Why didn't Marc Cohn have a bigger career? or any sort of career at all?

Publish date: 2024-05-04

Walking in Memphis is one of the most beautiful songs ever.

He should have gotten a career like Richard Marx or so.

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by Anonymousreply 24March 5, 2022 5:17 AM

Walking in Memphis was a great song until Cher came along and did a cover of it and made everyone hate the song.

by Anonymousreply 1June 12, 2020 6:47 AM

None of his followups were very memorable. Richard Marx was good at coming up with hooks that appealed to the masses.

by Anonymousreply 2June 12, 2020 6:48 AM

I agree he deserved better.

From Wikipedia: On August 7, 2005, Cohn was shot in the head during an attempted carjacking in Denver, Colorado,[35][36][37] while on a concert tour with Suzanne Vega.The bullet "barely missed Cohn's eye and lodged near his skull". Cohn was hospitalized for observation, but was released after eight hours. According to Cohn, "Doctors told me I was the luckiest unlucky guy they had met in a long, long time."

by Anonymousreply 3June 12, 2020 6:51 AM

I love this song much more! Fantastic!

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by Anonymousreply 4June 12, 2020 6:56 AM

I believe his wife kept him busy.

by Anonymousreply 5June 12, 2020 7:01 AM

R5 Which wife? Elizabeth Vargas?

by Anonymousreply 6June 12, 2020 7:06 AM

He was on his way to having a bigger career but then he was caught by a nazgul when he was under a bridge foraging for mushrooms. Dude was hella hobbity.

by Anonymousreply 7June 12, 2020 7:10 AM

Anyone familiar with Memphis would think that song irrepressibly sad.

by Anonymousreply 8June 12, 2020 7:10 AM

STFU R1 Cher is legend and spun that song into gold.

She played Elvis in the video!

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by Anonymousreply 9June 12, 2020 10:44 AM

I suppose she also spun ABBA into gold.

by Anonymousreply 10June 12, 2020 11:14 AM

I like his song "Old Soldier".

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by Anonymousreply 11June 12, 2020 11:45 AM

He has/had a great voice. I don't know where that style of music would find a place, today, though. So much shlock everywhere.

by Anonymousreply 12June 12, 2020 11:45 AM

Why do you think he had no career? Wrote, recorded, performed for years , took custody of his children when his alcoholic wife fell apart. Creatuve artists will always be creative irrespective of your yardstick.

by Anonymousreply 13June 12, 2020 12:17 PM

Amazingly, he won the Grammy for Best New Artist in 1992 and then made a career out of that one song (which I love, by the way).

Same with Christopher Cross, but at least he multiple hits from the same album.

by Anonymousreply 14June 12, 2020 12:25 PM

Because of his last name.

by Anonymousreply 16June 12, 2020 2:24 PM

The association with Empress Roy Cohn definitely did him in. Having the same name as that asshole was his utter downfall.

by Anonymousreply 17June 12, 2020 2:36 PM

[quote]Muriel plays piano, every Friday at the Hollywood

And that's why DataLounge goes into paywall all weekend.

by Anonymousreply 18June 12, 2020 9:34 PM

True Companion is a frau favorite.

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by Anonymousreply 19June 14, 2020 8:53 AM

Not a frau, but I love True Companion.

by Anonymousreply 20June 14, 2020 9:05 AM

Richard Mary. I haven't heard his name in almost two decades. He used to put out so much schlock in the 80s and 90s, he should have been banished to a desert island filled with crazy frauen.

by Anonymousreply 21June 14, 2020 9:24 AM

Richard Marx? He is insanely wealthy, married to Daisy Fuentes now.

by Anonymousreply 22June 14, 2020 1:58 PM

Marc whooooo?

Jush fixsh me a goddamn drink!

by Anonymousreply 23March 11, 2021 2:27 PM

How did Richard Marx get “insanely wealthy”? The only hit of his I remember is the one with the “it don’t mean nothin” hook (can’t remotely think of the rest of the song).

Anyway, I’m reading the Elizabeth Vargas memoir, haven’t reached any juicy parts yet. I forgot that she dated Michael Douglas. She doesn’t name him, but describes flying to Majorca with him on his plane and between the two of them they polished off a big bowl of caviar and and an entire bottle of vodka on the flight. That does sound fun.

by Anonymousreply 24March 5, 2022 5:17 AM

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