Sam Moore of the group Sam and Dave passes, At their peak in the 1960s, Sam & Dave churned out rhythm-and-blues hits with a regularity rivaled by few other performers. When “Soul Man” topped the R&B charts and crossed over to No. 2 on the pop charts in 1967 (it also won a Grammy), its success helped open doors for other Black acts to connect with white audiences.
Yesterday a great singer songwriter Peter Yarrow died. He was part of the Peter, Paul, and Mary folk group. Yarrow grew up steeped in the arts, encouraged to play music by his mother. He attended New York City’s High School of Music and Art, and he studied psychology at Cornell University. At college in the late 1950s, amidst the mid-century folk music revival, he took the school’s popular American Folk Literature course. The class empowered him to begin singing and playing guitar in public. RIP Peter Yarrow, he joins Mary Travers
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Want to share my C&W tune with you professionally recorded in Nashvile: "HOME TO OKLAHOMA" from my album Keep' It Country. Thanks.