Silver Morning (Kenny Rankin)

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  • Опубликовано: 11 ноя 2024

Комментарии • 136

  • @jrsdsu1986
    @jrsdsu1986 2 года назад +35

    I miss Kenny Rankin. When he died of lung cancer, he and I were writing his autobiography. He'd just begun to tell me about his childhood in New York. The conversations we had were chilling. Kenny endured a lot of very horrific times in his life, but, he said, the music always saved him. There has never been a better music artist than Kenny Rankin. His voice simply had no rival. The beauty of his music protected him from the demons inside and out. I miss him every day. This song is his masterpiece.

    • @valmcbride9023
      @valmcbride9023 2 года назад +5

      I first heard this song live at the Shaboo in CT. I was going out with my now husband and when the song was over we both looked at each other and said I love you for the first time. We've been married for 42 years now. This song is the ultimate!

    • @jrsdsu1986
      @jrsdsu1986 2 года назад +1

      @@valmcbride9023 that's an amazing story. I introduced Kenny to my wife, and she has been a fan ever since. There is no one else like him. I miss him.

    • @sandc411
      @sandc411 2 месяца назад +1

      i first saw him in of all shows, johnny carson. i guess he really knew talent when he saw it...

    • @rosscoker3187
      @rosscoker3187 Месяц назад

      Beautiful,

    • @chad7070
      @chad7070 15 дней назад

      Amazing!. Do you know what happened to that autobiography, if they still will make it?

  • @markopolo244
    @markopolo244 Год назад +4

    Perfection. What else, it's Kenny Rankin.

  • @goldendamselfly
    @goldendamselfly 15 дней назад

    I bought my first Kenny Rankin LPs in the early 1970s, and I still enjoy his songs just as much as I did 50 years ago.

  • @nancydemoss2945
    @nancydemoss2945 Месяц назад +1

    This album came out when I was a senior in high school. I immediately fell in love with Kenny Rankin and every song on the album. I still love it and Kenny. RIP Kenny 🙏 I miss your beautiful voice. ❤
    🙏

  • @davidzimmerli489
    @davidzimmerli489 2 года назад +7

    Gosh ...... it seems like I haven't heard this beautiful number for 1,000 years. I had forgotten all about this exceptional artist. This is why I love RUclips. You can stumble upon treasures from the past. Music this good brings such joy to my heart and mind ..... R.I.P., Kenny Rankin .... you were a wonderful gift to this troubled world ... Thank You!

  • @Fannylover69
    @Fannylover69 11 лет назад +21

    I used to listen to this as a young man, dreaming of the woman I had not met yet, but knew some day I would. The woman I would fall in love with and spend my life with her. I found her 2 years later and this song brings back those yearning years. 33 years later and I'm lucky to still have her in my life. Thanks for coming into my life, honey.

  • @chevronsbass
    @chevronsbass 9 лет назад +108

    Kenny And I both grew up as teenagers on 160th street between Ft. Washington Avenue and Riverside Drive in upper Washington Heights Manhattan, we met through both our mutual interest in music, and through the kids we hung out with, we used to sing together as a group with our school mates and friends Ronnie Espasito, Johnny Costa, Jimmy Conway, and Freddy Wells, and I. We would sing next to the poolroom hall on top of the Rio Movie Theater on Broadway, and 160 street, cause it had a great acoustical sound, and gave a great sound to our group singing covered Doo Wop songs at the time. Kenny had a God given natural talent he could sing, thought himself to play the Guitar and Piano, and conga's. I use to hang out with Kenny at his apartment on Riverside Drive where he lived with his Mother Elizabeth, and sister Genie. In Fact Kenny didicated Professional Dreamer Album to his Mother Elizabeth. Kenny was the one who gave me lessons on the guitar and really got me interested in music. Which led eventually to my singing and recording with other groups like The Spirals, Tony And The Holidays, and ending up with a group called The Chevrons. Kenny went on and became one of our most talented Singer/ Song writers and Guitar players of our time. Kenny's ability to take a song and improvise was spectacular, and unlimited in scope.
    With each song Kenny gave us his interpretation and his improvised melodically, turning an ordinary song into a Beautiful poetic musical sound!
    Kenny Died to young, he had a lot more to give and accomplish, but we are thankful for what he did give us in his Beautiful songs, and Music.
    Kenny You are surely missed!
    RIP Kenny

    • @felicidadcorcino8245
      @felicidadcorcino8245 9 лет назад +11

      Raul Conde thanks so much for sharing this story. he truly is a gem in giving the world his kind of music. he lifts the spirit to great heights! thanks God for kenny!

