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"As we say in England, it can get a bit trainspottery"
Rest in peace .... sure gonna miss you
Thanks for your gifts and angels with you Etta ....
ROCKMAN
Rock that sh*t out man
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Re: Etta James
Posted by:
with sssoul
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Date: January 20, 2012 18:34
love and light to the lady - thanks and praises, love and light
Re: ETTA JAMES HAS PASSED
Posted by:
Silver Dagger
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Date: January 20, 2012 18:39
God bless her. A lady possessed of a dynamite voice. I remember when she played Dingwalls in north London c 1978 Paul McCartney had a huge bouquet of flowers delivered to her backstage. She was a singer's singer who had many fans in showbiz.
RIP Etta.
RIP Etta.
Re: ETTA JAMES HAS PASSED
Posted by:
Deltics
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Date: January 20, 2012 18:45
"As we say in England, it can get a bit trainspottery"
Re: ETTA JAMES HAS PASSED
Posted by:
Green Lady
()
Date: January 20, 2012 19:28
One of the great soul voices - rest in peace, Etta.
Re: ETTA JAMES HAS PASSED
Posted by:
Roadster32
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Date: January 20, 2012 19:32
RIP!
Etta, Chuck and Keith
Etta, Chuck and Keith
Re: ETTA JAMES HAS PASSED
Posted by:
tomcasagranda
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Date: January 20, 2012 19:34
One day after Johnny Otis - Roll With me Henry in Heaven.
Re: ETTA JAMES HAS PASSED
Posted by:
rowley
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Date: January 20, 2012 20:00
If you don't have the CD, "Etta Rocks the House," get it!
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Re: ETTA JAMES HAS PASSED
Posted by:
crawdaddy
()
Date: January 20, 2012 20:09
I know Etta had been ill for some time now ,but it is still so sad to know she has passed away.She is up there singing the blues with all her blues brothers and sisters.R.I.P. Etta.
Re: ETTA JAMES HAS PASSED
Posted by:
black n blue
()
Date: January 20, 2012 20:18
Too bad the younger generation never heard of her. You missed out!
Re: ETTA JAMES HAS PASSED
Posted by:
Deltics
()
Date: January 20, 2012 20:26
Obituary: Etta James
Etta James, who has died at the age of of 73, had a rich, contralto voice that breathed life into a host of musical genres, from blues to jazz, R&B to soul.
Many top performers cited her as a huge influence on their careers, but she had to wait 40 years before winning major recognition from the music industry.
She began singing in the 1950s, battled substance abuse for the best part of a decade, then bounced back to win a string of awards and bring her music to a new audience.
Jamesetta Hawkins was born in Los Angeles on 25 Jan 1938, the illegitimate daughter of a 14-year-old African-American girl and a white father whom James never met.
In her autobiography, James says she was convinced that her father was Minnesota Fats, the famous pool hustler but, "I didn't have the courage, or means, to confront him".
Like many black artists of the time she began singing gospel in a church choir in Los Angeles before she went to live with relatives in San Francisco.
She got together with two other girls to form a group which was auditioned by the late legendary bandleader and impresario, Johnny Otis.
"I was just a little schoolkid," she said in 1974, "and I was bumming around at being a delinquent.
"[Johnny] asked me to audition for him and, I will always remember, I was so bashful that I had to go into the bathroom and sing from there."
At Last
Immediately spotting her potential, Otis rearranged her first name and transformed her vocal group into The Peaches.
Their first record, Roll With Me Henry, topped the R&B charts in 1955 - although some radio stations objected to the suggestive title.
The Peaches disappeared from the scene and James set out on a solo career, scoring some minor hits and experimenting with various musical styles including rock 'n' roll.
In 1960 she signed to the legendary Chess Records where the boss, Leonard Chess, decided James would find success as a ballad singer.
In 1961 she released the album, At Last, which featured a string of her previous R&B hits.
The title track, a cover of a 1941 number first performed by Glen Miller, was to become her signature tune, much played at weddings because of the sweet orchestral arrangement.
In all, she achieved no fewer than 10 chart hits between 1961 and 1963.
Raunchy
Despite her success with ballads, James did not neglect the rougher edge of her voice, recording the blues standard, Call My Name, in 1966.
In 1967 she moved to Fame Studios in Alabama where she wrote and recorded one of her most beautiful, and best-known songs, I'd Rather Go Blind.
