BEAUTIFUL VOCAL by Gilbert Price

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The school was... integrated?

That was outstanding! Thanks for sharing that, OP.

I looked up his background and see he died in 1991 at age 48. I automatically assumed he died from AIDS as that was what killed so many young gay men during the early ‘90s. However, Wikipedia states his death was from accidental asphyxiation due to a faulty space heater. He was in Vienna, Austria at the time.

Of course you idiot, R3. It was NEW YORK, NYC. Not Alabama.

What a great voice.

R.I.P.

Wow, that was great OP.

What or who is he looking at?

He was very active through the 70s. With three Tony nominations.

And I see nothing g through the 80 s Anyone work with him?

Very handsome man.

A youngster with a terrific voice.

In his breakout role.

He died from accidental asphyxiation due to a fault space heater.

What a sad way to go.

His mouth was huge. I bet he accommodated a lot of big cocks in that pie hole.

It's interesting that in the OBC cast of The Roar of the Greasepaint... I can hear hints of Price's Caribbean accent. I saw him do both 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and Timbuktu, and I don't remember any specific accent, so he must have worked hard to lose it.

Perhaps he put his Brooklyn accent aside and adopted a Caribbean accent.

R17 half of Brooklyn has Caribbean roots.

The section Gilbert and Barbra were in was mostly Jewish. Not sure how many Caribbeans were there in the 1950s.

Between his astonishing talent, his good looks, and, from the few TV clips of him, his engaging personality, I would have thought he’d become a major star. All I have seen or heard is this clip, Ol’ Man River (of course), They Call the Wind Maria and the recording of Feeling Good—all goosebump-inducing. Does anyone have anything else?

Price was a protege of Langston Hughes...perhaps Hughes was less than the perfect mentor.

no wife or kids mentioned on wikipedia. Hmmmm.

The NY Times obituary... January 8, 1991

Gilbert Price, 48, Broadway Baritone Gilbert Price, a baritone who won acclaim for his Broadway debut in "The Roar of the Greasepaint — the Smell of the Crowd" in 1965, was found dead on Wednesday in an apartment in Vienna. He was 48 years old and had gone there recently to conduct a workshop in singing and acting, friends said. Mr. Price had long suffered from diabetes, but it was not known if the illness contributed to his death. The State Department said the cause of death was being investigated by the Vienna Institute of Forensic Medicine. The singer was 22 when he ran onto the stage of the Shubert Theater and electrified audiences with a single song, "Feeling Good," in the second act of "Roar of the Greasepaint." He was nominated four times for Tony Awards, for his roles in "Lost in the Stars" (1972), "The Night that Made America Famous" (1975), "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue" (1976) and "Timbuktu" (1978), an adaptation of "Kismet." Mr. Price graduated from Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn in 1960. After touring in the early 1960's with Harry Belafonte and with the Leonard de Paur Chorus, he became a protege of Langston Hughes, and played a lead role in Hughes's "Jerico-Jim Crow" Off Broadway in 1964. He is survived by his father, Leon, of Charlotte, N.C., and a sister, Jeanette Stargill of New York. A memorial service is to be held on Feb. 5 at 1:30 P.M. in the Actors' Chapel at St. Malachy's Roman Catholic Church, 239 West 49th Street.

OP, thanks for posting - I never heard of G.P. - what a voice!

Darling, R22, Langston Hughes was an out gay poet. If Price was his “protege,” chances are he was also gay.

I saw him in the Harry Chapin revue "The Night That Made America Famous. He, Kelly Garrett and Delores Hall sang the shit out of those shitty songs. He and Garrett got Tony noms.