o
― Mark G, Friday, 16 January 2015 07:36 (nine years ago) link
Shocker, RIP Kim!!!!!!!
― Peas Be Upon Ham (Tom D.), Friday, 16 January 2015 10:09 (nine years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/17/arts/music/ervin-drake-composer-of-pop-songs-dies-at-95.html?action=click&contentCollection=Music®ion=Footer&module=MoreInSection&pgtype=article
Ervin Drake’s “Now That I Have Everything” debuted the same day he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1983, a fitting coda for a career that was punctuated by hit versions of his songs, like Frank Sinatra’s “It Was a Very Good Year,” Billie Holiday’s “Good Morning Heartache” and the inspirational “I Believe,” sung by Frankie Laine.
Mr. Drake, who wrote lyrics and music, produced television programs and was president of the American Guild of Authors and Composers, died on Thursday at 95 at his home in Great Neck, N.Y. The cause was complications of bladder cancer, said his stepson, Jed Berman.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 17 January 2015 20:19 (nine years ago) link
Takao Saitô, Kurosawa's cinematographer on Ran, Sanjuro and many others
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/takao-saito-cinematographer-18-kurosawa-761859
Faten Hamama, actress who was "Lady of Arabic Cinema"
https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-faten-hamama-1931-2015
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 18 January 2015 15:17 (nine years ago) link
http://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/music/2015/01/17/dixie-hall-prolific-bluegrass-songwriter-dies/21914181/
Dixie Hall, wife of Tom T. Hall. I didn't really know anything about her before this article, but what a life.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 19 January 2015 05:38 (nine years ago) link
http://www.nola.com/music/index.ssf/2015/01/bo_dollis_longtime_big_chief_o.html
Theodore Emile "Bo" Dollis, the longtime Big Chief of the Wild Magnolias Mardi Gras Indians, died at his home in New Orleans on Jan. 20, 2015, his son confirmed. He was 71.
....He was among the first to bring the culture and sound of the Indian culture to national prominence, recording the first commercial album of Mardi Gras Indian music, the single "Handa Wanda," in 1970 – the same year that he and Monk Boudreaux of the Golden Eagles Mardi Gras Indians appeared at the first New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. In 1974, along with his wife Laurita Dollis, keyboardist Willie Tee, Snooks Eagilin, percussionist Uganda Roberts and saxophonist Earl Turbinton, Dollis recorded the groundbreaking album "The Wild Magnolias," melding Indian chants with sizzling funk. ...
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 18:30 (nine years ago) link
Saw that coming. RIP
― Zings of Oblivion (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 18:37 (nine years ago) link
Leon Brittan
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/leon-brittan-dead-thatcher-minister-accused-of-failure-to-act-on-child-sex-abuse-dossier-dies-9995572.html
― ailsa, Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:10 (nine years ago) link
(also Anne Kirkbride the other day, mentioned on Coronation Street thread but not here)
― ailsa, Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:11 (nine years ago) link
Frank Mazzola, editor of Performance (amongst other extraordinary things):
http://variety.com/2015/film/news/frank-mazzola-film-editor-and-rebel-without-a-cause-actor-dies-at-79-1201410982/
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 22 January 2015 19:26 (nine years ago) link
@jeremyscahillThese obit headlines are puke-worthy: "Saudi King Abdullah: patient reformer who battled hardliners"
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Friday, 23 January 2015 06:34 (nine years ago) link
He's getting no RIPs from me.
― A trumpet growing in a garden (Tom D.), Friday, 23 January 2015 12:27 (nine years ago) link
For constant larfs, make sure you read Greenwald's twitter today.
@ggreenwald 2h2 hours agoNext on CNN: Was the dearly departed King Abdullah more like MLK or Gandhi? Our panel remembers this beloved figured of peace and reform.
@ggreenwald · 1h 1 hour agoUK orders flags flown at half-mast for King Abdullah. Will return to lecturing the world about democracy tomorrow
― Οὖτις Δαυ & τηε Κνιγητσ (Phil D.), Friday, 23 January 2015 13:55 (nine years ago) link
faith seidenberg, who desegregated mcsorley's ale house in manhattan, among other things
― mookieproof, Saturday, 24 January 2015 00:15 (nine years ago) link
Joe Franklin
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 25 January 2015 06:11 (nine years ago) link
bummer.
