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Chesnutt wrote Oney, T-R-O-U-B-L-E, A Dime At A Time, A Good Year For The Roses, Don't She Look Good, It's Four In The Morning, They Don't Make 'Em Like My Daddy Anymore and many other hits. He released six singles, 1968-70, and was a frequent guest on Hee Haw.
Country singer-songwriter Jerry Chesnutt dies at 87
https://www.wymt.com/content/news/Ha...502937441.html
The Broadway cast album of Hair won a Grammy award in 1969. Two Gentlemen Of Verona won two Tony awards in 1971, for best musical and best book of a musical. The music for all those great songs -- Hair, Good Morning Starshine, Easy To Be Hard, Aquarius, Let The Sunshine In, Love's Revenge, I Love My Father, Two Gentlemen Of Verona -- was composed by Galt MacDermot.
Galt MacDermot, composer of Hair and Two Gentlemen Of Verona, dead at 89
http://www.playbill.com/article/galt...air-dead-at-89
The characters of Laverne DeFazio and Shirley Feeney, played by Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams, respectively, appeared in an episode of Happy Days and were immediately popular, enough to get their own series. Laverne & Shirley premiered January 27, 1976 and was the highest-rated show for the week. "Schlemiel! Schlimazel! Hasenpfeffer, Incorporated!"
Penny Marshall, TV's Laverne and director of Big, A League Of Their Own, dies at 75
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny-...218-story.html
In 1976, Marshall and Williams recorded an album, Laverne & Shirley Sing. It included a remake of the Crystals' 1963 hit Da Doo Ron Ron. Laverne and Shirley performed the song in an episode of their show. Here it is:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BSuLiKRqjAE
Masterson appeared in several Broadway plays and had roles in ten movies including In The Heat Of The Night, The Exorcist and The Stepford Wives. Actress Mary Stuart Masterson is one of his three children.
Actor-writer-director Peter Masterson dies at 84
Texas native took Best Little Whorehouse to Broadway.
https://www.chron.com/entertainment/...4-13478831.php
Moffat appeared in approximately 80 plays, 70 movies and tv-movies and 60 television shows. He portrayed Lyndon Johnson in The Right Stuff (1983) and the fictional President Bennett in Clear & Present Danger (1994). Moffat was married to television director/actress Gwen Arner.
Character actor Donald Moffat dies at 87
https://www.theatermania.com/new-yor...-87_87380.html
Children's author Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel died in 1991. Audrey served as executive producer of four movie adaptations of his books: Daisy-Head Mayzie (TV, 1995), Horton Hears A Who (2008), The Lorax (2012) and The Grinch (2018).
Audrey Geisel, Dr. Seuss' widow and noted philanthropist, dies at 97
https://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-...221-story.html
Ayler, who played Clair Huxtable's mother on six episodes of The Cosby Show, died November 18. Her family did not announce her death until today.
Ethel Ayler, actress in Eve's Bayou, The Bodyguard, 9½ Weeks and The Cosby Show, dies at 88
https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/et...hzkg?ocid=AMZN
Jimmy Work wrote and recorded Making Believe in 1955. It reached #5 on Billboard's country chart. A version by Kitty Wells reached #2 that same year and Emmylou Harris had a hit with the song in 1977. Work's second hit, That's What Makes The Juke Box Play, also reached #5 in 1955 -- and he appeared at a few concerts that year along with an up-and-coming singer named Elvis Presley.
Jimmy Work, 1950s country singer and writer of Making Believe, dies at 94
https://www.tennessean.com/story/ent...er/2410731002/
Guitarist James Wilsey, who played on seven albums as a member of the punk-rock band The Avengers and played on four Chris Isaak albums, died December 24 at age 61. Wilsey played that distinctive tremolo intro to Isaak's 1990 hit Wicked Game.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Calvin_Wilsey
Adonis often played a mobster or a gangster. He appeared in several movies including Casino, Raging Bull, Wall Street, King Of New York, Eyes Of Laura Mars and Ace Ventura, Pet Detective.
Goodfellas actor Frank Adonis dead at 83
http://www.follyfest.com/goodfellas-...is-dead-at-83/
Kerman appeared in more than 150 porn films, most notably Debbie Does Dallas, and had roles in several horror films including Eaten Alive and Night Of The Creeps. He also played a sea captain in the 2002 Spider-Man film.
