Frankie Ford "Sea Cruise" R.I.P.

[woodward]

From today's Washington Post another legend passes.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/enter...eac_story.html

Does anyone remember him?

[milven]

I am familiar with him. I bought Sea Cruise as a teenager, but didn't really care for it. I think the only reason that I bought it was because it was a hit. After that , he released his version of the standard TIME AFTER TIME. It wasn't much a hit, but I loved it. As I play it now as a grownup, I think it was the arrangement of the song that turned me on. It sounds like an arrangement made for Bobby Darin

[rrussi]

He was a fantastic entertainer! I've known Frankie and have seen him so many times over the years. He is always the life of the party backstage AND on the stage. Even though he only had the one major hit, he worked steadily, which is so true of so many great musicians from New Orleans. Frankie will be missed, but never forgotten.

[milven]

Sometimes one hit can sustain your career for a lifetime if you have talent and on stage presence. Frankie Ford almost had another hit, You Talk Too Much, but it competed with Jimmy Jones version and it won out.

Time After Time may have not been a major hit for Frankie Ford nationally, but it was played a lot in NY and it was played constantly on my record player