Harvey Scales (and others) RIP

It's time to catch up on some music deaths over the last few weeks. I was sorry to hear of the death of Milwaukee based soul man Harvey Scales, who appeared memorably at Porretta in 2011. Here what's I wrote at the time: 'The evening began with Harvey Scales, who I hadn't seen before and who had a soul hit in the late 60s with Get Down backed with Love-It-Is. Dressed in a lime green suit Harvey proved he is a real showman and any limitations vocally were more than made up for by his dynamic stage act. Kicking off with Sweet Soul Music, which got the crowd going, he moved into more imaginative territory with Wilson Pickett's I'm In Love and his own material - Spend The Nite Forever, What's Good For You, Broadway Freeze and snatches of Get Down and Love-It-Is. He finished with Disco Lady, a song he wrote for Johnnie Taylor and which was the first ever platinum single by an African-American artist.'

Another recent death is that of Reggie Young,at the age of 82,  a brilliant guitarist who was a member of 'The Memphis Boys' and whose work can be heard on records by Elvis, the Box Tops, Dusty Springfield, Merrilee Rush, Willie Nelson and many others, including soul greats such as James Carr, O V Wright, Joe Tex and Solomon Burke.. Reggie was interviewed by Red Kelly at one of the Ponderosa Stomp conference sessions in 2017 (pictured).
Also passed on is James Ingram, at the age of 66, a soul singer and songwriter whose greatest success came in the 1980s with hits such as 'Just Once' (with Quincy Jones), 'Baby Come To Me'
(with Patti Austin), 'Someone Out There' (with Linda Ronstadt) and 'I Don't Have The Heart'. He won two Grammy Awards and was twice nominated for Best Original Song at the Academy Awards.
A final word, too, for country singer Bonnie Guitar, who has died aged 95, and Nashville session guitarist Harold Bradley, aged 93. RIP to them all.
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