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busbee, born Michael James Ryan in Walnut Creek, California, wrote more than 120 songs including Try (P!nk), My Church (Maren Morris), Dark Side (Kelly Clarkson), Summer Nights (Rascal Flatts), People Loving People (Garth Brooks), Don't Stop (5 Seconds Of Summer) and two top-ten country-hits for Lady Antebellum, You Look Good and Our Kind Of Love.
busbee, Grammy-nominated songwriter and producer, dies at 43
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/30/enter...cli/index.html
Jessye Mae Norman began singing at age four, earned a degree in music from Howard University and earned a master's degree from the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance. In 1972, she debuted at La Scala, singing the title role in Aida. Norman released more than 80 albums. She favored the music of Strauss, Mahler and Wagner.
Jessye Norman, Grammy-winning opera singer, dies at 74
https://variety.com/2019/music/news/...es-1203354121/
From 1959 to 1965, Watkins played guitar with Dr. Feelgood & The Interns. a sextet led by Willie "Piano Red" Perryman. They had two hits in 1962, Dr. Feelgood and Right String But The Wrong Yo-Yo. The B-side of Dr. Feelgood was Mr. Moonlight, which was written by guitarist Roy Lee Johnson and would soon be recorded by the Hollies, the Beatles and the Merseybeats. Watkins later played alongside James Brown, Ray Charles, B.B. King, Otis Redding and Koko Taylor. She released her first album when she was 60. Three more would follow.
Atlanta blues musician Beverly "Guitar" Watkins dies at 80
https://www.ajc.com/news/breaking-ne...7LcbI2XbPwJGO/
McGrath released eight albums. The first was a duet album with Don Potter in 1969; the most recent came out in 2012. McGrath wrote songs for Kenny Rogers, Chely Wright, Chad Austin, Chalee Tennison, Earl Thomas Conley and other artists. He co-wrote Come Some Rainy Day, which became a #14 country hit for Wynonna in March 1998. McGrath was born in Rochester, New York and was inducted into the city's Music Hall Of Fame in 2012.
Singer-songwriter Bat McGrath dies at 73
https://www.democratandchronicle.com...ds/3837286002/
In 1990, bassist/vocalist Kim Shattuck left the all-female rock band The Pandoras and co-founded a punk-rock band, The Muffs. They released seven studio albums and 12 singles. Among their best-known songs: Big Mouth, Sad Tomorrow, End It All, Lucky Guy, Outer Space, Weird Boy Next Door and a remake of Kim Wilde's Kids In America. Following Shattuck's death today, The Muffs disbanded.
Kim Shattuck, lead singer of The Muffs, dies at 56
https://www.etonline.com/kim-shattuc...d-at-56-133659
Zaslove was an animator and producer/director for dozens of animated movies and tv series including Popeye, DuckTales, Darkwing Duck, Woody Woodpecker, Mr. Magoo, Roger Ramjet, The Smurfs and George Of The Jungle. He also worked on A Charlie Brown Christmas and was co-creator of Chip & Dale's Rescue Rangers.
Veteran animator Alan Zaslove dies at 92
https://www.animationmagazine.net/pe...ies-at-age-92/
Only on television could a widowed nurse raising a young boy own a mansion-sized home. A phone call between Julia and Dr. Chegley included this exchange: "Did they tell you I'm colored?" "What color are you?" "Why, I'm Negro." "Have you always been Negro or are you just trying to be fashionable?"
Diahann Carroll, pioneering actress on Julia and Dynasty, dies at 84
https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/di...-84/ar-AAIigez
Giordani, born Marcello Guagliardo in Sicily, sang in opera houses throughout Europe and the United States, including more than 200 performances with the New York Metropolitan Opera. He had leading roles in Carmen, Faust, Don Carlo, La Bohème, Romeo Et Juliette and many other productions.
Marcello Giordani, tenor of beauty and heft, dies at 56
https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news...-56/ar-AAIlddh
Peter Edward Baker was a member of Blues Incorporated and the Graham Bond Organisation before co-founding Cream with Eric Clapton and Jack Bruce in 1966. Their hits include Badge, Crossroads, I Feel Free, White Room, Strange Brew, Anyone For Tennis and Sunshine Of Your Love.
Ginger Baker, Cream co-founder and drummer, dies at 80
Baker was known as rock's first superstar drummer.
https://www.thewrap.com/ginger-baker...am-dies-at-80/
Charles Elmer "Rip" Taylor Jr. was known for his wild clothing, his toupee, his handlebar mustache and his confetti throwing. Wow, what a great legacy! Taylor was a semi-regular panelist on various television game shows, was a regular on The Brady Bunch Hour, appeared in two episodes of The Monkees and voiced characters in several animated films and tv series.
