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James Edward Carr (June 13, 1942 – January 7, 2001) [1] was an American R&B and soul singer, described as "one of the greatest pure vocalists that deep Southern soul ever produced". [ 2 ] Biography
The following is a list of notable performers of rock and roll music or rock music, and others directly associated with the music as producers, songwriters or in other closely related roles, who have died in the 2000s. The list gives their date, cause and location of death, and their age.
"The Dark End of the Street" is a 1967 soul song, written by songwriters Dan Penn and Chips Moman and first recorded by James Carr. It became his trademark song, reaching number 10 on Billboard Magazine's R&B Chart, and crossing over to number 77 on the Billboard Hot 100 .
James Carr Hailed as one of the greatest soul singers of all time, the Mississippi-born, Memphis-raised Carr made some of the genre’s essential recordings in the 1960s for the local Goldwax label.
U.S. Rep. Bob Carr, an East Lansing Democrat who served 18 years in the U.S. House and rose to become a subcommittee chairman of the powerful Appropriations Committee before losing a U.S. Senate ...
Vickery first scored a songwriting hit when Faron Young recorded Vickery's song "She Went A Little Bit Further", which reached number 14 on the Country Music charts in 1968. [3] Vickery followed this with songs for artists like Johnny Cash, George Jones, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Paycheck, Lefty Frizzell, James Carr, John Anderson, and Tanya Tucker.
James Darren, a teen idol who helped ignite the 1960s surfing craze as a charismatic beach boy paired off with Sandra Dee in the hit film “Gidget,” died Monday at 88. Darren died in his sleep ...
James Dennis Carroll (August 1, 1949 – September 11, 2009) was an American author, poet, and punk musician. Carroll was best known for his 1978 autobiographical work The Basketball Diaries , which inspired a 1995 film of the same title that starred Leonardo DiCaprio as Carroll, and his 1980 song "People Who Died" with the Jim Carroll Band.