flavour of new zealand - search listener". flavourofnz.co.nz. Archived from the original on 27 September 2018 . Retrieved 20 May 2020. Richard Harrington (July 5, 2003). "Barry White, Velvet Voice Of Love". Washington Post. Archived from the original on October 30, 2020 . Retrieved May 12, 2021. The same year's Stone Gon' went top 20 and the following year's Can't Get Enough went all the way to number one.

One last thing I do recall of that time, was my father saying about Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery – who died in March 1976 and He suffered a stroke as a result of high blood pressure in October 1995 and was in a coma for four days. In August 1999 he had to cancel a month of tour dates due to his health concerns. His funk grooves, quietly chugging away under the orchestral gloss, helped set the musical agenda for the first half of the 70s. Oingo Boingo performed a cover of the song on their final album, Boingo (1994). In 2021, frontman Danny Elfman stated that the song, along with the Beatles' " A Day in the Life", "stayed with me my whole life, redefining for me what a song could do", and that Martin's "string arrangements really became part of my musical vocabulary." [23]By the age of 16, White had fathered two children, quit school and served four months in prison for stealing tyres. In 1960 - while incarcerated - he listened to Elvis Presley's then number one hit It's Now Or Never, and focused himself on succeeding in the music business. He sang bass in the Upfronts, though their six singles flopped. The first line was written on one acid trip one weekend,” he began. “The second line was written on the next acid trip the next weekend, and it was filled in after I met Yoko. Part of it was putting down Hare Krishna. All these people were going on about Hare Krishna, Allen Ginsberg in particular. The reference to ‘Element’ry penguin’ is the elementary, naive attitude of going around chanting, ‘Hare Krishna,’ or putting all your faith in any one idol. I was writing obscurely, a la Dylan, in those days.” Nelson, Valerie J. "'Harlem Shuffle' co-writer was part of the soul duo Bob & Earl", Los Angeles Times, July 25, 2008. Retrieved January 16, 2016. Davies, Hunter (2002). "My Friend John". Archived from the original on 16 July 2011 . Retrieved 7 December 2007. He was hospitalised once more in September 2002 following kidney failure, and suffered a serious stroke in May 2003 that prompted his retirement from public life.

After receiving a letter from a student at his former school, Quarry Bank High School for Boys, about how literature classes there were analysing the Beatles' songs, Lennon wrote "I Am the Walrus" to confuse those who tried to interpret it. There have nevertheless been many attempts to understand the meaning of the lyrics. [37] [38] White produced, wrote and arranged their classic soul ballad " Walkin' in the Rain with the One I Love", which climbed to No. 14 in the Billboard Hot 100 Pop chart and No. 6 on the Billboard R&B chart in late 1972. It became White's first million selling single as a writer and producer. This single also reached No. 12 in the UK chart. White's voice can clearly be heard in this piece as he plays the lover who answers the phone call of the female lead. [4]In 2023, Rolling Stone ranked White at number 56 on its list of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time. [39] Awards and nominations [ edit ] Bobby Bennett and Sarah Smith, The Ultimate Soul Music Trivia Book: 501 Questions and Answers about Motown, Rhythm & Blues, and More, Secaucus, NJ: Carol Pub. Group, c. 1998. a b c d e f Colin Larkin, ed. (1997). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music (Conciseed.). Virgin Books. p.1246/7. ISBN 1-85227-745-9. A media that had earlier dismissed him as a singer of trashy boudoir ballads then found a White with a self-deprecating humour, making celebrity appearances on television shows such as The Simpsons and Ally McBeal. The American pop band Fun Loving Criminals had a British hit with a song called Love Unlimited, which celebrated White as a contemporary love god. https://www.npr.org/2019/08/05/747738120/how-bessie-smith-influenced-a-century-of-popular-music?t=1613657991687