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Rhino
1/6/2006, 11:08 AM
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Singer Lou Rawls Dies at 72
01.06.2006, 10:57 AM

Grammy Award-winning singer Lou Rawls has died of lung cancer in Los Angeles. He was 72.

The velvet-voiced singer started as a church choir boy and went on to sell more than 40 million albums. He won three Grammy Awards in a career that spanned nearly five decades and a range of genres.

Rawls died this morning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. He was hospitalized last month.

soonerbrat
1/6/2006, 11:12 AM
RIP Lou

crawfish
1/6/2006, 11:13 AM
You'll never find...

Beef
1/6/2006, 11:14 AM
Damn. The day finally came, BSG.

Fugue
1/6/2006, 11:15 AM
Damn. The day finally came, BSG.

yeah, its weird now that it has.

Okla-homey
1/6/2006, 11:19 AM
Great pipes. Great guy. RIP.

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Lou Rawls 1935-2006

C&CDean
1/6/2006, 11:31 AM
Dang, now who's gonna pimp that life insurance where you only have to put nickels in your jar on the dresser?

VeeJay
1/6/2006, 11:32 AM
That album "Rock and Roll Animal" was the best!

crawfish
1/6/2006, 11:38 AM
You'll never find...

as long as you live...

Mjcpr
1/6/2006, 11:40 AM
Damn. The day finally came, BSG.

Yep, that's the first thing I thought of. She's going to be beside herself.

Maybe this is where she's been all this time!

RIP Lou.

crawfish
1/6/2006, 11:41 AM
as long as you live...

Someone who loves you, tender like I do.

Okla-homey
1/6/2006, 11:42 AM
He was a great promoter of the UNCF too.

Soonerbabeinbama
1/6/2006, 11:43 AM
One of the best voices ever. Sad day.:(

crawfish
1/6/2006, 11:46 AM
Yep, that's the first thing I thought of. She's going to be beside herself.

Maybe this is where she's been all this time!

RIP Lou.

Well, thank goodness he died, then. BSG can transfer her nursing skillz to stanley.

TUSooner
1/6/2006, 02:08 PM
One of the best voices ever. Sad day.:(
Yep.

Oldnslo
1/6/2006, 02:30 PM
Sux. I saw him in Tulsa several years ago. Dude still had the pipes.

I'm not braggin on myself, baby, but there's no one else.

Mjcpr
3/1/2006, 04:19 PM
Hate to break it to you BSG.... :(

crawfish
3/1/2006, 04:28 PM
Why do you think she's been gone so long?

Idiot. :rolleyes:

BlondeSoonerGirl
3/1/2006, 04:30 PM
Sweetest, smoovest pimp ever.

Very sad.

You guys don't think I bad karmatized him, do you? I'd hate to think I had anything to do it...

Okla-homey
3/1/2006, 07:36 PM
Sweetest, smoovest pimp ever.

Very sad.

You guys don't think I bad karmatized him, do you? I'd hate to think I had anything to do it...

No ma'am. That old witch Cancer is a wicked bitch. Lou's no longer in her evil clutches and he's not hurting anymore.

JohnnyMack
3/1/2006, 08:05 PM
No ma'am. That old witch Cancer is a wicked bitch. Lou's no longer in her evil clutches and he's not hurting anymore.

Bet he wishes he hadn't smoked in restaurants!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111111

Frocklin' benoncey.

Okla-homey
3/1/2006, 08:17 PM
Bet he wishes he hadn't smoked in restaurants!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111111

Frocklin' benoncey.

I agree, no one should smoke in restaurants. Bars is a whole 'nuther kettle of fish. Ain't nuthin' healthy going on in them places to start with.

Don't get me (re)started.:mad: