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McLain's remake of Don Gibson's 1956 country hit Sweet Dreams reached #15 on the Hot 100 in August 1966. Among McLain's other well-known songs are Release Me, Think It Over, I Need You So, Before I Grow Too Old, I Can't Take It No More and Try To Find Another Man.
Louisiana swamp pop legend Tommy McLain dies at 85
https://www.ksla.com/2025/07/24/loui...clain-dies-85/
Laine, who had a four-octave range, released 40 studio albums and nine live albums and recorded with Mel Tormé, Dudley Moore, James Galway, Jean-Luc Ponty, Laurie Holloway, the Duke Ellington Orchestra and many others. Among her best-known songs are Solitude, Bill, Birdsong, He Was Beautiful, Streets Of London, Gonna Get Through, Thieving Boy and The Lies Of Handsome Men.
Cleo Laine, Britain's most successful jazz singer, dies at 97
https://www.theguardian.com/music/20...dankworth-dies
Lehrer released 11 albums, 1953-66, including Songs By Tom Lehrer, More Of Tom Lehrer, An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer and That Was The Year That Was (which reached #18 on Billboard's album chart in January 1966). Among his best-known songs are The Elements, The Masochism Tango, The Vatican Rag, Poisoning Pigeons In The Park and We Will All Go Together When We Go.
Tom Lehrer, musical satirist with a dark streak, dies at 97
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...hrer-dead.html
Aboutboul played Israeli drug lord and arms dealer Avi Drexler in 25 episodes of the 2017-23 FX series Snowfall and appeared in 60 movies and TV movies including Munich, Prom Queen, Morning Star, A Place In The Sun, Wild Dogs, Rambo III, The Order and Every Time We Say Goodbye.
Alon Aboutboul, The Dark Knight Rises and Snowfall actor, dies at 60
https://www.usatoday.com/story/enter...l/85429157007/
Leonardo "Flaco" Jiménez – his nickname means "Skinny" in Spanish – released 27 studio albums and one live album and recorded with Bob Dylan, Ry Cooder, Dwight Yoakam, Carlos Santana, Linda Ronstadt, Willie Nelson, Los Lobos, the Mavericks and many others. Among his best-known songs are [i]Carmelita, Poquita Fe, Me Está Matando, I Am A Mexican, Las Gaviotas, Un Mojado Sin Licensia and Ay Te Dejo En San Antonio.
Flaco Jiménez, legendary Tejano musician, dies at 86
https://variety.com/2025/music/news/...ad-1236476610/
Seely, born Marilyn Jeanne Seely, had 14 top-40 country hits, 1966-74, including three duets with Jack Greene. Her first hit, Don't Touch Me, written by Hank Cochran (whom she would marry in 1969), reached #2 on the country chart and #85 on the Hot 100 in June 1966 and won a Grammy award for best country female vocal. Among her other hits are Lucky Ladies, Can I Sleep In Your Arms, It's Only Love, A Wanderin' Man and I'll Love You More Than You Need.
Grand Ole Opry legend, Grammy winner Jeannie Seely dead at 85
https://www.tennessean.com/story/ent...y/85446858007/
All the posts made on Sirius Buzz between August 7 and August 26 have vanished. I have no idea why. Among them are the obituaries of Loni Anderson, Jane Morgan, Alfie Wise, Derek & The Dominos co-founder Bobby Whitlock, What's Happening!! star Danielle Spencer, General Hospital star Tristan Rogers, Terence Stamp and I'm Dickens He's Finster/Camp Runamuck/Get Smart actor David Ketchum. Here they are again:
https://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment...nati-has-died/
https://deadline.com/2025/08/jane-mo...ad-1236478159/
https://www.thewrap.com/alfie-wise-c...ead-dies-obit/
https://variety.com/2025/music/obitu...on-1236486170/
https://people.com/danielle-spencer-...-star-11789583
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv...79-1236345761/
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/act...87-2025-08-17/
https://ew.com/david-ketchum-dead-ge...or-97-11796301
Adler played Herman "Hesh" Rabkin in 28 episodes of The Sopranos (1999-2007), Sidney Feinberg in 34 episodes of Rescue Me (2007-11) and Howard Lyman in 30 episodes of The Good Wife (2011-16). He also appeared in multiple episodes of Hudson Street, Mad About You, Alright Already and Rasing Dad and in 23 movies and TV movies including Prime, Find Me Guilty, Larger Than Life, In Her Shoes, Six Ways To Sunday, The Memory Thief, The Public Eye and Manhattan Murder Mystery.
