06-03-2009, 09:22 PM
Koko Taylor died today at 80.
If you ever saw her perform live, you witnessed a treat as she belted out Wang Dang Doodle. I saw her two or three times, and enjoyed her everytime she sang.
http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/200...at-80.html
If you ever saw her perform live, you witnessed a treat as she belted out Wang Dang Doodle. I saw her two or three times, and enjoyed her everytime she sang.
http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/200...at-80.html
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Chicago blues legend Koko Taylor died this afternoon while recovering from surgery to repair gastrointestinal bleeding. She was 80.
“She was recovering slowly but surely, and then she had a real bad night,” a spokesman for Taylor’s longtime Chicago-based label, Alligator Records, told the Chicago Tribune.
She was born Cora Walton in 1928 in Memphis, orphaned by age 11, and worked in the cotton fields to support herself. She and her future husband, Robert “Pops” Taylor, came to Chicago in 1952, and her big voice soon began filling South Side clubs.
Her final performance was May 7 in Memphis at the Blues Music Awards. After being honored as Traditional Blues Female Artist of the Year she sang “Wang Dang Doodle,” her signature song.