Liz lands current status

[woodward]

Does anyone know the current status of Liz Lands? Is she still performing, still alive, anything current? Thanks.

[copley]

I have been trying find out about Liz for years but to no avail! Some say that she died years ago but I have never found anything to corroborate that. Every avenue I have searched has just led me nowhere.

[BayouMotownMan]

I saw Liz in 1998 when Martha Reeves was booked at a casino in Biloxi. Turns out she was working at the hotel as a maid. She came backstage and was pretty messed up. She took stage on Dancing In The Street at Martha's urging, but her voice was gone. Very sad. I read on here I thought that Liz passed away some years ago

[blueskies]

I saw Liz in 1998 when Martha Reeves was booked at a casino in Biloxi. Turns out she was working at the hotel as a maid. She came backstage and was pretty messed up. She took stage on Dancing In The Street at Martha's urging, but her voice was gone. Very sad. I read on here I thought that Liz passed away some years ago

Now, that's a sad story. Didn't she do some recording for Ian Levine in the 80's?

[Hotspurman]

Born in the Georgia Sea Islands in 1939 and raised in New York, Liz married blues singer Tommy Brown and became actively involved in Dr Maertin Luther King’s Southern Chrtistian Leadership Conference. It was whilst perfoming with Harry Belafonte at a benefit show for the SCLC that Liz was spotted by Berry Gordy, who was impressed with her five octave voice. Signed initially to the Motown’s gospel outlet Divinty, her first single was to have been We Shall Overcome backed with Trouble In This Land in 1963 [[credited to Liz Lands & The Voices Of Salvation) but was subsequently cancelled. Instead Liz’ was switched to the Gordy label for May What He Lived For Licve, a tribute to the then recently assassinated President John F Kennedy which was rush- released in December 1963. The following March Liz linked with The Temptations for what would be her second and final Gordy single, Midnight Johnny. Liz resurfaced some three years later on the One-Derful label for one single and then formed her own label with her husband, T&L Records. Liz would also record for Ian Levine’s Motorcity label in the 1990s.

[splanky]

Every few months or so I bump into someone talking about Liz Lands whom I've loved for a long time.
I pretty much know most of her history and I also know she worked with Hamilton Bohannon later too.
I will try later to see if I can find out where she is today if she's still living [[I guess this is my "me too"
moment:)...) but I thought it might be nice if folks heard her early work at Motown...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r44KARnvDYc&feature=related

[copley]

Love that song Splanky :) Would be great to finally know if Liz is still this side of the universe. Thanks.

[luke]

Her voice is great on youtube Ian Levine song.

[oldiesmusicfan]

Here is One Man's Poison on the One-derful label by Liz Lands. This is great! Love the horns! My favorite by her.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xf0jnqDlP3o

Oldies

[blueskies]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvunNyvUmKM&feature=related

I really like this one.......but, the hairstyle kinda scared me.

[marybrewster]

Any update on Liz?

[MIKEW-UK]

Here's a nice one of Liz with Bohannon.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvJhqiM8wZI

[masterblaster]

Always loved Liz's vocal on Mary Well' "Oh Little Boy". Thought it turned that tune into a classic.

[motony]

LOL, well Mary Wells could do that bit in Oh Little Boy just like the record, she did it for me in a car while traveling.

[nabob]

While browsing the links above, one was found for her original recording of Keep Me long before the Originals worked their magic on the song. The Tempts are reported to have provided the backgrounds. I knew that there was a Motown female that did the original, but I didn't know it was Liz Lands. Her voice is extremely sexy. My feet and rear end were rocking while listening several times. The sound quality is not the best.

http://youtu.be/r44KARnvDYc

[144man]

Any concrete news?

[Hotspurman]

I've asked Ian Levine if he knows anything about her current whereabouts - he's the type of guy who would know!

[144man]

Ian Levine was most perturbed when he released the Motorcity CD "Divas", and realised afterwards that by an oversight he had failed to include any tracks by Liz Lands, whom he thought of as being the archetypical diva.

[Hotspurman]

Ian believes she is still living in Atlanta. I've certainly not seen anything resembling and obituary anywhere, so there's still hope...

[splanky]

I couldn't find anything current after searching all over. I've kind of come to accept the fact that Liz is like a number
of my favorite female singers that just does not want to be bothered. Like Londee Wiggins,Patty Drew and Jessica Cleaves, what they've accomplished is here in our record, cd and/or mp3 collections and for me that's enough. I just
wish them the best...