January 6th, 2006
…a singer with vocals quite as deep, raspy, and soulful (not to mention bass-laden) as Lou Rawls. The always cool R&B vocalist died this morning at Cedar-Sinai Medical Center at the not-so-old age of 72, a victim of lung cancer. I remember when I first discovered Rawls. I was still a kid in New Jersey, flipping through channels, and stumbled across his telethon (could it have been WOR-9? WPIX-11?). The highlight, of course, was when he capped things off with his trademark songs “You’ll Never Find Another Love Like Mine” and “Lady Love.” (I used to occasionally confuse him with Don Cornelius, the host of Soul Train.)
In addition, there may never be as cool a rendition of “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” as his.
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