RICHIE HAVENS.......RIP

[Whirlaway]

Age 72...grew up in Brooklyn singing with a church choir and learning ballads by singing doo wop on the street corners..

A true gentleman by all accounts...........rip Richie...........


Here he is covering Harrison's "Here Comes The Sun".........like many Dylan songs, RH owned this Beatle hit.



Enjoy........

[Whirlaway]

RH also covered many Bob Dylan hits; doing "Dylan" better than Dylan.....

When asked about it, RH shared this antidote:

Mr. Havens played many songs written by Mr. Dylan, and he spent three days learning his epic “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall.” A man who heard him practicing it stopped him on the stairs as he headed for the dressing room of a nightclub, and told him it was the best he’d ever heard the song sung.

“That’s how I first met Bob Dylan,” Mr. Havens said

[Yssup Rider]

Had the pleasure of meeting him during the Woodstock era. He was exuberant, to say the least. And yes, a true gentleman.

[CJ7]

I grew up with a friend that could strum a hollow-body and sing/sound exactly like Richie

Peace Richie.