Leon Redbone

[Miningman]

Leon Redbone has passed away. We discussed Leon and his terrific sound on the Forum. 

 

[Flintlock76]

Yes, I saw it several days ago.  What a shame, and only 69 years old.

As Lady Firestorm's mother would have said, "Sixty-nine?  That's no age at all!"

Anyway, I sent this out as a "Christmas Card" to everyone last December.  Not appropriate for June first, but a good way to beat the heat, especially where I live.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYaNmC1ZiN8  

Leon at his best!

[Miningman]

From Mike

He lived in London in 1961, partly explains why a British Rail commercial.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyTgEpVttBE 

 

Excerpt from https://www.oxfordamerican.org/magazine/item/1703-vessel-of-antiquity

The Gobalian family is Armenian, products of a diaspora that’s faced centuries of oppression. Redbone’s grandparents were killed in the Turkish-led genocide of over one million Armenians during World War I. His father grew up in an orphanage. His parents were living in the Armenian Quarter of Jerusalem in 1948 when the newly established Israeli government seized their property. They could only have gotten it back, says Handler, by becoming Israeli citizens; instead, they fled empty-handed for Cyprus, then under British rule. Dickran Gobalian was born in the capital city of Nicosia in 1949. By the mid-1950s, the country was wracked by political violence. Greek Cypriots began the fight for independence, and Turkish Cypriots eventually joined in. But Greek and Turkish Cypriots also fought one another, and the establishment of an independent Cyprus—which came in 1960—didn’t bring peace. (The Turks would invade in 1974, and still occupy the northern third of Cyprus.) The Gobalians fled again. A 1961 electoral register places the Gobalians in Eastern London, but by 1965, they’d resettled in Toronto. Dickran would’ve been about sixteen years old.