Trini Lopez is dead to me!

Que joven.

Who?

Trinidad "Trini" López III (May 15, 1937-August 11, 2020) was an American singer, guitarist, and actor.

RIP

I like Trini Lopez. He had a distinct, pleasant voice with an accent and I have some of his records from the 1960's.

Damn it. I have fond memories of watching Trini on tv when I was a kid.

RIP

He was super cute, but I like hobbity-looking guys.

I'm wondering if Trini was gay. There is never any mention of a marriage, wife, or children.

Trini Lopez is 5 feet seven inches tall. Pocket gay.

He was my first man crush. The Welcome to Triini Country pic with him on a horse. My dad came home from a business trip and told me that Trini was in his hotel, playing a concert. I loved the music but I was confused that I wanted to be in the hotel with him, not at the concert? Hmmm. That's curious.

Counting flowers on the wall, smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo!

LOL all my boyfriends, including hubby for 20 years, look like this. I have a type.

Trini Lopez in later years.

Trini stole all our songs

Now I can shower with him every morning!

He was in The Dirty Dozen.

Another trinsperson taken by covid. Rest in power queen!

RIP, Trini

Condolences to Mario.

His horrible "jazzy" cover of "If I Had a Hammer" is one of the worst earworms imaginable.

Was he gay? He dated Joey Heatherton.

Back in the 1960s, my parents took 12-year-old me to Blinstrub's, a Boston nightclub, for a charity fundraiser.

Trini was appearing there that week, so he performed that Sunday afternoon and Norm Crosby was his opening act.

He was cute when he was younger

R20, Who wasn't?

quote] He was in The Dirty Dozen.

And was such as asshole on the set they rewrote the script to kill him off camera and fired his ass.

According to Jim Brown's autobiography, Trini Lopez's part was supposed to be larger, but he demanded that his part be even bigger, or he'd walk off the movie, which you don't do to director Robert Aldrich. The next day the question was asked, "Where's Jmenez?" Charles Bronson said "He got hung on an apple tree. Broke his neck." An obvious jab at Lopez's hit song "Lemon tree."

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It sounds like he was very generous towards his siblings, nieces and nephews

He lived in Palm Springs for the last few decades. There was an article in the paper yesterday how they were going to do a documentary on his life.

Single, never married, and Palm Springs. Do the math.

Gay face,

So-- (the obligatory)-- who's had him?

So young.

[quote]His horrible "jazzy" cover of "If I Had a Hammer"

You mean his theft, see also "Lemon Tree" amongst others.

I knew him personally. He used to take a close family friend (female) on shopping sprees in Palm Springs in exchange for dirty talk. True story.

R30: Sounds delightful.

R30 - dirty talk - like sexual or gossip? A gossipy queen who likes to shop and shit talk - that I believe.

I don't believe going on shopping sprees for a little dirty sex talk. That doesn't make any sense.

R22, he was signed to Frank Sinatra's label, Reprise, and I had always heard that it was Sinatra who coaxed him to quit "The Dirty Dozen" in order to focus on his music career. I was fine with his early departure from the picture. That bramble bush song was annoying.

Who?

R16 = Larry King

Thank god it wasn't Trini Alvarado!

... but the fruit of the lemon is impossible to eat.

RIP. I thought the dimple in the chin was cute.

Reading his NY Times obit, it looks like he always had trouble working as part of a group, going way, way back. He had been considered as a possible new front man for Buddy Holly's band after Holly's death and he didn't get along with members of his first band.

He seems to be one of those people from the early 60s who managed to survive later on through overseas bookings and he made a number of obscure films. I'm guessing he survived more recently by playing third tier Indian casinos and other obscure venues.

Too bad he couldn't hammer out COVID.

R32- sexual dirty talk obviously and believe me, she probably did more with him too. We only witnessed the phone calls. She’d step away from anything when he called to give him what he wanted right there on the spot...this woman did anything for money. Also, he wasn’t gay. In addition to our family friend he had a long-time girlfriend (and who knows how many others). If you want to keep your delusions, feel free to keep thinking anything your little heart desires.

Trini Lopez was no Sergio Mendez.

R41, no he wasn't indeed. Trini was American born and bred, sang rock/pop music and is dead. Sergio Mendes is Brazilian, plays bossa nova, Latin, and jazz and is alive.

Oh thank god.

I'm glad he's dead. I thought it said Trini Alvarado.

[quote]Was he gay? He dated Joey Heatherton.

That would turn anyone gay.

THAT'S the movie you choose to illustrate Trini Alvarado. ??

This is the one.

WEHT Trini Alvarado?

I love Trini Lopez. He had his own signature guitar as well. I saw a secondhand one in a guitar store once and talked myself out of an impulse buy. I've regretted it ever since.

He was an irritating presence. I'm guessing he spent his last years playing third tier Indiana casinos and small town summer festivals.