    • @justincoleman2740
      @justincoleman2740 7 лет назад +4

      Terrific story Raul! My father and me very much enjoy his music. I wish he was still with us.

    • @caradeipanema
      @caradeipanema 7 лет назад +13

      Thank you for that story, Raul. Kenny was my cousin, and I knew the story but not all the names. He also dedicated 'The Kenny Rankin Album' to his mother Elizabeth, who I would visit almost every day after class at Hunter. She lived on 70th and 2nd. Prior to his death, he called my mother and left a message saying that he had cancer and was dying. She was visiting me for my birthday, May 19, in Virginia, and didn't get the message until she got home to Pennsylvania. He was gone on June 7, 2009. Last time I saw him was August 2008. Kenny had the rare quality of never singing the tune exactly the same way twice, but each being better than the last, AND, in his recordings, the quality where it's as if I hear something new no matter how many times I've heard it. I am completely biased, but he is the best male vocalist ever to have lived. He used to tell me, "You have to HAVE to do this", referring to singing. Then he would say, "sing ALL the time. Sing the shower, in the car, in the street, wherever. SING all the time."

    • @johnsmigo65
      @johnsmigo65 6 лет назад +2

      Raul Conde Riverside Church. Willing Sloane Coffin jr.Never agreed with him Till i heard. his Xmas broadcast.There was no room at the inn for him.The only room for him was on the cross.Is there. room for Him in your Heart?

    • @markdouglas668
      @markdouglas668 6 лет назад +4

      I shared a manager with him and had a meaningful period of my life in close proximity to him and Yvonne. What a gift he was given, and he didn't waste it.One of the purest voices I ever heard. I'm so glad for him he had this chance to work with Don Costa. We should all be so lucky. We played many dates on the same bill. They were crazy times and he managed to survive them through the west coast years. New York created us both and the music was thick in the air up in Harlem and in Greenwich Village. I think of him all the time and wish he hadn't had such a rough go of it.

  • @autechrefan1395
    @autechrefan1395 7 лет назад +89

    I don't expect anyone to understand what I'm trying to convey, but I feel a sort of nostalgia from this song and I'm only 24. My mother introduced me to it, and it makes me sit back and think of better times. Simpler times when the world wasn't so full of hate and hardship. Thank you so much for uploading this, I've had it on repeat for a while now

    • @smithrs
      @smithrs 6 лет назад +11

      It's OK, a lot of us feel that way. Kenny Rankin, James Taylor, Jim Croce, Dan Fogelberg, David Gates, Gordon Lightfoot, they were the "woke" men of their time.

    • @smithrs
      @smithrs 6 лет назад +6

      But make no mistake, the 70's was messed up too. The good old days weren't some idyllic time.

    • @pattybristol8296
      @pattybristol8296 5 лет назад +7

      This is one of my all time favorite songs and I'm 60. Good for your mom for turning you on to Kenny Rankin. He was a stellar talent and another one gone too soon. Continue to enjoy!

    • @wayside56
      @wayside56 5 лет назад +4

      Great Post the 60s and 70s were "unwoke", except for a few hippies and I was one but I grew up thank God. We didn't have to lock our doors, we could leave the keys in our cars at night we could wear any color hat we wanted to without be threatened by idiots. Dreaming of Utopia is fun but accepting reality actually works better. I enjoy the feeling I get when I think of a better times too and I'm still not "WOKE" or do I wish to be.

    • @erickborling1302
      @erickborling1302 4 года назад +3

      Beloved songs on this album. Best version of Blackbird for sure.

