One of the prettiest voices of the rock era belonged to Phoebe Snow, who has died at age 60 following complications from a stroke suffered in January 2010.
She rocketed to fame with “Poetry Man,” and made a lot of money as the singing voice in many commercials, and the theme to “A Different World.” She devoted herself to the care of her disabled daughter, who died in 2007 at 31.
Snow resurrected some hits from the torch era, including “Teach Me Tonight,” and walloped a version of Gershwin’s “There’s a Boat That’s Leavin’ Soon for New York,” as heard on her album “Second Childhood.”
Associated Press reports that “she was born Phoebe Ann Laub to white Jewish parents in New York City in 1952, and raised in Teaneck, N.J. Though many assumed she was black, Snow never claimed African-American ancestry.”
Scotty McCreery hitting a low note last night on “American Idol” as he destroyed Stevie Wonder’s “For Once in My Life,” and flap-eared country crooner and sausage king Jimmy Dean.
Jennifer Lopez as she appeared on last night’s episode of “American Idol,” looking like the disco she-clown GF of the Jolly Green Giant. Those may not be pink sequins… it could be excess blush that’s gotten all over her sweater. They’re also reflecting the horrid green eyeshadow that was apparently applied by a myopic window washer.
Longtime Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown, at 45, as she appeared in the mid-1960s after writing “Sex and the Single Girl,” which ushered in the sexual revolution for women, and last night at age 89 at a Literacy Partners event in NYC.
Zachary Quinto, as seen last night at the premiere of “Margin Call” at Sundance Film Festival in Utah, and vaudeville great and early film star Eddie Cantor.
