2023 Remembrance, Musicians to Stream in The New Year

Our business and platform is all about CTV advertising. However, you probably didn’t know that JamLoop and our founder Leif Welch have roots in the music industry. With that in mind we wanted to look back and remember some of the musicians, producers, writers and artists who died in 2023 who were influential to us over the years.

For a comprehensive remembrance check out NPR Music’s Lars Gotrich segment – it is worth a listen, “In Memoriam 2023: The Musicians We Lost.”

Here are a few we wanted to remember along with some of the songs you may want to stream this weekend and into the New Year.

• Jeff Beck, rock guitar legend and member of The Yardbirds, The Jeff Beck Group, and Beck, Bogert & Appice – Hi Ho Silver Lining, Cause We’ve Ended as Lovers, Freeway Jam, Beck’s Bolero, A Day in the Life
• Burt Bacharach, Legendary American composer, songwriter, record producer, and pianist – Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head, The Look of Love, I’ll Never Fall in Love Again, Walk on By, What’s New Pussycat?
• David Crosby, folk rock pioneer and member of The Byrds and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Almost Cut My Hair, Guinnevere, Deja Vu, Wooden Ships, Long Time Gone
• Tina Turner, the “Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll” – What’s Love Got to Do with It, The Best, Proud Mary, River Deep – Mountain High, Simply the Best
• Tony Bennett, legendary crooner and multiple Grammy winner – I Left My Heart in San Francisco, The Way You Look Tonight, Fly Me to the Moon, Smile, Rags to Riches
• Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian folk singer-songwriter – If You Could Read My Mind, Sundown, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Carefree Highway, Early Morning Rain
• Robbie Bachman, drummer, and Tim Bachman, guitarist, co-founders of Bachman-Turner Overdrive – Takin’ Care of Business, You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet, Roll on Down the Highway, Let It Ride