Joe South passes

[Dave W]

Singer of Games People Play, Walk a Mile in My Shoes and others, he also wrote Hush, Down in The Boondocks and I Never Promised You a Rose Garden. He had been out of the public eye for quite a while but he leaves an impressive body of work.

Joe South dies at 72

[Denis]

Dang, those are some great songs, some of which I remember hearing as a kid in the late '60s and early '70s. RIP, Joe.

[uwe]

How ironic. And just a couple of weeks apart from Jon Lord who had his first US hit with the Deep Purple version of Hush  - still most likely the Top Ten (it went to no 4) Billboard song with the longest organ solo ever! I'm sure Joe must have been pleased, it earned him good money.




Brit Poppers Kula Shaker resurrected the song (and DP's arrangement) in 1997 and had a hit with it in England:



It's become a rock standard



Purple play it to this day, a lasting legacy for Herr South

[Droombolus]

Love the man's output ! Just recently I got the australian 2-fer releases on the Raven label and was pretty impressed by the A Look Inside and So The Seeds Are Growing albums which I had never even heard before...... The news made me wanna go home ( pun intended ) and put on some of his music. A sad loss ....... RIP Joe !

[uwe]

Always been a sucker for this song:

[patman]

Whoops...wrong guy...

[gearHed289]

Dang, those are some great songs, some of which I remember hearing as a kid in the late '60s and early '70s. RIP, Joe.

+1

[Dave W]

I had no idea that his first record was a cover of the Big Bopper's Purple People Eater Meets Witch Doctor. That was the flip side of Chantilly Lace. Also didn't know about his guitar session work.

Besides his own songs, I associate him most with Billy Joe Royal and Lynn Anderson.

[Highlander]

Wrote some great material in his time... rip...

[westen44]

It reminds you of how rare true songwriting ability is.  It can't be faked, although certainly many try.