sad...
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/28/arts/music/fontella-bass-72-singer-of-rescue-me-is-dead.html?hpw&_r=1&
― scott seward, Friday, 28 December 2012 04:04 (thirteen years ago)
Always liked this cover:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cClisWf6Kws
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 28 December 2012 04:12 (thirteen years ago)
Aw! I have her best-of, it's really good. And she was sure pretty.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Friday, 28 December 2012 04:40 (thirteen years ago)
Forgot she was married to Lester Bowie. RIP.
― Albee Thousand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 28 December 2012 05:13 (thirteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fF_e0RFi05c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PppJOrnVtkg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPg_TBkD8_o
― scott seward, Friday, 28 December 2012 16:22 (thirteen years ago)
:-(
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 28 December 2012 19:44 (thirteen years ago)
Just heard another version of "Rescue Me" but couldn't figure out who was singing.
― Eric Blore Is President (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 30 December 2025 16:58 (ten months ago)
Diana Ross did a version but guessing you would have recognized if it was her
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 31 December 2025 06:04 (ten months ago)
Correct
― Eric Blore Is President (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 31 December 2025 08:36 (ten months ago)
One of these? Presumably not Yom Jones or Bryan Ferry. https://www.whosampled.com/Fontella-Bass/Rescue-Me/covered/
― Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 31 December 2025 12:29 (ten months ago)
Tom Yom!
― Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 31 December 2025 12:30 (ten months ago)
Tom Kippur
― Donald Crump (Tom D.), Wednesday, 31 December 2025 12:36 (ten months ago)
Thanks. Was thinking Ann Peebles but it might also have been Dee Dee Warwick.
― Eric Blore Is President (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 31 December 2025 12:45 (ten months ago)