Jerry Adler, actor on The Sopranos,The Good Wife and Rescue Me, dies at 96
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv...me-1236351995/
Levine appeared in 43 movies and TV movies including Ice, Malibu, Bloodbrothers, Good Burger, Meet Dave, Night Shift, Superfly, Dog Day Afternoon, Farrell For The People, The Hangover, Airplane II and Portrait Of A Showgirl.
Floyd Levine, actor and father of producer/director Brian Robbins, dies at 93
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/mo...ns-1236354689/
Greene, born in Six Nations Reserve, Ontario, Canada, played Malachi Strand in 12 episodes of Longmire (2014-17) and appeared in more than 100 movies and TV movies including Maverick, Grey Owl, Spirit Rider, Snow Dogs, Powwow Highway, Bad Money, Out Of The Darkness, The Green Mile, The Last Of His Tribe and Christmas In The Clouds.
Graham Greene, Oscar-nominated Dances With Wolves actor, dies at 73
https://variety.com/2025/film/obitua...es-1236504217/
Boone played Vern Hodges in 19 episodes of It's A Man's World (1962-63). Randy Benton in 70 episodes of The Virginian (1964-66) and Francis Wilde in 23 episodes of Cimarron Strip (1967-68) and appeared in six movies and TV movies including Country Boy, The Wild Pair (with Lloyd and Beau Bridges) and The Hanged Man.
Randy Boone, actor on The Virginian, dies at 83
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv...an-1236358143/
Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman formed the Turtles, originally the Nightriders and then the Crossfires, in 1963 in Los Angeles. The Turtles had nine top-ten hits, 1965-69, including Elenore, You Showed Me, You Baby, It Ain't Me Babe, She'd Rather Be With Me and the 1967 number one Happy Together. Kaylan and Volman also performed together as Flo & Eddie. Kaylan retired in 2018.
The Turtles co-founder Mark Volman dead at 78 after 'brief unexpected illness'
https://nypost.com/2025/09/05/entert...er-dead-at-78/
Turner released two solo albums, Man Of Steel (1996) and Steel Country (1998), and recorded with Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Vince Gill, Travis Tritt, Tanya Tucker, Marty Stuart, Pam Tillis, Jim Lauderdale, Jamey Johnson, Mark Chesnutt, Sturgill Simpson, Rodney Crowell, Chris Stapleton, Mavericks, Gin Blossoms and many others.
Renowned Nashville pedal steel player Robby Turner dies at 63
https://www.tennessean.com/story/ent...er/85996303007
Supertramp formed in 1969 in London and took their name from The Autobiography Of A Super-Tramp, a 1908 novel by Welsh poet and writer William Henry Davies. They had nine top-40 hits, 1975-85, including Dreamer, Give A Little Bit, Goodbye Stranger, It's Raining Again, The Logical Song and Take The Long Way Home.
Rick Davies, Supertramp co-founder and singer, dies at 81
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/m...ry-1235422832/
"Kiss my grits!" Alice aired on CBS from 1976 to 1985. Holliday, who played Florence "Flo" Castlberry in the first four seasons, was the last surviving member of the original cast. She starred in the 1980-81 spinoff series Flo and played Momma Love on the 1995-96 CBS series The Client. Holliday appeared in 25 movies and TV movies including Gremlins, Mrs. Doubtfire, Moon Over Parador, The Parent Trap (1998), All The President's Men and W.W. & The Dixie Dancekings.
Polly Holliday, a sassy waitress on the sitcom Alice, dies at 88
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/a...iday-dead.html
Mendillo appeared in 34 movies and TV movies including Cobb, Ethan Frome, G.I. Jane, Lone Star, Eight Men Out, Big Wednesday, Broadcast News, The Artist, The First Wives Club, The Shrink Is In and Across 110th Street.
Beloved Slap Shot actor Stephen Mendillo dies at 84
https://www.hockeyfeed.com/videos/be...lo-passes-away