia Keys, and in 2023 the trio undertook a tour together, one last time. Wiggins was also the bandleader for comedian D.L. Hughley’s series Weekends at the D.L..

The Last Badfinger
With the death of guitarist Joey Molland, all members of British rock band Badfinger are now gone. Badfinger were protégés of The Beatles on their Apple label, where they had string of four hits in the UK and US between 1970 and 1972: Come And Get It (written by Paul McCartney and featured on Any Major Hits 1970), No Matter What (on Any Major Hits 1971), Day After Day (on Any Major Hits 1972 Vol. 1), and Baby Blue. But their biggest legacy was the original of future Nilsson hit Without You, written by Pete Ham and Tom Evans — both of whom would die by suicide, in 1975 and 1983 respectively; Evans after an argument over royalties with Molland. The sorry tale of Without You was told on The Originals: The 1970s.

Apart from Badfinger, Joey Molland also appeared on George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass (including My Sweet Lord) and John Lennon’s Imagine albums, and on the Harrison led The Concert for Bangladesh set. He left Badfinger in 1974, and formed a band, Natural Gas, which released one album. In 1979 he revived Badfinger with Evans for two albums, and embarked on a solo career in 1983.

Since the death of Mike Gibbins in 2005, Molland was the last surviving member of Badfinger’s classic line-up.

The Friend of Distinction
With the death of Harry Elston at 88, there is now only one surviving member, Barbara Jean Love of the classic Friends of Distinction line-up that had hits in 1969 with Grazin’ In The Grass and Going In Circles.

Elston had been in a band called The Hi-Fi’s with future 5^th Dimension co-founders Marilyn McCoo and Lamont McLemore, and when he formed The Friends of Distinction with singer Floyd Butler, the sound was similar to that of his old colleagues’ new group. Indeed, the Friends and the 5^th Dimension remained lifelong friends.

The Friends were discovered by Jim Brown, the ex-gridiron pro who also went on to discover Earth, Wind & Fire, and soon scored a huge hit with Grazin’ In The Grass, a cover of the Hugh Masekela instrumental to which Ellston added lyrics and his lead vocals. Another hit followed with the much-covered Going In Circles (Butler did the lead vocals on that song). The group hit the US Top 10 once more, in 1970 with Love Or Let Me Be Lonely.

The band split in 1976 after six albums. Plans for reunion failed in 1990 with Butler’s sudden death.

The Youngblood
There are a lot of bands whose classic line-ups suddenly have only one surviving member. New on the list is the folk-rock band The Youngbloods, after the death at 83 of lead vocalist and bassist Jesse Colin Young.

New Yorker Young (born Perry Miller) first gained attention as a solo artist in the early 1960s, releasing albums in 1964 and 1965. Upon meeting folk guitarist Jerry Corbitt, the two formed a duo, calling themselves The Youngbloods, after Young’s second LP. Drummer Joe Bauer and multi-instrumentalist Lowell Levinger (now the sole survivor) were added to complete the band’s line-up.

The Youngbloods were not a singles band, but they had a big hit in 1969 with the counterculture anthem Get Together, which had originally been released in 1967. After five studio albums, the group split in 1972, and Young continued to have a fruitful career as a solo artist, drawing from folk, rock, jazz and blues to create his own sound. His 1973 album Song For Juli was particularly well-received. Young retired from music in 2016.

The Super Engineer
What connects Al Green’s Let’s Stay Together album and Led Zeppelin III? For one thing, both were engineered and mixed by Terry Manning, who has died at the age of 77.

Manning began his career in the 1960s at Stax Records as an assistant to the legendary producer Jim Dickinson. Manning went on to engineer and play on records for acts such as Otis Redding, Booker T. & the MG’s, William Bell, The Box Tops, Isaac Hayes (including his seminal Hot Buttered Soul album), The Staple Singers (including the hits Respect Yourself and I’ll Take You There), among others.

In the late 1960s, Manning moved to Ardent Studios, where he became a chief engineer and producer. At Ardent, he worked with the likes of Led Zeppelin, Leon Russell, Eric Mercury, Tony Joe White, James Taylor, Luther Ingram and others. In the 1980s, he engineered for acts like ZZ Top (including their Eliminator album), Joe Walsh, Molly Hatchet, Joe Cocker, and George Thorogood (whose Born To Be Bad he co-produced).

In 1992, Manning moved to the Bahamas, where he co-founded Compass Point Studios with Chris Blackwell. There, he collaborated with artists such as Shakira and Lenny Kravitz.

In 1970 Manning tried his luck as a recording artist himself, releasing a psychedelic rock album titled Home Sweet Home in 1970. Though not a commercial success at the time, the album later gained a cult following.

