Phil Everly (1939–2014)
“Harmony singing requires that you enlarge yourself, not use any kind of suppression,” he said. “Harmony is the ultimate love.”
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Nelson Mandela (1918–2013)
One of Mandela’s minor legacies is that he inspired one truly joyous piece of agitprop.
Lou Reed (1942–2013)
Lou Reed (1942–2013)
“I have never thought of music as a challenge—you always figure the audience is at least as smart as you are,” he wrote. “You do this because you like it, you think what you’re making is beautiful. And if you think it’s beautiful, maybe they think it’s beautiful.”
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Marian McPartland (1918–2013)
Marian McPartland (1918–2013)
Marian McPartland, “Here’s That Rainy Day (edit)” (1969)
from Interplay
Halcyon 100
“I’ve become a bit more—reckless, maybe,” she said. “I’m getting to the point where I can smash down a chord and not know what it’s going to be, and make it work.”
More on McPartland and Halcyon, the label she started, here.
by Slim Whitman (1923–2013)
Slim Whitman (1923–2013)
“By the Waters of Minnetonka” (1952)
from Slim Whitman Sings Million Record Hits
Imperial LP 9102
“Mr. Whitman told the AP in 1991 that he wanted to be thought of as ‘a nice guy’ and a good father. ‘I’d like people to remember me,’ he said, ‘as having a good voice and a clean suit.’”
There is a code for living born in a far different time inherent in that “good voice, clean suit” statement.
Based on the evidence of the inner sleeve, Whitman might not have had to take to TV in the late 1970s to hawk his wares, and Imperial Records might still be around, if the marketing department had not called three out of every four of his albums Slim Whitman Sings.