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Patti Drew had four top-40 R&B hits, 1967-69: Tell Him, Workin' On A Groovy Thing, The Love That A Woman Should Give To A Man and a remake of Otis Redding's Hard To Handle.
R&B singer Patti Drew dies at 80
https://www.soulpublications.co/blog...-2025-rnb-soul
Sartain was a regular on Hee Haw, 1972-74, and appeared in 55 movies and TV movies including Roadie, Speechless, Elizabethtown, Clean Slate, Mississippi Burning, Fried Green Tomatoes, Ernest Goes To Camp, Ernest Saves Christmas, The Big Easy, The Buddy Holly Story – he played J.P. Richardson, The Big Bopper – and Getting Even With Dad.
Gailard Sartain, star of Hee Haw and Ernest movies, dies at 81
https://people.com/gailard-sartain-d...tuary-11758770
Betts played Dr. Ivan Kipling in 20 episodes of General Hospital, 1979-85, and appeared in 38 movies and TV movies including Batman Forever, Office Space, Falling Down, Gods & Monsters, Silver Skies, The Chair, The Red Maple Leaf, Power 98 and Dead Men Don't Die.
Jack Betts, actor in spaghetti Westerns and Spider-Man, dies at 96
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/mo...rs-1236296256/
Hamilton played Donna Harris on 22 episodes of Sanford & Son (1972-77) and Verdie Foster on 17 episodes of The Waltons (1973-81) and appeared in 16 movies and TV movies including Leadbelly, Legal Eagles, Buck & The Preacher, The Vanishing and Lady Sings The Blues.
Sanford & Son actress Lynn Hamilton dies at 95
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/sa...milton-dies-95
Ralphs played on all seven of Mott The Hoople's studio albums and all 12 of Bad Company's studio albums. Ralphs wrote Bad Company's first three hits, Can't Get Enough, Movin' On and Good Lovin' Gone Bad, and co-wrote the band's fourth hit, Feel Like Makin' Love.
Mick Ralphs, guitarist and co-founder of Bad Company and Mott The Hoople, dies at 81
https://variety.com/2025/music/news/...ad-1236438527/
Sherman co-starred on ABC-TV's Here Come The Brides, 1968-70, and had seven consecutive top-40 hits, 1969-71. Four made the top ten: Little Woman, Easy Come Easy Go, Julie Do Ya Love Me and La La La (If I Had You).
'60s teen idol Bobby Sherman dead at 81
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainmen...herman-dead-81
Marinelli played cross-dressing mobster Bernardo "Bunny" Tagliatti in 171 episodes of Santa Barbara (1988-90) and director Donny Spagnoli in 22 episodes of The Morning Show (2019-23) and appeared in six movies and TV movies including Sideways, Cutting Room and One Last Ride. In 1990, Marinelli won a Soap Opera Digest award for outstanding comic actor, daytime.
Joe Marinelli, the cross-dressing Bunny Tagliatti on Santa Barbara, dies at 68
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv...ra-1236298496/
Argentinian pianist Boris "Lalo" Schifrin released more than 50 albums and recorded with Stan Getz, Jimmy Smith, Eddie Harris, Sarah Vaughan, Cal Tjader, Dizzy Gillespie and others. Schifrin wrote music for more than a hundred movies and television series including Mannix, Bullitt, Cool Hand Luke, Rush Hour, Magnum Force, Voyage Of The Damned, The Amityville Horror, The Cincinnati Kid, The Eagle Has Landed and The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
Lalo Schifrin, prolific film composer who wrote Mission: Impossible theme, dies at 93
https://variety.com/2025/music/news/...er-1236442000/
Hurst played Deputy Cletus Hogg in 55 episodes of The Dukes Of Hazzard (1979-82) and appeared in 29 movies and TV movies including Jackals, Steel Magnolias, Worth Winning, Madam Sheriff, Pistol Pete, Runaway Car, In The Line Of Fire, Earth Girls Are Easy, The Cat From Outer Space, The Karate Kid, The Karate Kid Part II, The Karate Kid Part III and W.W. & The Dixie Dancekings.
Dukes Of Hazzard actor Richard Hurst dead at 79
https://www.tmz.com/2025/06/26/dukes...rd-hurst-dead/
The Whispers formed in 1963 in Los Angeles. They had 33 top-40 R&B hits, 1969-91. Two of those, And The Beat Goes On and Rock Steady, went to number one and peaked at #19 and #7, respectively, on the Billboard Hot 100. Among the Whispers' other hits are Lady, Innocent, In The Raw, It's A Love Thing, Keep On Lovin' Me, Let's Go All The Way, Is It Good To You and Seems Like I Gotta Do Wrong.
Walter Scott, co-founding vocalist of The Whispers, dies at 81
https://soultracks.com/walter-scott-...whispers-dies/