Rolling Obituary Thread: 2019

or the Sinatra/Jobim sequel that was only released on 8-track cartridges and was pulled after one week on sale. Most valuable 8-track in existance!

True. Wait, what?

“Strangers In The Night” was just featured on the Friendbook page of The Wrecking Crew, not sure why unless this week was the anniversary of it hitting number one. Always amuses me to think that Glen Campbell played on it - using a capo!

http://8tracksrock.blogspot.com/2011/02/most-valuable-8-track-sinatra-jobim.html

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Sinatra-Jobim-Reprise-W7-1028-8-Track-ULTIMATE-Frank-rarity-Play-Tested/273674744014?hash=item3fb84930ce:g:6LUAAOSwq1tbZvzF

Stan Cronyn tells a great story about that in the liners to the complete Sinatra/Jobim sessions CD.

Interesting. Please tell us about that.

PARAPHRASED: Sinatra had some issues with the sessions (a story unto itself), but had OK'd the release of the album. The first release copies were on 8-Track (which was made in Japan), with the vinyl/reel to reels etc. to follow like a week or two later. Copies of the 8-Track were sent to Sinatra's estate at the same time it was being shipped to stores. An hour after receiving the album, Sinatra calls Reprise and tells them to kill the album. He didn't like his vocals on three tracks, and also didn't like how another was broken up over two tracks on the tape. The label pleaded with him, but ultimately acquiesced and recalled the tapes a couple of hours after they landed in a handful of stores. Watertown was added to the release schedule in its place, and Sinatra later cleared the reissue of seven tracks from the album as half of Sinatra & Company.

Huh, just noticed Watertown isn't on Spotify.

All I know about Iacocca I learned from Bloom County. Would that I could say the same for Trump.

Oh gimmee hype! Publicity!

Get them stretch marks off miss liberty!

Mocha! Polka! Patriotic tapioca

That's what is my Iacocca!

Union busting, profit lusting,

little pintos all combusting

apple pie and diet coke-a

that's what is my Iacocca!

As I said on Twitter, I could have sworn Iacocca was killed by a hit man in the lobby of Adrian Veidt's office in 1985.

In college I was taught about the Ford Pinto fiasco as a sort of test case in corporate negligence/malfeasance. That story was quite a big deal when it happened and for some years afterward.

Have enjoyed driving Mustangs over the years, whenever I can rent one.

Anyway rip.

The best bit of this Lee Iacocca obit (h/t @RayPride) https://t.co/GfezyYzcSN pic.twitter.com/wQVczAjxe2

— Vadim Rizov (@vrizov) July 3, 2019

Little-known footnote to Lee Iacocca's career: his foray into the olive oil-based margarine spread business

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivio_Premium_Products
https://olivio.com/our-story/

Erstwhile satirist and latter day global warming denier prick Christopher Booker

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2019/07/03/christopher-booker-campaigning-journalist-first-editor-private/

RIP Jean-Louis Chrétien, French philosopher.

All I know about Iacocca I learned from Bloom County. Would that I could say the same for Trump.

same and otm respectively

^^^^

Laugh-In's Arte Johnson

:-(((

former large new york football giants quarterback jared lorenzen, 38

Coco McCririck

I'm inconsolable rn tbh!

hell needed a loudmouthed exhibitionist bigot etc...

well maybe not so much after Norman Stone's passing t'other week!

Ben Barenholtz, art-film exhibitor / distributor / producer, champion of Waters, Lynch, Coens

https://www.indiewire.com/2019/06/ben-barenholtz-john-waters-turturro-1202153765/

Joao Gilberto

Oh no. RIP.

He was 88.

RIP to a legend; that's a damn shame

He was a perfect musician

Disney actor Cameron Boyce, dead at 20 from a seizure.

Totally missed Arte Johnson; his hereafter line was my single favourite ever from that show (truthfully, one of the few specific lines I remember).

Painter Leon Kossoff: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/jul/07/leon-kossoff-obituary

Disney actor Cameron Boyce, dead at 20 from a seizure.

Milos Stehlik, the cofounder and artistic director of the Chicago arts center Facets Multimedia

remembering him and Ben Barenholtz:

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6481-film-culture-loses-two-innovators

I missed the Leon Kossoff death. I always liked his landscapes more than his figurative stuff, the Willesden Junction studies were brilliant.

This thread was right next to a revive of the Robert Wyatt thread and my heart stopped for a second.

Ross Perot, 89

We invoked him yesterday on the Clinton thread; must’ve been the final straw.

RIP Ross. I wasn't a fan of his politics, but I've worked for years with employees of what was formerly Perot Systems. Their Dallas office doubled as a huge museum of all his wacky paraphernalia. I even saw him wandering the halls one time long after we bought out his company.

I was an adult during both of his campaigns, and the only thing I can remember him saying (before entering the -- second? -- race) is "It's up to the volunteers."

I mean, Admiral Stockdale gave better quotes.

he really liked graphs and charts

rip big man, heaven needed a small man

Martin Charnin, Broadway veteran and Annie lyricist

http://www.playbill.com/article/martin-charnin-tony-winning-annie-lyricist-dies-at-84

Johnny Kitagawa, creator and manager of the biggest boy bands in Japan for over 50 years, frequently accused of sexual exploitation of his employees.

https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2019/07/36f5bd0ab40f-urgent-japanese-entertainment-mogul-johnny-kitagawa-dies-at-age-87.html

apologies for forgetting Perot's "giant sucking sound"

I remember "OK, here's the deal" before he starts talking about something. but that may be from an SNL skit.

Now everyone in the J-pop industry will have to express their sadness about Johnny K while pretending he didn't abuse teenage boys.

x-post

rip torn

His penis is still the most shocking part of The Man Who Fell To Earth.

ah ok

i was like.... who's tom?