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Favorite (R.I.P)Tribute Songs

batmonbatmon 27,574 Posts
edited October 2007 in Strut Central
The Whispers - A Song For Donny-has got me open recently.Name some good ones. Any Genre.Is this a lost art? Where was Luther VanDross' tribute song? Max Roach?
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  • SoulOnIceSoulOnIce 13,027 Posts
    Johnny Copeland, "Dedicated to the Greatest"
  • HamHam 872 Posts
    i used to love the DITC Big L rip song. havent heard it in like 5 years though.
  • pickwick33pickwick33 8,946 Posts
    The Whispers - A Song For Donny

    -has got me open recently.

    Name some good ones. Any Genre.

    Is this a lost art? Where was Luther VanDross' tribute song? Max Roach?

    It's too soon to tell for Max.

    As far as others:
    "Night Shift" - Commmodores (Jackie Wilson, Marvin Gaye)
    "Hillbilly Heaven" - Tex Ritter (early sixties tribute to various deceased country singers and campy as all hell, but I like it anyway...Ritter himself was admitted into Hillbilly Heaven in 1974)
    "A Tribute To A King" - William Bell (Otis Redding)
    "Soul Heaven" - Dixie Drifter (Nat "King" Cole, Dinah Washington, Sam Cooke)
  • batmonbatmon 27,574 Posts
    Johnny Copeland, "Dedicated to the Greatest"

    Is this for Copeland or Copeland singing for the Albert Collins?
  • batmonbatmon 27,574 Posts
    "Night Shift" - Commmodores (Jackie Wilson, Marvin Gaye)

    My eyes well up to this and Diana Ross - Missing You.
  • SoulOnIceSoulOnIce 13,027 Posts
    Johnny Copeland, "Dedicated to the Greatest"

    Is this for Copeland or Copeland singing for the Albert Collins?

    It's Copeland singing for Sam Cooke, with shout-outs to
    Nat King Cole, Dinah Washington and I think a couple of
    others ...
  • LaserWolfLaserWolf Portland Oregon 11,517 Posts
    You guys are naming some of the best rip tribute songs. But, to me, none of these songs are that good. I don't think the genre is very good. I would love to here the Johnny Copeland and the Dixie somethings, I don't know those.

    I can think of one I will ride for:
    Needle and The Damage Done - Neil Young (might be for a guitar player in Crazy Horse, not sure.)
  • batmonbatmon 27,574 Posts
    I don't think the genre is very good.

    Indeed. But there's still a handful of songs out there.
  • BrianBrian 7,618 Posts
    UGK - One Day
    Trae and H.A.W.K. - Swang
    Trae and Z-Ro - Miss My Dawg
    The Lox - We'll Always Love Big Poppa
    H.A.W.K. and Big Moe - Home of S.U.C.
  • batmonbatmon 27,574 Posts
    UGK - One Day
    Trae and H.A.W.K. - Swang
    Trae and Z-Ro - Miss My Dawg
    The Lox - We'll Always Love Big Poppa
    H.A.W.K. and Big Moe - Home of S.U.C.

    Did DJ Screw ever get a tribute song?

    Jam Master Jay?
    Tupac?
    What's Aaliyaah's called again?
  • obscure_addictobscure_addict 869 Posts
    UGK - One Day
    Trae and H.A.W.K. - Swang
    Trae and Z-Ro - Miss My Dawg
    The Lox - We'll Always Love Big Poppa
    H.A.W.K. and Big Moe - Home of S.U.C.

    Did DJ Screw ever get a tribute song?

    What's Aaliyaah's called again?

    You can't remember jayz's tribute to aaliyah?? that's sad...

    Jay-Z Miss You Remix...

    your pops is missing you, dame is missing you, damn we're missing you...

    Tim & Magoo also had one called, Hold On...
  • batmonbatmon 27,574 Posts
    What's Aaliyaah's called again?

    You can't remember jayz's tribute to aaliyah?? that's sad...
    I only remember %85 of Jay-Z good stuff. Isnt it a Missy Song anyway w/ Jay on the Remix?
  • alieNDNalieNDN 2,181 Posts
    So Hard To Say Goodbye to Yesterday - Boys To Men

    played it at my buddy's funeral
  • obscure_addictobscure_addict 869 Posts
  • obscure_addictobscure_addict 869 Posts
    What's Aaliyaah's called again?

    You can't remember jayz's tribute to aaliyah?? that's sad...

