From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V6 #46 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Wednesday, February 22 2006 Volume 06 : Number 046 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] Bad Year to be a Cowsill... [Dave Walker ] Re: [loud-fans] hey, knowledgeable people [Dan Sallitt Subject: [loud-fans] Bad Year to be a Cowsill... :( Begin forwarded message: > From: Deathwatch Central > Date: February 20, 2006 11:10:43 PM GMT-05:00 > To: deathwatch@slick.org > Subject: [Deathwatch] William Cowsill, singer, 58 > Reply-To: Deathwatch Central > > Cowsills' lead singer dead > William Cowsill suffered from several ailments > > Monday, February 20, 2006; Posted: 8:46 a.m. EST (13:46 GMT) > > http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/02/20/obit.cowsill.ap/index.html > > CALGARY, Alberta (AP) -- William Cowsill, lead singer of the 1960s > singing family band the Cowsills, which inspired the TV series "The > Partridge Family," has died. He was 58. > > Cowsill, who was suffering from emphysema, osteoporosis, and other > ailments, died in Calgary, Alberta, on Friday, according to the family > and Canadian record producer Neil MacGonigill. He had been in > deteriorating health. > > The Cowsills, inspiration for the "The Partridge Family," recorded a > series of top hits between 1967 and 1970, including "The Rain, The > Park > and Other Things" and "Hair." > > Four Cowsill brothers played in the band: Barry on bass, William on > guitar, Bob on guitar and organ, and John on drums. Their mother, > Barbara, and little sister, Susan, eventually joined the group. > > Barry disappeared after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans on August > 29. His body was recovered December 28 from the Chartres Street Wharf. > > The band's career began in Newport, Rhode Island. They were spotted by > a producer for NBC's "Today" show. The band's appearance on the show > led to a record deal. > > The band broke up in the 1970s. William, the oldest brother, moved to > Canada about 35 years ago, where he continued his music career with > Blue Northern, the Blue Shadows and the Co-Dependents. > > Many thanks to TheLenGuy for posting this obituary > > _______________________________________________ > Deathwatch mailing list > Deathwatch@slick.org > http://slick.org/mailman/listinfo/deathwatch Dave Walker dwalker@freeke.org ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 23:12:36 -0500 From: Dan Sallitt Subject: Re: [loud-fans] hey, knowledgeable people > I'm clueless (not my genres). Do you have any suggestions to offer my > friend here? >> Okay, so here I am as supplicant to your knowledge of music once >> again--are there any good academic sources out there for a student >> who wants to work on underground music Social behavior and >> influences-- genres including: Metal, metal core, hard core, punk, >> ska, psychobilly? I haven't read it, but I think Robert Walser's "Running With the Devil: Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music" is a pretty well-respected academic text on heavy metal. - Dan ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V6 #46 ******************************