Some Smoothing Soul

Mystere Said: Stephanie Mills is awesome! The top video is "Two Hearts" featuring Teddy Pendergrass. The bottom video is a special extended remix of "Never Knew Love Like This Before" written by James Mtume and Reggie Lucas. James Mtume recently passed away a few months back.

RIP Cokey Roberts (1943-2019)

Mystere Said: Long time ABC anchor Cokie Roberts has succumbed to breast cancer. RIP Cokie.

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Wikipedia: Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne "Cokie" Roberts (née Boggs; December 27, 1943 to September 17, 2019) was an American journalist and author. Her career included decades as a political reporter and analyst for National Public Radio, PBS, and ABC News, with prominent positions on Morning Edition, The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, World News Tonight, and This Week. She was considered one of NPR's "Founding Mothers" along with Susan Stamberg, Linda Wertheimer and Nina Totenberg.

In 2002, Roberts was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer. She was successfully treated at the time but died from complications of the disease in Washington DC, on September 17, 2019.

RIP Ric Ocasek (1944-2019)

Mystere Said: Ric Ocasek, Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, The Cars.

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Wikipedia: Richard Theodore Otcasek (March 23, 1944 to September 15, 2019), known as Ric Ocasek, was an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He was the primary vocalist, rhythm guitarist, songwriter, and frontman for the American new wave band the Cars. In addition to his work with the Cars, Ocasek recorded seven solo albums, and his song "Emotion in Motion" was a top 20 hit in the United States in 1986.

Ocasek was found dead on September 15, 2019, by his estranged wife, Paulina Porizkova, at his New York City townhouse, which they still shared following their separation in 2017. He had been recovering from surgery. The Chief Medical Examiner office reported that Ocasek died from natural causes. He suffered from both hypertensive heart and coronary artery disease.

RIP Eddie Money (1949-2019)

Mystere Said: Eddie Money, Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame.

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Wikipedia: Edward Joseph Money (né Mahoney; March 21, 1949 to September 13, 2019) was an American singer and songwriter who, in the 1970s and 1980s, had eleven Top 40 songs, including "Baby Hold On", "Two Tickets to Paradise", "Think I'm in Love", "Shakin'", "Take Me Home Tonight", "I Wanna Go Back", "Endless Nights", "Walk on Water", and "The Love in Your Eyes". Critic Neil Genzlinger of The New York Times called him a working-class rocker. In 1987, he was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance for "Take Me Home Tonight".

Money -- who had been a cigarette smoker for years -- developed pneumonia following a minimally invasive heart valve replacement surgery in July 2019, causing him to cancel tour dates. On August 24, 2019, he revealed that he had been diagnosed with stage 4 esophageal cancer. He died of complications from the cancer at Keck Hospital of USC in Los Angeles on September 13, 2019, at age 70