Rolling Obituary Thread: 2020

also passing, MLK aide and minister C.T. Vivian

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/17/892223763/c-t-vivian-civil-rights-leader-and-champion-of-nonviolent-action-dies-at-95

https://www.ajc.com/john-lewis-obituary/

RIP to a genuinely great one

Emitt Rhodes

For real?

Saw it in FB from a guy who would know.

Weirdly enough he is not friends with any other ILX0rs, as far as I can tell. I am connected with him through a different route.

I saw some others music nerds posting it. So I did as well.

My source usually seems to be super reliable. He has a recent picture of him and Emitt and he produces lots and lots of reissues which presumably he was doing with him as well at some point.

his fan club page on FB is open, lots of posts about it there too, some seem pretty first hand and no is disputing it.

Ah, guy I know did I Merry-Go-Round reissue.

We have a few Emitt Rhodes threads we could revive, two were started by me but don't seem quite apropos, well one of them especially.

Just went ahead with my other one.

Wikip is 'was'ing..

Confirmation on fanclub page came from guy who lives in his house, my source says.

Which post I read as well and couldn't figure out.

this guy
https://johnlewis.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/rep-john-lewis-announces-plans-grow-beard

<3

This happened a couple of days ago but I didnt see her mentioned:

Figure skater Ekaterina Alexandovskaya, just 20 years old. v tragic, suicide from a sixth floor window apparently? Awful.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ekaterina-alexandrovskaya-olympic-skater-dies-apparent-suicide-age-20/

Michael Brooks, journalist and political commentator, 37.

This year I met this young American, a journalist, who turned out to be a friend, who I thought that we would meet again. How is it possible? My heart and prayers go to his family and friends. May his passion for social justice be remembered and inspire people around the world. https://t.co/OgGmzh5kMl

— Lula (@LulaOficial) July 20, 2020

oh no, I just saw about Michael, was watching him just yesterday

https://queenspost.com/jerry-wolkoff-owner-and-developer-of-5pointz-in-long-island-city-has-died
fairly or unfairly, he will be remembered forever as the guy who destroyed one of the greatest galleries in the city

Annie Ross.

aw fuck

:(

confirmation?

Friendbook post by an old jazz musician, the one who wrote the book of Jazz Anecdotes, naming his source with whom I am unfamiliar. I have an email out for some other possible confirmation to Jon Hendricks guitarist/streetteam

Those pesky apostrophes.

Original source was Zoot Sims’ widow, Louise.

Noticed while googling that she had a medical costs GoFundMe set up in April--never a good sign.

No.

Wondering how her fellow Scotsman Tom D will take it.

RIP Annie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_enNo0qFxm8

Now that's what you call a long career.

Wow, hadn’t realized she was in that, and that film is part of my dreamscape. Was kind of shocked when I realized recently that Henry Brandon was in it playing essentially the same character as in Babes in Toyland. Did know that her feature film debut was as Judy Garland’s sister, I think. Also from watching that seems like almost the whole act I used to see at The Metropolitan Room was already in place way back when.

Quite the life she had: acted in the 1940s with Judy Garland, in the 50s was Kenny Clarke and then Lenny Bruce's lover, in the 60s kicked out of LH&R for heroin addiction, in the 70s dubbed Britt Eckland's voice in the Wicker Man, 80s: Basket Case 2 & 3. All this despite being Jimmy Logan's sister!

Just remembered that Henry Brandon was one of Judy Garland’s husbands for a minute or two, small world once again.

Is that true about The Wicker Man? Seems like only a rumor.

I was watching her in a weird 70s Hammer film just the other night, where she also sang the theme tune, "Straight On Till Morning". In fact I think it was on again tonight.

Never seen any say it's not true about Wicker Man. It's listed in imdb.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willow%27s_Song

She did the speaking voice, not the song. Ekland is on record as being mad that they got two women to dub her and another be a body double.

Wow, never knew that either.

The body double was because she was visibly pregnant at the time, though.

I was thrilled that Annie Ross sat behind me at a MoMA screening of an Altman film (she was with Mrs Altman).

a couple weeks ago I played my daughters some LH&R records (I thought it would make jaunty cleaning music) and in 30 mins they went from mocking it to repeat plays after I left

RIP

Tim Smith of The Cardiacs.

RIP. Though tbh misread that at first as "The Smiths, of a Cardiac," and I thought "all of them?"

Zizi Jeanmaire, star of Parisian ballet and Hollywood

https://theartsdesk.com/dance/she-was-paris-rip-zizi-jeanmaire-1924-2020

RIP Ross
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/22/arts/music/annie-ross-dies.html

Dmitri Smirnov, Russian composer, 71. RIP.