Obit: Motown Legend Levi Stubbs

Subject: Obit: Motown Legend Levi Stubbs
From: maire-aine
Date: 17 Oct 08 - 02:50 PM

As a native Detroiter and a child of the Motown-sound era, this is very sad news. This from the Detroit Free Press.

Maryanne

Subject: RE: Obit: Motown Legend Levi Stubbs
From: fat B****rd
Date: 17 Oct 08 - 02:53 PM

A great singer of some of the best songs. RIP Mr. Stubbs.

Subject: RE: Obit: Motown Legend Levi Stubbs
From: GUEST,Tunesmith
Date: 17 Oct 08 - 03:54 PM

Just Walk away Renee and Reach Out!

Subject: RE: Obit: Motown Legend Levi Stubbs
From: catspaw49
Date: 17 Oct 08 - 05:10 PM

A few songs could always be counted upon to be playing in the snack bar/lounge at Berea when I was in college and the Four Tops must have damn near done half of them, be they original (Baby I Need Your Lovin', Reach Out) or covers (Renee). Damn but they were great!

I know he'd been very ill for a long time and I hope he always knew how much the music and his voice were loved by so many. Rest in Peace............

Spaw

Subject: RE: Obit: Motown Legend Levi Stubbs
From: catspaw49
Date: 17 Oct 08 - 05:37 PM

FEED ME SEYMOUR

Geeziz....Almost forgot. I dunno' who else could have provided the voice for AudreyII in the musical version of "Little Shop of Horrors."

Spaw

Subject: RE: Obit: Motown Legend Levi Stubbs
From: Geordie-Peorgie
Date: 17 Oct 08 - 06:51 PM

Aah did a lot of courtin' te the sound of The Fower Tops!

Another legend gone te the greta big 'gig in the sky'

Mind! The'll hev a canny hoose band up theor!

Levi! Gan te yer rest Bonnie Lad! Ye've left a sad space doon here but many happy memories

Subject: RE: Obit: Motown Legend Levi Stubbs
From: katlaughing
Date: 17 Oct 08 - 06:53 PM

Just listening to a great story about him on NPR, right now. Beautiful...sad that he is now gone.

RIP and thanks, Mr. Stubbs!

kat

Subject: RE: Obit: Motown Legend Levi Stubbs
From: John Hardly
Date: 17 Oct 08 - 06:56 PM

Probably my favorite voice from the 60s (and there sure were some great voices in the 60s). Just Ask The Lonely
is as good as a song gets. And Stubb's voice was as good as a voice gets.

What a giant.

Subject: RE: Obit: Motown Legend Levi Stubbs
From: Big Mick
Date: 17 Oct 08 - 10:27 PM

Damn, John, old buddy. That might be one of the greatest ever. I grew up on his music, and like Maryanne (Hello, my friend!!) I feel a certain kinship being a native of the area.

This man's voice will be heard always.

Mick

Subject: RE: Obit: Motown Legend Levi Stubbs
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 17 Oct 08 - 11:30 PM

I wasn't a big soul music fan back in the day but Levi and the Four Tops were an exception. Not a pretty voice, but a voice that seemed to shake with passion and pain.

Subject: RE: Obit: Motown Legend Levi Stubbs
From: Zen
Date: 18 Oct 08 - 02:19 AM

R.I.P. Levi... one of the greats and part of my growing up too.

Zen

Subject: RE: Obit: Motown Legend Levi Stubbs
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 18 Oct 08 - 02:38 AM

A fantastic voice, now sadly gone - but a wonderful legacy of fabulous recorded performances by One Of The Very Best.
RIP, you were a Diamond Geezer.
J

Subject: RE: Obit: Motown Legend Levi Stubbs
From: maire-aine
Date: 18 Oct 08 - 12:07 PM

Subject: RE: Obit: Motown Legend Levi Stubbs
From: GUEST,albert
Date: 18 Oct 08 - 02:17 PM

Such a beautiful singer and such great songs and a wonderful vocal band. Wasn't it Billy Bragg who recorded Levi stubbs' tears?
ALBERT

Subject: RE: Obit: Motown Legend Levi Stubbs
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 18 Oct 08 - 04:33 PM

My wife and I had the pleasure of hearing the Four Tops several years ago. What impressed me most was that they were all original members. None of this stuff where one member was a replacement, ten years after the original group started breaking up. We heard them at an Oyster Festival in Norwalk, Connecticut. If people can have festivals, why not oysters? It was a small, outdoor setting, and we were twenty feet away. A memorable night.

Jerry