{"id":6097,"date":"2026-04-18T16:48:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T16:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/?p=6097"},"modified":"2026-04-18T16:48:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T16:48:27","slug":"carl-carlton-voice-behind-everlasting-love-and-shes-a-bad-mama-jama-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/?p=6097","title":{"rendered":"Carl Carlton, Voice Behind \u201cEverlasting Love\u201d and \u201cShe\u2019s a Bad Mama Jama,\u201d Passes Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1861172\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Carl Carlton\u2019s passing at 72 feels less like an ending and more like a soft dimming of a light that refuses to go out. From Detroit\u2019s soul-soaked streets to global charts, he carried joy in his voice\u2014never loud with ego, always rich with feeling. \u201cEverlasting Love\u201d and \u201cShe\u2019s a Bad Mama Jama\u201d weren\u2019t just hits; they were memories in motion, stitched into birthdays, weddings, and late-night drives.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-4\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1861172\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Behind the music stood a man who chose craft over chaos. No scandals, no theatrics\u2014just patience, humility, and a lifelong devotion to song. Even after a stroke in 2019, his recordings quietly found new life on playlists and rediscovered vinyl. His death on December 14, 2025, closed a chapter, but not the story. Each time his records spin, he is here again: smiling through the speakers, reminding us that some voices never truly say goodbye.<\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carl Carlton\u2019s passing at 72 feels less like an ending and more like a soft dimming of a light that refuses to go out. From Detroit\u2019s soul-soaked streets to global &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6099,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6097\/revisions\/6099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}