Great last single before they died

[Jason]

That's because you're a fuckin' American. Americans are prude and don't get good humor.

[Chris D.]

That's because you're a fodain' American. Americans are prude and don't get good humor.

I really wanted to share my freedom fries with you two before that.

[al]

Who Are You -  the single came out and then Keith went and died. I was on a ship sailing down the coast of the UK after going round Europe when I heard. They never made a great single after that....

[Jason]

f*** freedom fries. They're French fries. Yes, I dig the French people, so I refer to the fries properly.

[Chris D.]

"Alec Eiffel" -- The Pixies

[cabinessence]

In 1967, Italian singer songwriter Luigi Tenco made quite sure his last single would get the attention it deserved. He'd poured all his talent and soul into a killingly sad generational anthem  too catchy not to sing along with however painful the lyrics about kids leaving home from their small provincial towns everywhere around the world en masse, waving and smiling as they departed with the sun in their eyes...off to lose their innocence in dead end existences in  big, industrial cities, or to  die in Vietnam.

Couldn't miss. Luigi got shortlisted for the big annual musical competition in San Remo that drove all commercial sales, and booked his room at the resort, did lots of publicity with exotic and glamorous girlfriend and singer Dalida on his arm, spouting on over-passionately and undershavedly about how his song could not fail, it was the magic bullet needed to kill off all the trite, plastic pop crap prevailing and clear the way for reality pop, wake up everybody with a call for revolution, what's happening now, man...etc.

Something was fatally skewed, the signs were there to see, but Tenco's seething sincerity was written off as usual rock star eccentricity

They wrote differently soon enough. Luigi got his extended tourney on stage, stayed through the rounds up to final innings..only to be ousted for top place by a trite, plastic pop crap song that had the temerity to call itself The Revolution - no consciousness-raising here at all, just a message to pick flowers, make love not war, and wear groovy threads at happening discotheques.

The irony and the insult   was too much for Tenco, who in a fit of Daffy Duck like pique stormed off to his hotel room and blew his brains out!

That sure pushed the winning song out of the headlines! And his song onto the radios, where it took on truly morbid significances far from what the composer had first intended, given that the song's title and also the chorus-tag sung several dozen times in a deep, sardonic and weary voice, now became unavoidably interpreted as a final protest and a goodbye from beyond the grave. That title and tag line? Ciao, Amore

[Ron]

I got one that I'm not sure if anybody mentioned... AND, I'm not sure that it was released as a 'last single' but I know it was recorded shortly before his death...


Buddy Holly - True Love Ways

[Bean Bag]

In the spirit of Cab's Bolan thread...Whatever Mark Bolan's last TREX single was.

He was on top in 77.

[theeponymuseudonym]

GETCHA BACK THE BEACH BOYS minus dennis

[Sheriff John Stone]

I know it ain't rock & roll, but...

The last song Frank Sinatra recorded before he died was "Silent Night".

It was an eerie, poignant recording. Haunting actually. The quality of Frank's vocal was determined to be unsatisfactory (a matter of opinion) and the track was not released. Years later the song surfaced on a Sinatra Christmas compilation CD.

[I. Spaceman]

In the spirit of Cab's Bolan thread...Whatever Mark Bolan's last TREX single was.

He was on top in 77.

Soul Of My Suit.

[artie]

Walk Away-Del Shannon
It Doesn't Matter Anymore-Buddy Holly

Very well put. Walk Away is a great, great song. And the Holly tune is wistfully beautiful. I believe it was written by Paul Anka.

[Ron]

Oh, sorry about that didn't notice somebody already id'd buddy's last song.  Still a great single. 

[richardsnow]

Yeh "It doesn't matter any more" was the last one released in Buddy's lifetime.
But I think True Love Ways was cut at the very same session, I may be wrong. Also a great track though.

For some reason I have a feeling True Love Ways, It Doesn't matter anymore and Raining in my Heart were all cut in New York. where as the Norman Petty produced stuff was done in Clovis.

[AKA]

"The Show Must Go On" - Queen

[TV Forces]

foda freedom fries. They're French fries. Yes, I dig the French people, so I refer to the fries properly.

They sure have a handle on those muslims burning the merda out of their country.
Hippie pacifism rules!

oh yeah, and "That'll Be The Day" by Buddy Holly.

[Jason]

They sure have a handle on those muslims burning the merda out of their country.
Hippie pacifism rules!

No offense, but that's the dumbest thing I've ever had the pleasure of reading here. I'll bet you loved when a group of militant Muslims made mincemeat out of New York City.

[theeponymuseudonym]

AAAHHHH! here we go dr. uhn, think you've opened a kettle?

lets bring it another thread, whatdya say?

[Jason]

I haven't opened a kettle, but I'm not afraid to rail against someone for a genuinely stupid remark.

[donald]

Me and Bobby McGee............the big hit off the last album.....Janis Joplin

[theeponymuseudonym]

I haven't opened a kettle, but I'm not afraid to rail against someone for a genuinely stupid remark

Believe Me People,I, for one can attest to that!!

unless that u know u know yr sh*t

Please think twice before crossing the good Doc.

[Bean Bag]

In the spirit of Cab's Bolan thread...Whatever Mark Bolan's last TREX single was.

He was on top in 77.

Soul Of My Suit.

Nice, thanks man!  I love that one!!

[I. Spaceman]

Me too! Marc was one of the all-timers. Great artist, great performer.

[Lester Byrd]

Eddie Cochran-"'Three Steps To Heaven"
George Harrison-"Any Road"

and of course,

Chris Bell-"I Am The Cosmos"

[matt 1234]

"love will tear us apart"
ian curtis
I dont know though if that was the last recording before he died