That, we have in common and are grateful for. Lately our favorite song is our daughter Phoebe’s version of Brandon Lake’s “Gratitude” with the Trader’s Point Worship Team. In addition, he saw Frank Zappa at Indiana University Auditorium for $15 and Johnny Cougar (now known as John Mellencamp) at the Bluebird in Bloomington.Īnother favorite concert was Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Free Bird” tour.Ī favorite of mine was a $5 Kool & the Gang concert at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green and the Cincinnati Jazz Festival at the Riverfront Stadium in 1980 featuring Rufus and Chaka Khan, BB King, Cameo, the Isley Brothers, Chic, Kool & The Gang, and The Gap Band. Steve saw Rolling Stones ‘Wild Horses” tour at Assembly Hall in Bloomington in 1975, for $25 - and 40 years later saw the Stones at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Jfor over $100. He was 16-years old when he saw the Marshall Tucker Band, Charlie Daniels and the Outlaws at University of Tennessee Arena in Knoxville, with his older brother on Dec. We had talked earlier in the evening how while he was rock-‘n’-rolling, I was dancing to disco and funk music. HOME > Luther Vandross Special 4songs ranked in the Billboard Hot 100. kettlebell in the morning - I wish I was ‘Somebody Else’s Guy!’” I am still listening your music and feel your love.
See if Luther made the list of most famous people with first name Luther. He had chart topping singles covering a span of 23 years. His last appearance in the charts was 2003. Steve rolled over and huffed: “I have 6 a.m. Luther Vandross was around 30 years old when his first singled charted. Show your thanks when your dreams are found …” “Everybody stand up and sing, and say I love youĮverybody stand up and sing, and say I love you I may have taken it too far when, at midnight, I began the shoulder-bounce while singing Kool & the Gang’s lyrics: flight the next morning, but I’m not ashamed to admit that when the hubby and I hit the sack after 11, I was still bouncing my toes and making him listen to Jocelyn Brown wail “Somebody Else’s Guy,” - a 1984 classic. Vandross has sold more than 25 million records across the world. I stopped texting Chloe song titles and artists after 10 p.m. She sent a starter list that she was fairly certain was on my “Jan’s Jams” list: “Bounce, Rock, Skate, Roll” by Vaughan Mason & Crew,” “Let’s Groove” by Earth, Wind & Fire, and “Ladies Night” by Kool & the Gang.įor the next few hours, I began listening and listing music I hadn’t listened to for years. I texted back: “Did you want dance music?”Ĭhloe: “Mostly dance in the kitchen songs, LOL - Luther is a little too slow.” Chloe) reminded me of this when she texted, “What are some of your favorite songs when you were 18-25? I think of Kool and the Gang, Earth Wind and Fire and Luther Vandross, but he’s not very dancey.” We have both agreed on this fact.ĭaughter No. Steve and I met in our late teens or early 20s, we would have never, ever even dated. He passed away on July 2, 2005, at the age of 54.I was reminded a few days before Thanksgiving that had Dr. Even so, Vandross could always be counted on as the perfect complement to a night spent with a "friend" or the first few nights spent sleeping alone. When things came crashing in and bleak reality reared its ugly head in the mid-1990s, florid R&B gave way to less sentimental music. Blessed with a voice that was warm and soulful, Vandross' songs dripped with romance, promised love on the horizon, or turned a teary eye towards duos fading into solitude. Luther Vandross was the primary voice who provided the soundtrack for romantic rendezvous in the Reagan era, and by the mid-1980s, merely mentioning his name conjured up images of happy couples sipping Merlot in dimly lit rooms and chuckling at inside jokes - and, alternately, jilted lovers consoling themselves. All those good feelings and denial of social woes meant that romance was back in style, and while the glasses clinked and millionaires' bankrolls flourished, so too did music to love by. The 1980s were a period of unchecked greed and decadence, when the world donned rose-colored glasses that filtered out the homeless and made the hole in the ozone layer seem patched.