Songwriter Kenny Rankin died of lung cancer Sunday in Los Angeles. There he formed various bands and played fraternity parties. In five decades, Kenny Rankin wrote hit songs for the best including Dylan, Torme, and Peggy Lee. Juanito Pascual releases new CD on June 19 @ Jorda... Diana Krall live @ Foxwoods Casino tonight, Playboy Jazz Festival, June 13 & 14, @ Hollywood Bowl, CD of the Day - "Freddie Hubbard: Liquid Love", Krall's "Live in Rio" - Washington Post review, Amanda Carr live @ LA Cronwne Plaza tonight. He was 69 and lived in Los Angeles. Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com: accessed ), memorial page for Kenny Rankin (10 Feb 1940–7 Jun 2009), Find a Grave Memorial no.
I wrote a lot of things in street terms, a lot of truck-driving songs. You don’t make that much in bars; I still have memories of those nights, playing for $25 a night, with nobody listening.” Outside the bars, Croce had teaching jobs: In 1966, he taught guitar at an arts camp, and later, he taught emotionally disturbed children in Philadelphia. The jobs I’ve had attract characters.” (Said Donahue at ABC/Dunhill: “There was no persona between Jim and his songs; he was a strong man who wasn’t afraid to be gentle.”), “It’s a nice feeling having a Number One record,” said Croce two months ago. “It’s a strange feeling. A new previously unreleased Art Pepper CD comes ou... Ann Hampton Callaway @ Feinstein's, The Regency, o... Vinyl of the Day - "Dulce Nunes: Samba do Escritor". Rankin died of lung cancer on June 7, 2009, three weeks after he was diagnosed with the illness. Amanda Carr: concert & radio interview in LA today! Vinyl of the Day - "Lee Ritenour & Oscar Castro-Ne... DVD of the Day - "Lee Ritenour: Overtime", CD of the Day - "Albert Collins: Live at Montreux", Win tix to the June 13 night at the Northside Fest, "Jazz Rock" - "Modern Drummer" review, June 2009. We want to hear from you! I was the only white person to walk into some of those bars, and they’d think I was either a cop or a collection man.”. Croce is survived by his wife Ingrid and their two-year-old son, Adrian. © Copyright 2020 Rolling Stone, LLC, a subsidiary of Penske Business Media, LLC. Legacy.com is the leading provider of online obituaries for the newspaper industry. “What a year that was, beat up by a girl who was 260 pounds in junior high.” And, he said, “My one and only shot at an office gig was working at radio station WHAT in Philadelphia. In Scarface Mario Machado played a newsman.
I was writing jive commercials for an R&B station. “I would never teach again,” he said. FOUNDER & CEO OF JAZZ STATION RECORDS (JSR), A DIVISION OF JAZZ STATION MARKETING & CONSULTING - LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA. On June 25, 2019, The New York Times Magazine listed Kenny Rankin among hundreds of musicians whose material was destroyed in the 2008 Universal fire. The Four Freshmen live @ Culver Club for Jazz, Jun... Diana Krall live @ Carnegie Hall, June 23 & 24, Pics by David Adam Beloff from DK's concert at nTelos, Review of Diana Krall's yesterday concert at nTelos, Diana Krall live @ nTelos Pavilion in Portsmouth, VA. DVD of the Day - "Diana Krall: Jazzaldia Festival ... Diana Krall live tonight in Atlantic City!
[…] Rankin also played in Dylan’s band on the classic “Bringing It All Back Home”. According to Rankin’s official site, he appeared on the The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson more than 20 times, with Carson himself such a big fan that he wrote the liner notes for Rankin’s Mind Dusters.
On June 25, 2019, The New York Times Magazine listed Kenny Rankin among hundreds of musicians whose material was destroyed in the 2008 Universal fire. Howser, host of KCET’s California’s Gold, died of natural causes, representatives confirm to... ST LOUIS (LALATE) – The world’s oldest person died Tuesday at age 116. 38403826, ; Maintained by John "J-Cat" Griffith (contributor 46568383) Unknown. Want more Rolling Stone? Rankin also recorded a version of the Beatles’ White Album ballad “Blackbird” for his own 1975 album Silver Morning. The cause of death, according to his management company, was lung… Inspired by his multicultural upbringing in New York City’s Washington Heights, Rankin’s style shifted from singer-songwriter fare to jazz to standards to songs inspired by Brazilian music. Our hearts and prayers are with his family.”. Rankin also penned songs like “Peaceful,” a hit for Helen Reddy and “Haven’t We Met,” which was recorded by Carmen McRae and Mel Torme.
“He performed the new material in our office over the last few months and his voice was still in its finest form — he sounded absolutely amazing. Want more Rolling Stone?
I’d be up on Germantown Avenue trying to sell time to a jazz bar. He was 69. CD of the Day - "Felicidade: A Tribute to João Gil... Book of the Day - "João Gilberto: Bossa Nova Guitar", DVD of the Day - "João Gilberto: Rome '83", The Lemonheads' tonight concert at Slim's is canceled, CD of the Day - "Kenny Rankin: Here In My Heart". When money ran low, Croce went back to construction work, doing some session singing for commercials on the side. Coverwall, Jim Croce. In This Article: — Pop singer-songwriter Jim Croce, 30, was killed September 20th when the single-engine plane in which he and five others were riding hit a tree on takeoff. The cause of death, according to his management company, was lung cancer, … Boxer turned actor Tommy Morrison, who played Tommy Gunn in Rocky... LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – A Scarface actor has died, Mario Machado. ABOUT THIS AUTHOR || Editor in Chief: Maria Stabile | Maria in ten years has propelled LALATE to become a leading news authority in sports, entertainment, and national news, LALATE has been cited in countless international newspapers (including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and LA Times), international television news broadcasts including ABC News, books including The Iraq War: Origins and Consequences, tv programs including MTV News, and magazines.
