This article is about the American actor and singer. For the Scottish rugby union player, see David Sole.
David Soul
Soul in 1975
Born
David Richard Solberg
(1943-08-28)August 28, 1943
Chicago, Illinois, US
Died
January 4, 2024(2024-01-04) (aged 80)
London, England
Citizenship
United States
United Kingdom
Occupations
Years active
1961–2014
Known for
Joshua Bolt – Here Come the Brides Detective Kenneth Richard "Hutch" Hutchinson – Starsky & Hutch
Spouses
Mirriam Russeth
(m. 1964; div. 1965)
Karen Carlson
(m. 1968; div. 1977)
Patti Carnel Sherman
(m. 1980; div. 1986)
Julia Nickson
(m. 1987; div. 1993)
Helen Snell
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Wow! I have just found some clips of my favourite ever doo wop revival group 14 Karat Soul, apparently reunited, however briefly, for a performance at the Morris Museum's Acappella & Doo Wop Concert #1, July 15, 2011, in Morristown, NJ, according to youtube (the group, originally came from New Jersey).
You can read my main piece about the group here, if you are so minded. But what makes this new find exciting - to me, anyway - is that when I saw them most nights of a one week residency in the early eighties, one of the songs was Take Me Back, Baby, which as far as I know was never recorded by them. And suddenly here it is below, the closest I will probably get to that initial thrill, even though Glenny T, the group's founder, is the sole constant across almost three decades:
Good, also, to hear their version of Jump Children (aka Vooit Vooit) - recorded by the Flamingos, but not, I'm guessing, the most wildly original composition even in the early fifties. Did 14KS sing
Scanned from Brutus Magazine, Issue #964, “Tatsuro’s Music Book”
It’s always kind of a Tatsuro Yamashita summer, but 2022 especially feels like that’s the case thanks to Softly, the Japanese pop legends’ 14th album and one of his strongest works of the 21st century (reviewed it for The Japan Times, btw). Excitement for Yamashita’s return has been visible even in my limited treks around Tokyo. Advertisers and TV programmers are working overtime to promote one of the sure-thing sales hits in the industry today (mission accomplished, with Softly moving over 151,000 physical copies in its first week, one of the strongest debut weeks of the year). Yet it goes beyond that, with his music feeling more ever-present in the city and…perhaps the current heatwave just has people dreaming of far-off resorts…more people wearing Yamashita t-shirts.
Part of the spotlight has been on just how prolific his career has been. Forget the solo works…Yamashita appears al