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Reply #30 posted 02/24/12 10:23pm

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eye remember when he introduced prince & The Revolution @ the 1985 Grammy awards. He was so proud that his daughter Wendy was part of The Revolution....R.I.P. mIKE mELVOiN.... sad

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Reply #31 posted 02/25/12 3:54am

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My thoughts are with both families right now. May he R.I.P.

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Reply #32 posted 02/25/12 8:28am

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Very sad to hear.

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Reply #33 posted 02/25/12 11:00am

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Reply #34 posted 02/25/12 1:03pm

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Sad news...

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Reply #35 posted 02/25/12 2:39pm

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Very sorry to hear of their loss. R.I.P.

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Reply #36 posted 02/25/12 8:18pm

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Responsible for two very cool women. My heart goes out to his family.

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Reply #37 posted 02/26/12 12:00pm

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RIP rose sad

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Reply #38 posted 02/26/12 4:56pm

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WOW!!!! That is so sad sad

RIP!!!

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Reply #39 posted 02/26/12 5:11pm

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Reply #40 posted 02/26/12 5:25pm

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my condolences to the Melvoin family.

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Reply #41 posted 02/26/12 6:04pm

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My heart goes out to wendy and susanah's family. R.I.P pray

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Reply #42 posted 02/26/12 6:41pm

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pray

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Reply #43 posted 02/26/12 7:14pm

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sad So terribly sorry for your loss. It is So hard to lose a parent!!! Please know that he is

with God now and watching over you all.

Stay strong and let Gods love and light guide you through this rough time!!!

Paul & Lisa ~~

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Reply #44 posted 02/26/12 7:27pm

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© prince
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Reply #45 posted 02/26/12 7:47pm

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My heart and love go out to him! I heard nothing but excellent and wonderful news from this cat! sad Such a lost! I wish peace, love and heaven to him!

I can only imagine it being such a sad time for the girls as they just 'reunited' in some fashion!

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Reply #46 posted 02/26/12 9:57pm

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RIP

I wish u heaven....

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Reply #47 posted 02/26/12 10:47pm

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KCOOLMUZIQ said:

eye remember when he introduced prince & The Revolution @ the 1985 Grammy awards. He was so proud that his daughter Wendy was part of The Revolution....R.I.P. mIKE mELVOiN.... sad

I remember that as well. It was the first time I ever saw him and he was so excited! He was much more involved in the business than I ever knew, even more than his very talented children. His website, mikemelvoin.com, lists all the people he's worked with. It's a pretty amazing legacy. Condolences to the Melvoin family.

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Reply #48 posted 02/27/12 1:35am

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Rip and I wish the girls and their family the best
R.I.P. Micheal,James,Rick,and all u other funkateers
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Reply #49 posted 02/27/12 6:26am

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Very Sad news. My heart goes out to the Melvoins

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Reply #50 posted 02/27/12 6:47am

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aiden said:

Very Sad news. My heart goes out to the Melvoins

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excited That was so exciting!!!

Sorry for the Melvoin's loss. pray

I will forever love and miss you...my sweet Prince.
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Reply #51 posted 02/27/12 7:47am

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My deepest condolences to the Melvoin family....

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Reply #52 posted 02/27/12 3:55pm

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P*$$y so bad, if u throw it into da air, it would turn into sunshine!!! whistle
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Reply #53 posted 02/27/12 4:21pm

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Reply #54 posted 02/27/12 9:52pm

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RIP. I remember seeing him introduce the revolution on the Grammys from 1985.
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Reply #55 posted 02/28/12 4:53am

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RIP Mr. Melvoin...May God bless you and your family at this sad time

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Reply #56 posted 02/28/12 11:40am

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Resst peacefully. My heart goes out to the Melvoin family

Yes, at 19, I finally saw the Revolution, a legendary band. And I talked to Wendy!!! biggrin In addition to seeing Prince, I have now lived life. Thank you Purple People!!
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Reply #57 posted 02/28/12 12:02pm

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He is quite an accomplished musician. I had always known he was a musician, but only recently started to see his name in the credits of albums I was listening to.

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Reply #58 posted 02/28/12 3:25pm

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My condolences 2 the Melvoin family

father Melvoin gave us some gifted people in the person of Susannah & Wendy

I need to go see my dad now

A distinguished pianist and composer, Mike Melvoin was a former head of the Recording Academy and worked with Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson and the Beach Boys.

“It was a marathon," Mike Melvoin said of recording the Beach Boys' “Good Vibrations." “Six double sessions. All for one song."

Mike Melvoin, a pianist/composer/arranger whose credits reach from Stan Getz and Frank Sinatra to Michael Jackson and the Beach Boys, and who was the first active musician to serve as national president of the Recording Academy, has died. He was 74.

A first-call pianist and keyboardist since the early 1960s, Melvoin died Wednesday at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, said his daughter Wendy. He had cancer.

In addition to his studio work, Melvoin remained strongly linked to jazz, his first musical love, performing on a regular basis in local clubs, frequently touring internationally and releasing numerous recordings of his own groups.

Pianist/composer Michael Lang, also a busy member of the Los Angeles community of jazz and studio musicians, expressed high praise for Melvoin's many accomplishments, noting his “unique, significant contributions to jazz and popular music as a pianist, arranger and songwriter as well as a composer of film music."

Jazz alto saxophonist Phil Woods, who performed on Melvoin's album “It's Always You," was equally enthusiastic about another area of Melvoin's skills—his songwriting. “They're not just your regular Tin Pan Alley," Woods said. “It's the American song form raised a notch. Mike is like fine wine."

Among the numerous sessions in his lengthy resume, Melvoin played on such memorable recordings as Frank Sinatra's “That's Life," Natalie Cole's “Unforgettable," the Jackson 5's “ABC," and “Pet Sounds" and “Good Vibrations" by the Beach Boys.

“It was a marathon," Melvoin said, mentioning the “Good Vibrations" recording dates while describing the ups and downs of life as a studio musician. “Six double sessions," he recalled. “All for one song."

His name turns up with remarkable consistency among the backing players for one varied hit after another, including Helen Reddy's “I Am Woman," John Lennon's “Stand By Me," Barbra Streisand's “Evergreen" and Quincy Jones' all-star collective, “We Are the World."

As a busy studio musician for a good part of his career, Melvoin was always quick to defend the skills and the versatility of the players who performed, as he did, on recordings, films, television shows and beyond, bringing life to every style and genre of music.

“Studio guys get sold short," he told the Boston Herald in 2004. “There's an innate distrust that people have that if you do one thing, somehow that's the authentic article, and if you do more than one thing, somehow it's not. The truth is the great studio players are the authentic article in everything they do."

In 2011, when the Recording Academy made changes in the Grammy awards structure, Melvoin was in the vanguard of the movement to rescind the category changes. As a pianist whose career had touched every stylistic area, he was especially bothered by the effect of the changes upon instrumentalists.

“Everyone who has ever played an instrument," he said in a public statement, “has had the possibility of receiving recognition from the Grammys gutted. That cannot and will not stand."

Melvoin's advocacy for the recognition of instrumental musicians continued until his death.

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Reply #59 posted 02/28/12 3:47pm

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My condolences.

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