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died three weeks ago at age 69 from complications of leukemia, actually. guardian obit here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/may/20/viola-wills-obituary
also ILX has never had a thread on her, so this can be it.
talk about viola wills, guys!
― shouting BLOGGER BLOGGER BLOGGER BLOGGER (donna rouge), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 22:14 (seventeen years ago)
RIP
I have been in love with her cover of If You Could Read My Mind since I found it in a dollar bin earlier this year.
― Your original display name will be displayed in brackets (Display Name), Thursday, 28 May 2009 01:41 (seventeen years ago)
Her version of "Stormy Weather" is killer too. I like to follow that with Carol Douglas's "A Hurricane Is Coming Tonight" then "Landslide" by Croisette then "Earthquake!" by Zenda Jacks then finish with Cerrone's "Supernature" because it's about creatures coming up from the ground.
― Josefa, Thursday, 28 May 2009 03:02 (seventeen years ago)
i've always loved 'gonna get along without you now', such a gorgeous light-disco song. cure-all for the dumpees. the mad twee original is nice too
― NI, Thursday, 28 May 2009 12:42 (seventeen years ago)
Oh man, RIP
― Dante ... Bruno . Vico .. Passantino (Tom D.), Thursday, 28 May 2009 12:42 (seventeen years ago)
I'd never heard her before. Watched some youtube vids, some really great tunes, and she was gorgeous, too. It's always somethin to hear someone great and new, but a little something else when through an RIP thread :-/
― â•“abies, Friday, 29 May 2009 14:49 (seventeen years ago)
search: "Somebody's Eyes" - gorgeous/melancholy/yearning disco ballad, (originally?) only available as b-side of the "If You Could Read My Mind" 12". "If You Could Read My Mind" was lionized in the book Love Saves The Day as one of the ultimate 12 West anthems - the deep, minimal bassline seems to anticipate ESG and Murk. "Somebody's Eyes" became one of the greatest 'sleaze' tracks at The Saint and elsewhere.
"Gonna Get Along Without You Now" is lovely too - though the version I first heard/loved is a later remix and I'm not sure which one... (a mystery to solve some day)
her version of "Secret Love" is fun too (sweet licks) - find it on the If You Could Read My Mind LP pictured at top of thread. LP features Dennis Bovell and Nick Straker, among others.
― Paul, Friday, 29 May 2009 16:35 (seventeen years ago)