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Level 42 formed in 1979 on the Isle of Wight. Gould's brother Phil was the band's original drummer. Among their hits: Something About You, Lessons In Love, Starchild, World Machine and Running In The Family.
Rowland 'Boon' Gould, guitarist and founding member of Level 42, dies at 64
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-e...-a8894631.html
Reccardi did animation and layout on Ren & Stimpy, Samurai Jack, Dexter's Laboratory, The Simpsons, The Powerpuff Girls, Wander Over Yonder, The Lego Movie, Hotel Transylvania 3 and many other animated movies and tv series. He also was a composer, bassist and guitarist and performed on several movie soundtracks. He appeared (uncredited) as one of the studio musicians in the 2015 Brian Wilson biopic Love & Mercy.
Chris Reccardi, leading animation industry artist, dies at 54
https://www.cartoonbrew.com/rip/chri...54-173590.html
Who could ever forget Chewbacca's most memorable movie lines? "Grrowrrrrr!" "Awwrr-awr-awr!" "Gggwarrrhhwww!" "Wagrrrrwwghhhhh!"
Peter Mayhew, best known for playing Chewbacca in five Star Wars films, dies at 74
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/...74/3656732002/
The Seldom Scene formed in 1971 in Bethesda, Maryland. They've released 17 studio albums and three live double albums. Among their best-known songs: Wait A Minute, Song For Life, Different Roads, Little Georgia Rose and Big Train From Memphis. Starling was a member of the group from 1971 to 1978 and in 1993-94. The current incarnation of the band has none of the original members.
John Starling, co-founder of 'new grass' bluegrass group The Seldom Scene, dies at 79
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local...57b_story.html
Chuck Cecil worked at small stations in San Luis Obispo and Klamath Falls before coming to Los Angeles in 1952, where he spent 60 years in radio (KFI, KGIL, KPRZ, KPCC, KLON, KKJZ). In 1956, he began hosting The Swingin' Years, a weekly program featuring 1930s-40s swing and big-band music. It went into syndication in 1973 and ran until 2016. At its peak, it was heard on more than 300 stations nationwide. For more than 20 years, Cecil also hosted the weekly Big Band Countdown program for the American Forces Network.
Chuck Cecil, host of The Swingin’ Years, dies at 97
https://syncopatedtimes.com/chuck-ce...host-has-died/
Dancer/choreographer/author/comedian Norma Miller died today. She was 99. Known as "The Queen of Swing," Miller was best known as a Lindy Hop dancer. The dance, named for aviator Charles Lindbergh, originated in Harlem and was largely improvisational. Miller performed with dance troupes in the US, Europe and South America and danced in six movies including Hellzapoppin' and the Marx Brothers' A Day At The Races. She was also a friend of Redd Foxx and appeared in several episodes of Sanford & Son.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norma_Miller
From Harlem to Herrang: An original Lindy Hopper blooms in Sweden
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/10/a...ma-miller.html
Perry played Fiona "Pickles" Sorrell, the wife of Morey Amsterdam's character in two episodes of The Dick Van Dyke Show. She also appeared in episodes of Dallas, Benson, Bewitched, Newhart, Adam-12, My Three Sons, The Lucy Show, The Andy Griffith Show and many other series. She was married to Disney animator Art Babbitt from 1967 until his death in 1992.
Barbara Perry, actress on The Dick Van Dyke Show, dies at 97
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...was-97-1207532
Cobb co-wrote Sandy Posey's I Take It Back, the Tams' Be Young Be Foolish Be Happy, Atlanta Rhythm Section's Champagne Jam and the Classics IV's Spooky, Stormy, Traces and Everyday With You Girl.
J.R. Cobb, founding member of Classics IV and Atlanta Rhythm Section, dies at 75
https://www.ajc.com/blog/music/atlan...enmZ5AY6pAADP/
No known medical conditions – and he died in his sleep at 38. Eek!
Troy Dean Shafer, star of DIY Network's Nashville Flipped, dies at 38
https://www.thewrap.com/troy-dean-sh...ed-dies-at-38/
Zoologists Jim Fowler and Marlin Perkins began co-hosting Wild Kingdom in 1963. Perkins left in 1986 due to health problems and Fowler hosted solo until 1988. Always accompanied by a snake, chimpanzee, marmoset, kinkajou or other animal, Fowler was a frequent guest on The Today Show and The Tonight Show.
Jim Fowler, longtime host of Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom, dies at 87
https://www.ketv.com/article/jim-fow...ge-87/27418564
Roberts appeared in two episodes of Dragnet, two episodes of Public Defender and six episodes of The Adventures Of Superman, each time playing a different character. She also appeared in several movies including The Red House, The Sign Of The Ram and Bomba On Panther Island.
Allene Roberts dies at 90
https://www.laughlinservice.com/obit...#/obituaryInfo
Sargent wrote many episodes of Ben Casey, Naked City, Route 66, The Doctors & The Nurses and other 1960s tv series. Among his movie screenplays and adaptations: Paper Moon, Spider-Man 2, Spider-Man 3, The Sterile Cuckoo and Other People's Money.
Alvin Sargent, Oscar-winning screenwriter of Julia and Ordinary People, dies at 92
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...was-92-1166270
Some historians believe when Mary Shelley began writing Frankenstein in 1816, she named the main character after the von Franckenstein family. Clement, whose middle name was George, may have grown weary of hearing Frankenstein jokes; he occasionally used the name Clement St. George. He portrayed the royal announcer in Mel Brooks' Robin Hood: Men In Tights and had a small uncredited role in – yes – Young Frankenstein.
