Etta James - c/d, s&d, etc.

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It is?

(it's fixed now)

(or was your question about "At Last" being overused?)

this "I'd Rather Go Blind" song is pretty sensational

lol @ her going off on beyonce

etta james = true r&b thug

beyonce's rendition seemed eh

You guys know your president right? You know the one with the big ears. Yeah, wait a minute, he ain't my president, he might be yours.

I tell you that woman he had singing for him, singing my song, she gonna get her ass whipped. The great Beyonce.

Now like I said, she ain't mine. I can't stand Beyonce! She had no business up there singing. Singing on a big ole, big ole presidential day and going be singing my song that I've been singing forever

I love how Etta always just says what she thinks. I remember when the late sleazebag campaign advisor Lee Atwater tried to get her to play a special old-school inaugural event for the first Bush (cuz Atwater had become a fan of soul as a Southern college fratboy) and she said, "No, I'm not gonna be Atwater's porch-ni**a."

What was she getting at with that first line? Is Etta a huge Republican or something?

Theo Parrish re-edit of "In The Basement". you all need this if you don't have it. absolutely incredible.

If she was a Republican she'd have played the G. Bush event, but that first sentence...

She seceded and became an independent nation in 1996.

Likely she's just mad because they asked Beyonce to sing her song instead of her. (I wonder if she saw any of "Cadillac Records", lololol)

what is this news? link?

Here's part of the quote, not sure where Brainwasher got it from above:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29036739/ I also saw part of it in the W. Post

Pretty good. Not as good as when Whitney Houston bitched out Dolly Madison for doing 'her' song.

MADISON?!

Parton, duh.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41G0QQJ20AL._SL500_AA240_.jpg

For 3 CDs and some extra money, this is your best bet:

<a href=http://www.amazon.com/Chess-Box-Etta-James/dp/B00004TS85/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1233936776&sr=1-12";><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/314NDH5232L._SL500_AA240_.jpg";></a>

For 3 CDs and some extra money, this is your best bet:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/314NDH5232L._SL500_AA240_.jpg

wait WHAT? what did whitney say about dolly?

i'm sure etta, like beyonce, did a lot to get obama elected

Whitney got mad because she thought she deserved all the credit for "I Will Always Love You" and Dolly was horning in on her action.

As I say: CLASSIC.

Huh, can't google confirmation. May have been tricked.

b-b-but i don't understand, it's dolly's song

It's enough to put you in the rubber room.

> b-b-but i don't understand, it's dolly's song

That's why the feud is so classic (if real.)

After Houston's cover of the song became a hit, the tabloid press began reporting on a 'feud' between the two performers, stemming from Parton's allegedly reneging on an agreement that she would not perform the song for a number of months while Houston's version was on the charts, so as not to compete with the more recent cover. However, both Houston and Parton have dispelled any rumours, speaking glowingly of one another in interviews [2] [3], Houston praising Parton for writing a beautiful song, and Parton thanking Houston for bringing her song to a wider audience, and in the process making her a great deal of money in royalties. Dolly Parton also gave a live interview, confirming this.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090205033042AA7g8YU

wau

amazing

love seeing colleagues respect each other

"Beyonce does deserve an a** kicking from Etta. She can't sing, she is ugly to boot and she ruined my wedding song by singing it to our Commie President."

Well done Beyonce for ruining this arsehole's wedding song.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/Music/01/29/etta.james.hospitalized/index.html

Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- Singer Etta James is hospitalized for treatment of a serious infection, but her son said Friday he's more concerned with her Alzheimer's diagnosis.

:(

that's sad

http://www.hip-oselect.com/UserFiles/Image/etta_cd.jpg

Love Esther Phillips' version of "All The Way Down," and the liner notes mentioned it was a tribute to her old friend Etta James who was in the middle of a similar hard-hitting soul/funk resurgence in the 70s. James did the song on her self-titled 1973 album on Chess. Reissued by Hip-O Select, totally a must for Etta fans. Come A Little Closer (1974) is nearly as great.

http://celebs.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474979099707

Ailing Etta James, 72, "suffers from dementia, leukemia, kidney problems and other ailments." Superior Court Judge Thomas Cahraman ordered the independent evaluation and froze Etta's accounts after Dr. Elaine James ordered $60,000 last month for medical care reasons and then an additional $30,000 was requested this month.

