# Righteous Brother dies

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/righteous-brother-dies/211664>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 6, 2003, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/righteous-brother-dies/211664 "2003-11-06T06:22:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2003, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/righteous-brother-dies/211664/1 "2003-11-06T06:22:15Z")

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[Bobby Hatfield found dead](http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/7193267.htm)

_If you believe in forever,  
Then life is just a one-night stand.  
If there’s a rock and roll heaven,  
Well you know they’ve got a hell of a band…_

–“Rock and Roll Heaven” by The Righteous Brothers (1974)

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**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2003, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/righteous-brother-dies/211664/2 "2003-11-06T13:18:29Z")

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Oh dear. Now he’s gone, gone, gone… whoa whoa whoa…

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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2003, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/righteous-brother-dies/211664/3 "2003-11-06T15:18:01Z")

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I guess he lost that living feeling…

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**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2003, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/righteous-brother-dies/211664/4 "2003-11-06T15:18:35Z")

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I had nothing to do with it.

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**Author:** ![Violet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Violet)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2003, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/righteous-brother-dies/211664/5 "2003-11-07T08:06:01Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Annie-Xmas \*  
> \*\*I guess he lost that living feeling… \*\*

🙂

R.I.P. (yet again!)

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**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2003, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/righteous-brother-dies/211664/6 "2003-11-08T03:51:45Z")

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Hatfield was the one with the high voice. However, in the various news blurbs I heard on this, as the announcer was mentioning it, they would actually be playing a snippet of a song in which Medley’s voice was completely drowning out his.

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**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2003, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/righteous-brother-dies/211664/7 "2003-11-08T04:46:54Z")

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[Rebecca Howe]  
The _other_ Righteous Brother!  
[/Rebecca Howe]