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Ben E. King, Blues Singer Died And BB King Is in Hospice At His Home In Las Vegas


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Well, I thought I would Blog this news of two men I knew very well as I was growing up in Houston Texas and by the age of 18 I was able to attend concerts both of them gave in Houston back in the days while I had just finished high school during those years which seems like so long ago now...

 

Blues singer Ben E. King died a couple days ago I saw on TV and I think he was in his 80's a few years older than me...He was a great Blues singer and performed many times in Houston Texas where I got to see him several times but he also was in cities all across Texas and the Southern states at that time... I remember so well me attending the concerts and the group he toured with in those days...

 

Another great singer, BB King, a blues singer too is in hospice care at his home in Las Vegas Nevada and is not expected to last very long because of his state of health at this time...King's long time business manager Laverne Toney says the musician had a good night and she welcomed the concerns about his health at his age of 89 years old... Toney has legal control over King's affairs...King first informed his fans Friday via Facebook...

 

"I am in home hospice care at my residence in Las Vegas wrote the blues legend "Thanks to all of you for your well wishes and prayers." The Clarion-Ledger reports King was briefly hospitalized Thursday for the second time in a month... The Hall of Fame member was diagnosed with diabetes decades ago...

 

King's daughter, Patty King said her father wasn't eating and was dehydrated so he was taken to the hospital for observation, according to local station KLAS-T... BB is 89 years old and has been singing the blues and playing his guitar he named Lucile a very long time now...

 

I knew them both, enjoyed their blues music, and attended many of their concerts in Houston and some other cities where they performed while I was just out of high school but attended their concerts with my older sisters at that time...

After I joined the Army in 1958 it seemed like they toured in every city where I was able to make it to their blues concerts....

 

It seems now so long ago when I attended those concerts to hear them sing, play, and entertain the people in a blues concert... Of course I'm right behind them both at my age of 73, 74 this year....

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