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Title: RIP ~ Levi Stubbs
Post by OldSchoolMule on Oct 17^th, 2008 at 1:24pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi_Stubbs

A Favorite ~

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rK3CGdyJBrI&feature=related

Title: Re: RIP ~ Levi Stubbs
Post by glencar on Oct 17^th, 2008 at 1:32pm

RIP levi. What a voice.

Title: Re: RIP ~ Levi Stubbs
Post by Ginda on Oct 17^th, 2008 at 3:38pm

RIP. I loved the music of the Tops (and Temps) then and now. It only gets better with time. Motown is hard to beat.

Title: Re: RIP ~ Levi Stubbs
Post by Gazza on Oct 17^th, 2008 at 3:46pm

Damn. Truly one of the greatest singers that ever lived. Up there with Elvis and Al Green in my book.

Been on the cards for quite some time, unfortunately.

Just read a few minutes ago that he was a cousin of Jackie Wilson. Never knew that.

Title: Re: RIP ~ Levi Stubbs
Post by Brainbell Jangler on Oct 17^th, 2008 at 4:11pm

Time to shut the office down, go home and spin some Four Tops. So long, Levi, and thanks for all the soul.

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Post by Heart Of Stone on Oct 17^th, 2008 at 4:47pm

I've loved The four Tops, so sad, R.I.P. thay were one of the Motown acts, that I really loved.

Title: Re: RIP ~ Levi Stubbs
Post by glencar on Oct 17^th, 2008 at 5:54pm

He was Jackie Wilson's cousin? Never knew that!

Title: Re: RIP ~ Levi Stubbs
Post by twenty dollar me on Oct 17^th, 2008 at 6:05pm

cancer and a stroke? jesus, what a horrible way to go.

rip.

Title: Re: RIP ~ Levi Stubbs
Post by Sioux on Oct 17^th, 2008 at 6:52pm

I was really bummed out to come home from work and read that on the news....:(

Yeah, he'd been ill for about 8 years or so, although he was in the audience at a PBS special a year or two ago, when the Tops tried to perform without him.

I am more a Stax person than a Motown person---but there are always exceptions to the rule. Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, early Stevie Wonder, Martha Reeves......and the Tops. Much "rawer" sound than the Temps or the Supremes. Love those other singers, but somehow Levi was the VOICE of Motown.

He will be greatly missed....:(

Title: Re: RIP ~ Levi Stubbs
Post by Kilroy on Oct 17^th, 2008 at 7:16pm

THe man had the Vocal. RIP LEVI :'(

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Title: Re: RIP ~ Levi Stubbs
Post by stonedinaustralia on Oct 19^th, 2008 at 9:03pm

very sad indeed - thankfully the music will live forever

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt89ZLRkgdE

Title: Re: RIP ~ Levi Stubbs
Post by GotToRollMe on Oct 19^th, 2008 at 9:31pm

Damn. Another legend lost. What a voice. What a man. RIP, Levi.

Title: Re: RIP ~ Levi Stubbs
Post by Slavegirl on Oct 20^th, 2008 at 1:35pm

As a child of the 80s, I will always remember Levi Stubbs as the awesome voice of this

FEED ME SEYMOUR!!!!

Title: Re: RIP ~ Levi Stubbs
Post by Some Guy on Oct 20^th, 2008 at 5:29pm

Slavegirl wrote on Oct 20^th, 2008 at 1:35pm:

As a child of the 80s, I will always remember Levi Stubbs as the awesome voice of this

FEED ME SEYMOUR!!!!

Yes!