Favorite Songs From Artists No Longer Alive

[Scud49]

So many have gone into the great beyond.....it's Memorial Day, so let's list some of your favorites from those no longer with us.

I'll kick it off with someone who was only "slightly "influential - Bo Diddley:

 

[Bigboote]

Robert Palmer wasn’t 27, but he was still way too young when he died.

 

[Monte]

 

[Scud49]

Great tune from someone we lost pretty recently - Jimmy Buffett:

 

[JellyBean]

The Great BB King

 

[Huskee11]

With Garth Hudson's passing earlier this year, sadly all of the original members of The Band are no longer with us.

This is my favorite of theirs, but The Weight is a close second.

 

[JellyBean]

George Michael Jesus to a Child

 

[Monte]

 

[nwhoopfan]

Robert Palmer wasn’t 27, but he was still way too young when he died.

That could be a whole thread by itself, artists who died too young. Strange how 27 seems to be the magic number.

 

[nwhoopfan]

 

[nwhoopfan]

The word "favorite" almost gives me panic attacks. Not really, but I don't like choosing. Could go with either Linger or Dreams, here, gotta pick one of them.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Thankfully we still have Emmylou, but Gram has been gone a long time.

 

[Boreifs]

 

[nwhoopfan]

I think I've opined more than once, this could very well be the best country love song ever written. Performed by many others, but he wrote it.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Got a couple where the lead singer is still alive, but a band member died and the group ceased to exist as a result. Guitarist David Roback passed.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Singer Alejandra Deheza finished their final album after Benjamin Curtis died, but School of Seven Bells went with him. I think the album was her love letter and goodbye to him.

 

[jostar1]

"Leader of the Band" by Dan Fogelberg. He wrote the song about his father.

Dan Fogelberg died from cancer at age 56.

 

[RSHERMVIKES]

Michael Jackson Billie Jean

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Whitney Houston I Will Always Love You


IZ Somewhere Over THe Rainbow
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Prince When Doves Cry

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Janis Joplin Me and Bobby McGee

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[EasyEd]

From when I was a kid, Ricky Nelson was the first pop singer I liked.

 

[AidanFan20]

 

[Aluminny69]

The late, great Johnny Ace, immortalized in song by Paul Simon. Johnny's career was tragically cut short when he accidentally shot himself backstage during a concert on Christmas Day 1954 in Houston, Texas. His untimely death at age 25 cemented his legacy, and he remains a significant figure in early R&B history.

 

[Aluminny69]

Personally, I think this thread should be limited to those who died before their time. I mean, do we really want to include Tony Bennett, or any of the Rat Pack?

 

[Aluminny69]

Judith Dunham just recently passed away.

 

[CL82]

 

[Kaizen]

Carpenters - yesterday once more