Cannibal Holocaust actor Robert Kerman dead at 71
https://www.horrorsociety.com/2018/1...s-passed-away/
Swedish model, actress and fashion designer Agneta Eckemyr has died at age 68. She appeared in several tv shows and films including The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977) and Disney's The Island At The Top Of The World (1974). She also appeared (unclothed) in the October 1975 issue of Playboy magazine. And yes, this story is in Swedish:
Svenska skådespelerskan Agneta Eckemyr död
https://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesblad...ta-eckemyr-dod
Whitfield had a seven-decade career on radio, on television, on stage and in movies. She played a housekeeper in the 1998 "Ross's Wedding" episode of Friends, which was set in London. She starred as Miss Marple in 12 BBC Radio adaptations of Agatha Christie's novels and she was well-known for her impersonations of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
June Whitfield, star of Absolutely Fabulous and BBC sitcoms, dies at 93
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...-at-93-1171986
Yesterday I posted an obituary in Swedish. Today, here is one in Spanish. Rosenda Monteros starred in more than 30 movies in Mexico and the US. She is perhaps best known for playing Petra in the 1960 Western The Magnificent Seven. She also appeared in Eve, Villa!, She, Tiara Tahiti, The Mighty Jungle and A Woman's Devotion.
Muere la actriz y directora Rosenda Monteros a los 83 años
https://www.informador.mx/entretenim...1230-0025.html
Walk Off The Earth formed in 2006 in Burlington, Ontario. They've released six albums, eight EPs and 11 singles. Their biggest hit was a 2012 live remake of Gotye's Somebody That I Used To Know. Their music often features bongos, kazoos, spoons, theremin, glockenspiel, harpejji, whirly tubes and other unusual instruments.
Mike Taylor, Walk Off The Earth keyboardist and vocalist, dies
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts...he-earth-dies/
Lusk worked at the Walt Disney Studios from 1933 to 1960, animating characters in Ferdinand, Pinocchio, Cinderella, Bambi, Fantasia, Peter Pan, Sleeping Beauty, Lady & The Tramp, Song Of The South, Alice In Wonderland and 101 Dalmatians. Whew! He also worked at UPA, free-lanced for Bill Melendez and Walter Lantz and spent 23 years as a director at Hanna-Barbera.
Animator/director Don Lusk dies at 105
https://www.spieltimes.com/news/don-...ad-at-105/amp/
In March 1973, after Dr. Hook's The Cover Of Rolling Stone became a top-ten hit, the band really did get their picture on the cover of Rolling Stone. Sadly, Ray Sawyer, who sang lead on that song, today has his name on the obituary page. Among Dr. Hook's many other hits are Sylvia's Mother, Only Sixteen, Sexy Eyes, Sharing The Night Together and When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman.
Dr. Hook singer Ray Sawyer dead at 81
https://pagesix.com/2018/12/31/dr-ho...er-dead-at-81/
McKay payed Tony in the original London and Tokyo productions of West Side Story. He sang two solos, Something's Coming and Maria, and two duets with "Maria." McKay performed Gotta Have Me Go With You alongside Judy Garland in the opening sequence of the 1954 movie A Star Is Born. In the 1980s-90s, he acted in regional theater productions and worked as a voice coach.
West Side Story actor Don McKay dies at 93
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...was-93-1172050
Einstein was a writer for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (1967-69), on which he also made nine appearances as a motorcycle cop named Officer Judy. On one episode, Liberace was playing piano. Officer Judy rode up, got off his motorcycle and asked, "Do you know how fast you were playing?" He wrote Liberace a ticket. Einstein was also a writer for comedy/variety series hosted by Ken Berry, Pat Paulsen, Sonny & Cher and the Hudson Brothers and starred in several Super Dave programs.
Bob Einstein, Curb Your Enthusiasm actor and creator of Super Dave Osborne character, dies at 76
https://deadline.com/2019/01/bob-ein...rs-1202527938/
In the end, love could not keep them together. Toni Tennille was by Daryl's side today when he died of kidney failure. Daryl, whose father was conductor/composer/arranger Carmen Dragon, played keyboards for the Beach Boys from 1967 to 1972 and it was Mike Love who nicknamed him "The Captain."
Daryl Dragon of The Captain & Tennille dies at 76
https://abc7ny.com/entertainment/dar...at-76/5005607/