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Although the weather was poor, with heavy rain and fog, and despite warnings, the plane took off.[63] Four miles (6.4 km) from their destination at Truax Field in Madison, the pilot radioed for permission to land. Shortly thereafter, the plane crashed into Lake Monona. Bar-Kays member Ben Cauley, the accident's only survivor,[54] was sleeping shortly before the accident. He woke just before impact to see bandmate Phalon Jones look out a window and exclaim, "Oh, no!" Cauley said the last thing he remembered before the crash was unbuckling his seat belt. He then found himself in frigid water, grasping a seat cushion to keep afloat.[56] A non-swimmer, he was unable to rescue the others.[64] The cause of the crash was never determined.[65] James Brown claimed in his autobiography The Godfather of Soul that he had warned Redding not to fly in the plane.
The other victims of the crash were four members of the Bar-Kays—guitarist Jimmy King, tenor saxophonist Phalon Jones, organist Ronnie Caldwell and drummer Carl Cunningham; their valet, Matthew Kelly; and the pilot, Richard Fraser.
When the theme song of Ghostbusters was released, Huey Lewis sued Ray Parker Jr. for plagiarism, stating that Parker's song was too similar to "I Want a New Drug".
originally posted by: Hellmutt
Johnny Horton - Sink The Bismarck (1960)
Free were a new band when they recorded Tons of Sobs, and they were extremely young; none of them were yet twenty and the youngest, bassist Andy Fraser, was just sixteen years old.