Mar 27
Henson Gargill Dies
Posted by Slobokan @ 13:26 · 114 words · print
Singer Henson Cargill, whose 1968 hit "Skip a Rope" topped the country charts with its understated take on social problems, has died. He was 66.
Cargill died Saturday following complications from surgery, Matthews Funeral Home in Edmond confirmed.
"Skip a Rope" made it to No. 1 on the Billboard country chart and was a top 25 crossover success in the pop music chart.
A New York Times review in 1968 called the song "a little morality lesson within the context of a child's skip-rope rhyme" and said Cargill "has one of those deliciously smooth country baritones like Johnny Cash's or Dave Dudley's."
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He is survived by two sons, a daughter, four sisters and a brother.
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