greg wilson
11-17-2003, 02:36 PM
'Sweet Soul Music' Star Is Dead
Arthur Conley, a 1960s soul singer best known for his 1967 hit Sweet Soul Music, died today at his home in the Netherlands, where he had lived for several decades after fleeing the pressure of the US music industry, Dutch television and friends said. He was 57.
Conley, a protege of Otis Redding, had been suffering from intestinal cancer and had grown progressively weak in recent weeks, said Gunter Giesen, the band leader of a group Conley was advising. He died in his home in the town of Ruurlo, in the eastern Netherlands.
Conley was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and started his recording career in 1959 as leader of the group Arthur and the Corvets. He co-wrote Sweet Soul Music with Redding based on a number by Sam Cooke. He had several minor hits in the following two years.
He moved to Europe in the early 1970s after several tours of the continent, deciding that he was “fed up with the pressure” in the United States, said Giesen.
http://www.news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2186166
Sweet Soul Music
Arthur Conley
Do you like good music
That sweet soul music
Just as long as it's swingin'
Oh yeah, oh yeah
Out here on the floor now
We're going to a go go
Ah dancin to the music
Oh yeah, oh yeah
Spotlight on Lou Rawls y'all
Ah don't he look tall y'all
Singin' loves a hurtin' thing now
Oh yeah, oh yeah
Spotlight on Sam and Dave now
Ah don't they look boss y'all
Singin' hold on I'm comin'
Oh yeah, oh yeah
Spotlight on Wilson Pickett
That wicked picket Pickett
Singin Mustang Sally
Oh yeah, oh yeah
Spotlight on Otis Redding now
Singing fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
Fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
Oh yeah, oh yeah
Spotlight on James Brown now
He's the king of them all, yeah
He's the king of them all, yeah
Oh yeah, oh yeah
http://www.webfitz.com/lyrics/Lyrics/1967/521967.html
Arthur Conley, a 1960s soul singer best known for his 1967 hit Sweet Soul Music, died today at his home in the Netherlands, where he had lived for several decades after fleeing the pressure of the US music industry, Dutch television and friends said. He was 57.
Conley, a protege of Otis Redding, had been suffering from intestinal cancer and had grown progressively weak in recent weeks, said Gunter Giesen, the band leader of a group Conley was advising. He died in his home in the town of Ruurlo, in the eastern Netherlands.
Conley was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and started his recording career in 1959 as leader of the group Arthur and the Corvets. He co-wrote Sweet Soul Music with Redding based on a number by Sam Cooke. He had several minor hits in the following two years.
He moved to Europe in the early 1970s after several tours of the continent, deciding that he was “fed up with the pressure” in the United States, said Giesen.
http://www.news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2186166
Sweet Soul Music
Arthur Conley
Do you like good music
That sweet soul music
Just as long as it's swingin'
Oh yeah, oh yeah
Out here on the floor now
We're going to a go go
Ah dancin to the music
Oh yeah, oh yeah
Spotlight on Lou Rawls y'all
Ah don't he look tall y'all
Singin' loves a hurtin' thing now
Oh yeah, oh yeah
Spotlight on Sam and Dave now
Ah don't they look boss y'all
Singin' hold on I'm comin'
Oh yeah, oh yeah
Spotlight on Wilson Pickett
That wicked picket Pickett
Singin Mustang Sally
Oh yeah, oh yeah
Spotlight on Otis Redding now
Singing fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
Fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
Oh yeah, oh yeah
Spotlight on James Brown now
He's the king of them all, yeah
He's the king of them all, yeah
Oh yeah, oh yeah
http://www.webfitz.com/lyrics/Lyrics/1967/521967.html