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Jerry Jeff Walker, Rest in Peace, Your Signature Hit 'Mr Bojangles' Has Left A Legacy That Will Outlive You A Very Long Time...

Though Never a Big Fan (of This Particular 'Beetle'), I Take the Brief Moment Here and Now to Say, to Suggest the World Would Be a Worse Place Without, and Is Instead a Better Place With, His Seminal Hit IMAGINE...Written By John Lennon (Gunned Down by a Madman Sharing My Christian Name 40 Years Ago Today) in 1971 I Believe...

In tribute to the memory of a fine songwriter, Johnny Nash, who died today - thankfully, 'of natural causes': I Can See Clearly Now (and indeed forevermore, after having first encountered and been ever afterwards 'enraptured' by this memorable classic hit)

(Though I've No Idea About Her Personally), Like So Many of My Contemporaries Growing Up in the (19)Seventies...Helen Reddy's songs 'I am Woman', and especially 'Delta Dawn' are Ones that have - for Good or Ill, for Right or Wrong - Both Then and 'Forever After' Left a Deep Impression in my Psyche...(Indeed) Not Necessarily (Always) 'For the Good', as Lucifer the (One-Time) 'Light-Bearer', the Cosmos' Original 'Chorister-in-Chief' Expressed Matters So Succinctly and Superbly in Barry Manilow's/Neil Diamond's (Actually Sometime Beach Boys' Member Bruce Johnston's) 'I Write the Songs' THAT MAKE THE WHOLE WORLD SING...