  • @sallym8554
    @sallym8554 23 дня назад

    Kenny Rankin should be a name that everyone who knows anything about music should know. His voice was incomparable....the way he made every song his own without changing a word was a unique talent. I miss him so much....his passing left a void in music that can't be filled.

    • @johngoodlow6202
      @johngoodlow6202 23 дня назад

      This song is so underrated especially. I think it's one of the best songs to come out of the 20th century.

  • @carolbeilbymcgrath4202
    @carolbeilbymcgrath4202 Год назад +2

    This,song will forever make me feel divinely connected to my momma ❤️ she listened to Kenny's records my whole life and sang along with her glorious voice ❤️ I can smell the Bay Laurel candles and dinner cooking whilst she did so

  • @electronmusicjunkie
    @electronmusicjunkie 12 лет назад +5

    I came across trhis artist by way of another I know here in Philly who asked me to get any Kenny Rankin lps in my travels back in 96. Found a few and decided to give them a spin before I gave them to him. KR's sound instantly made me a fan. Great unrated performer. It's a shame he's no longer with us. May he rest in peace.

  • @watkinson129
    @watkinson129 12 лет назад +4

    My late sister introduced me to this album in the 70's and I instantly fell in love with it. I saw him perform live once as the lead in for Manhattan Transfer at The Mosque in Richmond, VA some years later. Just him, by himself on stage, with his guitar and that voice. Wonderful. It was the only reason I went to the concert. It's a shame he died so young.

  • @TheValerwood
    @TheValerwood 11 лет назад +13

    Wow.....Still sounds just as fresh as it did when I first heard it in the 70's. Thank you Kenny...RIP...say hi to mom. ;-)

  • @josephinelee6590
    @josephinelee6590 5 лет назад +4

    I remember 1984, my room had big jealosied windows, cool air and the music of kenny rankin...sooothing....

  • @AmericanKoot
    @AmericanKoot 11 лет назад +7

    Joy, happiness and the tears of remembrance of special lady I had the opportunity to love during the 70's. Silver Morning was an album we discovered together and I'll always be grateful....to this day, I miss her

  • @daviddragavon7555
    @daviddragavon7555 2 года назад +5

    A fine song to wake up to. Like waking up with someone you love!

  • @kevin104z
    @kevin104z 2 года назад +4

    Beautiful..Nothing like Kenny Rankin!!!I've had this album since I was a teen,and it was new!

  • @anneoboyle426
    @anneoboyle426 3 года назад +3

    Skated outside in the "Silver Morning" of Milwaukee's Humboldt Park 🏞️🎄🎄🎄⛄⛄⛄ on the South side of town, right next to BayView High School 🏫 then went to class: then skated after school in the ❄️🌨️ 🥶 snow, wind, cold & rain. 🌧️ Nothing like seeing Kenny in person when he performed at The Stone Toad 🐸 downtown. What a voice - what a guitarist. R.I.P. Kenny 💐 🍀🙏

  • @jazzy2ism
    @jazzy2ism 12 лет назад +11

    I have loved Kenny Rankin since I first heard him.

    • @TheAslterp
      @TheAslterp 6 лет назад +2

      Me too!!! Listened to it the day it came out and became an immediate follower...I was in my 20's.

  • @ljpish
    @ljpish 11 лет назад +5

    Sweet memories of the 70s and a dalliance with a sweet girl Denise... ahh, youth. Love you Kenny. Thanks. Can't wait to listen to you on the other side.

  • @johnwwhite2
    @johnwwhite2 11 лет назад +16

    This is heaven - remembering hearing this for the first time at college - played for me by a sweet lovely classmate, miss you Kenny !

    • @eyecomeinpeace2707
      @eyecomeinpeace2707 5 лет назад +1

      College or University? I can't stand it when Americans say College. Either you went to University or you went to College. Which is it?

  • @peggyparker4460
    @peggyparker4460 7 лет назад +29

    What a beautiful song, what a beautiful, unforgettable voice, like being enveloped in starlight. Thank you Kenny

    • @Dakers11
      @Dakers11 2 года назад

      Yes our Sun is a Star. That is exactly what Kenny was, with his music.

