Before I mention Palmer,let me mention we just lost Donald O'Conner yesterday too. Of course he's best known for his appearance with Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds in,"Singin' In The Rain". (A movie that should have been nominated and won best picture!) I always loved it when he and Kelly would go into the "Moses Suposes" song and dance number,it was really funny./// I've watched WKRP on TV Land the past 2 nights and I'm glad to see they mentioned G. Jump in much the same way that they did John Ritter. I always did like the Christmas Carol episode. As well as almost every episode of the show. /// When I 1st heard of Robert Palmer ever,it was when he joined up for the Power Station group headed by members of Duran Duran. I wanted to see them "live" when I heard they were touring but then he begged off touring with the group. Then he started doing his solo recordings (I did not yet know he'd had earlier hits in the 70s) and I thought they were O.K. but not phenomenal,except for,"Simply Irresistable",a video I watched like 200 times (guess why.) He had his last hit in early 1991. A medley version of the Marvin Gaye songs,"Mercy Mercy Me and I Want You",which got him a final top 20 hit. He simply vanished after that. While I honestly say that he was not one of my particular favorites,I will say that along with a loss to the creative community,it's also another loss of a person,to quote Michael Jackson,"Gone Too Soon". For these and all before,RIP. Amen.
[This message has been edited by Borderstone (edited September 28, 2003).]
|