Solomon Burke RIP

He was 70.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11509614

Died in Schiphol airport :-( on the upside he fathered 21 children and 90 grandchildren!

oh shit. RIP.

RIP

Wow! RIP

Taken too soon.

very sad - the stories abt burke in gerri hirshey's Nowhere to Run are the most entertaining part of a very entertaining bk

The one track I and many others would remember from the eighties is 'Rising To The Top'. It also became a massive reggae hit and can produce a busy dance floor within seconds of the first bars being played. R.I.P Solomon. Stanga Boi, from London, UK

Erm... that was actually Keni Burke, but no matter. Played Don't Give Up On Me again this morning, as I have done on so many occasions in the last 8 years. RIP.

The king. He came out onstage on a throne, wearing a cape and a crown when I saw him. Never had a top 20 pop hit but did well on the r'n'b charts. I've been meaning to get his most recent small label effort Nothing's Impossible, that was the last production of the now deceased Willie Mitchell. I bet its better than the recent Joe Henry produced crossover attempt one (or more than one?).

Author Peter Guralnick also wrote enthusiastically about Burke.

Love "Cry To Me."

I'm part of the generation that recognized it as Baby's deflowering theme in Dirty Dancing.

Yeah, one of the few acts that earned the right to tour with a throne and scepter. When I saw him play in Central Park several years ago, he had several valets whose job it seemed was exclusively to pass out roses to women.

That 2002 "comeback" album was a snooze.

Blame Joe Henry for not making Burke work harder/get up.

I liked a few songs off Don't Give Up On Me, esp. the title song & the Van song too, but yeah, it's "Cry To Me", "Got To Get You Off Of My Mind", "Everybody Needs Somebody To Love", top-shelf singing, that are worth remembering. I'm interested to see what Mick Jagger has to say.

RIP, big man.

Died about 20 km. from my home then. Telly showed him yesterday evening, singing in a wheelchair, at a stage in Amsterdam, together with one of our so called 'popsingers'.
One of his songs were made populair by the Stones, I heard, but cann't recall which one.
Well, may he rest and all that stuff.

"Cry to Me."

Folks on the southern soul Yahoo group like the old stuff and the recent Willie Mitchell produced one. I'm in agreement on the old stuff and need to get that most recent Mitchell produced one. The label didn't heavily push the Mitchell one to rock critics and there's no Elvis Costello covers. The label just tried to reach the Southern soul chitlin circuit audience.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEu8DrO9PbY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hv6sQXI1WY

With the Rolling Stones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAPXC9g6sNg&feature=related

Interesting interview. Go down a paragraph or 2 for the stuff about recording the latest album with Willie Mitchell.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandpopfeatures/8025383/Solomon-Burke-Ill-sing-as-long-as-I-have-breath.html

rip :(

RIP. Agreed about the Gerri Hirshey book. Also loved his imitation of Ahmet Ertegun in the DVD about Atlantic.

One of his songs were made populair by the Stones, I heard, but cann't recall which one.

"Cry to Me."

Wikipedia has interesting story about the riff in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everybody_Needs_Somebody_to_Love. That same riff showed up in Marvin Gaye's "Can I Get A Witness," which was released a year earlier and probably some other places I can't think of right now. I'm figuring it was kind of a standard thing that both of them were drawing upon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5TOLeCy7os

best track of his last album
RIP

Just noticed on allmusic.com that Rounder recently reissued his 1983 Soul Alive live album. That was a big critics fave

RIP

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

too bad the flip isn't up, it's even better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opyFOOQf3-E

Mr. Fine Wine loves to play that one.

And I believe he will be playing it tonight at Botanica.

This flip just kicked my ass. Love the pseudo-Pops Staples/Lonnie Mack guitar lead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=576DpEnsXgg

Solomon isn't known for his bangers, but there's a number of them.