  • @TheValerwood
    @TheValerwood 12 лет назад +4

    In my family, we always thought of him as musician's musician. I knew when I first heard this song that he was on his way to greatness. Thank you Kenny for giving us the gift of your voice, that was never tarnished by time.

  • @shellyhatch6928
    @shellyhatch6928 2 года назад +3

    I love this song... my goodness what fond memories.... Thank you Kenny.

  • @judyramsdell5997
    @judyramsdell5997 3 года назад +3

    He has one of the voices that are definitely unique. No one else like him.

  • @laurent.674
    @laurent.674 4 года назад +4

    I weep for the young love I experienced. Blessed by Kenny Rankin's music. The discovery, the confusion, the exultation, the guilt, the frustration, the terror.

    • @dntwasteit8547
      @dntwasteit8547 2 года назад

      What the hell is this a tell all book?

  • @gbaum8272
    @gbaum8272 8 месяцев назад +1

    I was in NYC getting ready to see Les Paul at the Iridium Jazz Club, I was across the street in a music store browsing which was like an evening in heaven when I heard he had died. The only solace I had was knowing his breadth of work he left behind. In a lot of ways it felt surreal being at the club he payed so often and his birthplace, NYC. I will remember this moment the rest of my life. A lot of people don't have that.

  • @SilverJ56
    @SilverJ56 9 месяцев назад +1

    This song came into my mind yesterday. I was walking in the morning... Had not heard this beautiful song for YEARS. I love it!!

  • @janicealvarado2565
    @janicealvarado2565 8 лет назад +6

    In the 70's my friend & I would drive all over So cal to hear Kenny, he was wonderful. I haven't heard him in a long time...thanks

  • @ABOSS302
    @ABOSS302 12 лет назад +3

    Silver Morning was my first introduction to Kenny and this album was my first of his many. Seeing him at the Pasadena Ice House and the Golden Bear several times were memories to cherish. Always wished he could have performed with Tim Weisberg.

  • @rossblaufarb9300
    @rossblaufarb9300 4 года назад +3

    This song is medicinal during these times.

  • @juliajgeveso3982
    @juliajgeveso3982 9 лет назад +26

    Kenny Rankin music lives through time...

    • @barbarapeck1929
      @barbarapeck1929 9 лет назад +1

      +juliaj geveso .. so true Juliaj... 38 years for me loving his talent

  • @lovesgod2always317
    @lovesgod2always317 7 лет назад +14

    this song kept me going from teenager til now. 53,wow I wish he could be here

  • @garryspellman7342
    @garryspellman7342 6 лет назад +4

    I have been in love with his album with Nelson Riddle for the last forty years. I wish he could be here.

  • @ABOSS302
    @ABOSS302 10 лет назад +12

    Sitting in the front row at the Pasadena Ice House several times I remember Kenny singing and playing the piano to this song. The Golden Bear also guested his magical voice. He and Whitney Huston were amazing at adjusting their expressions to get the right vocal results.

  • @rachelstovall4812
    @rachelstovall4812 11 лет назад +4

    I was six years old, listening to my mother's radio. I'm now 45 and ....

  • @susanpathiakis20
    @susanpathiakis20 8 лет назад +11

    Only concert I ever had a backstage pass to in my life. Golden Bear in Los Angeles. What a show, what a nice guy.

    • @badbadboy68
      @badbadboy68 8 лет назад +1

      That's where I SAW HIM TOO!!!!!!! 1976

  • @andifeinberg2789
    @andifeinberg2789 10 лет назад +23

    One of my ALLTIME FAVORITE songs!! Thank you Kenny!!!

  • @shirleyhanley6781
    @shirleyhanley6781 10 лет назад +23

    One of the all time great voices IMO.

  • @dianespies3104
    @dianespies3104 Год назад +2

    What a voice love you Kenny 😍

  • @roxmariek
    @roxmariek 11 лет назад +10

    This song is just priceless! Beautiful!

