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Pam Bricker -- Superstar

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Uploaded by on Feb 19, 2010

Cover of Leon Russell and Bonnie Bramlett's "Superstar," from Pam Bricker, Wayne Wilentz, and Jim West's WAMA award-winning 2001 jazz recording, U-Topia.

Pam Bricker (1954-2005) is gone, but she will never be forgotten. If any singer ever encoded herself, her heart, her pain, her sensuality, into her music, it was Pam Bricker. This intimacy in her voice, in her work, allows her to be ever-present. She's still there, if you'll only listen...

"Long ago, and oh so far away, I fell in love with you, before the second show..."

Indeed.

BTW: U-topia is available iTunes and Amazon.

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  • We saw Pam at North Sea Jazz in The Hague in the early nineties. We are for ever in love with her voice! We miss her a lot.

  • The choir in heaven must be amazing with Pam's voice...

  • @zumbasso Many thanks for your message! One of the tunes that we played together was Billie Holiday's "Please Don't Do it In Here". 36 years later Pam's treatment of the tune still haunts me in a good way. A little known fact, Pam's step dad, Henry Southall was a celebrated trombonist on Woody Herman's "Thundering Herd" for a number of years. Don't know how much influence he had in her musical upbringing...

  • @joesarver I also knew her in the 70s and would go everywhere around Massachusetts to hear her play. Sometimes I still sing old songs of hers. And yes you're right, she did have that cross between Joni and Phobe and yet so genuinely unique. I sent her some songs of mine that I'd recorded when I came back from South America in the 80's but never made live contact- I was in the Keys by then and never heard her beautiful voice again. What a wonderful talented performer.

  • I used to see her down at Whitey's in Arlington, Va. Her name just popped up when I was searchin' for

    a Joni tune last week.

    I had no idea...

  • I met Pam and gigged with her in a band called Whisper in 1974. SHe sounded like a beautiful cross between Joni Mitchell and Phoebe Snow. She had a wonderful voice and possessed great muscianship too.

  • miss her...

  • Pam has been one of my favorites ever since I first met her at Utopia.

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