Hello friends.
The past 24 hours have been tough and my mind has been swirling because of the deaths of Edward Kennedy and Ellie Greenwich.
If you don't know who Ted Kennedy is then you must not just be from another planet, you've gotta be from another dimension. He is so famous/infamous for so many reasons that I don't know where to start, or need to bother explaining who he is or what he did.
Here is a photo of a TIME cover that shows you one of the reasons he's (in)famous. If you want a real in depth story of him and his clan, be on the lookout for an amazing 100 minute biography from The History Channel called, Kennedys: The Curse of Power.
I'm sure they will repeat it a zillion times over the weekend and into next week. It's all about the "curse" on the family and it digs very deep.
After watching it I'm convinced that Joe signed a deal with Satan.
No joke.
Let's hope that the next generation fares better than this one did.
As for Ellie Greenwich, you may not know who she was but you damn sure know her work. Even if you are from another dimension, because you KNOW these songs;
1 - Baby I Love You
2 - Be My Baby
3 - Chapel Of Love
4 - Christmas Baby (Please Come Home)
5 - Do Wah Diddy Diddy
6 - Leader Of The Pack
7 - River Deep, Mountain High (you'd be surprised how many people think that either Tina, Ike or Phil Spector wrote that.)
Those are just a few of the many, many songs she wrote that got her into the Songwriter's Hall Of Fame. She wrote for everyone from Darlene Love to Neil Diamond, to Aretha Franklin.
She wrote songs for film (Cactus Flower, Sixteen Candles, Mean Streets, Bad Santa, Full Metal Jacket) and television (Moonlighting, Miami Vice, Columbo, St. Elsewhere, Late Night With David Letterman, NFL Pre-game Show) to name a few. Go to her website to learn more, because you should - http://www.elliegreenwich.com.
I've been telling friends all day, "Kids today have NO IDEA what REAL MUSIC is, how good it is, and how it has influenced the shit that is popular today."
I sound real crotchety...like my father.
And I'm none too happy about that, but so be it.
First Les Paul and now Ellie.
This sucks.
2 comments:
HOLY SHIT!
Right after I submitted my RANT, I was told that Dominick Dunne died! All three in less than 24 hours?
WTF is going on?
This has been the Summer of Death. Seriously, usually this happens in 3s but it's been a string of 3s all summer. Not cool. Not cool at all.
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