  • @sunaJH
    @sunaJH 9 лет назад +15

    Kenney Rankin was such an amazing ray of beauty and soulfulness during that amazing time (musically),
    wishing all the best to him and his circle
    sunaj

  • @maureenbeakley7740
    @maureenbeakley7740 11 лет назад +4

    Haven't thought of this one for years. So good to hear again.

  • @maggiecelesteworden9819
    @maggiecelesteworden9819 7 лет назад +15

    One of the soundtracks to my life in those years. Woke up with it on my mind for some reason... Thank you so much for posting it! Now I'll have to find it for my collection!

  • @TheValerwood
    @TheValerwood 11 лет назад +7

    He was known in my family as a "musician's musician"...highest honor. :-)

  • @shriaingnama
    @shriaingnama 7 лет назад +14

    this is my fav (Silver Morning) Kenny Rankin

  • @dvripper
    @dvripper 9 лет назад +14

    I found the record, thought I've lost it, and i wondered why i bought it 40 years ago.
    After hearing Silver Morning again I new why. This song moves me and it brought me back in time.

    • @jimcampbell940
      @jimcampbell940 9 лет назад +2

      +Ton Legand
      I have the vinyl AND the CD. Kenny was always worth doubling up with.

    • @dme1016
      @dme1016 7 лет назад +2

      Julius Legand I too nought this like 40 years ago - after having his first album. I heard Silver Morning on WRVR jazz radio in the NYC area & had to have it. Also liked Haven't We Met, and some song about a cat - I think...lol.

    • @psvsia5555
      @psvsia5555 7 лет назад

      Pussywillows Cattails

    • @sunflower71852
      @sunflower71852 3 года назад

      @@psvsia5555 he means Killed A Cat…

  • @jeffreybrucebutterfield
    @jeffreybrucebutterfield 12 лет назад +5

    yet another sadly overlooked singer songwriter.
    he really should be a lot more well known.
    p.s. i used to own the vinyl version of this album.

  • @andrewrosen6508
    @andrewrosen6508 5 лет назад +2

    First heard on WNEW-FM I think it was Dennis Elsas, but maybe Jonathan Schwartz. One or the other, but I knew that I had to buy the Silver Morning LP.
    His version of Penny Lane, and Blackbird from the Beatles are incredible and to this day are fresh and beautiful versions that leave the listener stunned for its beauty.
    Haven't We Meet is another standout to this great lp.
    We love and miss Kenny Rankin.
    Gone way to soon. That voice!

  • @josephsillman4086
    @josephsillman4086 2 года назад +2

    The first time I heard this song, I was hooked. Such a talent!

  • @TheSaverino
    @TheSaverino 12 лет назад +3

    My ALL time favorite Kenny song

  • @roxmariek
    @roxmariek 8 лет назад +10

    This song Blows my Mind. I finally got it, everything, and he died.

  • @MichaelAllenHarrison011
    @MichaelAllenHarrison011 7 лет назад +9

    i love this song i used to have this album when i was a kid!

  • @michaelnivens6267
    @michaelnivens6267 6 лет назад +5

    One of Kenny's finest and a favorite of mine

  • @kenf5189
    @kenf5189 2 года назад +1

    What a damn great song and a great voice.

  • @mikeandsid2000
    @mikeandsid2000 12 лет назад +5

    I have this on a vinyl called ; I didn't know they still made records like this" A Warner bros sampler.

  • @anthonyornowski9860
    @anthonyornowski9860 9 лет назад +6

    Incredible voice chops!

  • @thaddeusvillasor8342
    @thaddeusvillasor8342 12 лет назад +3

    This song is inside me unchanged! Thank you for posting.

  • @jmp1955
    @jmp1955 9 лет назад +6

    Have loved this song from the first time I heard it!

  • @judijoywilliams
    @judijoywilliams 12 лет назад +4

    Does anyone know if Kenny wrote this song? Amazing voice and orchestration. I have the CD and it doesn't say. Boy I miss him, he was a one of a kind singer. My older sister took my to see him at The Blue Bear across the street from the Hunting Pier in California. The last time I saw him was 2006...so grateful to have seen him one last time.

  • @ilene1121
    @ilene1121 12 лет назад +4

    Love it, love him always.