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Box Set of the Day - "The Ultimate Dance Weekender... DVD of the Day - "Elvis Costello, Diana Krall & El... Diana Krall live @ The Mann Center in Philadelphia, Win tix to Gary Wilson at Santos Party House, NY, Alexa Weber Morales live @ Club Anton, tomorrow. Discography. ‘Leroy’ I wrote at home and was based on real characters. Croce and his wife Ingrid were in Mexico, where she had a grant to study pottery, when he reunited with a college friend, musician Tommy West, who urged him to try the New York coffeehouse circuit. He was 69 and lived in … Kenny Rankin, a brilliant pop vocalist and highly regarded musician-songwriter whose stylings ranged from jazz to pop to the world music influences he … Sign up for our newsletter. All Rights Reserved. Listen to Diana Krall's last concert of her Canadi... CD of the Day - "Freddie Hubbard: Windjammer". || TO CONTACT THIS AUTHOR | Email Address: mstabile@lalate.com | Telephone: 314-400-8010 | Follow on Twitter: Twitter.com/LALATE | Biography: http://news.lalate.com/author/maria-stabile/ | LALATE Staff & Physical Address: http://news.lalate.com/staff/, You must be logged in to post a comment He delivered a megahit with Peaceful for Helen Reddy. Jim Croce was born in south Philadelphia January 10th, 1943, and brought up on ragtime, country and Dixieland music. Ticket give away to The Field & The Juan MacLean o... "Retailing Era Closes With Music Megastore" - NYT. The title cut is part of a soundtrack for 20th Century Fox’ new film, The Last American Hero. TRACKLIST: 1 Pussy Willows Cattails 2 Regrets 3 On and On 4 You Are So Beautiful 5 Here's That Rainy Day 6 What Matters Most 7 Haven't We Met 8 When . Mind-Dusters (Mercury, 1967) LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kenny Rankin, a brilliant pop vocalist and highly regarded musician-songwriter whose stylings ranged from jazz to pop to the world music influences he picked up as a child in New York, has died of complications related to lung cancer, his record company announced Monday. “It was taking off and it did not get any altitude.” The plane went past the runway, hit the tree, and spun around in the air before crashing. Rankin went on to have a notable solo career in his own right, beginning with his 1968 album Mind Dusters and peaking with 1976’s The Kenny Rankin Album, which was recorded live with a 60-piece orchestra.
He was married to Yvonne Rodriguez-Calderone. Talking to Rolling Stone in London while on a promotional tour there two months ago, Croce recalled: “I’ve had to get in and out of music a couple of times, because music didn’t always mean a living. It was a... LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – Huell Howser is dead. Memorial services will reportedly be held in Los Angeles, arrangements still pending. He played the accordion as a child and taught himself guitar, but did not play professionally until 1964, while he was at Villanova College in Pennsylvania.
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Rankin died Sunday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Croce had gained headliner status only recently, following his hit records, “Don’t Mess Around With Jim” and the current “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown.” He was en route from a college concert at Northwestern State College, 75 miles southeast of Shreveport, to another in Sherman, Texas. VOTING MEMBER OF NARAS-GRAMMY, JAZZ JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION AND LOS ANGELES JAZZ SOCIETY. © Copyright 2020 Rolling Stone, LLC, a subsidiary of Penske Business Media, LLC.
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Rankin died Sunday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Rankin was 67. Black Sabbath Marks 50th Anniversary of Debut Album With Dr. Martens Collaboration, Watch ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic Moderate Presidential Debate in ‘We’re All Doomed’ Video, Mac Davis, Country Singer and Elvis Presley Songwriter, Dead at 78, In Defending Hunter, Biden Showed Us His Potential, Miley Cyrus Releases Raucous Live Cover of ‘Heart of Glass’, There’s No Way In Hell Trump Doesn’t Know Who the Proud Boys Are, Gorillaz Enlist Elton John for New Song ‘The Pink Phantom’, Watch Billie Eilish’s Video for James Bond Theme ‘No Time to Die’, Circle Jerks Announce ‘Group Sex’ 40th Anniversary Reissue. Natchitoches, La. Tommy Morrison Dead, Rocky V Actor Dies at 44, Scarface Actor Dies, Newsman Mario Machado Remembered, Huell Howser Dead, KCET California Gold Host Dies of Natural Causes, Oldest Person Dies, Remembered by Family Today, Mark Abrahamian Dead at 46, Cause of Death Revealed as Heart Attack. “That he was still at the top of his game is one of the saddest parts of his passing for me,” Mack Avenue Records president Denny Stilwell said in a statement. CD of the Day - "Charlie Mariano, Philip Catherine... Vinyl of the Day - "Charlie Mariano: Mariano". “‘Leroy Brown,”‘ he said in London, “came out of the American street tradition. Subscribe to LALATE on YouTube. Kenny Rankin, a singer-songwriter and musician whose song "Peaceful" was a hit for Helen Reddy and who had popular covers himself of a pair of Beatles hits, has died. Win tix to the Northside Festival, June 14, CD of the Day - "Os Sambas Que João Gilberto Ama". The cover was so revered, Paul McCartney asked Rankin to perform his version at the ceremony where McCartney and John Lennon were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Sign up for our newsletter. Krall at a fundraising event in Washington, DC. Finally, after one rejection from ABC/Dunhill (which Croce had framed and put on the wall next to his first gold record; the rejection regretting that his songs were “not strong enough for us”), he signed with the label and cut a couple of songs he’d written in a truck cab, on his construction job: “You Don’t Mess Around With Jim” and “Operator.” Both became hits and led to a second album, Life And Times, the Number One single, “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown,” and a new career in TV and film work.