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Post by the Scribe on Feb 19, 2013 21:12:40 GMT -5
Goodbye My Friend has become quite a phenomena on youtube. It is probably the finest and most loved tribute song around with viewership in the millions. So many of this songs tributes are for animals but I can't imagine everyone knew it was originally written for Karla's cat that was probably killed by a coyote. All of the tributes are very touching.
This episode introduced the world to generations and it has become a meeting place of joy and of sorrow of rememberance and goodbyes.
WE THE FANS OF THE WONDER YEARS WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER THIS SONG.TO MR.STEVEN GILBORN [MR. COLLINS ] GOOD BYE MY FRIEND MAY YOU REST IN PEACE.THANK YOU FOR ALL THE WONDERFUL OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCES YOU HAVE GIVEN US.
truthfromtheword 6 months ago
The Wonder Years brought me here. Linda Ronstadt keeps me here.
LuckyJrEskie 1 year ago
I can only listen to the first few lines before the pain hits my soul. If you are looking for the definition of "heart achingly beautiful", look no further than this.
This one reminds me of a Mary TylerMoore episode. It made me Chuckle:
This Elvis buddy tribute is pretty cool too:
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Post by sliderocker on Feb 20, 2013 12:29:48 GMT -5
Surprising that someone hasn't made a video to pay tribute to the musicians who played with Linda over the years and who are no longer living. Andrew and Kenny would be two obvious choices, as would Dan Grolnick and Bread's Mike Botts, all of whom played on Linda's recording sessions and/or played on stage with her. There would also be John "London" Kuehne, who played bass for her circa 1969-70 before he and drummer John Ware left to become members of Michael Nesmith's First National Band. There are probably others who were in her various bands who are no longer here but I'm not familiar with them. It's sad in a way because the deceased musicians who played with Linda probably had stories they could've told which would've helped to flesh out Linda as a person. Of course, that might have been something she might not have liked but I couldn't imagine any of the musicians she worked with having bad things to say about her.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2013 12:53:28 GMT -5
also Nicolette Larsen... BTW I always thought this song would have been a more powerful and poignant tribute to the victims of the AIDS epidemic than the tepid 'That's what friends are for..
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Post by sliderocker on Feb 20, 2013 13:05:42 GMT -5
also Nicolette Larsen... BTW I always thought this song would have been a more powerful and poignant tribute to the victims of the AIDS epidemic than the tepid 'That's what friends are for.. I forgot about Nicolette. And likewise, I also think GMF would've made for a more powerful and poignant tribute to the victims of AIDS than "That's What Friends Are For." That song just made me cringe. |
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Post by Dianna on Feb 20, 2013 16:30:55 GMT -5
That's what friends are for.. I never got the aids connection to that song.. more like a good friend tribute... triumph through tough times.. .. but yeah, it would be fitting, I suppose.. . but I didn't take it as serious as something like aids, which brought an awareness during that time period, the 1980's.. Yes, I think Linda's GMF.. would have worked well too.. but to me was more sad, as actually losing someone...
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Post by eddiejinnj on Feb 21, 2013 10:07:33 GMT -5
weird that this is the latest post on here. we saw a freind we haven't seen in a while yesterday and he had lost his dog a year and a half back and he discussed that he kept playing this song after it happened. linda gave this song the respect and delicacy that it needed. it is a gorgeous song. oprah used the song on her show when she lost her cat. am so glad that many people are appreciating this song and finding solace in it. eddiejinnj
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Post by the Scribe on Feb 21, 2013 10:51:43 GMT -5
weird that this is the latest post on here. we saw a freind we haven't seen in a while yesterday and he had lost his dog a year and a half back and he discussed that he kept playing this song after it happened. linda gave this song the respect and delicacy that it needed. it is a gorgeous song. oprah used the song on her show when she lost her cat. am so glad that many people are appreciating this song and finding solace in it. eddiejinnj |
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Post by the Scribe on Feb 5, 2017 3:14:33 GMT -5
Just found this tribute which reminds me of Mary Tyler Moore's passing and her very funny episode of Chuckles the Clown.
This one will make you laugh and cry at the same time.
J.P. Patches (full name: Julius Pierpont Patches) was a clown portrayed by Seattle entertainer Chris Wedes (April 3, 1928 -- July 22, 2012). The J.P. Patches Show was one of the longer-running locally-produced children's television programs in the United States, having appeared on Seattle TV station KIRO channel 7 from 1958 to 1981. The show was live, unrehearsed improv with rarely more than two live actors on screen (Wedes and Bob Newman) but with frequent contributions from the sound effects man and off-camera crew.
J.P. Patches hosted his show twice a day every weekday for 13 years (plus Saturdays), then for the next 8 years did the morning show only, and finally for the last 2 years appeared on Saturday mornings only—for a total of over 10,000 hours of on-air time. The show premiered on April 5, 1958, as the second program ever broadcast by KIRO-TV, the first being a telecast of the explosion of Ripple Rock in Seymour Narrows, British Columbia, Canada. The show was immensely popular in the Puget Sound area and southwestern British Columbia, with children as well as their parents, who enjoyed J.P.'s frequent use of double entendre and sly subversiveness. Two generations of viewers grew up as "Patches Pals", sharing the joyful zany antics of J.P. with their kids. At the peak of its run, the Emmy-winning program had a viewership of over 100,000 in its local markets.
After the TV show stopped airing, Wedes continued to portray J.P. at many public and private events over the years despite suffering in later years from incurable (but in remission) blood cancer.In 2011, citing poor health, Wedes announced that he expected his final public appearance to be September 17, 2011. On July 22, 2012, Chris Wedes died after a long battle with multiple myeloma, a form of blood cancer. He was 84.
I had never heard of JP before but found lots of stuff on youtube. What a nice man. Amazing how much goes on outside of our own little world and life experiences.
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Post by 70smusicfan on Feb 5, 2017 15:58:28 GMT -5
I really enjoy seeing Karla Bonoff in concert whenever she is performing nearby, especially hearing the stories that go with the songs - including a number of ones Linda did. At the last show I saw, Karla did say this was about her cat (although she didn't make the coyote connection). As I remember, she did say her cat was an "old soul".
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Post by Belle on Mar 6, 2017 17:14:48 GMT -5
Several years ago I was listening my new Patty Griffin Flaming Red CD in my car. This song came on, and made me burst into tears, as one of my sisters had recently died in a car accident.
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 7, 2017 2:43:01 GMT -5
That is very sad Belle. We never really know where life will take us and we never really know when death will shake us. Sometimes the only way to deal with it is one step at a time and to compartmentalize. The one line I disagree with in Goodbye My Friend is the part about knowing I will never see you again. Death in this world is not as final as we are led to believe. Our loved ones often come to us in our dream state for visits. Knowing how to distinguish between a dream and a visit then becomes important.
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Post by 70smusicfan on Mar 7, 2017 11:22:56 GMT -5
In addition to all the musicians passing associated with Linda mentioned at the start of the thread, her backup singers - first Nicolette Larson, now Valerie Carter. Do Rosemary Butler and Wendy Waldman have to start looking over their shoulders? What other backup singers did she have in the 70's? How about later? I know Kenny Edwards wife backed her in the 90s - Nelson Riddle era. I think Carl Jackson also backed her on tour in the 90s (or was it the 2000s)? What primary backup singers are on her albums and tours (not the guest appearances like Dolly Parton, etc.)?
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Post by PoP80 on Mar 7, 2017 14:11:56 GMT -5
Elizabeth Lamers and Rita Valente were two other backup singers with Liza Edwards on Nelson Riddle Tour.
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