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Yarnall appeared in dozens of tv shows and movies, including Bonanza, Love American Style, The Face Of Eve and Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice. She also wrote five -- five! -- books about holistic health care for pets.
Celeste Yarnall, Star Trek actress and Elvis Presley co-star, dies at 74
https://www.tvweek.com/tvbizwire/201...ar-dead-at-74/
Chandler had played bass and sung background vocals for Christian rock band Daniel Amos since 1982. The band has released 14 studio albums and three live albums. From 1984 to 1989 and from 1993 until his death, Chandler also played bass for another Christian rock band, The Choir, which has released 15 studio albums, five live albums and three EPs.
Tim Chandler, bassist for Daniel Amos, Choir, Swirling Eddies, dies at 58
http://www.musictap.com/2018/10/10/i...ler-1960-2018/
The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas opened on Broadway in 1978 and ran for 1,584 performances. It was nominated for nine Tony awards and won two: Best performance by a featured actor in a musical (Henderson Forsythe) and best performance by a featured actress in a musical (Carlin Glynn). And how much longer are we going to keep separating actors by sex? "Actresses" are actors too, y'know!
Carol Hall, composer-lyricist of The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas, dies at 82
Hall received two 1978 Drama Desk Awards for her work on the hit Broadway musical.
http://www.playbill.com/article/caro...xas-dies-at-82
Bluegrass band Railroad Earth formed in January 2001, taking their name from Jack Kerouac's October In The Railroad Earth, a short story about his experience working as a brakeman for the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1953. The band has released seven albums and an EP and on two occasions headlined shows at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado. Their second show was released on a DVD, Live At Red Rocks. Goessling sang and played acoustic guitar, electric guitar, steel guitar, banjo, dobro, mandolin, flute, clarinet, saxophone and pennywhistle -- but not all at once.
Railroad Earth co-founder and multi-instrumentalist Andy Goessling has died
https://relix.com/news/detail/railro...g-passes-away/
Heavy-metal band All That Remains formed in 1998 in Springfield, Massachusetts. They've released eight albums and a DVD. Their biggest album, For We Are Many (2010), reached #10 in the US and #7 in Canada. Among their hit singles: Madness, Hold On, Two Weeks, Stand Up and What If I Was Nothing.
Oli Herbert, All That Remains co-founder and guitarist, dies at 44
http://loudwire.com/all-that-remains...herbert-death/
"I forgot my cell phone." "You wanna go back and get it?" That's pretty much the only dialogue in Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle that isn't too dirty for me to quote here.
Danny Leiner, director of three Harold & Kumar films and Dude, Where's My Car, dies after long illness
http://collider.com/danny-leiner-dea...umar-director/
Born in Trinidad, Winston Bailey -- you didn't think The Mighty Shadow was his real name, did you? -- released 16 albums between 1974 and 2003. Four of his songs were minor hits on the US r&b chart in 1980: I Need Love, No Better Love, Mystery Dancer and Hot City.
Legendary calypso singer The Mighty Shadow dies at 77
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/lates...s?profile=1228
In the final episode of the 1974-83 tv series Little House On The Prairie, the people of Walnut Grove were unsuccessful in their legal battle with Nathan Lassiter, a developer who had bought all the land. Since he bought only the land and not the homes and buildings, the townspeople dynamited all the structures and left to start a new life elsewhere. Nathan Lassiter was played by James Karen, who also had recurring roles in All My Children, As The World Turns and Eight Is Enough.
James Karen, actor in Poltergeist, Nixon, The China Syndrome, dies at 94
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...-was-94-722368
Ragin was a member (1968-72) of the legendary Funk Brothers, the group of session musicians who played on almost every Motown/Tamla/Gordy/Soul/VIP recording from 1959 until 1972 when Motown moved from Detroit to Los Angeles.
Melvin 'Wah Wah Watson' Ragin, guitarist for Marvin Gaye and Michael Jackson, dies at 67
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/m...t-dead-746962/
White had a #8 hit in 1969 with Polk Salad Annie. Elvis Presley later recorded that song and two other White compositions, For Ol' Times Sake and I've Got A Thing About You Baby. White also wrote Tina Turner's Foreign Affair and Brook Benton's Rainy Night In Georgia.