  • @johnnysegovia3685
    @johnnysegovia3685 8 лет назад +4

    I have the vinyl after listening to the entire thing I felt amazed

  • @Shooters141
    @Shooters141 12 лет назад +4

    Got to see him in a bar in Harvard Square I can't remember the name of back in the 80's. He played a guitar set.

  • @jokinboken
    @jokinboken 11 лет назад +4

    Yes, he wrote Silver Morning.

  • @lorrainecorbett7774
    @lorrainecorbett7774 3 года назад +1

    Takes me to my happy place❤️

  • @houckjimmy6041
    @houckjimmy6041 10 лет назад +16

    how very sad..kids will never get educated on music like kenny rankin how do I know this? just watch and listen to what there feeding American children today.. Thank you Howard Stern and friends

    • @nancymac6970
      @nancymac6970 10 лет назад +3

      Well there are those of us who introduced Kenny to their kids. I certainly did and my daughter at 22 loves him and she introduced him to lots of her college friends. Don't worry he will never die...

    • @anthonyornowski9860
      @anthonyornowski9860 9 лет назад

      How is it Howard Stern's fault that kids are listening to shitty music these days?

    • @justincoleman2740
      @justincoleman2740 7 лет назад +2

      You lads behave yourselves. No room for that here.

    • @ammotomma
      @ammotomma 6 лет назад

      I'm 22 and discovered Kenny Rankin by myself and let me make this clear, i'm no exception. By the way, there is still good music being made to this day. Maybe you're just too old to understand it.

    • @fritzcat6198
      @fritzcat6198 Год назад

      @@anthonyornowski9860 , Howard Stern is an A-1 POS.

  • @hansucho1
    @hansucho1 7 лет назад +4

    Thank you very much for sharing.

  • @sandc411
    @sandc411 4 месяца назад

    one of the greats

  • @caradeipanema
    @caradeipanema 11 лет назад +3

    Yes, he did.

  • @caradeipanema
    @caradeipanema 11 лет назад +4

    This is the only version.

  • @judijoywilliams
    @judijoywilliams 11 лет назад +3

    Thanks I thought so, unny how it doesn't say on the CD.

  • @judijoywilliams
    @judijoywilliams 11 лет назад +2

    Thank Cara.

  • @jamescasey8065
    @jamescasey8065 8 месяцев назад

    ....TIME DANCE...What we know of Time would fit into a teaspoon....Much like Love (a first cousin), the definition of Time is written on water...Ask X number of people to define to define either word...And you will get X number of different answers...And, not surprisingly, part of X will be unable to offer an answer...Fascinating that two simple words can produce cerebral stagnation...My own belief (relevant only to me) is that all of the angst regarding Time is a Red Herring...The extent of fact regarding Time is, essentially, that it has a beginning part and an ending part...The quandry exists between these two points...From my Heart, Mr. Rankin, merci beaucoup...Pax.

  • @wags1956
    @wags1956 8 лет назад +3

    I wore down the lp, looking for the cd.......or mp3? any leads??

  • @pattywagy1990
    @pattywagy1990 11 лет назад +3

    :'( Thank you.

  • @rredhawk
    @rredhawk 11 лет назад +5

    I wonder if Mick Hucknall was influenced by Kenny Rankin. I can hear definite similarities in voice quality and overall singing styles. Maybe just coincidence.

  • @Dakers11
    @Dakers11 12 лет назад +3

    @4:02 thats not falsetto. Reminds me of Tony Bennetts "Another You", ending. Bennett , Mathis and Rankin are the only male vocalists I know of, that can hit that and hold it for several seconds. Without cracking or going falsetto.

  • @donnagulzeth5284
    @donnagulzeth5284 5 месяцев назад

    Where can I buy all of Kenny Rankin music?

  • @serenas8144
    @serenas8144 6 лет назад +1

    ❤💚💜💙💛

  • @torazz5953
    @torazz5953 11 лет назад +3

    OHAYO(^ ^)

  • @josephortizgarcia
    @josephortizgarcia 12 лет назад +1

    ...my brother was his roommate.