This is sad.

Her health is getting even worse:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/blues-singer-etta-james-in-southern-california-hospital-with-potentially-deadly-infection/2011/05/13/AF8m4T2G_story.html

By Associated Press, Updated: Friday, May 13, 12:01 PM
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Blues singer Etta James is in a Southern California hospital with a potentially deadly infection.

Her son, Sametto James, tells the Riverside Press-Enterprise that his mother was admitted to an undisclosed hospital earlier this week for treatment of sepsis caused by a urinary tract infection.

For me, Etta begins and ends with Rocks the House.

I should get that 1964 live album

"blues singer".

Rocks The House rocks indeed, but if you love that, I can't see how you wouldn't at least like the Modern and Kent Records stuff ("Good Rockin' Daddy"; Tuff Lover" etc.) She can even make "By The Light Of The Silvery Moon" sound great.

But I have lots of time for latter-day recordings like her Billie Holiday tribute. I even love her Christmas CD. One of my favorite singers ever.

I've loved her live the various times I've seen her over the last 20 years but need to catch up on recordings.

this "I'd Rather Go Blind" song is pretty sensational

― Surmounter, Tuesday, November 4, 2008 11:59 AM (2 years ago)

yes

This duet with Dr John of "I'd Rather Go Blind" is sublimely entertaining and fine in every way:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyMd19sE6U4

Still alive for now (hoax reports of death have circulated)

CNN saying she has passed today.

RIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JtXCmS4-5c

RIP

"You guys know your president right? You know the one with the big ears. Yeah, wait a minute, he ain't my president, he might be yours."

What was she getting at with that first line? Is Etta a huge Republican or something?

ahead of her time, RIP

RIP, Etta.

Oh ffs Morbius could you lay off the political grandstanding bullshit in a RIP thread that has nothing to do with politics?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YApNirMC9gM

The thread is about Etta James, who voiced some political opinions discussed upthread, ergo it's incorrect to say it "has nothing to do with politics." In fact, you were the one who posted "Is Etta a huge Republican or something?"

Oh here we go with another jaymc "RIP threads aren't for respecting the dead" screed. Yes, I brought that up, but well before she passed away. I just thought Morbius' timing was gross, but I always forget that this is ILM and RIP threads are for being assholes.

I particularly liked the moment you cited bcz it perfectly illustrated the my-God-who-dast-speak-vs-Obama mindset of its era. Misty memories, jon?

Etta was awesome, and I got little use for Beyonce too.

It's not even an RIP thread!

It is now!

tbh, it's surprising that you have ANY. Elaborate, plz.

xps to Morbs

"Run the World" s'aright

I saw Etta mentioned this morning in the NYT obit for Johnny Otis and didn't know if she was still living.

It is now!

Just out of curiosity: is there a time when it will cease to be?

Dude, who cares? Your bullshit righteous indignation over people actually getting offended by thoughtless comments in a thread after a celebrity dies is so fucking weird.

I personally think it's weird that the degree to which you're offended by someone's comments is connected to whether the person discussed is living or not.

So it doesn't matter if I call you an asshole now or at your funeral?

I mean, come on, if you can't figure out the difference, thats on you.

An ILX thread about someone who happens to have recently died is pretty far from an IRL funeral.

RIP

Of course its different, but I would hope a decent tone of respect for the deceased could be maintained in here for at least a couple of hours.

Anyway, I shouldn't be surprised at all by jaymc's complete lack of awareness wrt to societal norms at this point.

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"a couple of hours" = Good to know, that's all I asked.

Anyway, I shouldn't be surprised at all by jaymc's complete lack of awareness wrt to societal norms at this point.

Haha, this is funny. Not sure where it comes from, but OK!