― Sounds like a forks display name (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 25 January 2015 06:13 (nine years ago) link
http://espn.go.com/chicago/mlb/story/_/id/12219755/ernie-banks-former-chicago-cubs-great-dies-age-83
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 25 January 2015 07:26 (nine years ago) link
I got through to Joe Franklin once, as a teenager in the mid- or late-'70s. He must have been syndicated, because I'm pretty sure it was a station out of Cleveland that you could pick up in Toronto. Zero recollection of what we talked about.
― clemenza, Sunday, 25 January 2015 10:29 (nine years ago) link
(Check that--think it was this guy instead: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Franklin.)
― clemenza, Sunday, 25 January 2015 10:31 (nine years ago) link
VERY DIFFERENT GUY.
I interviewed Joe in his office in 1980. (The OLD office, not the neater one below.) Papers and folders and God-knows-what stacked floor-to-ceiling. He was yakking on the phone about "Gore Vidal's Caligula" ("It's terrible, people are asking for their $10 back").
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr2s7K8Qmdk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFXsMTS9MS4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bpf1j0cA5Hg
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 25 January 2015 14:11 (nine years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-30984851
Demis Roussos. I suspect he might get his own thread, or the Aphrodite's Child one.
― the bowels are not what they seem (aldo), Monday, 26 January 2015 12:38 (nine years ago) link
:((((((((
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=321JxxzlGio
― めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Monday, 26 January 2015 12:43 (nine years ago) link
rod mckuen
can't understand it anymore
― mookieproof, Friday, 30 January 2015 00:54 (nine years ago) link
Colleen McCullough, author of The Thorn Birds: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-31036362
― ailsa, Friday, 30 January 2015 01:12 (nine years ago) link
What not to do. Seriously, what NOT TO DO:
http://www.crikey.com.au/2015/01/30/why-the-oz-called-colleen-mccullough-fat-and-ugly-in-her-obituary/
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 30 January 2015 05:04 (nine years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Marie_McCoy
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100823151
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 (nine years ago) link
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 (nine years ago) link
navy ace alexander vraciu, who once shot down six japanese bombers in eight minutes
― mookieproof, Sunday, 1 February 2015 04:00 (nine years ago) link
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 (nine years ago) link
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 (nine years ago) link
more online tributes starting to show up
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 3 February 2015 16:36 (nine years ago) link
RIP Don
― A trumpet growing in a garden (Tom D.), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 16:43 (nine years ago) link
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 (nine years ago) link
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 (nine years ago) link
prolific churchill/holocaust/war historian martin gilbert
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-31129677
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 20:05 (nine years ago) link
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 (nine years ago) link
pianist aldo ciccolini
― mookieproof, Thursday, 5 February 2015 08:53 (nine years ago) link
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 (nine years ago) link
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 (nine years ago) link
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 (nine years ago) link
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 (nine years ago) link
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 (nine years ago) link
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 (nine years ago) link
Fuck, nevermind. Didn't notice taht was old.
― Οὖτις Δαυ & τηε Κνιγητσ (Phil D.), Monday, 9 February 2015 19:57 (nine years ago) link
Still shocking, but yeah.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 16:24 (nine years ago) link
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 (nine years ago) link
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 (nine years ago) link
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 (nine years ago) link
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 (nine years ago) link
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 (nine years ago) link
No way. He always had that youthful glow. RIP
― Instant Karmagideon Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 1 January 2016 03:32 (eight years ago) link
natalie cole
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 1 January 2016 16:57 (eight years ago) link
rip
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music/singer-natalie-cole-dead-65-article-1.2482580
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 1 January 2016 17:01 (eight years ago) link
Ring out the old: Rolling Obituary Thread: 2016
― Green Dolphin Street Hassle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 1 January 2016 17:22 (eight years ago) link