Despite her success, she found it difficult to break out of the black music market and it was a British blues band, Chicken Shack - fronted by Christine Perfect - later McVie, who took the song into the UK charts in 1969.
The 1970s saw her career begin to falter under the pressure of her heroin addiction and the consequent legal problems.
She spent months either in rehab, or in jail where she was sent for various offences, including failed payments and driving stolen cars.
"I was hooked for fifteen years," she later recalled. "I resorted to it when money got really short and things got really tough. I used to get sick all the time, miss gigs, turn out bad shows and generally got on the wrong track."
In 1974 she was sentenced to a drug treatment programme, in lieu of jail, and spent 17 months in a psychiatric hospital. It marked a turning point.
"It took a good-hearted judge to make me stop and examine myself," she wrote in her autobiography.
However, when she finished her rehab she became involved with a former drug user and went back onto heroin. She recalled the next few years as the lowest part of her life, struggling to get gigs to pay the rent.
It wasn't until 1988, after treatment at the Betty Ford Clinic, that she finally beat her addiction and released Seven Year Itch, an album that was a showcase for a new, more raunchy style of singing.
In 1994 the music industry awarded her her first Grammy for a collection of Billie Holliday songs, Mystery Lady.Her warts and all autobiography, A Rage to Survive, was published in 1998.
2001's Matriarch of the Blues, was critically acclaimed, with Rolling Stone magazine's reviewer saying that she had reclaimed her throne, and daring anyone to knock her off it.
And still the awards came. A Grammy Lifetime Achievement award in 2003, was followed by another Grammy in 2004 for the album, Let's Roll and yet another in 2005, for Blues to the Bone.
But while she had beaten the drugs, her later career was dominated by struggles with her weight which, at one time, had reached around 27 stone. For several years she could only appear on stage in a wheelchair.
Eventually she underwent a gastric bypass procedure and lost nearly 14 stone.
In 2009 she famously clashed with the singer, Beyoncé, who performed James's most famous song, At Last, during the ball to celebrate Barack Obama's inauguration as US President.
"She has no business up there, singing up there on a big ol' president day, gonna be singing my song that I've been singing forever," said James.
As she aged her voice gained a rougher edge but she never lost the power to astound her adoring audiences.
"I'm so happy I am alive," she said in a 2003 interview. "I've gone through so much in my life, I should have been dead a long time ago. I am the happiest I have been."
[www.bbc.co.uk]
"As we say in England, it can get a bit trainspottery"
Etta James, who has died at the age of of 73, had a rich, contralto voice that breathed life into a host of musical genres, from blues to jazz, R&B to soul.
Many top performers cited her as a huge influence on their careers, but she had to wait 40 years before winning major recognition from the music industry.
She began singing in the 1950s, battled substance abuse for the best part of a decade, then bounced back to win a string of awards and bring her music to a new audience.
Jamesetta Hawkins was born in Los Angeles on 25 Jan 1938, the illegitimate daughter of a 14-year-old African-American girl and a white father whom James never met.
In her autobiography, James says she was convinced that her father was Minnesota Fats, the famous pool hustler but, "I didn't have the courage, or means, to confront him".
Like many black artists of the time she began singing gospel in a church choir in Los Angeles before she went to live with relatives in San Francisco.
She got together with two other girls to form a group which was auditioned by the late legendary bandleader and impresario, Johnny Otis.
"I was just a little schoolkid," she said in 1974, "and I was bumming around at being a delinquent.
"[Johnny] asked me to audition for him and, I will always remember, I was so bashful that I had to go into the bathroom and sing from there."
At Last
Immediately spotting her potential, Otis rearranged her first name and transformed her vocal group into The Peaches.
Their first record, Roll With Me Henry, topped the R&B charts in 1955 - although some radio stations objected to the suggestive title.
The Peaches disappeared from the scene and James set out on a solo career, scoring some minor hits and experimenting with various musical styles including rock 'n' roll.
In 1960 she signed to the legendary Chess Records where the boss, Leonard Chess, decided James would find success as a ballad singer.
In 1961 she released the album, At Last, which featured a string of her previous R&B hits.
The title track, a cover of a 1941 number first performed by Glen Miller, was to become her signature tune, much played at weddings because of the sweet orchestral arrangement.
In all, she achieved no fewer than 10 chart hits between 1961 and 1963.
Raunchy
Despite her success with ballads, James did not neglect the rougher edge of her voice, recording the blues standard, Call My Name, in 1966.