Clement von Franckenstein, actor in Lionheart, Hail Caesar and The American President, dies at 74
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...was-74-1209772
Margaret Ann Lipton – I've never understood why "Peggy" is a nickname for Margaret – appeared in 18 movies and tv-movies, most recently A Dog's Life in 2017. She also appeared in several tv episodes and released five singles, 1968-70, including a version of Laura Nyro's Stoney End.
Peggy Lipton, star of Mod Squad and Twin Peaks, ex-wife of Quincy Jones, dies at 72
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainmen...nes-dies-at-72
Legendary actress and singer Doris Day dead at 97
The Associated Press, May 13 2019 9:07 AM
Doris Day, the honey-voiced singer and actress whose film dramas, musicals and innocent sex comedies made her a top star in the 1950s and '60s and among the most popular screen actresses in history, died early this morning at her Carmel Valley, California, home. She was 97. With her lilting contralto, wholesome blonde beauty and glowing smile, she was a top box office draw and recording artist known for such films as Pillow Talk and That Touch Of Mink and for such songs as Whatever Will Be Will Be (Que Sera Sera) from the Alfred Hitchcock film The Man Who Knew Too Much.
Her 1976 tell-all book, Doris Day: Her Own Story, chronicled her money troubles and three failed marriages, contrasting with the happy publicity of her Hollywood career. She never won an Academy Award but Day was given a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2004, as George W. Bush declared it "a good day for America when Doris Marianne von Kappelhoff of Evanston, Ohio decided to become an entertainer."
Born to a music teacher and a housewife, she had dreamed of a dance career, but at age 12, she suffered a crippling accident: a car she was in was hit by a train and her leg was badly broken. Listening to the radio while recuperating, she began singing along with Ella Fitzgerald, "trying to catch the subtle ways she shaded her voice, the casual yet clean way she sang the words." Day began singing in a Cincinnati radio station, then a local nightclub, then in New York. A bandleader changed her name to Day, after the song Day After Day, to fit it on a marquee. Her Hollywood career began after she sang at a Hollywood party in 1947. After early stardom as a band singer and a stint at Warner Bros., Day won the best notices of her career with Love Me Or Leave Me, the story of songstress Ruth Etting and her gangster husband-manager.
She followed with another impressive film, Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much, starring her and James Stewart as an innocent couple ensnared in an international assassination plot. She sings Que Ser, Sera" just as the story reaches its climax and viewers are beside themselves with suspense. The 1958 comedy Teacher's Pet paired her with an aging Clark Gable as an idealistic college journalism teacher and her student, an old-school newspaper editor.
But she found her greatest success in slick, stylish sex comedies, beginning with her Oscar-nominated role in Pillow Talk. She and Rock Hudson were two New Yorkers who shared a telephone party line and initially hated each other. She followed with The Thrill Of It All, playing a housewife who gains fame as a TV pitchwoman to the chagrin of obstetrician husband James Garner. The nation's theater owners voted her the top moneymaking star in 1960, 1962, 1963 and 1964.
Her first musical hit was the 1945 smash, "Sentimental Journey," when she was barely in her 20s. Among the other songs she made famous were Everybody Loves A Lover, Secret Love and It's Magic, a song from Romance On The High Seas, her first film. Warner Bros. cashed in on its new star with a series of musicals, including My Dream Is Yours, Tea For Two and Lullaby Of Broadway. Her dramas included Young Man With A Horn, with Kirk Douglas and Lauren Bacall, and Storm Warning, with Ronald Reagan and Ginger Rogers.
Her last film was With Six You Get Eggroll, a 1968 comedy about a widow and a widower and the problems they have when blending their families. With movies trending for more explicit sex, she turned to television to recoup her finances. The Doris Day Show was a moderate success in its 1966-1973 run on CBS.
https://www.aol.com/article/entertai...t-97/23725369/
Ensign Parker, Mr. Tudball, Dorf – thank you, Tim, for giving us five decades of laughs.
Tim Conway, beloved TV bumbler, dies at 85
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/14/o...nway-dead.html
Here is his famous – or infamous – Siamese elephants story from The Carol Burnett Show:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3qqE_WmagjY
"Uh, Mrs. Wiggins, I just-a noticed from the waist down you're the shape of Africa." Carol Burnett says she's "heartbroken" over the death of Tim Conway. We all are.
Remembering Tim Conway: Carol Burnett, Judd Apatow, Wayne Brady, RuPaul, more stars pay tribute
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/...ar/3667046002/
Rausch was a member of Bob Wills' Texas Playboys from 1958 to 1966 and sang on the hits Goodbye Liza Jane, Heart To Heart Talk and The Image Of Me. He left to form his own band, The New Texas Playboys, but reunited with Wills' band in 1973 to record what would be Wills' final album, For The Last Time. Wills died in 1975.
Leon Rausch, vocalist with Bob Wills & The Texas Playboys, dead at 91
https://celebrityaccess.com/2019/05/...ys-dead-at-91/
The Dells formed in 1952 in the Chicago suburb of Harvey and were originally known as the El-Rays. Barksdale sang bass and background vocals with the Dells until 2012 when the group quit performing. Among their many hits: Oh What A Night, Stay In My Corner, There Is, Always Together, The Love We Had, Open Up My Heart, Wear It On Our Face, A Heart Is A House For Love and Give Your Baby A Standing Ovation.
Chuck Barksdale of The Dells dies at 84
https://www.soulexpress.net/chuckbarksdale_tribute.htm
Wilhelm also released seven solo albums and wrote several songs including Slow Blues, Jesse's Theme, Hear The People, Lakemen Shuffle, The Nob Hillbillies and Jammin' In The Park.
Mike Wilhelm, Charlatans co-founder and Flamin' Groovies lead guitarist, dies at 77
https://bestclassicbands.com/mike-wi...tuary-5-15-19/