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Legends Do Die!


      Among Music Legends in time, we have many including, Patsy Cline, Elvis Presley, Hank Williams. Johnny Cash. and many more, now among them is Whitney Houston. If Heaven has a choir, it is indeed one heck of a great one isn’t it? Such stars have gone to Heaven early in their lives and some even late. Many unexpected when they left, and few lived long enough to enjoy the fame they got as entertainers. Stop and think back on those that the Music World and the World in general lost and you will see what I mean.

      Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, The Temptations, Sam Cooke, Karen Carpenter, and many more. Some of my favorites are up there too, Jim Croce, Harry Chapin, Seals and Crofts, Jim Reeves just to name a few. Amazingly, the halls of Heaven has a heck of a female group up there, Patsy Cline, Whitney Houston and more, imagine if you can reaching the golden gates of heaven and listening to so many voices, raised in joyful harmony, and knowing you have reached peace.

       It is always sad to see anyone die, and pass from this plane of existence, and return to from whence we all came. In the end, the music these greats shared with us all, lives on the planet decades and centuries after they are gone. They did what they were put here to do, they reached the hearts and minds of people world-wide, and brought what joy and happiness they could.

         Is it fair that they go younger than most or that they go from different ways? Why must some die of overdosing, heart attacks, suicide? But, no one can answer these questions, nor will we ever do so, for if we had the answers, surely we would try to prevent it all from happening.

       We can’t prevent death, we can hardly deal with it when it hits us, from someone we knew or close to us or famous dies. We can’t prevent it for them, nor can we prevent it ultimately for us too. The stars line the heavens and it’s gates and fences, and if you listen carefully when you lay in bed half asleep, or daydream, you will hear the voices singing the praises of heaven and the gods.

          So as the World and Whitney Houston’s family and friends, prepare to lay her to rest, lets give them a moment of peace and silence to remember her in their own way and be respectful to it all. You can say your good-byes to Whitney by singing her songs, dancing to them, remembering her smile and laughter and more. In this world we live in, few give as much as our entertainers, singers and actors, and in the end, they get remembered for the giving they did, not for the circumstances of their deaths. Honor their legacies, their songs, the imagines of them happy and singing loudly!

       For in the end, we have Legends who die daily.and history books are written about their deeds and acts and voices and more, for we as humans always admire, and love those who give so much to entertain us all!.

 

         

Whitney’s Death


      Over my Lifetime I have seen and heard of many, many famous people dying, at different ages and times, from many different things. Car accidents,heart attacks,brain tumors, plane crashes and even in taxis, now hotel rooms come to mind also. Among these famous people who died from  causes non-related to drugs or alcohol, few remember them at all.

        We had singers and songwriters die, from Harry Chapin, Jim Croce, Frank Sinatra and more. But the death of Whitney Houston yesterday, reminds me of the death of Judy Garland long ago.

        The similarities are amazing because both had the same problems with alcohol and drugs and both left us way too young. Their voices will be heard for decades and lifetimes to come. Like angels of the night who shine bright, their voices rang and entered people’s hearts and lives in so many ways.

        Like Judy Garland, Whitney Houston had her theme song and sang it loud and clear and many times over. The two voices if combined probably could have opened the gates to heaven!. Sadly though, now all we have left are recordings of these voices of so many famous singers of my time on earth. Their recording brought great joy and happiness to millions if not billions World Wide.

         Sadly, the artists that die so young are also the ones so talented it is hard not to mourn their passing, even though we know, they did pass due to their own struggles with addictions they should have never started and could not control. The pressure to perform and stay on top is hard for anyone under such a spot light and beacon shinning on them. Yet some can do it forever like Tony Bennet, who said the world lost a professional and great singer in Whitney.

         As the news casts and more reverberate with news of what killed Whitney Houston and what caused her death is yet to be told, we have to remember, we did not live the life she did, nor did we feel the pressures, addictions and hurts that ate at her soul. Only, she did and no one else can say otherwise.

        As we all think back on Whitney Houston and her career and singing skills, I say what is maybe the Greatest Tribute to a  Great Singer, in her own sung words- IIIIIIIIIIIIII Willlllllllll Alwayssssssssssss oveeeeeeeeeeee Youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!.