{"id":4620,"date":"2026-04-13T11:29:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T11:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bzerbros.fun\/?p=4620"},"modified":"2026-04-13T11:29:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T11:29:44","slug":"carl-carlton-voice-behind-everlasting-love-and-shes-a-bad-mama-jama-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bzerbros.fun\/?p=4620","title":{"rendered":"Carl Carlton, Voice Behind \u201cEverlasting Love\u201d and \u201cShe\u2019s a Bad Mama Jama,\u201d Passes Away"},"content":{"rendered":"\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\n\n\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","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&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":173,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bzerbros.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bzerbros.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bzerbros.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bzerbros.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bzerbros.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bzerbros.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4621,"href":"https:\/\/bzerbros.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4620\/revisions\/4621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bzerbros.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bzerbros.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bzerbros.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bzerbros.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}