RIP

I have a friend who moonlights as a Karaoke dj, and he sent out a missive on FB this morning requesting that his patrons sing the other six Etta songs in his library this weekend.

My Mom just asked me if I have any Etta James records, and I said I wish, why? She told me she just passed and had been in bad shape for awhile now. Sad news, we have only a few great blues soul singers left.

RIP

protip: people who participate in the 'dead pool' threads might want to put some tiny amount of effort into not seeming totally callous or robotically unsentimental about the recently deceased, even if only to keep up appearances

anyway RIP etta you were the shit

So it doesn't matter if I call you an asshole now or at your funeral?

But he'll be dead -- why would he care?

I heard "At Last" blasting in the student union this morning before reading the news. RIP.

the dead-eyed "logic" of it being even BETTER to disrespect someone after they're dead because they'll never hear about it is exactly why it's pointlessly dickish.

Thanks for some dude making me feel like I'm not completely on my own with this one. But I think jaymc pulls this on like every third RIP thread, his baffled confusion as to why people might get rubbed the wrong way by disrespectful comments soon after a death.

But I mean this was Etta James! Was so glad I had At Last! ripped on my ipod already.

Pandora said that around 25,000 Etta stations were created with them today.

sigh, i need to be one of those people - have been meaning to get into etta for ages now. what's a good album/comp to start with?

What happens if you don't use quotes around a song title?

http://i.imgur.com/zXR70.png

It's sad how people forgot about Etta James for a long time. Wow, is she pretty. I remember my mom telling me people didn't like her because of prejudices against race mixing. But she looks beautiful with that white hair. That "president day" comment was funny whether you agree with it or not.

guiltiest lol ever @ stanm post

Esther Phillips is good too, you could check that out.

But I think jaymc pulls this on like every third RIP thread, his baffled confusion as to why people might get rubbed the wrong way by disrespectful comments soon after a death.

I'm pretty sure this is only the third (maybe fourth) time I've weighed in on the subject, and once was in a thread expressly dedicated to the debate.

It's not that I don't understand the desire to discuss someone's death in purely respectful terms, I guess I just bristle at the thread policing that occurs as a result.

In this case, it didn't even seem like Dr. M's comment was disrespectful to Etta James -- in fact, it was laudatory! But because it was about politics, it was suddenly unwelcome. That didn't sit right with me. If he had said "Thank God she's dead," I'd have much less of an issue with your complaint.

Although it probably doesn't make a difference to you, I'll also remind you that I rarely talk ill of the recently deceased myself, but I value having a place where I can read a multiplicity of opinion. That said, if all you're asking for is "a couple of hours" before the discussion can widen, then that seems more or less reasonable to me.

Let's not make this personal, Jon. I like you as a poster, and I hope we have an opportunity to hang out IRL sometime.

And no she was not a Republican:

love how Etta always just says what she thinks. I remember when the late sleazebag campaign advisor Lee Atwater tried to get her to play a special old-school inaugural event for the first Bush (cuz Atwater had become a fan of soul as a Southern college fratboy) and she said, "No, I'm not gonna be Atwater's porch-ni**a."

― curmudgeon, Friday, February 6, 2009

Oh jaymc, I didn't notice your response from this weekend until just now. I definitely feel bad for going at you like that, I think I was just channeling my frustration with other RIP threads at you. I guess I just have a different expectation of how people handle these types of threads, which is something I just need to come to terms with because, lol internet isn't going to change. I do understand where you are coming from and, in general, I'm not really interested in stifling discussion - I just don't think within hours of someone like Etta James passing away is the time for someone to get in a (seemingly) unrelated political dig. I did see how Morbius' comment was actually sort of in context wrt the rest of this thread, but given his recent track record for throwing out digs at Obama whenever given half a chance I thought it was nagl as far as timing.

Anyway, I apologize if it turned into any sort of personal thing, I think you and I just have a sort of basic disagreement of how RIP threads in general are viewed. Isn't a bad thing really, we just come from a different direction on those. Hopefully we can put this behind us.

Alicia Keys and Bonnie Raitt: Etta James tribute scheduled for the Grammys on Sunday