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Rest in Peace to the legendary and incredibly talent Quincy Jones. Like DramatistDreamer mentioned he has so many accolades, achievements and contributions, there really isn't enough space to type them all. I'm glad he lived a very long and productive life. 

As I'm looking through twitter today watching many people celebrate him, I did come across some of these tweets, of some of his contributions that resonated with me. But he has so many. What a storied life he lived.

 

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All of the songs post above are in my personal playlist of loved songs and the Tevin Campbell and Secret Garden songs are from my adolescence but I remember watching the Listen Up documentary and being shocked that Jones produced this song.

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When I think about him I think of so many things. If I were to list a "Best of" this is what it would be: Diana Ross, Peggy Lipton, "We Are the World" & Whitney Houston. I have wondered more than once if she'd been handled by a lesser talent if it would have made a huge difference & I think it would have. 

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IIRC, when "Baby, Come to Me" was first released, it didn't do that well on the charts.  However, once GH started using the song as Luke and Holly's theme, the record company re-released it, and this time, it went to #1.

Just shows you the impact that soap operas can have on the rest of the culture, lol.

I know I read somewhere years ago that Q thought "It's My Party" was just a'ight as originally recorded until he went back and multi-tracked Gore's voice, creating that sort of vocal "echo" effect that came to characterize many of her records.

 

Ironically, I don't believe Donna Summer enjoyed working with Q all that much, and vice-versa - and really, David Geffen, who pushed for Q to produce "Donna Summer," should've known better than to assume these two would mesh well, or that their efforts would be all that successful with the record-buying public.

I mean, I love Donna Summer, but her musical style leaned more toward Europop and dance, while Q was definitely more R&B- and soul-influenced.

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Yeah, I sort of like the tension in places, but one critic mentioned that Quincy didn’t foreground Donna’s voice enough, especially on songs like “Love is in Control.” I love “State of Independence,” though—even though you can’t really pick out any of the famous voices in the chorus. May as well have hired the Mississippi Mass Choir.

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Elwood Edwards, Iconic Voice of the Early Internet Dies at 74

(For those of us on AOL back in the day, his was the voice that said "You've Got Mail." ) 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/iconic-voice-of-the-early-internet-dies-at-74/ar-AA1tHrKs?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=1193992dd08944acbb2daebf09b78e0e&ei=40

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