While listening to Bob Stroud's Rock and Roll Roots a month ago, he did a spotlight on music persons who died in 2008. I only caught part of it, but these are the ones he had from June to December. Some I've already written about in Dead Page.
JUNE--
GEORGE CARLIN-- ok, he wasn't a singer.
August--
ISAAC HAYES, 65-- songwriter, artist, voice of Chef on "South Park"
JERRY WEXLER-- Record producer who helped launch Ray Charles, Wilson Pickett and Led Zeppelin.
NORMAN WHITFIELD
LOU TEICHER-- made music for movies-- 1969 "Theme from Midnight Cowboy"
WAYNE WATTUMS, 61-- keyboardist of Fifth Estate "Ding Dong the Witch is Dead"
September--
RICHARD WRIGHT-- Pink Floyd keyboardist
JERRY REED-- country singer, actor "When You're Hot, You're Hot," "East Bound and Down." Movie "Smokey & the Bandit"
October--
LEVI STUBBS, 72-- Four Tops
MITCH MITCHELL,61-- drummer in Jimi Hendrix Experience, the surviving member of trio.
December--
DENNIS YOST,65-- lead vocalist of Classics IV
JOHN SHAWN BRYNE-- Rhythm guitarist and lead vocalist in Count Five "Psychotic Reaction."
DELANEY BRAMLETT of Delaney & Bonnie. Big influence on Eric Clapton "Only You Know and I Know."
Gone, But Not Forgotten. --Cooter
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