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Post by rick on Oct 18, 2014 2:03:54 GMT -5
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Post by Richard W on Oct 18, 2014 9:39:58 GMT -5
Wow. Just one of those people you take for granted. Sad to hear this.
I have been a Manhattan Transfer fan since their first album, which was a favorite with me and my friends when it was released (as were their follow-up albums, "Coming Out" and "Pastiche"). I saw them live twice in the '70s, once in Omaha and again in Des Moines, when Laurel Masse was part of the group. When I moved to Chicago in the early '80s, Masse, who had left the group, was basing her act in Chicago and I went to see her at a club and met her after.
Hauser and the Transfer introduced me to a lot of classic pop/jazz/standards that, as a teen at the time, I was completely ignorant of. I remember how their music leavened my turntable's stack of '70s soul, disco and, of course, country rock.
A nightingale is singing in Berkeley square for you, Tim.
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Post by rick on Oct 18, 2014 13:12:03 GMT -5
Here is the obit from the L.A. Times -- L.A. Times' obituary for Tim Hauser Some clips -- "Four Brothers" from "The Vocalese" tour, Japan, 1986 -- 1982, "Jeannine," Live on Stage and in rehearsal (you can see what a lead Tim Hauser was within the group - 1988, Tim Hauser on lead vocal on "Soul Food to Go" from the group's "Brasil" album -- And, a medley, from 1976, with the original lineup of Tim Hauser, Janis Siegel, Alan Paul and Laurel Masse -- |
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Post by Goldie on Oct 18, 2014 14:08:06 GMT -5
Entertainers from my youth are dropping like flies. So sad but there are still lots of flies around to keep us going.
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Post by Richard W on Oct 18, 2014 23:19:38 GMT -5
That is some fine group singing, people. They make it seem effortless, when we know that it just ain't that easy.
"Operator" is a show-stopper, and Siegel drop-kicks it here right through the posts.
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