{"id":96693,"date":"2017-04-03T22:37:02","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T02:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=96693"},"modified":"2017-04-03T22:37:02","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T02:37:02","slug":"angel-baby-singer-dies-classic-hit-covered-by-lennon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/04\/03\/angel-baby-singer-dies-classic-hit-covered-by-lennon\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Angel Baby’ singer dies; classic hit covered by Lennon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rose Hamlin, the 71-year-old lead singer of Rosie and the Originals, died in her sleep on March 30, according to a post by her daughter, Debbie Cray, on the late performer’s website. (Photo: MarcTV\/ Youtube<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

PHOENIX \u2013The singer of the 1960s hit \u201cAngel Baby,\u201d a song covered by artists such as John Lennon and Linda Ronstadt, has died.<\/p>\n

Rose Hamlin, the 71-year-old lead singer of Rosie and the Originals, died in her sleep on March 30, according to a post by her daughter, Debbie Cray, on the late performer’s website.<\/p>\n

Hamlin was born Rosalie Hamlin on July 21, 1945, in Oregon. She was raised in Alaska before moving to California when she was a preteen.<\/p>\n

Hamlin was 14 years old when she penned \u201cAngel Baby,\u201d a song that Lennon would later call one of his all-time favourites.<\/p>\n

Cray said Hamlin hadn’t performed in years over concerns for her health, but she had taken up tending a \u201clovely garden,\u201d according to her post on the website.<\/p>\n

Cray said in an interview with The Associated Press that her mother was a nature and animal lover who kept chickens and enjoyed fishing, planting trees and camping. She had a great sense of humour and loved playing pranks on people, Cray said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think she really enjoyed just being Rosie the mom and grandma. I think after a while like that was just a separate life,\u201d Cray said of her mother’s music career.<\/p>\n

Hamlin wrote in her autobiography online that she penned \u201cAngel Baby\u201d about a teenage love and struggled for years to get credit for the song after a man was listed as its writer.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were musicians and not businesspeople. We got burned like so many of our peers in those days,\u201d Hamlin wrote.<\/p>\n

Her son, John Sanders, said his mother told him about the difficulties of the music industry. \u201cShe really had to work a lot harder to get the same recognition,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Hamlin also wrote about her pride in many of her accomplishments, like being in an exhibit at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio, about one-hit-wonders. Hamlin wrote that she was the first Latina to be on that list, and she also was the first Latina to appear on Dick Clark’s \u201cAmerican Bandstand\u201d show.<\/p>\n

Hamlin lived in New Mexico at the time of her death. She left behind Cray, Sanders, and son Joey Tafolla, along with four grandchildren<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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