Post by Guest aka Blondie on Jul 6, 2005 12:43:14 GMT -5
Davis Joins the Elders (P-Funk, Temptations and
Zapp)
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 01:30:27 -0400
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I was all set to give yall a sterling report from the Vocal Group Hall of
Fame Inductions.
However on my way back tonight my cellphone was burning up with calls, not
unlike what
happened to me on friday afternoon with Luther Vandross. I was getting phone
calls all the way
from Chicago to NJ from members of the P-Funk family.
Right at this moment I don't feel much like writing anything
Ray Davis the GREAT bass singer for P-Funk, Temptations and Zapp passed away
this evening.
At various points in his career, Ray had been a member of all three groups. However he is best known as one of the founding members (along with George
Clinton, Fuzzy
Haskins, Grady Thomas and Calvin Simon) of a relatively unsuccessful/long
suffering doo wop
group from Plainfield New Jersey called the "Parliaments" back in the late
1950's.
They later went on to great fame as "Funkadelic", then later "Parliament"
and of course as
"Parliament-Funkadelic" during the 1970's. Ray Davis's is voice is famous
for having delivered
some of the most memorable and lasting lines in the history of FUNK MUSIC.
In fact some of his
most famous lines have become a part of the lexicon of the American language
as we know it
today and will last well into the future. And for those accomplishments and
more, Ray Davis
was enshrined into the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame.
Later he joined Zapp where he played a similar role.
Then he joined the Temptations, replacing Melvin Franklin. It is Ray's bass
singing that you
hear on what was in my opinion, the last great album by the Temptations
("For Lovers Only" -
1995). After that album Ray was forced to leave the Tempations because of
the onslught of lung
cancer. When the cancer receeded Ray along with Fuzzy Haskins, Grady Thomas
and Calvin Simon
formed a group called "Original P" touring the country performing P-Funk,
Temptations and Zapp
songs.
Ray Davis was a member of the Soul-Patrol mailing list for many years and he
loved it,
although he never made more than a few postings
He was one of the first artists to become "internet savvy" and as such was a
big supporter of
what we were trying to accomplish here on Soul-Patrol. He opened many doors
for us, that we
otherwise would have been able to way badk wheb...
He was a friend to me.
I am going to miss Ray Davis quite a bit....
NP: "We gonna tear the roof off the muthasuka, tear the roof off the
muthasucka, tear the roof
off the suka..."
--Ray Davis
Zapp)
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 01:30:27 -0400
****************************************************************
SOUL-PATROL.NET RADIO
TRIBUTE: OBIE BENSON/FOUR TOPS www.soul-patrol.net/fourtops.ram
FEATURING THE CD: "BREAKING THRU"
(Soul-Patrol's Best CD release of 1999)
_
www.soul-patrol.net/fourtops.ram
<a href=" www.soul-patrol.net/fourtops.ram "> Same Old Song, I'm
Falling For You, Stll Water, This Can't Be Love, On The Street Where You
Live, Gee Baby Ain't I good To You, The Way Nature Planned It, Nice and
Easy, Maybe Today, Stranger On The Shore, Young and Foolish, Function at the
Junction </a>
R.I.P - OBIE BENSON
****************************************************************
I was all set to give yall a sterling report from the Vocal Group Hall of
Fame Inductions.
However on my way back tonight my cellphone was burning up with calls, not
unlike what
happened to me on friday afternoon with Luther Vandross. I was getting phone
calls all the way
from Chicago to NJ from members of the P-Funk family.
Right at this moment I don't feel much like writing anything
Ray Davis the GREAT bass singer for P-Funk, Temptations and Zapp passed away
this evening.
At various points in his career, Ray had been a member of all three groups. However he is best known as one of the founding members (along with George
Clinton, Fuzzy
Haskins, Grady Thomas and Calvin Simon) of a relatively unsuccessful/long
suffering doo wop
group from Plainfield New Jersey called the "Parliaments" back in the late
1950's.
They later went on to great fame as "Funkadelic", then later "Parliament"
and of course as
"Parliament-Funkadelic" during the 1970's. Ray Davis's is voice is famous
for having delivered
some of the most memorable and lasting lines in the history of FUNK MUSIC.
In fact some of his
most famous lines have become a part of the lexicon of the American language
as we know it
today and will last well into the future. And for those accomplishments and
more, Ray Davis
was enshrined into the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame.
Later he joined Zapp where he played a similar role.
Then he joined the Temptations, replacing Melvin Franklin. It is Ray's bass
singing that you
hear on what was in my opinion, the last great album by the Temptations
("For Lovers Only" -
1995). After that album Ray was forced to leave the Tempations because of
the onslught of lung
cancer. When the cancer receeded Ray along with Fuzzy Haskins, Grady Thomas
and Calvin Simon
formed a group called "Original P" touring the country performing P-Funk,
Temptations and Zapp
songs.
Ray Davis was a member of the Soul-Patrol mailing list for many years and he
loved it,
although he never made more than a few postings
He was one of the first artists to become "internet savvy" and as such was a
big supporter of
what we were trying to accomplish here on Soul-Patrol. He opened many doors
for us, that we
otherwise would have been able to way badk wheb...
He was a friend to me.
I am going to miss Ray Davis quite a bit....
NP: "We gonna tear the roof off the muthasuka, tear the roof off the
muthasucka, tear the roof
off the suka..."
--Ray Davis