Rolling Obituary Thread: 2015

Prolific songwriter who had songs recorded by Big Maybelle, Elvis Presley, Little Jimmy Scott, Nat King Cole, Ike & Tina Turner and others died on January 20th at age 92 according to Wiki and a Yahoo Southern Soul group email listserv thing I get. She was a New Jersey-based independent songwriter who rejected offers to join well-known house songwriting operations at Stax, Motown and elsewhere

― curmudgeon, Friday, 30 January 2015 15:46 (eleven years ago)

Edward Saylor one of the surviving Doolittle Raiders (three left)
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/31/us/edward-j-saylor-airman-who-took-fight-to-japan-with-the-doolittle-raiders-dies-at-94.html

― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 1 February 2015 03:32 (eleven years ago)

navy ace alexander vraciu, who once shot down six japanese bombers in eight minutes

― mookieproof, Sunday, 1 February 2015 04:00 (eleven years ago)

NY Times now has obit of songwriter McCoy

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/01/arts/music/rose-marie-mccoy-a-songwriter-for-rock-pop-and-jazz-legends-dies-at-92.html?_r=1

― curmudgeon, Sunday, 1 February 2015 16:32 (eleven years ago)

http://oregonmusicnews.com/2015/02/02/don-covay-soul-singer-songwriter-dead-76/

He had been in ill health for awhile after a stroke. No larger outlets are reporting this yet. Reports of the death have also been on facebook

― curmudgeon, Monday, 2 February 2015 16:25 (eleven years ago)

more online tributes starting to show up

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 3 February 2015 16:36 (eleven years ago)

RIP Don

― A trumpet growing in a garden (Tom D.), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 16:43 (eleven years ago)

Geraldine McEwan, star of theatre, television and film

http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/feb/01/geraldine-mcewan-from-mrs-malaprop-to-miss-marple

― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 18:23 (eleven years ago)

LA based saxophonist Zane Musa, at 36.

http://www.laweekly.com/music/la-jazz-scene-reels-from-untimely-death-of-zane-musa-5367964

― nickn, Tuesday, 3 February 2015 21:36 (eleven years ago)

prolific churchill/holocaust/war historian martin gilbert

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-31129677

― mookieproof, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 20:05 (eleven years ago)

Sandy Socolow, key CBS News editor/producer of the Cronkite era

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joe-peyronnin/broadcast-news-icon-sandy_b_6590202.html

― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 23:32 (eleven years ago)

pianist aldo ciccolini

― mookieproof, Thursday, 5 February 2015 08:53 (eleven years ago)

Suzette Haden Elgin

http://io9.com/r-i-p-suzette-haden-elgin-author-poet-verbal-self-d-1684006640

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 5 February 2015 18:56 (eleven years ago)

Mary Healy, singer who teamed with her hubby on records, Vegas, radio and movies including The 5,000 Fingers of Dr T

http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Stage-and-Screen-Actress-Mary-Healy-Dies-at-96-20150204

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyf_A3dUI-E

― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 February 2015 21:51 (eleven years ago)

Stewart Stern, screenwriter of Rebel without a Cause and The Last Movie

http://variety.com/2015/film/news/stewart-stern-dies-writer-of-rebel-without-a-cause-obituary-1201426670/

― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 8 February 2015 06:40 (eleven years ago)

Buddy Holly & The Crickets bassist Joe B. Mauldin

http://lubbockonline.com/local-news/2015-02-07/crickets-bassist-joe-b-mauldin-remembered-gentle-soul#.VNcTTPnF-So

― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 8 February 2015 07:46 (eleven years ago)

Dean Smith:

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/12296176/dean-smith-former-north-carolina-tar-heels-coach-dies-age-83

― clemenza, Sunday, 8 February 2015 15:10 (eleven years ago)

Rik Mayall

http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/jun/09/rik-mayall-dies-comedian-actor

― Οὖτις Δαυ & τηε Κνιγητσ (Phil D.), Monday, 9 February 2015 19:56 (eleven years ago)

Fuck, nevermind. Didn't notice taht was old.

― Οὖτις Δαυ & τηε Κνιγητσ (Phil D.), Monday, 9 February 2015 19:57 (eleven years ago)

Still shocking, but yeah.

― Mark G, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 16:24 (eleven years ago)

Architect Jon Jerde.

http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-jon-jerde-20150209-story.html#page=1

― nickn, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 01:31 (eleven years ago)

60 Minutes's Bob Simon:

http://nypost.com/2015/02/11/60-minutes-bob-simon-killed-in-car-crash/

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 12 February 2015 02:39 (eleven years ago)

Jerry Tarkanian; wow, these assholes are droppin' like flies

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/12309861/jerry-tarkanian-was-hall-fame-coach-battled-ncaa

― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 February 2015 12:13 (eleven years ago)

Steve Strange, of Visage:

http://www.vanyaland.com/2015/02/12/report-steve-strange-new-romantic-electronic-music-pioneers-visage-dead-55/

― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 12 February 2015 23:15 (eleven years ago)

Oh fuck, and Moebius!

http://io9.com/5892148/legendary-french-artist-moebius-the-man-who-made-the-abyss-alien-and-tron-even-weirder-is-dead-at-73

― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 12 February 2015 23:19 (eleven years ago)

Er, except that (Moebius) is from a few years ago. Never mind.

― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 12 February 2015 23:23 (eleven years ago)

David Carr:

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/02/13/business/media/david-carr-media-equation-columnist-for-the-times-is-dead-at-58.html?_r=0

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 13 February 2015 03:40 (eleven years ago)

jesus… really loved his work.

― a cake of three ingredients (stevie), Friday, 13 February 2015 09:19 (eleven years ago)

http://variety.com/2015/tv/news/gary-owens-announcer-of-laugh-in-fame-dies-at-80-1201433731/

Brilliant voice

― Johnny Fever, Friday, 13 February 2015 21:50 (eleven years ago)

Indeed. RIP.

― Up the Junction Boulevard (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 13 February 2015 22:00 (eleven years ago)

THIS STUPID WEEK.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 13 February 2015 22:28 (eleven years ago)

cupping my ear in tribute

― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Friday, 13 February 2015 22:29 (eleven years ago)

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5lhQ4Ejpmqg/UrwibzLVcnI/AAAAAAAAG-g/2TJgbCqIrf8/s1600/gary+owens+glasses.jpg

― Johnny Fever, Friday, 13 February 2015 22:37 (eleven years ago)

Alison Gordon, who covered the Jays from '79-84 for the Toronto Star--first female ever to cover a team full-time.

http://www.thestar.com/sports/baseball/2015/02/12/pioneering-toronto-star-baseball-writer-alison-gordon-dead-at-72.html

"We had four or five guys that really rallied around not letting her in the clubhouse, but I don't think Alison gave a damn, to tell you the truth," Lloyd Moseby said. "She could have very easily taken the words that a lot of guys said and took it to heart and went back to her bosses and said, 'I'm not doing this. I don't get paid to take abuse.' But she never did. She kept showing up. And it was amazing, really. I’m just proud to have known Alison."

― clemenza, Saturday, 14 February 2015 12:36 (eleven years ago)

Lizabeth Scott

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/07/movies/lizabeth-scott-film-noir-siren-dies-at-92.html

― Brad C., Saturday, 14 February 2015 16:46 (eleven years ago)

Sam Andrew, guitarist w/Big Brother & The Holding Company and Janis Joplin

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/big-brother-and-the-holding-companys-sam-andrew-dead-at-73-20150214

One of the big theatre companies here put on a production of "Love, Janis" about 7-8 years ago and Andrew was brought in as the music director. To promote the show, he did an evening signing meet & greet thing at the just-reopened Cactus Music. It was late into the appearance when I showed up with my dad--a big Janis fan--and the crowd (if any) had thinned considerably. Andrew signed several LPs we brought in addition to the then-new "Love Is The Song We Sing" San Francisco Nuggets box. That one he actually signed twice--once in his usual place of the picture on the page with the write up for "Down On Me" (complete with an arrow running from his signature to his picture), and the other in my requested spot on the inside front cover, a photo of Big Brother posing alongside The Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver, and The Charlatans at Golden Gate Park in 1967.

While looking at the later pic, he remarked about wanting to a reunion version of that photo, but "There's not as many of us now."

RIP

― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 14 February 2015 19:38 (eleven years ago)

Nice story.

― clemenza, Sunday, 15 February 2015 00:48 (eleven years ago)

Michele Ferrero, richest living Italian, (apparently) inventor of Nutella, Kinder Surprise, Tic Tac, Ferrero Rocher.

http://torino.repubblica.it/cronaca/2015/02/14/news/e_morto_michele_ferrero_l_inventore_della_nutella_e_dei_tic_tac-107329807/

― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 15 February 2015 19:37 (eleven years ago)

i didn't know anyone invented tic tacs, just thought they occurred naturally

― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 15 February 2015 19:45 (eleven years ago)

lol.

RIP

― Up the Junction Boulevard (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 15 February 2015 20:04 (eleven years ago)

Louis Jourdan

http://variety.com/2015/film/news/louis-jourdan-star-of-octopussy-gigi-dies-at-93-1201434557/

― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 15 February 2015 22:45 (eleven years ago)

rip Louis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKc7wRLA-Z8

― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 February 2015 02:23 (eleven years ago)

Tony Hart, children's TV presenter and artist
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2009/jan/19/tony-hart

― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 16 February 2015 07:36 (eleven years ago)

in 2009

― Keith Moom (Neil S), Monday, 16 February 2015 07:50 (eleven years ago)

Yeah, why was that trending on The Guardian?

― ineloquentwow (Craigo Boingo), Monday, 16 February 2015 08:26 (eleven years ago)

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