Folk singer Richie Havens dead at 72
By Alan Duke
updated 7:19 PM EDT, Mon April 22, 2013
CNN) -- Folk singer Richie Havens, the opening act at the 1969 Woodstock music festival, died Monday of a sudden heart attack, his publicist said. He was 72.
Havens, who retired three years ago, toured for more than 30 years and recorded 30 albums.
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Two minutes with Richie Havens on
Visual Radio in Woburn, Massachusetts
Richie talks about "Inside of You", a song for
a soundtrack CD
by Joe Viglione
This is a very interesting soundtrack to what was supposed to be the film "Spring Break 3" and ended up getting renamed Speedzone with actors
Brooke Shields,
the Smothers Brothers,
John Candy,
Peter Boyle, and others. Boston band Splash -- veterans of that scene managed and produced by J.D. Worthington, the pseudonym for the same individual who originally managed Boston band
Mass -- open up the disc. Somehow Worthington (aka Ron Pasquelino) managed to sign the group to Grudge Records, a New York label distributed by BMG. Simultaneous with this soundtrack, the band Splash -- featuring the Evangelista Brothers (changed to the Evans Brothers by Worthington) -- released an album called
Spring Break, which also has "Dizzy Miss Lizzy" as its opening track. The Larry Williams tune made famous by
the Beatles is terrific here; it jumps off the soundtrack and starts things right. "Roll Away" does not sound like
Felix Cavaliere of
the Rascals, but it is, and the song would have been appropriate for the soundtrack to Beverly Hills Cop. Everything here sounds very '80s, from
Ross Vannelli's production of
James House's "Born to Race" to that producer's work behind
Rocky Burnette on "Perfect Crime," which
really could have been on the Beverly Hills Cop soundtrack. That Vannelli gets two of the ten tracks is interesting, as
David Wheatley is given the credit in the film for the music. His instrumental "Tiffany's Theme," with saxophone by
Moe Koffman, is elegant enough following Denny Colt's decent "Good Guys Are Hard to Find." The stunner here is
Richie Havens doing an original which is up-tempo, dancey, and not what you'd expect to hear from
Havens. It's one of the best tracks and should have been on theBeverly Hills Cop II soundtrack. Though released in 1989 everyone here seems to have taken cues from
Glenn Frey's 1985 work. READ MORE HERE:
