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Miller, best known for playing Murray Futterman in Gremlins and Gremlins 2, appeared in more than 100 movies and tv shows including Cannonball, Small Soldiers, A Bucket Of Blood, All The Right Moves. The 'Burbs, The Terminator, The Wild Angels, The Little Shop Of Horrors and Amazon Women On The Moon.
Dick Miller, Gremlins and Terminator actor, dies at 90
https://variety.com/2019/film/obitua...or-1203124265/
Blue Cheer's biggest hit was a 1968 remake of Eddie Cochran's Summertime Blues with guitar riffs replacing the spoken-word sections (and causing puzzlement among listeners who hadn't heard the original version). Blue Cheer formed in 1967 and underwent several break-ups and reunions between 1972 and 2009. Whaley was the drummer for most of that time.
Blue Cheer drummer Paul Whaley dies at 72
https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/mus...eer-dies-at-72
Harold Bradley was still in high school when he began playing guitar in Ernest Tubb's touring band. As a session musician, Harold played on more recordings than any other guitarist. He recorded with Elvis Presley, Willie Nelson, Pee Wee King, Patsy Cline, Roy Orbison, Faron Young, Tammy Wytnette, Loretta Lynn, Bobby Vinton, Ray Price, Roger Miller and hundreds of other artists. Among the many big hits he played on: Crazy, Oh Lonesome Me, King Of The Road, Stand By Your Man, Make The World Go Away, Harper Valley PTA and Burl Ives' A Holly Jolly Christmas. He also played the banjo intro on Johnny Horton's The Battle Of New Orleans. Harold was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2006.
Country Music Hall of Fame guitarist Harold Bradley dies at 93
http://theboot.com/harold-bradley-dead-dies/
Call Of The Wildman aired from 2011 to 2014 and for a few months was Animal Planet's highest-rated series. The show featured Ernie Brown Jr., a Kentucky man who traps and removes skunks, raccoons, groundhogs, bees, spiders, snakes and other "nuisance animals." He was always accompanied by his dog and Neal James. A few of the episodes were scripted and staged by using animals obtained from rescue groups. This "reality show" wasn't always real.
Neal James, 'Banjo Man' on Animal Planet's Call Of The Wildman, dies at 55
https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/an...-55/ar-BBT400B
Blues singer/pianist Bill Sims Jr., a founding member of the Heritage Blues Band, died February 2. He was 69. Sims was a member of r&b groups Jacksonian Blues and the Four Mints before forming the Cold Blooded Blues Band in 1988. Sims released two albums and he and his interracial family were the subject of a ten-hour documentary series on PBS in 1999.
https://www.bluesmagazine.nl/in-memoriam-bill-sims-jr/
Transit formed in 2006 in Stoneham, Massachusetts and released five albums and four EPs before breaking up in 2016. Their best-selling album, Young New England, reached #40 on Billboard's Independent Albums chart and #193 on the Top 200 in 2013. Landers left the band in 2014 and joined Cold Collective two years later.
Transit, Cold Collective singer/guitarist Tim Landers has died
https://vanyaland.com/2019/02/03/rip...sser-has-died/
Betty May Adams appeared in a few Western films before signing with Universal Pictures in 1949. They wanted her to use the name Julia. She didn't like that name. They compromised and she became Julie Adams. She had roles in more than 140 movies and tv shows, including playing realtor Eve Simpson on ten episodes of Murder She Wrote.
Creature From The Black Lagoon star Julie Adams dies at 92
https://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3...ie-adams-died/
Kristoff began his acting career at age 8 on an episode of That's My Mama. Among his many tv appearances: Happy Days, The Cosby Show, A Different World, Martin, The Bad News Bears (26 episodes), Charlie & Co. (18 episodes).....and an astonishing 1,680 episodes of The Young & The Restless.
Kristoff St. John, Daytime Emmy-winning actor on The Young & The Restless, dies at 52
https://deadline.com/2019/02/kristof...ds-1202549027/
Actress/dancer Nita Bieber died February 4. She was 92. She appeared in several films including Kismet, Summer Stock and the Three Stooges short Rhythm & Weep and led a dance troupe that frequently performed on television in the 1950s.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nita_Bieber
http://www.nitabieber.com
Klein and Presley met in 8th grade at Humes High School and were best friends until Elvis' death in 1977. Klein wrote two books about Elvis (2007, 2011) and hosted a weekly program on SiriusXM's Elvis Radio channel.
George Klein, legendary Memphis DJ and best friend of Elvis Presley, dies at 83
http://www.kfvs12.com/2019/02/06/geo...s-passes-away/
Levy also appeared in all 12 episodes of the 1995 tv series Cleghorne and had a small role in the hilarious 1997 movie Mouse Hunt, which starred Nathan Lane and Lee Evans.
Steve 'Bean' Levy, actor in Ray Donovan and Shameless, dies at 58
https://www.yahoo.com/news/steve-lev...042127901.html
Finney worked as a Shakespearean actor in British theatre before making his first movie, The Entertainer, in 1960. It was directed by Tony Richardson, who had previously directed him in plays. Among Finney's many films: Tom Jones, Scrooge, Annie (he was Daddy Warbucks), Erin Brockovich, Skyfall, The Bourne Ultimatum, The Bourne Legacy and Before The Devil Knows You're Dead.
Albert Finney, five-time Oscar nominee, dead at 82
https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/08/enter...gbr/index.html
Webster, whose father Paul wrote Secret Love, The Shadow Of Your Smile and Love Is A Many Splendored Thing, photographed not only album covers (including the Doors' first album and The Mamas & The Papas' first album) but also Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, Bob Hope, Bob Newhart, Dean Martin, Jane Fonda, Jack Nicholson, Barbra Streisand and dozens of other celebrities.
Guy Webster, photographer of album covers for the Doors, Byrds, Rolling Stones, Simon & Garfunkel, dies at 79
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/guy-webster-dies/
Sirola appeared in more than 600 movies and tv shows incuding Wolf, Perry Mason, Gunsmoke, Get Smart, Diagnosis Murder, Hawaii Five-O, Simon & Simon, The Magician, The Montefuscos, Hang 'Em High, Strange Bedfellows and The Greatest Story Ever Told. As a voiceover artist, he recorded more than 10,000 commercials for radio and television.
Joseph Sirola, actor and Tony-winning producer, dies at 89
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...was-89-1162858
Argenziano appeared in 70 movies including Capone, Swordfish, Broken Arrow, Stand & Deliver, Sudden Impact and Gone In 60 Seconds and appeared in more than 90 television shows and tv-movies, including 22 episodes of Booker and 25 episodes of Stargate SG-1.
Stargate actor Carmen Argenziano dies at 75
https://www.tmz.com/2019/02/10/starg...ano-dead-dies/
In 1958, The RIAA began issuing gold records for million-selling ssingles. In 1976, they began issuing platinum records for singles which sell two million copies -- and the first platinum award went to Johnnie Taylor's number-one pop and r&b hit Disco Lady. The song was written by Harvey Scales, who also wrote the Dells' Be For Real For Me. Scales previously led a band, Harvey Scales & The Seven Sounds. They released 13 singles between 1963 and 1970 but had only one chart hit, Get Down, which reached #32 on the r&b chart and #79 on the Hot 100 in November 1967. Scales also released eight solo singles, 1972-79.
Harvey Scales, 'Milwaukee's Godfather of Soul' and writer of hit Disco Lady, dies at 77
https://www.jsonline.com/story/enter...es/2847266002/
Ganz starred in dozens of French, German, Italian, Greek and Swedish films. He also had roles in several American films including The Boys From Brazil in 1978 and The Manchurian Candidate in 2004.
Swiss actor Bruno Ganz, who played Hitler in Downfall and an angel in Wings Of Desire, dies at 77
https://www.latimes.com/local/obitua...216-story.html
Burbridge, who played flute, organ and keyboards, recorded seven albums with the Derek Trucks Band and six with the Tedeschi Trucks Band (which included Derek Trucks and Trucks' wife Susan Tedeschi; Trucks' uncle Butch was a co-founder and drummer of the Allman Brothers Band).
Multi-instrumentalist Kofi Burbridge dies at 57
https://jambands.com/news/2019/02/16...dge-1961-2019/
The children's show Buster & Me aired on KRON-Channel 4 from 1977 to 1987 and was in reruns until 2002. Robin Goodrow starred with her two adopted chimpanzees, Buster and Vanilla. The chimps were puppets. Buster was voiced by Chris Pray; Goodrow voiced Vanilla. Pray also had small roles in Dirty Harry and American Graffiti -- and Buster had a cameo in Robin Williams' 1993 film Mrs. Doubtfire.
Christopher Pray, San Francisco improv comic and Buster & Me puppeteer, dies at 72
https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/ent...dies-at-age-72
Ennis released 13 albums and ten singles. Her biggest album was Lullabies For Losers (1955). She sang with the Benny Goodman Orchestra, the Count Basie Band and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; duetted with Joe Williams at the Monterey Jazz Festival; sang for Presidents Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter; performed at the Apollo Theater and at concerts and supper clubs throughout the United States; and in the 1980s, she and her husband owned a live jazz venue called Ethel's Place. Whew!
Ethel Ennis, Baltimore's 'First Lady Of Jazz,' dies at 86
https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/ob...218-story.html