Inspired to play clarinet after hearing Benny Goodman on the radio in 1935, Yaged worked as a sideman with Red Allen, Coleman Hawkins, Charlie Shavers, Phil Napoleon, Doug Duke, Cozy Cole and Jack Teagarden before forming his own band in 1956. He released only three albums and two singles but continued to perform – until now.
New York clarinetist Sol Yaged dies at 96
https://syncopatedtimes.com/sol-yage...-passed-at-96/
Grumpy Cat's image appeared on hundreds of products including calendars, posters, greeting cards, coffee mugs, shirts, shoes, keychains, balloons, notebooks and iPhone cases. Two of my favorite Grumpy Cat "quotes": "Roses are red. Violets are blue. Go away." "I had fun once. It was awful."
Grumpy Cat, the Arizona feline whose frown launched a meme-based industry, dies at 7
https://www.azcentral.com/story/ente...me/3704842002/
In 1952, Wouk's The Caine Mutiny won a Pulitzer Prize for "distinguished fiction." His books have been published in 27 different languages. Several of his novels were turned into movies or television miniseries.
Herman Wouk, author of The Caine Mutiny, War & Remembrance, The Winds Of War, Marjorie Morningstar, dies at 103
https://variety.com/2019/film/news/h...ar-1203218745/
Sammy, the father of comedian Pauly Shore, was the opening act for Elvis Presley, Tony Bennett, Tony Orlando, Barbra Streisand, Glen Campbell and many other performers in Las Vegas.
Sammy Shore, Comedy Store co-founder and comedian, dies at 92
https://www.etonline.com/sammy-shore...d-at-92-125500
Edmonds was a brother of Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds. After 7's hits include Can't Stop, Ready Or Not, Heat Of The Moment, Nights Like This, Kickin' It, Baby I'm For Real and Til You Do Me Right.
After 7 vocalist Melvin Edmonds dead at 65
http://sandrarose.com/2019/05/rip-af...ds-dead-at-65/
The electronic band Alabama 3 formed in 1995 in London and has released 12 albums. Their 1997 song Woke Up This Morning became the theme song of HBO's 1999-2007 series The Sopranos.
Jake Black, Alabama 3 singer and co-writer of The Sopranos theme song, has died
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbi...-the-sopranos/
Woke Up This Morning:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9W3A34TTxFU
Waïte starred in the 1968 British drama Joanna and was married to John Phillips of The Mamas & The Papas from 1972 to 1985. One of their two children is singer/actress/model Bijou Phillips.
Geneviève Waïte, actress, singer and former model, dies at 71
https://deadline.com/2019/05/genevie...71-1202622269/
The Mad Lads formed in 1964 in Detroit and had three top-20 R&B hits: Don't Have To Shop Around, I Want Someone and I Want A Girl. Among their other hits are Whatever Hurts You and a 1969 version of Jimmy Webb's By The Time I Get To Phoenix.
John Gary Williams, lead singer of R&B group The Mad Lads, dies at 73
https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment...dies-63326634m
Caridi also appeared in Car Wash, Brewster's Millions and The Money Pit, had a recurring role on Fame and Phyllis and played a detective on NYPD Blue from 1993 to 1999.
Carmine Caridi, actor in two Godfather movies, dies at 85
https://variety.com/2019/film/news/c...or-1203227839/
Murphy wrote Jeannie C. Riley's Good Enough To Be Your Wife and co-wrote Ronnie Milsap's He Got You, Crystal Gayle's Half The Way and Patricia Conroy's Bad Day For Trains. He was inducted into the Canadian Country Music Hall Of Fame in 2012.
Ralph Murphy, veteran singer, songwriter, producer and music publishing executive, dies at 75
https://variety.com/2019/biz/news/ra...77-1203227755/
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