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Obit: Frankie Laine is no longer with us!-Feb 2007
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Subject: Obit: Frankie Laine is no longer with us! From: GUEST,JennieG at work Date: 06 Feb 07 - 10:55 PM Just heard that Frankie Laine has died aged 93. Rawhide........! Cheers JennieG |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Frankie Laine is no longer with us! From: Sorcha Date: 06 Feb 07 - 11:04 PM Wouldn't that be Lane? |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Frankie Laine is no longer with us! From: Rapparee Date: 06 Feb 07 - 11:17 PM Dang. All I can say. |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Frankie Laine is no longer with us! From: jeffp Date: 06 Feb 07 - 11:20 PM No, it's Laine. I honestly didn't know he was still alive until he was dead. Now there's a weird statement. I remember when I was growing up we had a couple of his albums. I really enjoyed his music. He was most famous for Rawhide, I suppose. He did a bunch of good cowboy music. Cool Water, Deuces Wild, Dead Man's Hand. Farewell, Frankie. |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Frankie Laine is no longer with us! From: John on the Sunset Coast Date: 06 Feb 07 - 11:30 PM Don't forget High Noon, Cry of the Wild Goose, Lucky Old Sun and my personal favorite, I Believe. Frankie Laine appeared on the recent PBS fund raiser of 50s music, a bit unkempt, but reasonably good pipes for a guy in his nineties. |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Frankie Laine is no longer with us! From: catspaw49 Date: 06 Feb 07 - 11:50 PM The Old Man loved him and had several albums. ANd who else would Mel Brooks have used to sing the title to "Blazing Saddles?" Rest easy..... Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Frankie Laine is no longer with us! From: Metchosin Date: 06 Feb 07 - 11:59 PM Didn't know he was still alive either. Mule Train was my favourite song when I was small. Glad to see he managed to hang around for the long haul......get along muuuule, get along RIP. |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Frankie Laine is no longer with us! From: Gene Date: 07 Feb 07 - 12:03 AM Frankie Laine , born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio on March 30 , 1913. Anyone remember "The Gandy Dancer's Ball"? And he sang "3:10 to Yuma", in the movie - "Bad Day At Black Rock", with a great cast of stars; Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Ernest Borgnine, Walter Brennan, Lee Marvin & other biggies I forget the names of. Have at 10-15 Lps and Cds, or more, of his. Loved his music. |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Frankie Laine is no longer with us! From: mrdux Date: 07 Feb 07 - 12:10 AM and he did a great version of "Ghost Riders in the Sky." |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Frankie Laine is no longer with us! From: Stilly River Sage Date: 07 Feb 07 - 12:44 AM I enjoyed hearing him on the radio when I was a kid. And I'd forgotten about so many of those theme songs. SRS |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Frankie Laine is no longer with us! From: Bugsy Date: 07 Feb 07 - 01:21 AM Sad news. He has a great voice, 93 is a good innings though. Bugsy |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Frankie Laine is no longer with us! From: GUEST,Art Thieme Date: 07 Feb 07 - 01:28 AM I recall hearing that he went to the same high school I did-----Lake View High in Chicago----as did Stacey Keach, Abe Sapperstein (founder of the Harlem Globetrotters) and writer John Gunther. For what it's worth... Art |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Frankie Laine is no longer with us! From: Wordsmith Date: 07 Feb 07 - 01:44 AM Sad, but I, too, thought he was already dead. Am I mistaken in thinking he also sang They Called the Wind, Mariah? I know John Raitt did. I'd forgotten a lot of those songs, too. Nice to remember them now, though. He had a long run. Rest peacefully! |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Frankie Laine is no longer with us!-Feb 2007 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 07 Feb 07 - 10:57 AM Here is his IMDb information. He did have a very respectable run. SRS |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Frankie Laine is no longer with us!-Feb From: bobad Date: 07 Feb 07 - 11:20 AM Just listened to a couple of his songs here. |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Frankie Laine is no longer with us!-Feb 2007 From: GUEST,Tunesmith Date: 07 Feb 07 - 11:30 AM "Cool Water" was the first single I ever bought - in 1955. |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Frankie Laine is no longer with us!-Feb 2007 From: kendall Date: 07 Feb 07 - 11:54 AM Anothe great one gone. sigh |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Frankie Laine is no longer with us!-Feb 2007 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 07 Feb 07 - 12:43 PM They're playing a piece about him on Fresh Air right now. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=13 It's an interview from 1987. SRS |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Frankie Laine is no longer with us!-Feb From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 07 Feb 07 - 01:12 PM Of course it was Tex Ritter sang Do not Forsake Me for the movie. Here's Tex singing it on the Grand Old Opry |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Frankie Laine is no longer with us!-Feb From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 07 Feb 07 - 01:15 PM Of course it was Tex Ritter sang Do not Forsake Me for the movie. Here's Tex singing it on the Grand Ole Opry, And here's Frankie Laine singing his version |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Frankie Laine is no longer with us!-Feb 2007 From: Cool Beans Date: 07 Feb 07 - 01:42 PM "Moonlight Gambler" was one of his very good songs, often overlooked since it's not associated with any movie: You can gamble for matchsticks, You can gamble for gold The stakes may be heavy or small But if you havent gambled For love and lost Then you haven't gambled at all. |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Frankie Laine is no longer with us!