Dead Page: The Grass Roots

ROB GRILL, 67

Lead singer of the Grass Roots died Monday, July 11th at a hospice in Florida where he had been since a recent head injury from a fall. His good looks and voice helped the group achieve many hits in the 1960s and 1970s.

Starting in 1967, the group had hits with:

Let's Live for Today #8
Things I Should Have Said #23
Sooner or Later #9
Midnight Confessions #5
Temptation Eyes #15
Bella Linda #28
The River is Wide #13
I'd Wait a Million years #15
Heaven Knows #24
Two Divided By Love #16 Glory Bound #34

I liked them all and remember buying their greatest hits album. A few years ago, we saw him at the Route 66 Festival in Springfield, Illinois. The music was good, but he had lost a lot of his vocal abilities.

I plan on digging out that greatest hits album and playing it this week.

Loved Those Grass Roots. --Cooter