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Main Discussion Area => In Memoriam, Happy Birthday => Topic started by: Wayback on June 08, 2009, 07:24:15 PM

Title: RIP Kenny Rankin, 69
Post by: Wayback on June 08, 2009, 07:24:15 PM

Singer-songwriter Rankin, 69, due to lung cancer:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090609/ap_en_ce/ca_obit_rankin

Title: Re: RIP Kenny Rankin, 69
Post by: ggould on June 08, 2009, 09:15:26 PM

Quote from: Wayback on June 08, 2009, 07:24:15 PM

Singer-songwriter Rankin, 69, due to lung cancer:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090609/ap_en_ce/ca_obit_rankin

He was a real pioneer, doing new age/soft jazz/acoustic stuff before it was called anything.  I can't remember the tunes now, but I think he was played on KSAN back in the day.

Title: Re: RIP Kenny Rankin, 69
Post by: Gazoo on June 08, 2009, 10:17:34 PM

I'm afraid I only know his work as the writer of Helen Reddy's forgotten "Peaceful."

Title: Re: RIP Kenny Rankin, 69
Post by: RGMike on June 09, 2009, 08:03:00 AM

His cover of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" -- in which he gets the lyrics wrong, and in doing so takes a line that originally rhymed and makes it NOT RHYME -- is on my all-time HFH list. But "Peaceful" is a lovely tune, and Gaz you neeed to seek out Georgie fame's version, which predates Reddy's by 3 years.