Beyond engineering and producing, Manning was also a photographer of music acts.

A lovely story is told of Jimmy Page, whom Manning had befriended in 1966. When the record company failed to credit Manning’s for his final mix of Led Zeppelin III, Page insisted that Atlantic Records reprint the album cover to include that missing credit, and destroy the already printed covers.

The Murder Victim
It’s rare that the death of a musician prompts a government to declare a state of emergency, but so it was in Peru when Paul Flores, the 40-year-old singer of the popular cumbia band Armonía 10, was murdered in a criminal ambush on his band’s tour bus while travelling from a concert. The assassination has been linked to a surge in extortion and organised crime affecting various sectors. Armonía 10 had been targeted for extortion.

In response to the criminal violence and Flores’ assassination, the Peruvian government declared a 30-day state of emergency in Lima and the neighbouring province of Callao, and Peru’s Congress voted to fire the interior minister for failing to address the wave of violent gangster crime.

Armonía 10 is an institution in Peruvian music, having been active since 1972. Flores joined the orchestra as lead singer at the age of 17 in 2002, and enjoyed a string of hits. He left the band in 2023 but returned last year.

Members of the band had been extorted for a while, leading to an attack on December 1 last year. Nobody was killed that night. On March 16, around 2:15am, after a concert in Lima, the bus carrying the orchestra members was intercepted by hitmen from an extortionist mafia. During the attack, a bullet struck Flores in the back. He died in hospital.

The Lennon Interviewer
Usually I don’t list the deaths of disc jockeys or music journalists or executives, but this month merits the inclusion of an English radio DJ by virtue of one interview he conducted. Andy Peebles was a DJ on the BBC’s Radio 1 and one of the roster of presenters of Top of the Pops. By all accounts, he was one of the better DJs and TOTP presenters, among some more insufferable ones and a few predators who haunted the halls of the BBC.

His big interview? Two days before John Lennon was murdered on December 8, 1980, he was interviewed by Peebles for Radio 1 — one of his last interviews (Lennon was interviewed by Laurie Kaye for RKO on the day of his murder). Listen to the full interview at https://youtu.be/z15Zgn3P6cM

The tribute song for Peebles, Phil Lynott’s Yellow Pearl, was the theme of Top of the Pops during most of his time presenting the show.
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.

Angie Stone, 63, soul singer, rapper, producer, songwriter, in a car crash on March 1
The Sequence – Funk You Up (1979, as member and co-writer)
Angie Stone – No More Rain (In This Cloud) (1999)
Angie Stone feat. Calvin Richardson – More Than A Woman (2001)
Angie Stone – Wade In The Water (2012)

Paulito FG, 63, Cuban salsa musician, traffic collision on March 1
Paulito FG – Ilusion De Papel (1996)

Joey Molland, 77, guitarist of English rock band Badfinger and songwriter, on March 1
Badfinger – Sweet Tuesday Morning (1971, also as writer)
John Lennon – I Don’t Wanna To Be A Soldier Mama (1971, on acoustic guitar)
Badfinger – Love Is Gonna Come At Last (1979, also as writer)

Bill Smith, member of Scottish folk group The Corries, on March 1

Bunky Green, 91, jazz alto saxophonist, on March 1
Bunky Green – Funk Ain’t A Word (1976)

Herbert Léonard, 80, French singer, on March 2

Randy Brown, 72, soul singer, on March 3
Randy Brown – Do It Baby (1978)

Jeffrey Runnings, 61, singer, bassist, songwriter of post-punk band For Against, on March 3
For Against – Shine (1987)

Bob Rupe, 68, alt.country musician (The Silos, Sparklehorse), on March 3
The Silos – I’m Over You (1990)

Geraint Jarman, 74, Welsh rock musician, poet, on March 3
Geraint Jarman A’R Cynganeddwyr – Gwesty Cymru (1979)

Jonathan Morshead, 82, blues guitarist (Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation), on March 3

Roy Ayers, 84, jazz and funk musician and composer, on March 4
Roy Ayers – Pretty Brown Skin (1970, also as co-writer)
Roy Ayers with Dee Dee Bridgewater – Coffy Is The Color (1973, also as writer)
Roy Ayers – Love Will Bring Us Back Together (1979, also as writer))
Whitney Houston – Love Will Save The Day (1987, on vibraphone)

Harry Elston, 86, founder and singer with Friends of Distinction, on May 4
The Friends Of Distinction – Grazing In The Grass (1969, on lead vocals and as lyricist)
The Friends Of Distinction – Soulful Anthem (1970, on lead vocals)
The Friends Of Distinction – Love Can Make It Easier (1973)

