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35. Can someone tell me who Marvin Gaye and Phil Ochs are?

Don Marks <dmarks@tsegw.tse.com> writes:

Phil Ochs is only one of the best folk singers ever. His songs are caustic, sarcastic, touching, hard-hitting, funny, and usually right on the mark. If you have an aversion to 60's left-wing politics, you may want to avoid him, but I'd recommend picking up the CD compilation There But For Fortune which contains some great music. TMBG covered Phil's "One More Parade" on the Rubaiyat compilation.

Marvin Gaye is a soul singer from years gone by, but I'll let someone who knows his stuff better fill in the details.

Both are dead now, sadly.

Bo Orloff <boo@netcom.com> writes:

Marvin Gaye was a quite famous & successful soul music (Motown) singer/musician/songwriter. He was shot (and killed) by his father.

Representative works:

• I Heard It Through The Grapevine
• What's Going On?
• Sexual Healing

Phil Ochs was a somewhat less famous & successful folk/protest music singer/musician/songwriter. He hung himself in his sister's bathroom.

Representative works:

• I Ain't Marchin' Anymore
• Outside of A Small Circle of Friends
• Tape From California

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