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Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Music Deaths: Winfield Scott and Cynthia Robinson

WINFIELD SCOTT, 95

Died Oct. 26, 2015.

Co-wrote "Return to Sender" and "One Broken Heart."    "Return to Sender is one of  my favorite Elvis songs.  Also wrote "LaVern Baker's hit "Tweedle Dee," Connie Francis' "Many Tears Ago" and Bill Haley's "Burn That Candle."

CYNTHIA ROBINSON, 69

Died Nov. 23, 2015

Vocalist and horn player with Sly & the Family Stone.  Also played with Graham Central Station.  Inducted into Rock and Roll hall of Fame in 1993 with Sly & the Family Stone who charted ten times including #1 hits "Everyday People"-1969, "Thank You Falletin Me BeMice Elf Agin"-1970 and "Family Affair"-1971.

Sly & the Family Stone's Greatest Hits was one of four albums we played at my fraternity parties (Delta Sigma Phi at Northern Illinois University) back in the college years.  The other three: Temptations Greatest Hits, Four Tops Greatest Hits and CCR's Green River.

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