As a fan of a wide variety of popular (and not-so-popular) music from the 1950s (and sometimes even earlier) up through the present, one of my bucket list projects for years has been to put together a list of my 100 favorite songs of all time. At some point I decided that, once I got around to figuring that out, I could put it out on a blog, for the infinitesimally small proportion of the Internet world that might be interested. So, here we are. While the Top 100 will be a major focus, I also plan to post on a variety of other musical (and occasionally non-musical) topics, in which you may or may not be interested. (If a particular posting doesn’t ring your bell, you’re only a few clicks away from a dancing cat video on YouTube.)

Friday, February 28, 2025

Chris Jasper

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2025/02/25/chris-jasper-dead-isley-brothers/

 

https://variety.com/2025/music/news/chris-jasper-dead-isley-brothers-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-inductee-1236319892/

 

(The Post obituary is better, if you have access to it.)

 

I did a rather lengthy post on The Isley Brothers three years ago. Chris Jasper was a second-generation member of the group, joining in the early 1970s with Ernie and Marvin Isley. (Jasper, although not a blood member of the Isley clan, grew up with the Isleys, and his sister married Rudolph Isley.) After contributing to such classics as “Fight The Power”, “For The Love Of You”, and “Harvest For The World”, Jasper broke off from the original group (along with Ernie and Marvin) to form Isley-Jasper-Isley, which hit #1 on Billboard’s R&B Singles chart in 1985 with “Caravan Of Love”.

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