In 1967 she moved to Fame Studios in Alabama where she wrote and recorded one of her most beautiful, and best-known songs, I'd Rather Go Blind.
Despite her success, she found it difficult to break out of the black music market and it was a British blues band, Chicken Shack - fronted by Christine Perfect - later McVie, who took the song into the UK charts in 1969.
The 1970s saw her career begin to falter under the pressure of her heroin addiction and the consequent legal problems.
She spent months either in rehab, or in jail where she was sent for various offences, including failed payments and driving stolen cars.
"I was hooked for fifteen years," she later recalled. "I resorted to it when money got really short and things got really tough. I used to get sick all the time, miss gigs, turn out bad shows and generally got on the wrong track."
In 1974 she was sentenced to a drug treatment programme, in lieu of jail, and spent 17 months in a psychiatric hospital. It marked a turning point.
"It took a good-hearted judge to make me stop and examine myself," she wrote in her autobiography.
However, when she finished her rehab she became involved with a former drug user and went back onto heroin. She recalled the next few years as the lowest part of her life, struggling to get gigs to pay the rent.
It wasn't until 1988, after treatment at the Betty Ford Clinic, that she finally beat her addiction and released Seven Year Itch, an album that was a showcase for a new, more raunchy style of singing.
In 1994 the music industry awarded her her first Grammy for a collection of Billie Holliday songs, Mystery Lady.Her warts and all autobiography, A Rage to Survive, was published in 1998.
2001's Matriarch of the Blues, was critically acclaimed, with Rolling Stone magazine's reviewer saying that she had reclaimed her throne, and daring anyone to knock her off it.
And still the awards came. A Grammy Lifetime Achievement award in 2003, was followed by another Grammy in 2004 for the album, Let's Roll and yet another in 2005, for Blues to the Bone.
But while she had beaten the drugs, her later career was dominated by struggles with her weight which, at one time, had reached around 27 stone. For several years she could only appear on stage in a wheelchair.
Eventually she underwent a gastric bypass procedure and lost nearly 14 stone.
In 2009 she famously clashed with the singer, Beyoncé, who performed James's most famous song, At Last, during the ball to celebrate Barack Obama's inauguration as US President.
"She has no business up there, singing up there on a big ol' president day, gonna be singing my song that I've been singing forever," said James.
As she aged her voice gained a rougher edge but she never lost the power to astound her adoring audiences.
"I'm so happy I am alive," she said in a 2003 interview. "I've gone through so much in my life, I should have been dead a long time ago. I am the happiest I have been."
[www.bbc.co.uk]
"As we say in England, it can get a bit trainspottery"
Re: ETTA JAMES HAS PASSED
Posted by:
Brue
()
Date: January 20, 2012 21:13
I loved her reaction when Obama dissed her for the inauguration party and had Beyonce sing 'At Last'. She called him every name in the book 'he ain't my president'. Rock on baby
Re: ETTA JAMES HAS PASSED
Posted by:
runrudolph
()
Date: January 20, 2012 21:25
Rock on
and i wish you peace and rest
thank you for your wonderful and healing music.
Thank you madam
God bless
jeroen
and i wish you peace and rest
thank you for your wonderful and healing music.
Thank you madam
God bless
jeroen
Re: ETTA JAMES HAS PASSED
Posted by:
Dali
()
Date: January 20, 2012 21:40
RIP, Etta.
"You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but that's got nothing to do with it." Etta James
"You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but that's got nothing to do with it." Etta James
Re: ETTA JAMES HAS PASSED
Posted by:
Rockman
()
Date: January 20, 2012 22:45
Rest in peace .... sure gonna miss you
Thanks for your gifts and angels with you Etta ....
ROCKMAN
Re: ETTA JAMES HAS PASSED
Posted by:
runrudolph
()
Date: January 20, 2012 22:50
good version Rockman,never heard it.
Thanks,
and thanks Etta
One Love
Jeroen
Thanks,
and thanks Etta
One Love
Jeroen
Re: ETTA JAMES HAS PASSED
Posted by:
Brue
()
Date: January 20, 2012 22:56
Quote
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Rock that sh*t out man
Re: ETTA JAMES HAS PASSED
Posted by:
tumbled
()
Date: January 20, 2012 23:17
I zipped her up once. She was nice enough to cover Ruth Brown on Black and Blue (on Broadway) when Ruth wanted to go do shows.
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