He always came over as a nice bloke.
Shit
Sad to hear about the death of Inez Foxx. She was one half of a duo with her brother Charlie. They who wrote and sang the big hit Mockingbird.
The duo signed to the US Sue label. They released the the tune in the summer of 1963 & it became a million seller in the US, hitting top ten in both the R’n’B & pop charts.
Mockingbird was popular in the UK clubs but didn’t chart in the UK until 1969. They did produce a number of fine tunes throughout the 60s. Tunes such as Tightrope & Hurt by love. Some were released just under Inez’s name
The duo split up with Inez releasing a solo album & some singles in the early 70s on Stax’s Volt label.
Inez was a fine singer and performer. A glamorous looking woman. Inez & Charlie were regular visitors to the UK, putting on a good show wherever they performed. The were like a more glamorous Ike & Tina Turner.
Mockingbird was recorded by a number artists such Aretha Franklin, Dusty Springfield & was a massive hit for Carly Simon & James Taylor.
Mockingbird on the UK Sue label was one of those records I enjoyed listening to when I was young.
She was 79 years old when she died last month.
R.I.P. Inez Foxx
Some great pics there Dean.
…On a musical slant …Ramsey Lewis has passed away …87 …R .i. P …
Jean-Luc Godard is now Breathless…
And now I realise how very few of his films I have ever seen… Which is also giving me a sad.
Quite a shock,
Died in his sleep while on a charity trek in Peru.
I wonder if it was altitude?
She wrote brilliantly. 70 is no age these days. .
Wolf Hall was fantastic (as was the tv adaptation). I haven’t read the second or third of the Cromwell novels although I will.
The second is every bit as good as the first.The pair of them were the basis for the TV series. I haven’t read the third. Yet.
That’s a damn shame. Robbed of a real talent. The only thing of hers I ever read was ‘Fludd’, which impressed me enormously at the time, but inexplicably I never read another thing by her - which is unusual, if I like an author I usually obsessively read everything they write - and is something I must, belatedly, put right…
Pharoah Sanders