It has been my pleasure and honor to pay tribute for the fifth year in a row to important contributors in the wide world of music who left us this past year but whose legacies will undoubtedly live on.
Personally, while I know the Grammy In Memoriam segment for the awards telecast obviously can't include everyone in music who passed since the previous ceremony, I truly feel that some shown here should have med the final cut for the tube, like Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter, Little Feat guitarist Paul Barrere, and original Big Bird and Oscar The Grouch performer Caroll Spinney. Partly because of that, this video is definitely longer than some of my previous video posts, however there were just so many music industry members who I felt need to be paid respectable tribute.
I opened this year's tribute video with one of Hunter's most well-known and memorable collaborations with Jerry Garcia, "Ripple," followed by one of my favorite song by classic 60's baroque pop group The Left Banke, "Barterers And Their Wives," to represent the group's recently passed lead singer, Steve Martin Caro. Following the death of English singer-songwriter Iain Sutherland, I decided to incorporate his group the Sutherland Brothers & Quiver's minor 1972 hit "I Don't Want To Love You (But You Got Me Anyway)" into the video below and it is heard here as the third song in it. The final two tunes I used are American-born British outsider music cult legend Scott Walker's short but sweet ballad "30 Century Man" and black British entertainer Kenny Lynch's cover of The Beatles' "Misery." In addition, I originally used Harry Belafonte's "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)" as my final song for my first draft of this video to represent its late composer Irving Burgie, but had to remove that version from Youtube because including it caused the video to be blocked in some countries. Both versions of my video appear below:
Please feel free to post any questions, comments, or personal thoughts of any of the individuals shown here.