Country blues singer-songwriter Tony Joe White dies at 75
https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment...-dies-58752899
The Atlanta hip-hop group had three top-ten pop and r&b hits in the 1990s: Tennessee, People Everyday and Mr. Wendel. Among their other hits are Revolution, Ease My Mind and United Front. And yes, Baba Oje was really that old.
Arrested Development member Baba Oje dies at 87
https://www.essence.com/entertainmen...-oje-has-died/
Schofield also played guitar on Glen Campbell's Meet Glen Campbell album in 2008 and Cheap Trick's The Latest in 2009.
Todd 'Youth' Schofield, guitarist for Danzig, Warzone, Murphy's Law, dies at 47
http://www.empireextreme.com/former-...th-dies-at-47/
Shange's 1975 work For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When The Rainbow Is Enuf was turned into a Broadway play, a made-for-tv movie and a theatrical movie. Shange said she used the word "colored" because that is how her grandmother referred to black people and she wanted a title her grandmother would understand. But actually, every person is "colored." I have yet to meet anyone whose body is clear and see-through.
Ntozake Shange, pioneering playwright, poet and novelist, dies at 70
http://www.startribune.com/obituary-...ist/498795391/
Freddie Hart, born Frederick Segrest in Alabama, began recording in 1953. His first 17 singles failed to chart. His 18th single, The Wall, reached #24 on the country chart in 1959. In 1971, Easy Loving became the first of his six consecutive number-one hits. Hart had 14 top-ten singles and nine top-ten albums. Among his best-known songs: Bless Your Heart, The Want To's, Trip To Heaven and My Hang-Up Is You.
Country singer-songwriter Freddie Hart dies at 91
http://freddiehart.com
Cornelius "Sonny" Fortune played saxophone, clarinet and flute. He released 16 albums as a bandleader and played on 30 albums by artists including Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Dizzy Gillespie, McCoy Tyner, Nat Adderley and Mongo Santamaria.
Sonny Fortune, stalwart saxophonist Of New York, dies at 79
https://www.npr.org/2018/10/27/66141...ork-dies-at-79
Another rapper has been shot and killed. How many does this make? Theodore "Young Greatness" Jones had a gold record in 2016, Moolah. Today he was shot in the back by two men who then stole his car.
Promising rapper Young Greatness shot and killed in New Orleans
https://www.vibe.com/2018/10/promisi...n-new-orleans/
Farrar was a member of Molly Hatchet from 1980 to 1982 and sang on the band's hit singles Bloody Reunion and Lady Luck, which reached #31 and #46, respectively, on Billboard's rock chart. Farrar later was a member of Predator for six years and formed the Southern rock band Gator Country in 2005.
Former Molly Hatchet frontman Jimmy Farrar dies at 67
http://loudwire.com/molly-hatchet-jimmy-farrar-dead/
Bernard Bragg, our nation's first professional deaf actor, co-founded the National Theatre Of The Deaf in 1967. He was also a playwright, producer, director, artist and poet.
Bernard Bragg dies at 90
https://silentgrapevine.com/2018/10/...sses-away.html
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Bragg
Fox co-founded the underground avant-garde band The Residents in 1969 in San Francisco. They began recording in 1974 and have released more than 60 albums, videos and DVDs. Many members have come and gone but they have always remained anonymous, by choice. Fox also recorded solo under several different names. One of his CDs was titled This. He also wrote a book with the same title.
Hardy Fox, Residents co-founder, composer, producer, dies at 73
https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/...ardy-fox-dead/
Dave Rowland, Jackie Frantz and Vicki Hackeman were backup singers for Charley Pride before forming Dave & Sugar in 1975. (Both original "Sugars" were eventually replaced.) Among Dave & Sugar's country hits: Tear Time, Golden Tears, The Door Is Always Open, I'm Gonna Love You and Don't Throw It All Away.
Dave & Sugar singer Dave Rowland dies at 77
http://tasteofcountry.com/dave-and-s...d-dead-stroke/