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Singer Lou Rawls has died
Tampa Bay News ^
| 1/6/05
Posted on 01/06/2006 7:58:47 AM PST by Borges
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Singer Lou Rawls is dead. A spokesman says he died this morning at a Los Angeles hospital. He sold more than 40 million albums, and his hits included "You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine."
TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: California
KEYWORDS: 82ndairborne; army; braincancer; cancer; losangeles; lourawls; lungcancer; music; obituary; singer
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posted on
01/06/2006 7:58:47 AM PST
by
Borges
To: Borges
Until we hear an updated report that he's alive again/sarcasm.
To: Borges
How sad. What a great voice!
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posted on
01/06/2006 8:01:26 AM PST
by
Tax-chick
(I am just not sure how to get from here to where we want to be.)
To: Borges
Love that song.
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posted on
01/06/2006 8:04:10 AM PST
by
newzjunkey
(In 2006: Halt W's illegals' amnesty. Get GOP elected statewide in CA.)
To: Borges
RIP Mr. Rawls. Awesome voice!
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posted on
01/06/2006 8:04:26 AM PST
by
Millee
(I resolve to eat and drink less.....until noon that is.....)
To: Borges
Great singer and a great man.
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posted on
01/06/2006 8:04:55 AM PST
by
AppyPappy
(If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: Borges
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posted on
01/06/2006 8:05:31 AM PST
by
mdittmar
(May God watch over those who serve,and have served, to keep us free.)
To: Borges
Great guy. I worked at a Car wash Downtown L.A.in the late 70's He would come in on saturday afternoons. He would bring a 6 pack of beer for us and sit on the wall and shoot the breeze. One lady came up to him and went ga ga saying its you its you and he said in that voice of his Yeah baby its me she darn near fainted RIP my friend
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posted on
01/06/2006 8:05:37 AM PST
by
al baby
(Father of the beeber)
To: Borges
See you when I get there!
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posted on
01/06/2006 8:05:49 AM PST
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: Tax-chick
He really did had a tremendous voice! So sorry to see him leave us.
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posted on
01/06/2006 8:06:29 AM PST
by
reagan_fanatic
(Darwinism is a belief in the meaninglessness of existence - R. Kirk)
To: Borges
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posted on
01/06/2006 8:06:35 AM PST
by
FOG724
(A vote for McCain is a vote for Hillary)
To: Borges
From Wikipedia:
Louis Allen Rawls (December 1, 1935 - January 6, 2006) is a Chicago-born American soul music, jazz, and blues singer. Known for his smooth vocal style, Frank Sinatra once said that Rawls had "the classiest singing and silkiest chops in the singing game."[1] . Rawls has released more than 70 albums, been in movies, television shows and voiced-over many cartoons. A high school classmate of soul giant Sam Cooke, Rawls sang with Cooke in the Teenage Kings of Harmony, a 50's gospel group. Rawls enlisted in the US Army as a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division in 1955. He would leave the "All-Americans" three years later as a Sergeant and hook up with a group he had sang with before enlisting, the Pilgrim Travelers. In 1958, while touring the South with the Travelers and Sam Cooke, Rawls was in a serious car crash which claimed the life of one person. Rawls was actually pronounced dead before getting to the hospital where he stayed in a coma for 5 1/2 days. It took him months to regain his memory and a year to fully recuperate. Rawls considered the event life-changing.
My wife and I saw him perform at the Solano Couty Fair, a few years ago. It was a good performance, his voice though not as strong was still very good. What cracked us up about the performance though was the number of ladies who were tossing motel room ( or other keys to him). Same ones who did it thirty-five years ago, probably.
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posted on
01/06/2006 8:07:03 AM PST
by
Michael.SF.
('Only thing worse than a Frenchman is a Frenchman who lives in Canada' - Ted Nugent.)
To: mhking; Trueblackman
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posted on
01/06/2006 8:08:57 AM PST
by
Christian4Bush
(Over THREE THOUSAND PEOPLE lost their 'civil liberties' on September 11, 2001.)
To: Borges
"You'll never find"....another voice like Lou's.
When you've heard Lou, you've heard it all.
God rest ye Lou. You were pure silk.
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posted on
01/06/2006 8:10:46 AM PST
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Crime cannot be tolerated. Criminals thrive on the indulgences of society's understanding.)
To: Borges
Another great melody singer gone.
Not many left now.
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To: Borges
great voice. so many of that era are leaving us now...
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posted on
01/06/2006 8:13:20 AM PST
by
wallcrawlr
(Pray for the troops [all the troops here and abroad]: Success....and nothing less!!)
To: Borges
Aw hell. He rocked. RIP, Lou.
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posted on
01/06/2006 8:13:51 AM PST
by
Lazamataz
(I have a Chinese family renting an apartment from me. They are lo mein tenants.)
To: Borges
I'm gonna miss his lovin'!
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posted on
01/06/2006 8:14:42 AM PST
by
DCPatriot
("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon)
To: al baby
That's a great story. Thanks.
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posted on
01/06/2006 8:15:47 AM PST
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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