Monday, April 22, 2013

R.I.P. Richie Havens


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


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_4hH8uyCBw
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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 Shieldsthe Smothers BrothersJohn CandyPeter 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 bythe 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 ofJames House's "Born to Race" to that producer's work behind Rocky Burnette on "Perfect Crime," whichreally 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:

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