Rolling Obituary Thread: 2020

milton glaser at 91

Marc Orleans of Sunburned Hand of the Man and other projects, via posts on FB from people who would know. No further details at present.

:(

RIP

Met him once or twice in Brooklyn, trying to remember what one of his first bands was, I didn’t see it on Discogs. Juneau or something? Something I got while in college.

Juneau, yup.

Another musical passing: English bassist/composer Simon H. Fell.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2891904697585074&set=a.391544947621074&type=3&theater

Freddy Cole, at 88 .https://www.wbgo.org/post/freddy-cole-singer-who-eluded-shadow-his-brother-nat-king-cole-has-died-88

Charles Webb

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/charles-webb-dead-graduate-author-was-81-1300794

Linda Cristal, Who Starred in ‘High Chaparral,’ Dies at 89

I didn't like Westerns in general, but liked High Chaparral.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/28/obituaries/linda-cristal-dead.html

RIP Linda

Marc Orleans a suicide according to Kyp Malone.

I had a terrible feeling it was that, based on comments elsewhere.

Benny Mardones has fully gone into the night:

https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/9402923/benny-mardones-into-the-night-dead-73

Leonard Scarcella, the Mayor of my hometown, died yesterday. Elected for the first time in 1969, he apparently was the longest serving Mayor in US history. Ironically, last year the city voted to create Mayoral term limits, which would have allowed him to run for only two more terms.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/neighborhood/katy/news/article/Iconic-Stafford-mayor-dies-at-age-79-15373695.php

jesus

50 years in office is…too many, probably

Louis Mahoney, veteran of many a British TV show since the 70s. At one time Vice President of Equity, having risen there by policing Equity members' behaviour wrt South Africa.

Soundtrack specialist Johnny Mandel, 94:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jun/30/johnny-mandel-oscar-winning-composer-mash-theme-dies-aged-94

Carl Reiner

Thought he would never. RIP.

Believe he is in this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OW7GoIl0T8

RIP Carl R.

Aw.

A picture of Carl Reiner with daughter Annie and recent birthday boy, Mel Brooks all in Black Lives Matter shirts. Fourteen hours ago, he tweeted a multi-part appreciation of Noel Coward. Reiner turned 98 in March. That's a lot of time spent being a good human. pic.twitter.com/Da1mmPpeFM

— Brian Heater (@bheater) June 30, 2020

Beautiful.

Apparently*, Louisville h/c and latterly country legend Wink O'Bannon.

(* Confirmed that he had a stroke and is/was in a coma, seeing rip messages following a private twitter account.)

Holy shit. Wink's paying in Eleventh Dream Day is all time.

This one may be him on lead vox; I know he wrote it. It shreds like a great lost Neil Young song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYmk_lk6gxE

RIP Alan Brady

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGEOjxtQtWc

Wink update: on a ventilator but no brain activity. "Prognosis is grim"

Gutted about Carl Reiner, was hoping he’d live long enough to see Trump turfed out.

ahma watch the jerk tonight; it's got to be over two decades since i saw it last. all those martin/reiner joints were pivotal in my thinking as a kid.

Philip Latham, veteran of UK TV, Hammer films and a variety of other bit parts.

Was going to say he must have been some age. 91.

ahma watch the jerk tonight; it's got to be over two decades since i saw it last. all those martin/reiner joints were pivotal in my thinking as a kid.

posting this here too because it is pretty grebt

I have a Carl Reiner story that I hold very dear to me. I figured I'd share it today, on the day of his passing, because I hope it will bring some other people some joy the way it does me.

— Matthew Rosenberg (@AshcanPress) June 30, 2020

that's fantastic

seconded

the only beef stroganoff joke I know has to do with a field of masturbating cows

Ha, I was about to mention that joke.

I posted the same clip Morbs did on my FB this morning. I also discovered the whole ep is up on YT. 8th Greatest Sitcom episode ever according to TV Guide

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHStKXuBzlM

I only saw it in full earlier this year, and it truly is funny as burning hell.

Ida Haendel, British classical violinist, 91. RIP.

saw Olivia de Havilland trending and thought oh no but haha it's her birthday she's 104 :)

Sir Everton Weekes, last of the Three W's, 95.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/jul/01/our-hero-west-indies-legend-sir-everton-weekes-dies-aged-95-cricket

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/54930cd0e4b006aa21ffee77/1551126695441-QJ8IJAYTK3BXWXQQ488V/weekes.jpg

re Johnny Mandel, I guess if your two best-known songs are "The Shadow of Your Smile" and "Suicide Is Painless," you came out ahead.

https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2020-06-30/johnny-mandel-composer-mash-dead

Don't sleep on "Emily"! (From "The Americanization of") RIP

I couldn't recall Mandel's music to Point Blank off the top of my head, but playing a clip of the opening titles brings it back, it's kinda modernistic and appropriate for the film

I seem to recall Calexico did a good cover of The Shadow of Your Smile. Or maybe something that just featured them as a rhythm section?

Oh man, I had no idea Everton Weekes was still around. (I'm older than his grandson :/ )