Rolling RIP/Obituary Thread 2012

Terry you were cool. RIP dude!

rev. howard moody, pastor at judson memorial church in NYC, who did so many amazing things

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/14/nyregion/howard-moody-minister-of-judson-memorial-church-dead-at-91.html

Wow, a very impressive life

Did we miss Derek Jameson? We surely did.

James 'Sugar Boy' Crawford, New Orleans rhythm & blues singer of 'Jock-A-Mo,' dies at 77
Keith Spera, The Times-Picayune By Keith Spera, The Times-Picayune

James “Sugar Boy” Crawford, the New Orleans rhythm & blues singer who wrote and recorded the enduring Mardi Gras season standard “Jock-A-Mo,” died early Saturday after a brief illness. He was 77.

“Jock-A-Mo” borrowed its lyrics from age-old Mardi Gras Indian chants. It was later remade by the Dixie Cups as “Iko Iko.” Artists as diverse as Dr. John, the Grateful Dead and Cyndi Lauper also recorded variations.

Mr. Crawford’s own career came to a premature end following a police beating in 1963. Only in recent years did he return to the stage, and then only occasionally.

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Wow, I didn't even know Sugar Boy was still alive! I knew about the police beating and the legal fights over "Iko Iko." I only know a few songs besides "Jock-a-Mo," but they're all great.

I at first didn't clue into why I'd seen two or three Sam's-related posts on Facebook:

http://www.torontosun.com/2012/09/23/sam-the-record-man-sniderman-dies

It's late--I'll post something on the Toronto Record Stores thread tomorrow. If you lived in Toronto anytime before 2000, and especially during the '60s or '70s, this counts as a major death.

http://www.pete.at/SamRecordManNight.jpg

RIP SVEN HA↯↯EL

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-g38mFozSZLw/TmkNQmk5jnI/AAAAAAAADDU/5IgD3E7pIbM/s400/n123752.jpg

The teenage me thought he was great.

Was gonna say "I though Sam died years ago" but I was confusing him with Honest Ed.

Anyways, RIP. I bought lotsa gems at that store. (And hey, Goin' Down The Road)

That's what I thought for years and years, but I found out last year that that scene was actually shot in A&A's. I think there might be an exterior shot of Sam's just before they walk in that creates some confusion. The Satie girl...sigh.

Andy Williams http://www.19actionnews.com/story/19643579/singer-andy-williams-dead

Nooooo!!!

RIP Chief Inspector Dreyfus, Herbert Lom: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19745910

RIP Herb, wasn't sure he was still around. Last of The Ladykillers?

i thought he died a year or two ago? weird.

RIP

Frank Wilson RIP

RIP Miami-based Cuban pianist Francisco “Paquito” Hechavarría.

He´s the one who played the exacting, driving tumbao (a repeated pattern) in Gloria Estefan’s monster hit “Conga.” And well before that he played on Mongo Santamaría´s classic Our Man in Havana. But also you probably heard him on Barry Manilow’s “Hey Mambo,” or with David Byrne, or Ricky Martin, or Israel “Cachao” Lopez, or Christina Aguilera. The list is long.

Chris Economaki, Rumbling Voice of Auto Racing, Dies at 91

Missed the Frank Wilson notice. "Do I Love You (Indeed I Do)" is worth all the myth-making that surrounds it from the record-collector end of things.

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

Punch Sulzberger, NY Times publisher 1963-92

http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/29/punch-sulzberger-rip/

RIP Michael O'Hare, who played Commander Sinclair on Babylon 5, one of my fave characters on the show. Very sad at this news. And this is the 4th actor from the series to have had an early death, now.

http://www.inquisitr.com/347878/michael-ohare-commander-sinclair-on-babylon-5-dead-at-60-report/

RIP Eric Hobsbawm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/oct/01/eric-hobsbawm-died-aged-95?CMP=twt_fd

Love Hobsbawm, RIP

boo, very sad, although 95 is a ripe old age. Born 1917! Left Germany in 1933! Amazing.

Damn, Hobsbawm. When I was doing A-levels my history teacher, who was a massive H fan, kept on directing me to him. Good. RIP.

biologist/ecologist Barry Commoner

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/02/us/barry-commoner-dies-at-95.html

Recognized the name right away--my first-year roommate was always talking about him, and I think he probably voted for him in '80.

In a “Last Word” interview with The New York Times in 2006, videotaped to accompany this obituary online

never noticed this practice before

Michael Henry Heim, Russian and Slavic scholar and translator of writers like Kundera and Grass. Great, great instructor at UCLA and I remember both his classes I took as an undergrad on Russian and Soviet literature very well.

R.B. Greaves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9Y0x1jLkLg

http://www.kalamu.com/bol/wp-content/content/images/john%20tchicai%2005.jpg

RIP John Tchicai
http://othersideoflife.wordpress.com/2012/10/07/john-tchicai-r-i-p/

http://londonjazz.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/rip-john-tchicai-1936-2012.html

The Danish Jazzblog.dk reports that saxophonist John Tchicai died in his sleep in hospital in Perpignan yesterday. He had suffered a brain haemorrhage and collapsed at Barcelona airport on June 11th. He had been in good spirits and started to work with a physiotherapist, but had cancelled all gigs. His recent work in the UK had been in a duo with the late Tony Marsh. RIP.

Very sad news.

Sad news about Tchicai. I got to see him live once, with Yo Miles! around 2000 or '01.

I caught him with the reformed New York Art Quartet in '99, and he sounded as amazing as ever. I wondered why John Zorn had taken his place in that group lately, though.

RIP John. Still don't know how to pronounce your surname tho :(

chick eye.

/t͡ʃɪkɑy/ i think?

gah this is the coolest thing on earth http://ipa.typeit.org/full/

I see new usernames in the future. ʊ

Frank Wilson, a Motown producer and songwriter who wrote or co-wrote some of the label’s biggest hits, including “Love Child,” performed by the Supremes, “All I Need” by the Temptations and “Castles in the Sand” by Stevie Wonder, died on Sept. 27 in Duarte, Calif. He was 71.

AKA Frank Wilson, singer of Do I Love You (Indeed I Do).

AKA Frank Wilson, from the Sept 28 posts on this thread?

Dude posted here a day after he died? Creepy!

alex karras ('blazing saddles', 'webster', 'victor/victoria', football)

http://www.thewrap.com/tv/article/alex-karras-webster-and-nfl-star-dead-77-video-59936

oh damn, last Candygram for Mongo. Very underrated ex-jock actor, esp in Victor/Victoria ("Do you have heat in your room?").

Nothing formal yet but I've just heard that Mark Poster has passed on.

http://www.screenrush.co.uk/news/films/news-18503227/

I worked with Savides. Sad news.