The Hits Just Keep On Comin' (Free subscription) | 24/11/2008
... one of the rock era’s most pivotal years, the tragedy genre yakked up its greatest hit: “Honey” by Bobby Goldsboro. It’s the story of a guy with an endearingly dimwitted wife (plants trees sure to die, wrecks the car, loves puppies, cries watching sad movies) who dies suddenly (”One day while I was not at home/While she was there and all alone/The angels came”), all backed by sweet strings, an...
The Boombox Music Blog (Free subscription) | 24/11/2008
... paving the way for the Dylans and the Baezs of the world. Reynolds, right with Dave Guard and Bob Shane, had been in the hospital with acute respiratory disease before his family took him off life support. He was 75.APNorman Whitfield, Sept. 16: The Motown tunesmith responsible for anthems like 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine' 'Car Wash' and 'War' died shortly after awakening from a diabetes-related...
The Age (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
... folk ballad Tom Dooley, went to No. 1 in 1958 and earned Reynolds and his partners Dave Guard and Bob Shane a Grammy Award for best country and western performance at the first Grammy ceremony. The following year, the album The Kingston Trio at Large picked up a second Grammy for the group.Reynolds typically handled the middle part of the trio's scintillating three-part harmonies, sometimes...
