{"id":235,"date":"2006-01-06T08:13:54","date_gmt":"2006-01-06T16:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=235"},"modified":"2006-01-06T11:49:05","modified_gmt":"2006-01-06T19:49:05","slug":"lou-rawls-1935-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2006\/01\/06\/lou-rawls-1935-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Lou Rawls, 1935-2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re sad to report that this instantly-recognizable voice has fallen silent today. Damsel and I have always loved and enjoyed Lou Rawls&#8217; style and music. Rawls was a veteran of the U.S. Army 82nd Airborne Paratroopers. He had an extraordinary gift as a performer. We have all benefited from that gift.<\/p>\n<p>From Wikipedia: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lou_Rawls\">Lou Rawls<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-images\/0601\/rawls.jpg\" class=\"right\" \/>Louis Allen Rawls (December 1, 1935 &#8211; January 6, 2006) is a Chicago-born American soul music, jazz, and blues singer. Known for his smooth vocal style, Frank Sinatra once said that Rawls had &#8220;the classiest singing and silkiest chops in the singing game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rawls has released more than 70 albums, been in movies, television shows and voiced-over many cartoons. A high school classmate of soul giant Sam Cooke, Rawls sang with Cooke in the Teenage Kings of Harmony, a 50&#8217;s gospel group. Rawls enlisted in the US Army as a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division in 1955. He would leave the &#8220;All-Americans&#8221; three years later as a Sergeant and hook up with a group he had sang with before enlisting, the Pilgrim Travelers. In 1958, while touring the South with the Travelers and Sam Cooke, Rawls was in a serious car crash which claimed the life of one person. Rawls was actually pronounced dead before getting to the hospital where he stayed in a coma for 5 1\/2 days. It took him months to regain his memory and a year to fully recuperate. Rawls considered the event life-changing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lou_Rawls\">More . . .<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re sad to report that this instantly-recognizable voice has fallen silent today. Damsel and I have always loved and enjoyed Lou Rawls&#8217; style and music. Rawls&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,26,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-entertainment","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}