I believe he meant Deborah Kerr.
Posted on 06/04/2011 7:12:23 PM PDT by raccoonradio
Singer / songwriter Andrew Gold has died at the age of 59 from a heart attack.
Gold was best known for his 1977 hit ‘Lonely Boy’ and 1978’s ‘Thank You For Being A Friend’, the later became the theme for the hit TV series The Golden Girls that ran from 1985-1992.
Gold continued in TV writing the theme song for ‘Mad About You’ known as ‘Final Frontier’.
Andrew Gold was born in Burbank. His mother Marni Nixon was the singing voice for many Hollywood actresses. She was the real singer for Natalie Wood in ‘West Side Story’, Deborah Karr in ‘The King And I’ and Audrey Hepburn in ‘My Fair Lady’. His father Ernest Gold was an Academy Award winning composer. He wrote the music for ‘Exodus’.
Gold’s first band Bryndie featured Kenny Edwards, Wendy Waldman and Karla Bonoff. He worked closely with Linda Ronstadt as multi-instrumentalist on five of her albums from 1974’s ‘Heart Like A Wheel’ and onwards.
His big hit ‘Lonely Boy’ was featured in the movies ‘Boogie Nights’ and ‘The Waterboy’.
Andrew Gold worked with Art Garfunkel on the ‘Breakaway’ album. He played every instrument on Art’s solo hit ‘I Only Have Eyes For You’. He also played guitar and drums on Eric Carmen’s ‘She Did It’.
Andrew has sung on records or played live with three of the four Beatles, Paul McCartney, John Lennon and Ringo Starr and has toured with the Eagles and Jackson Browne.
A big 10CC fan, after the band broke up in the 80’s Gold formed Wax with Graham Goldman. They were together for 5 years and delivered the hits ‘Right Between Your Eyes’ and ‘Bridge To Your Heart’.
WOW! Aren’t you a ray of effing sunshine.
I hear you on that one!
I hear you on that one!
Have a Good Day! :)
There also was a Sex Pistols song by that title sung by Steve Jones in the Great Rock N Roll Swindle but it wasn’t the Anka song nor the Gold one.
Anka: “I’m just a lonely boy...”
Jones/Sex Pistols: “I live in misery, a girl I loved’s gone across the sea”
Gold:”Oh, oh what a lonely boy...”
Gerry Rafferty...dead. Captain Beefheart...dead and for that matter, so is Don Kirshner, who will never put on a midnight rock concert on TV again. The grisly list of music casualties goes on and on, Teresa Brewer, Laura Branigan, Phoebe Snow, all dead. Half of the Beatles are dead and so are half of Ashford & Simpson.
The Grim Reaper has paid recent visits to Teddy Pendergrass, Eartha Kitt and even Teena Marie! The carnage continues, Falco will never sing "Rock Me Amadeus" again, Levi Stubbs - dead, Jerry Reed - dead, Waylon Jennings - dead. Tupac Shukur - we hardly knew ye! List goes on, and I'm just scratching the surface: Robert Palmer, Rick James, Roberta Flack, Johnny Cash, half of Jan & Dean, etc. Freddy Fender will never break out into Spanish singing one of his lounge songs again.
Need I go on? This is absolute madness. Why are musicians so hard hit by this thing called death? This madness has got to come to an end.
I believe he meant Deborah Kerr.
Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for all of them, and us, eventually; though some musicians may die early due to drugs, booze, plane crashes (Jim Croce, etc.) etc. But yes.
A couple weeks back XM was running an American Top 40 from
May of ‘71 and Casey was playing the Doors’ Love Her Madly.
He probably didn’t suspect at the time that Jim Morrison would die of a drug overdose in July. And you can imagine in late Nov. of 1980, Casey playing “Just Like Starting Over”,
John Lennon’s first single in five years. Surely John would be making music well into the early 2000s, right? Casey didn’t know what would happen weeks later...
As Oscar Wilde said “Youth is wasted on the young”...
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