Posted on 08/11/2020 6:32:01 PM PDT by massmike
Singer and guitarist Trini Lopez, most known for his 1960s recordings of "If I Had a Hammer" and "Lemon Tree" died on Tuesday of complications from COVID-19. He was 83.
Lopez was born Trinidad Lopez III in Dallas, to Mexican immigrants and began playing in bands at the age of 15.
His group Big Beats signed with Columbia Records in 1958 and he later went solo and signed his own deal with King Records in 1962. Lopez was later discovered by Frank Sinatra during a residency at Los Angeles nightclub PJ's and signed to his label Reprise Records in 1963.
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“Of” or “With”
Wuhan Flu?
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RIP Trini.
Rip to a voice from my younger years.
RIP
One of the Dirty Dozen!!!!
My Mom was SUCH a music fan back in the day; I don’t remember a DAY when the ‘record player’ wasn’t spinning, or the radio wasn’t on.
I remember, ‘Lemon Tree’ by Trini.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek2NucwOOvs
I’d be very interested to learn what the “complications from COVID-19” were.
In January of 2019 I got the flu which was pretty mild for about 4 days and then overnight it went nuclear on me. In slightly more than a day my BP was tanking and I was having trouble seeing. Went to the hospital and they found I had pneumonia and my kidneys were failing. That suddenly. I was very lucky they said and went home after 4 days.
So, had I died, would I have died of the flu or complications of the flu? Or pneumonia or complications of that? Or kidney failure?
Rarely are things as cut and dry as we are led to believe.
Of the DIRTY DOZEN only 3 still alive.
"America" - Trini Lopez (youtube song link)
“If I Had a Hammer”
Anthem of the ‘progressives’.
“Of” or “with”, it doesn’t matter. Would Lopez be alive today had it not been for the Wuhan flu? The article is not clear.
I’ll go out on a limb anyway. I’ll guess he’d still be alive today had it not been for the Wuhan flu. To minimize the flu’s impact is to let Red China off the hook.
The ChiComs caused all this misery. They can go to hell.
I keep thinking, wouldn’t it be something if it was discovered someday that everyone on Earth has Covid-19 inside them? And that, in only a fraction of the population, some unknown factor causes the (normally dormant) virus to “go hot”?
Patience — here’s why I say that: We all have viruses and bacteria of one sort or another in us. Obviously, not all of us get sick. We all also have E.Coli. Yet, nowhere NEAR all of us get Guillain-Barre Syndrome or other horrible E.Coli symptoms.
Crazy thought, probably. But when’s the last time anything was “normal”?
He could have died from being 83. I wish my father had made it to 83.
“I keep thinking, wouldn’t it be something if it was discovered someday that everyone on Earth has Covid-19 inside them? And that, in only a fraction of the population, some unknown factor causes the (normally dormant) virus to “go hot”?”
Shaking hands?
He was so good. Lots of great musicians headed up to heaven, the concerts up there are really going to be something.
RIP Trini.
Peter Paul and Mary also sang “Lemon Tree” and “ If I Had a Hammer”.
Who was first?
Of course some are immune or will become immune just not supposed to party on.
I loved Trini Lopez......RIP......what a shame
Dang. He had at least another good year or two left in him
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