RICHIE HAVENS.......RIP

Age 72...grew up in Brooklyn singing with a church choir and learning ballads by singing doo wop on the street corners..

A true gentleman by all accounts...........rip Richie...........


Here he is covering Harrison's "Here Comes The Sun".........like many Dylan songs, RH owned this Beatle hit.



Enjoy........

RH also covered many Bob Dylan hits; doing "Dylan" better than Dylan.....

When asked about it, RH shared this antidote:

Mr. Havens played many songs written by Mr. Dylan, and he spent three days learning his epic “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall.” A man who heard him practicing it stopped him on the stairs as he headed for the dressing room of a nightclub, and told him it was the best he’d ever heard the song sung.

“That’s how I first met Bob Dylan,” Mr. Havens said

Had the pleasure of meeting him during the Woodstock era. He was exuberant, to say the least. And yes, a true gentleman.

I grew up with a friend that could strum a hollow-body and sing/sound exactly like Richie

Peace Richie.