Tom King died!<\/p>\n
Tom WHO?<\/p>\n
So I’m sitting on the plane reading the obituaries.\u00c2\u00a0 My father used to be addicted, would wake up my mom on a regular basis saying GUESS WHO DIED!<\/p>\n
She hated it, and I didn’t get it, but now I’m addicted.\u00c2\u00a0 And I don’t know why.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe it’s the compartmentalization of life, that’s all there is, between birth and death, the story’s complete.<\/p>\n
And you read all kinds of crazy things.\u00c2\u00a0 The inventors of food products, scientific breakthroughs, if you make the obits, you were a hit.\u00c2\u00a0 You did something noteworthy.<\/p>\n
And "Time Won’t Let Me" by the Outsiders was extremely noteworthy.<\/p>\n
It was a hit in ’66.\u00c2\u00a0 And I always thought they were a Boston band, but I read online that was because local promotion man, AL COURY, broke them big there.<\/p>\n
We were addicted to the radio.\u00c2\u00a0 This was just before FM.\u00c2\u00a0 The Beatles had wiped clean what had come before and everybody was trying to capture the energy of the U.K.<\/p>\n
And "Time Won’t Let Me" did.<\/p>\n
It’s the way the song bounces up and down.\u00c2\u00a0 You can’t keep from shaking your head.\u00c2\u00a0 And then your body.<\/p>\n
There are horns.\u00c2\u00a0 An intimate vocal, like a phone call, and then a big chorus, that you couldn’t help but sing along with, that I still can’t help but sing along with when I hear it on Sixties on Six.<\/p>\n
What did Bill Murray say in "Stripes"?\u00c2\u00a0 One day Tito Puente’s gonna die and then his girlfriend can say she’s been listening to him FOREVER?<\/p>\n
Eventually, Tito Puente did die.\u00c2\u00a0 And now it’s the turn of the sixties rockers.\u00c2\u00a0 The ones who didn’t O.D. on drugs but had bad health turns and died before their time.\u00c2\u00a0 Like Tom King.<\/p>\n
Tom King co-wrote "Time Won’t Let Me".<\/p>\n
And this is all most of us remember, but it’s enough.<\/p>\n
Watch him here:<\/p>\n
\nOutsiders – Time Won’t Let Me<\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\nHe’s the rhythm guitarist.\u00c2\u00a0 The front man is Sonny Geraci, who went on to front Climax, whose "Precious and Few" was written by former Outsider Walter Nims.<\/p>\n
Whew!\u00c2\u00a0 Ain’t that rock history!<\/p>\n
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