-Feb 2007 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 07 Feb 07 - 02:08 PM The Fresh Air interview was very good. |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Frankie Laine is no longer with us!-Feb 2007 From: fat B****rd Date: 07 Feb 07 - 02:42 PM I remember him on 78s like "Hawkeye" and "Strange Lady In Town" as well as his huge selection of better known songs. RIP Mr. Laine. |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Frankie Laine is no longer with us!-Feb 2007 From: Bill D Date: 07 Feb 07 - 03:53 PM after paying your respects to Frankie Laine, look at that link bobad provided....there in an amazing collection of songs from many eras and artists. |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Frankie Laine is no longer with us!-Feb 2007 From: GUEST,Shimrod Date: 07 Feb 07 - 04:15 PM Frankie Laine was my Mum's favourite singer. I have a dim memory of my parents buying one of his records, on a Saturday afternoon, in my home town of Peterborough (UK). |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Frankie Laine is no longer with us!-Feb 2007 From: jacqui.c Date: 07 Feb 07 - 05:06 PM I didn't know he was still alive. One of my favourites from years back. |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Frankie Laine is no longer with us!-Feb 2007 From: Bill Hahn//\\ Date: 07 Feb 07 - 06:43 PM The Cry of The Wild Goose was written and recorded by Terry Gilkyson---Laine had the big hit on it. WHen I interviewed Eliza Gilkyson she mentioned how, as a little girl, she hated that version---so I sent it to her as part of the recorded interview. She loved it for nostalgia's sake and thanked me for it. Frankly---I liked it. As well as Mule Train and all the others---though I did like Tex Ritter's version of High Noon more. Do you also recall---Jezebel and Rose Rose I Love You. He also did some interesting covers of Hank Williams along w/ Put Your Hand in The Hand, in the Cool of the Evening---and so many more. Anyone remember his duets with Jo Stafford? Long fruitful life----good for him Bill Hahn |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Frankie Laine is no longer with us!-Feb 2007 From: Effsee Date: 07 Feb 07 - 07:33 PM Anyone remember "The Kid's Last Fight" ? That song featured in my childhood, and I can still remeber some of the lyrics. A tremendous voice now silenced. RIP. |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Frankie Laine is no longer with us!-Feb 2007 From: GUEST,John Gray in Oz Date: 07 Feb 07 - 07:42 PM A very powerful version of Granada as well. JG / FME |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Frankie Laine is no longer with us!-Feb 2007 From: Wordsmith Date: 08 Feb 07 - 02:09 AM I read an obit yesterday from the LA Times, by Claudia Luther, who said that the program director of WINS, where Frankie got a job for $5 an hour singing on a live 1/2 hour show, changed his name to Frankie Lane. Lane later added the "i" to his last name to avoid confusion with another singer. As part of the background information, she wrote that At 18, with the Depression under way, Laine became a dance marathoner and was in 14 marathons, winning 3 times. He and his partner, Ruthie Smith, made it into the Guinness Book of World Records for dancing 145 days straight (although he claimed it was 146.) That's My Desire was his breakthrough song. During 1947 it got even more air play especially in Europe and by fall, he got his first royalty payment for the song: $36,000. He was 34. He could've borrowed Tony Bennett's "Rags to Riches." |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Frankie Laine is no longer with us!-Feb 2007 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 08 Feb 07 - 02:23 AM Anybody who is "discovered" by Hoagy Carmichael can't be bad! |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Frankie Laine is no longer with us!-Feb From: MBSLynne Date: 08 Feb 07 - 02:42 AM Part of the soundtrack of my childhood. I can't be too sad at the death of someone of his age after such a productive life, but I do hope his passing was peaceful. Love Lynne |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Frankie Laine is no longer with us!-Feb 2007 From: melodeonboy Date: 08 Feb 07 - 08:58 AM His voice, like no other, always brings to mind clean, well-dressed, clean-shaven "cowpokes" with rock 'n' roll haircuts astride well-groomed horses, prancing along through the desert, sometimes accompanied by hundreds of cattle, and occasionally fighting off "Injuns"!. |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Frankie Laine is no longer with us!-Feb 2007 From: Cruiser Date: 08 Feb 07 - 09:05 AM When that lucky old Sun has nothing to do But roll around Heaven all day... |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Frankie Laine is no longer with us!-Feb 2007 From: Flash Company Date: 08 Feb 07 - 09:59 AM I think everbody above has said just about everything. R.I.P. Frankie. FC |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Frankie Laine is no longer with us!-Feb 2007 From: Scrump Date: 08 Feb 07 - 10:31 AM I Believe that Cool Water is the best thing for Rawhide. |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Frankie Laine is no longer with us!-Feb 2007 From: guitar Date: 08 Feb 07 - 10:57 AM So Sad to hear a fellow singer is deid, I just hope that he keeps rollin rollin rollin up in the Heaven tonight |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Frankie Laine is no longer with us!-Feb 2007 From: guitar Date: 08 Feb 07 - 11:01 AM It's going to be rockin in heaven |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Frankie Laine is no longer with us!-Feb 2007 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 08 Feb 07 - 06:44 PM He did some good jazz also, but once the popular songs made the charts his jazz singing was ignored. I was surprised to hear a clip of some of his early work, it was a lot different, but good. SRS |
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