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OK. Just one more then I am done regarding this musician.

No Ken no….stop it. But but… Oh chit we gotta go now:

...for your listening pleasure:

Oh wait… The rec players skipped. And for those who remember the record player:

This is excerpted from an email I just wrote to my friend who was standing in line with me to see Otis Redding, only 54 years ago tonight, when they came out and announced his death in Lake Monona only a few miles away.

TAT



This is clearly what we expected on Dec 10, 1967, only 54 years ago today, but tragically never happened! A surreal blast from the past!

Otis Redding: The Crown Prince of Soul Is Dead. The singer dies in a plane crash at 26 years old


I recently stumbled onto a RollingStone article about the writing and recording of "Dock of the Bay" that has much more detail than most want, but I red it anyway.
I would have sent you quotes from the lynx but I exhausted my free access before the paywall blocked me.

Dock of the bay story



We did see a number of imitators of Otis doing Tenderness, but they just wernt quite up to it!

June 2022 is midway over, and so is 2022 and it's been an interesting year for 2022 EDM - lots of classic tracks from classic artists covered in the EDM genre came out this year: Pink Floyd, KISS, Kate Bush.

Pink Floyd's - Another Brink in the Wall (Part II) from 1979:



The 2022 cover of Another Brick... by Piero Pirupa - We Don't Need



I'm sure many of you also remember the 1979 release of KISS - I Was Made For Loving You



The 2022 Oliver Helden / Niles Rodgers of Chic fame cover:



From 1985, Kate Bush - Running Up The Hill



2022 cover by Anyma - Running

I wrote the above on 10/04/21. I have been waiting (...and waiting!) for the song to play again. I finally heard it again today... over a year later.




The question is: Is this real whistling or computer generated?

EDIT:
Now that I hear the song on YouTube, I think that it might be a piccolo and not whistling.

EDIT 2: No, it's whistling.