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'Me and Mrs. Jones' singer Billy Paul dead at age 80
Associated Press ^
| Apr 24, 2016 9:32 PM EDT
Posted on 04/24/2016 6:49:15 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Billy Paul, the soul singer best known for the No. 1 hit ballad “Me and Mrs. Jones,” has died.
Paul’s co-manager, Beverly Gay, told The Associated Press that Paul died Sunday at his home in Blackwood, New Jersey. Gay says Paul was 80 and had been diagnosed recently with pancreatic cancer. …
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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment; Society
KEYWORDS: billypaul; meandmrsjones; pancreaticcancer; phillysoul; soulmusic
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posted on
04/24/2016 6:49:16 PM PDT
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Olog-hai
Comment #2 Removed by Moderator
To: Olog-hai
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posted on
04/24/2016 6:51:32 PM PDT
by
MuttTheHoople
(Yes, Liberals, I question your patriotism)
To: Olog-hai
They just keep on dying this year. First David Bowie. Then Prince. Now this guy. Will it ever stop?
To: Olog-hai
To: SamAdams76
They just keep on dying this year. First David Bowie. Then Prince. Now this guy. Will it ever stop?Lonnie Mack died the same day Prince did. One of my favotites:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsDcBg4X7fQ
Mr. niteowl77
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posted on
04/24/2016 7:00:52 PM PDT
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niteowl77
To: SamAdams76
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posted on
04/24/2016 7:04:15 PM PDT
by
Inyo-Mono
To: Olog-hai
RIP, Billy Paul. I always hated that song.
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posted on
04/24/2016 7:16:20 PM PDT
by
choctaw man
(Good ole Andrew Jackson, or You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma...)
To: Olog-hai
Pancreatic Cancer sucks.
Especially at 80.
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posted on
04/24/2016 7:17:57 PM PDT
by
Vermont Lt
(Ask Bernie supporters two questions: Who is rich. Who decides. In the past, that meant who died.)
To: choctaw man
count my wife and I on that list too. We agree on little musically, but we both hate that song.
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posted on
04/24/2016 7:19:08 PM PDT
by
Vermont Lt
(Ask Bernie supporters two questions: Who is rich. Who decides. In the past, that meant who died.)
To: choctaw man
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posted on
04/24/2016 7:22:09 PM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
Never cared for the song, but no ill will towards Mr. Paul.
Liked his wife’s fishsticks, though...
R.I.P.
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posted on
04/24/2016 7:45:30 PM PDT
by
DJ Frisat
(Hey, what happened to my clever tag line?!)
To: choctaw man
I hated it too...and I was just a kid. Thought it was “dirty”. LOL
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posted on
04/24/2016 7:56:38 PM PDT
by
liberalh8ter
(The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
To: Vermont Lt
Mrs. Jones could easily have been a widow.....
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posted on
04/24/2016 7:59:49 PM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: Olog-hai
Time for the obligatory....
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posted on
04/24/2016 8:00:31 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Olog-hai
I remember “Me and Mrs. Jones” on the radio when my parents used to play their stations. Used to depress the hell out of me because it sounded so sad. As you get older, you realize the beauty of songs like this - I’m not familiar with the rest of Mr. Paul’s discography, but he hit a home run with that song.
To: SamAdams76
The deaths really started to come one after the other a year ago when Julie Wilson, Ben E. King, Percy Sledge, Keith McCormick, Tut Taylor, Jack Elam of The Kingsman, and Dave Ball of Proco Harum passed in April 2015.
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posted on
04/25/2016 12:37:34 AM PDT
by
Mozilla
(Truth Is Stranger than Fiction.)
To: Mozilla
Correction: Keith McCormack.
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posted on
04/25/2016 12:41:32 AM PDT
by
Mozilla
(Truth Is Stranger than Fiction.)
To: SamAdams76
They just keep on dying this year. First David Bowie. Then Prince. Now this guy. Will it ever stop? Then there are the poor folks who are awarded the oldest man or oldest woman titles. Now if those ain't a curse. Get through life unscathed at 100+ only to have some sickenly sweet town official appear at the door with a grim reaper-gram.
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posted on
04/25/2016 12:55:52 AM PDT
by
Ezekiel
(All who mourn the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
To: Olog-hai
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04/25/2016 1:15:42 AM PDT
by
Mozilla
(Truth Is Stranger than Fiction.)
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