Dr. John's trippy cure was the right medicine | By Gene Seymour for CNNOpinion
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If you measure a musician's stardom by sales only, then you'll likely regard Malcolm"Mac" Rebennack, better known as Dr. John, as a one-hit wonder, since he made only one record that cracked the Top 40:"Right Place, Wrong Time." It got as high as No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart back in 1973.
Gene Seymour And yet barely a day after Dr. John's death Thursday at 77, his loss still summons the kind of widespread grief, desolation and ardor that seem out of proportion to those whose memories of his work begin and end with that catchy tune. Admit it: If you are over 50 just seeing the words"Right Place, Wrong Time" appear in front of you is making you bounce to the memory of that infectious rolling beat.That beat, as much as anything could, tells you why Dr.
Sherk appeared in TV offshoot"CSI: Cyber" and movies such as"Valentine's Day." Bichir did not detail the circumstances surrounding Sherk's death.Hide Caption 17 of 35 Photos: People we lost in 2019 Former US Sen. Ernest"Fritz" Hollings of South Carolina died April 6 at the age of 97. He was a stalwart of South Carolina politics for decades, first as the state's governor and then as a US senator for 38 years.
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