Re: R.I.P. Ed Ames
Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2023 7:29 am
Not only did I miss the obituary and Tee's posting or it, I had no idea Ed Ames was still alive.
I thought maybe this posting from 2003, not 2023.
He was the great balladeer of show tunes in the mid-1960s. Not just My Cup Runneth Over, but everything from Try to Remember to The Impossible Dream were sung with great feeling and power on his albums. He began to fade in the late 1960s and recorded his last album in 1970. He was big in summer stock productions of Shenandoah, Fiddler on the Roof, South Pacific, Camelot, and Man of La Mancha in the 1980s. Then he just sort of disappeared from the public consciousness.
Singing keeps you young. I have no doubt his rich baritone lasted to his end at 95.
I thought maybe this posting from 2003, not 2023.
He was the great balladeer of show tunes in the mid-1960s. Not just My Cup Runneth Over, but everything from Try to Remember to The Impossible Dream were sung with great feeling and power on his albums. He began to fade in the late 1960s and recorded his last album in 1970. He was big in summer stock productions of Shenandoah, Fiddler on the Roof, South Pacific, Camelot, and Man of La Mancha in the 1980s. Then he just sort of disappeared from the public consciousness.
Singing keeps you young. I have no doubt his rich baritone lasted to his end at 95.