    I only remember %85 of Jay-Z good stuff. Isnt it a Missy Song anyway w/ Jay on the Remix?
    maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!! you really are a retard, keep searchin out those epmd singles you don't own.

    If you we're standing in front of me i'd slap the bitch right out yo punk mouth.

    EDIT* to answer your dumbass question though, toni braxton, missy & teet did MISS YOU, JAY Z DID THE REMIX... get your shit straight country bumpkin.
  • batmonbatmon 27,574 Posts
    So Hard To Say Goodbye to Yesterday - Boys To Men

    played it at my buddy's funeral

    Cool. The OG isnt a Tribute song if i recall. Its from the Cooley High Soundtrack.

    And maybe the BIIMen video shows images of passed artists but did Babyface n Them really have that in mind while doin the song.

    Tribute Songs NO= Death Songs.

    I love Maureen by Sade but Maureen is just a personal friend.
  • faux_rillzfaux_rillz 14,343 Posts

    If you we're standing in front of me i'd slap the bitch right out yo punk mouth.

    This seems unlikely.
  • batmonbatmon 27,574 Posts
    What's Aaliyaah's called again?

    You can't remember jayz's tribute to aaliyah?? that's sad...

    I only remember %85 of Jay-Z good stuff. Isnt it a Missy Song anyway w/ Jay on the Remix?

    maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!! you really are a retard, keep searchin out those epmd singles you don't own.

    If you we're standing in front of me i'd slap the bitch right out yo punk mouth.

    EDIT* to answer your dumbass question though, toni braxton, missy & teet did MISS YOU, JAY Z DID THE REMIX... get your shit straight country bumpkin.
    ITS ON.
  • batmonbatmon 27,574 Posts

    If you we're standing in front of me i'd slap the bitch right out yo punk mouth.



    Uv got the worst case of E-Thug. Just stop it dude.I like your fiestyness, but the K.Fed posing has to stop when talkin to me son. U can pull that shit w/ the rest of these suburb dudes but Im not that cat.



    Back to music.....Post the song cause i know u got it.
  • LaserWolfLaserWolf Portland Oregon 11,517 Posts
    Boulder To Birmingham - Emmy Lou Harris for Grahm Parsons
  • yuichiyuichi Urban sprawl 11,331 Posts
    Eric Clapton- Tears in Heaven
    Tupac- Life Goes On
  • onetetonetet 1,754 Posts
    Fallen Soldiers -- Cormega
  • JustAliceJustAlice 1,308 Posts
    I think this thread needs its own R.I.P. tribute Song.
  • SoulOnIceSoulOnIce 13,027 Posts
    I think this thread needs its own R.I.P. tribute Song.

    "Shattered Jaw - The Day O-A Stepped Foot in the Bronx"

    ... a duet between Tim Dog and Willie Nelson?
  • obscure_addictobscure_addict 869 Posts
    step ya game up SOI softserve yogurtboy...


  • TheBeatGoesTheBeatGoes 711 Posts
  • CosmoCosmo 9,768 Posts
    Cosign on "Nightshift."

    Another one that came to mind was Pretenders "Back On The Chain Gang" in tribute to James Honeyman-Scott.

    Also, "T.R.O.Y" in tribute to Trouble T-Troy - can't believe nobody said that already.
  • pickwick33pickwick33 8,946 Posts
    So Hard To Say Goodbye to Yesterday - Boys To Men

    played it at my buddy's funeral

    Cool. The OG by G.C. Cameron[/b] isnt a Tribute song if i recall. Its from the Cooley High Soundtrack.

    And if you remember, it was played in the movie right after Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs' character (Cochise?) died, during the funeral scene.
  • mannybolonemannybolone Los Angeles, CA 15,025 Posts
    "T.R.O.Y" in tribute to Trouble T-Troy - can't believe nobody said that already.

    I think this one breaks the "bad tribute song" curse, no?

    Unlike, say, "Miss American Pie."
  • batmonbatmon 27,574 Posts
    So Hard To Say Goodbye to Yesterday - Boys To Men

    played it at my buddy's funeral

    Cool. The OG by G.C. Cameron[/b] isnt a Tribute song if i recall. Its from the Cooley High Soundtrack.

    And if you remember, it was played in the movie right after Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs' character (Cochise?) died, during the funeral scene.

    To this day, that Beatdown always confuses me. They beat him down and one of the last punches makes him spin into the steel Subway column? So he dies of a concussion?
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