Ed Skibbe writes: It is a sad week for the whole Eddy Roswell family. Our beloved friend and brother-in-arms, David Sondrup, passed away this week. David was kind, wise, stoical, enigmatic, sincere, talented and generous. He was a great friend and collaborator.
He played drums with Eddy Roswell and Phantom Ranch when we conceived, wrote and recorded the Wood&Wires record. His playing, ideas, and production ear left an indelible imprint on that record, on those songs, and on our souls.
He is/was loved and will be missed mightily.
Adios, amigo! “I’m gonna point this old truck south and I’m gonna drive, ’til I’m not cold inside.”
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OTHER NOTABLE MUSICIANS’ DEATHS
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If you want to know more about any of the musicians we lost, please check them out at http://www.wikipedia.com
August 2024
5: Caçulinha, 86, Brazilian musician (Domingão do Faustão); Maurice Williams, 86, American singer (Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs) and songwriter (“Stay”*).
*The original recording of “Stay” was the shortest single ever to reach the top of the American record charts at that time, at 1 minute 36 seconds. (According to the record label, the Four Seasons’ version was even shorter, at 1:30, and remains the shortest charting record of all time, although it did not reach #1.) . . . By 1990, it had sold more than 8 million copies. Its popularity revived when the Dirty Dancing soundtrack included it.
4: Miguel Ángel Gómez Martínez, 74, Spanish conductor and composer; Jay Jay, 67, Malaysian singer, complications from surgery and stroke; Anatol Latîsev, 63, Moldovan singer.
3: Sir Ernest Hall, 94, English businessman, pianist and composer; Shaun Martin, 45, American musician (Snarky Puppy) and record producer, seven-time Grammy winner; Antônio Meneses, 66, Brazilian cellist (Beaux Arts Trio) and academic teacher (Bern Academy of Arts); Phloen Phromdaen, 85, Thai singer.
2: Nicu Covaci, 77, Romanian rock musician (Transsylvania Phoenix); Shari Martin, 54, Kenyan gospel singer.
1: Jürgen Ahrend, 94, German pipe organ builder (Rysum organ, Schnitker organ (Groningen), Schnitger organ (Hamburg)); Claudio Gaitán, 48, Spanish radio host and rapper, heart problems.
July 2024
31: DJ Randall, 54, British DJ and record producer; Arthur Miles, 74, American R&B and jazz musician; Carmen Pateña, 83, Filipino singer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_in_2024
David Sondrup, Drummer for Eddy Roswell and Phantom Ranch, Passes // Other Notable Musicians’ Deaths
