Andrew Gold...
I have said before...it is impossible to keep up with all the music that is available and has been recorded over the last 100 years. There are some artists whose work should be explored but for some reason you never get around to doing so.
There are groups and artists I have never heard and then you have some that you hear perhaps two or three hits played on the radio and that's the total sum of your knowledge.
Sadly, it has been reported that singer/song writer Andrew Gold passed away in his sleep after suffering a heart attack. But there are suggestions that possibly there were other serious health issues but who knows.
I guess the four songs that I know of his would be "Lonely Boy" "Never Let Her Slip Away" and the one used as the theme to the TV sitcom "Golden Girls" entitled "Thank You For Being A Friend" and one perfomed with Graham Gouldman under the name of Wax entitled "Bridge To Your Heart"
Some investigation on the Internet has already given some surprises such as that before his own success he worked with Linda Ronstadt and the biggest surprise of all is that his mother is Marni Nixon...A soprano who has probably had more of a career by not being so well known in her own right or that has made her infamous by being used by the motion picture industry to dub the singing of many actresses in musicals like West Side Story, The King And I and My Fair Lady.
And his father was Ernest Gold, composer for the movie "Exodus" for which he won an Oscar and another film which is a favourite of mine "Its A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"
As often happens chances are we will now hear more of his music and I like many will start looking at his music output.
There are groups and artists I have never heard and then you have some that you hear perhaps two or three hits played on the radio and that's the total sum of your knowledge.
Sadly, it has been reported that singer/song writer Andrew Gold passed away in his sleep after suffering a heart attack. But there are suggestions that possibly there were other serious health issues but who knows.
I guess the four songs that I know of his would be "Lonely Boy" "Never Let Her Slip Away" and the one used as the theme to the TV sitcom "Golden Girls" entitled "Thank You For Being A Friend" and one perfomed with Graham Gouldman under the name of Wax entitled "Bridge To Your Heart"
Some investigation on the Internet has already given some surprises such as that before his own success he worked with Linda Ronstadt and the biggest surprise of all is that his mother is Marni Nixon...A soprano who has probably had more of a career by not being so well known in her own right or that has made her infamous by being used by the motion picture industry to dub the singing of many actresses in musicals like West Side Story, The King And I and My Fair Lady.
And his father was Ernest Gold, composer for the movie "Exodus" for which he won an Oscar and another film which is a favourite of mine "Its A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"
As often happens chances are we will now hear more of his music and I like many will start looking at his music output.
posted by The Great Gildersleeve | 12:36 am
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A Gold en age. I thought he was a porn publisher or a gym founder...well, at least I've heard of his dad!
;-)
P.S. I had a picture of Linda Ronstadt on my wall when I was a squaddie.
A little trick for you Gildy, if you go to this address:
http://www.google.com/ncr
it will bypass the "urge" to go to the country's Google page, I wanted to stop getting diverted to the Spanish page (Google.es) and I found the answer in Google's own help pages.
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