DJ Funk, 53, ghetto house DJ, musician and producer, announced March 5

Edesio Alejandro, 66, Cuban electronic music singer, guitarist and composer, on March 5
Edesio Alejandro – Blen Blen (1999)

Brian James, 70, founding guitarist of punk band The Damned, songwriter, on March 6
The Damned – New Rose (1977, as member and as writer)
The Lords Of The New Church – Dance With Me (1983, as member and co-writer)

D’Wayne Wiggins, 64, guitarist of soul trio Tony! Toni! Toné!, songwriter, on March 6
Tony! Toni! Toné! – Born Not To Know (1988)
Tony! Toni! Toné! – Anniversary (1993)
Tony! Toni! Toné! – Thinking Of You (1998)

Danny Cox, 81, folk-soul singer and songwriter, on March 7
Danny Cox – Gimme Some (1974)

Beau Dozier, 45, songwriter and producer (American Idol), announced March 8

Stedman Pearson, 60, singer with UK soul group 5 Star, on March 10
5 Star – Can’t Wait Another Minute (1986)

Wheesung, 43, South Korean R&B singer, discovered March 10

Cocoa Tea, 65, Jamaican reggae singer and songwriter, on March 11
Cocoa Tea – We Do The Killing (1994)

Yallunder, 30, South African singer, on March 13

J.B. Moore, 81, hip hop producer and lyricist, on March 13
Kurtis Blow – The Breaks (1980, as producer and co-writer)

Mark Holder, 52, ex-guitarist of blues rock band Black Diamond Heavies, on March 13

Bob Rupe, 68, ex-bassist of alt.rock band Cracker, announced March 14

Bruno Romani, 65, Italian jazz saxophonist, composer and arranger, on March 14

Jesse Colin Young, 83, singer-songwriter with folk-rock band The Youngbloods, on March 16
The Youngbloods – Darkness, Darkness (1969, also as writer)
Jesse Colin Young – Sunlight (1976, also as writer)

Dandy Bestia, 72, guitarist of Italian comedy-punk band Skiantos, on March 16

Paul Flores, 40, singer of Peruvian cumbia band Armonía 10, murdered on March 16
Armonía 10  – Serpiente (2004)

Rob de Nijs, 82, Dutch singer and actor, on March 16

Peter Farrelly, 76, singer and bassist of Northern Irish prog band Fruupp, announced March 17
Fruupp – Why? (1975)

Rod Clark, 82, bassist of The Moody Blues (1966), on March 17

Aurelio Martínez, 56, Honduran singer-songwriter and politician, in plane crash on March 17

AnNa R., 55, singer of German pop bands Rosenstolz and Gleis 8, announced March 17
Rosenstolz – Gib mir Sonne (2008, also as co-writer)

Bob Harvey, 90, original bassist of Jefferson Starship, on March 18

Leanne Cowie, drummer of Australian garage rock band The Scientists, on March 20

Eddie Adcock, 86, banjo player of bluegrass band The Country Gentlemen, on March 20

Larry Tamblyn, 81, co-founder and keyboardist of garage rock band The Standells, on March 21
The Standells – Dirty Water (1966)

Andy Peebles, 76, English radio DJ and TV presenter, on March 22
Phil Lynott – Yellow Pearl (Theme of Top of the Tops) (1980)

Francesco Benozzo, 56, Italian poet and musician, on March 22

Paul Wagstaff, British guitarist (Paris Angels, Black Grape, Happy Mondays), announced March 22
Paris Angels – Perfume (Loved Up) (1991)

Kevan Staples, 74, musician with Canadian rock band Rough Trade and songwriter, on March 23
Rough Trade – Highschool Confidential (1980, also as co-writer and co-producer)

Huey Williams, 86, singer with gospel group Jackson Southernaires, on March 24

Terry Manning, 77, engineer, producer and musician, on March 25
Terry Manning – Guess Things Happen That Way (1970)
Luther Ingram – (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don’t Want To Be Right (1972)
ZZ Top – Gimme All Your Lovin’ (1983, as recording engineer)
Shakira – Underneath Your Clothes (2001, as recording engineer)

Tapani Kansa, 76, Finnish singer, on March 25

Tim Gorman, 72, rock pianist, composer, arranger and producer, on March 26

Lukas Booker, 28, bassist of metalcore band 156/Silence, announced March 28

Young Scooter, 39, American rapper, on March 28

Dick Damron, 91, Canadian country singer and songwriter, on March 29
Dick Damron – Rise ‘n Shine (1971)

Richard Chamberlain, 90, actor and occasional singer, on March 29
Richard Chamberlain – They Long To Be Close To You (1964; original version)

Marinko Colnago, 82, member of Croatian pop group Novi fosili, on March 30

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