The Next of Kin to the Wayward Wind
By Four Walls
@FourWalls (86829)
United States
March 11, 2016 9:15pm CST
This year has been unbelievably bad on music. I'm sure you've heard about the death of Emerson, Lake & Palmer keyboardist Keith Emerson (if not, check out the discussion @teamfreak16 wrote about it).
I saw that Gogi Grant passed away yesterday as well.
That didn't make headlines or "trending" on Facebook for a simple reason: you generally have to be old to remember her, because her "big hit" was in 1956 (or, four years before I was born).
But OH what a song.
The song she was known for is "The Wayward Wind."
Countless country singers recorded "The Wayward Wind," including Tex Ritter and Patsy Cline, but it was Gogi Grant's version that topped the pop charts in 1956.
If you're going to be remembered for one song, make it a legendary song. Gogi Grant did just that.
She was 91.
Gogi Grant sings her massive hit singe "The Wayward Wind". The original song reached No 9 in the UK Charts on the 29th June 1956. This version taken from 200...
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@teamfreak16 (43655)
• Denver, Colorado
12 Mar 16
Great song. I honestly don't remember this, but my girlfriend recognized it right away.
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@FourWalls (86829)
• United States
12 Mar 16
She wins the music war for knowing this one. 
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@teamfreak16 (43655)
• Denver, Colorado
12 Mar 16
@FourWalls - luckily, we aren't doing one tonight. At least, not yet.
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@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
12 Mar 16
It seems like more musical performers than actors have passed away so far this year. Gogi Grant was 91 so she did live a long life. ELP was just huge when I was in high school. Major stadium concert act and part of that progressive rock scene of the 70s.
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@celticeagle (189944)
• Boise, Idaho
12 Mar 16
Read about Gogi on Facebook the other day Honestly didn't know who she was That is a great song though.
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