A few of my favs....

Love Potion No. 9
On Broadway
Spanish Harlem
Poison Ivy
Smokey Joe's Cafe
Ruby Baby

And I will leave it with this....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3HXy9mGPpI

"Spanish Harlem" -- a collaboration with Phil Spector, of all people.

To have such talent....R.I.P.

Song writing makes strange bedfellows, Jack

Genius.

On "What's My Line?"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HaavKyReys

Nick Ashford of Ashford and Simpson has passed away today as well.

And a reprise moment of raucousness....thanks, Jerry!

Young Blood ~ Leon Russell
(The Concert for Bangladesh, 1971 (medley excerpt))
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D8udJjGcag

Nick Ashford of Ashford and Simpson has passed away today as well.

OMG, that's terrible. Ain't nothin' like the real thing, baby...

Black Denim Trousers
The Cheers lyrics
[Words and Music by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller]

He wore black denim trousers and motorcycle boots
And a black leather jacket with an eagle on the back
He had a hopped-up 'cycle that took off like a gun
That fool was the terror of Highway 101

Well, he never washed his face and he never combed his hair
He had axle grease embedded underneath his fingernails
On the muscle of his arm was a red tattoo
A picture of a heart saying "Mother, I love you"

He had a pretty girlfriend by the name of Mary Lou
But he treated her just like he treated all the rest
And everybody pitied her 'cause everybody knew
He loved that doggone motorcycle best

He wore black denim trousers and motorcycle boots
And a black leather jacket with an eagle on the back
He had a hopped-up 'cycle that took off like a gun
That fool was the terror of Highway 101

---- Instrumental Interlude ----

Mary Lou, poor girl, she pleaded and she begged him not to leave
She said, I've got a feeling if you ride tonight I'll grieve
But her tears were shed in vain and her every word was lost
In the rumble of his engine and the smoke from his exhaust

Then he took off like the Devil and there was fire in his eyes
He said, I'll go a thousand miles before the sun can rise
But he hit a screamin' diesel that was California-bound
And when they cleared the wreckage, all they found

Was his black denim trousers and motorcycle boots
And a black leather jacket with an eagle on the back
But they couldn't find the 'cycle that took off like a gun
And they never found the terror of Highway 101

Leiber and Stoller also owned the record company that released "Leader of the Pack" and "Chapel of Love."

Notice that only one of his eyes shows "red-eye".
Dr Dean Odell says that CAN be a symptom of eye cancer, a very dangerous cancer.

Thanks
JK

Actually, he had two different color eyes, one brown and one blue.

So many of us can write tributes to him, but let's face it. He wrote his own tributes, one song at a time, and the best eulogy he could receive comes from his songs being sung over and over. Just think: his songs are now blasting in a fifty-light-year radius across the galaxy. Consider that the biggest memorial stone in the cosmos.