Rolling Obituary Thread: 2017

Wayne Cochran (C C Riders), 78.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/obituaries/article186039993.html

George Avakian at 98, quite simply a giant in jazz and American popular music. Should be more famous. This personal memory will give a sense of the impact:

http://dippermouth.blogspot.in/2017/11/in-loving-memory-of-george-avakian.html

vocalist - composer Jon Hendricks:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/22/obituaries/jon-hendricks-96-who-brought-a-new-dimension-to-jazz-singing-dies.html

Ah RIP :( Knew that was coming but still

RIP Hendricks, will be missed. Was still touring near to the end!

Right. Think it was like one of those Glen Campbell situations, where he could still perform even if he couldn’t have a conversation

As opposed to Junior Mance situation

Tommy Keene

Just came on to post the same.

http://www.pollstar.com/article/new-wave-icon-tommy-keene-dies-133786

I've had Run Now and Based on a True Story for years, but I don't think I gave them more than one or two plays when I bought them--no recollection at all of either. He's highly regarded as a power-pop guy, so I'll make an effort to revisit.

Songs From the Film, from 1986, is my fave and, as far as I can tell, the one that is generally regarded as his best (the CD reissue I owned, and sadly lost during a move, contained that Run Now EP as well), but I have a few of the records he made since then. Always good, often great.

well shit. he was great

http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/community/article/2121124/mona-fong-widow-hong-kong-movie-mogul-sir-run-run-shaw-dies

Mona Fong: singer, actress and producer of a ton of films.

Ken Shapiro, writer-director of The Groove Tube

http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/ken-shapiro-dead-dies-the-groove-tube-1202623976/

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

Slobodan Praljak, Bosnian Croat engineer, film and theatre director, businessman, author, after a short illness in the Netherlands

"a short illness" that's one way of describing it!

philosopher jerry fodor has passed

http://dailynous.com/2017/11/29/jerry-fodor-1935-2017/

AP is reporting Jim Nabors.

BREAKING: Husband says Jim Nabors, who starred as Gomer Pyle on TV's `The Andy Griffith Show,' dies at Hawaii home at age 87.

— The Associated Press (@AP) November 30, 2017

:(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw1SpY6Y_XU

we had several of his LPs, my mom liked really colorless singers like him

RIP Gomer

yeah my Dad liked him too

Sign that you're old: when you heard stories about Jim Nabors's secret marriage to Rock Hudson, you had no way to even process that.

omg i never knew that rumor! poor Jim, it basically ruined his career :(

I dunno, he did pretty well with what he had.

Evidently, if he landed Rock Hudson!

not sure they ever had a relationship beyond "two guys in showbiz whose gayness hit the mainstream rumor mill in the '70s". Did they?

It started as a joke: "If Gomer Pyle married Rock Hudson, then that would make Rock Pyle!"

Seriously.

yeah, by their friends in Hawaii, apparently.

the stones on this horrid woman

So sad to hear about the passing of Jim Nabors. We heard him sing "Back Home Again in Indiana" at the Indianapolis 500 countless times. We will miss his beautiful voice. https://t.co/56kx5DVpeM

— Karen Pence (@SecondLady) November 30, 2017

Barf

Wait jim nabors was gay?!

Yea was news to me too

my coworker from Indiana said the same thing re Indy 500, idk i thought it was kinda nice

long known; he married his partner of 38 years in 2013

Veg, i'm sure your coworker's spouse isn't an advocate of conversion therapy like Mother Pence's.

oh oops sorry I didnt catch that drift - roger that

robert oswald, lee harvey's brother:

http://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/obituaries/article187524003.html

Jack Doroshow aka Flawless Sabrina, the drag impresario seen in The Queen

http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2017/11/27/remembering_the_queer_mentorship_of_flawless_sabrina_jack_doroshow.html

Shashi Kapoor
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-42225524

John Anderson, recipient of my first presidential vote

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/363168-former-illinois-congressman-john-anderson-dies-at-95

Christine Keeler

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/dec/05/christine-keeler-former-model-at-heart-of-profumo-affair-dies

... people you thought were dead.

just days after it was revealed Profumo was also having affairs with a Nazi spy.

Johnny Hallyday, 74.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42247551

missed ken shapiro, rip

groove tube is several kinds of great

William H. Gass (The Tunnel)

Well shit. I'm reading _Middle C_ right now, so I guess I'll pay tribute to him by spending a good portion of my evening reading.
I'm not sure if he's one of my favorite writers, but he's one I always want to see more work by. Still hope we'll see his book on 17th century sermons.
93 is a good long life, at least, although that's no longer any use to him...

Aw damn. One of my all-time favourites

Wow had no idea he was still alive. Found him thru DFW's recommendation of Omensetter's Luck.

Conrad Brooks, who I believe was the last surviving cast member of Plan Nine From Outer Space:

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/obituaries/bs-fe-brooks-obit-brief-20171207-story.html

Misread as Conrad Black, so now I'm disappointed.