Included in today’s birthdays are:
Bill Medley (The Righteous Brothers) 1940
Cass Elliot 1941 (died July 29, 1974 – 32 years old)
David Bromberg 1945
There are voices and then there are VOICES and for me Bill Medley is the later. From the early days with The Righteous Brothers to Dirty Dancing and “I Had the Time of My Life” with Jennifer Warnes, he had it and he certainly influenced his generation!
As did Cass Elliot, who with her voice, lively personality influence not only music lovers but big woman everywhere, when she showed them size doesn’t matter but heart and spirit do!
Finally, we come to David Bromberg, what a musician a master of so many stringed instruments. I first became a fan through his playing with Jerry Jeff on the Mr Bojangles album. He went on to make many albums, several of which are a part of my musical library. He is always a part of a favorite story I tell. Back in the early seventies I was traveling across Florida from Gainesville to Jacksonville and stopped to get gas. The young attention glanced at the above album cover and kinda’ mumbled “Is that a Jew on the cover?”. I paused for a few seconds composing my response, and then realized he said “Is that YOU on the cover” to which I answered “Yes”, nah, I truthfully responded, “No” (Birthday post for David at FreeWheelin’ Safari:Roots)
So here’s some morning music from two greats on their birthday – first a video with Mama Cass Elliot singing “Words of Love“, a song that Papa John Phillips wrote and made her sing, what a great voice she had! And then the voice of Bill Medley with Bobby Hatfield with one of their big hits “You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling” always a favorite of mine!