Rip Taylor, flamboyant comic and host of The $1.98 Beauty Show, dies at 84
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...was-84-1196673
Lynyrd Skynyrd adapted their name from Leonard Skinner, a high-school gym teacher who was very strict about male students not having long hair. He had no objections to girls with long hair, though. Among the band's hits: Free Bird, Preacher Man, Swamp Music, What's Your Name, Saturday Night Special and Sweet Home Alabama.
Lynyrd Skynyrd founder Larry Junstrom dead at 70
The bass player was also a member of 38 Special.
https://www.theobserver.ca/entertain...om-dead-at-70/
There were 39 different Mouseketeers during the series' original run, 1955-58. (The 1958-59 season consisted of reruns.) Karen was one of nine who were regulars in all three seasons. The others: Tommy, Bobby, Cubby, Lonnie, Annette, Sharon, Doreen and Darlene.
Karen Pendleton, original Mouseketeer on Disney's The Mickey Mouse Club, dies at 73
https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/ka...-73/ar-AAIqNNi
Malcolm "Molly" Duncan's distinctive tenor sax playing is featured prominently on Pick Up The Pieces, which went to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and #5 on the R&B chart in 1974. Among Average White Band's other hits are Cut The Cake, School Boy Crush, Queen Of My Soul and Let's Go Round Again.
Average White Band co-founder and saxophonist Molly Duncan dies at 74
https://stv.tv/news/entertainment/14...y-duncan-dies/
Forster appeared in dozens of episodes of Heroes, Alcatraz, Nakia, Banyon, Police Story, Karen Sisco, Twin Peaks, Last Man Standing and other series. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his portrayal of bail bondsman Max Cherry in Quentin Tarantino's 1997 film Jackie Brown.
Oscar-nominated actor Robert Forster dies at 78
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...k6a-story.html
Kane Brown has had two number-one country albums, two top-ten country EPs and five top-ten country singles including Heaven, Lose It and Good As You. Early in the morning of October 12, Dixon, who had been Brown's drummer since 2015, lost control of his car on Interstate 24 in Tennessee and lost his life when he crashed into a tree. He was only 27. Brown has postponed his October 18 sold-out concert at Staples Center in Los Angeles. Tickets will be honored on the new concert date, January 9.
Kenny Dixon, drummer for Kane Brown, dies in car crash
https://www.tennessean.com/story/ent...th/3971893002/
Keyboardist/harmonica player Steve Cash and drummer Larry Lee wrote the Ozark Mountain Daredevils' biggest hit, Jackie Blue, which reached #3 in 1975. Cash also co-wrote the band's first single, If You Wanna Get To Heaven. Their other hits include Look Away, Take You Tonight, If I Only Knew and You Know Like I Know.
Ozark Mountain Daredevils co-founder Steve Cash dies at 73
https://bestclassicbands.com/ozark-m...ead-10-14-199/
Kingsley was a DJ at KGBS in Los Angeles and program director of crosstown KLAC before becoming executive producer of the syndicated American Country Countdown program in 1974. Four years later, he succeeded Don Bowman as host. Kingsley left in 2005 and launched Bob Kingsley's Country Top 40 in 2006. Kingsley died today, one week after announcing he had bladder cancer.
Country radio legend Bob Kingsley dies at 80
https://nypost.com/2019/10/17/countr...ey-dead-at-80/
Maude often told her husband, "God will get you for that, Walter." Well, God now has him. In addition to 137 episodes of Maude, Macy appeared in Seinfeld, L.A. Law, St. Elsewhere, Nothing In Common, One Big Family, Murder She Wrote and many other series. He also played Stan Fox in Steve Martin's first feature film The Jerk (1979).
Maude co-star, character actor Bill Macy dies at 97
https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment...s-14544716.php
Santos, nicknamed "El Maestro," was an expert on Afro-Caribbean music. For 29 years he taught music at New York City College and led the school's Latin band. He collaborated with Tito Puente, Eddie Palmieri, Paquito D'Rivera and many other artists, arranged the music for the 1992 movie The Mambo Kings, arranged and conducted the music for Linda Ronstadt's 1992 Spanish-language album Frenesi and arranged Jon Secada's 2017 tribute album To Beny Moré With Love. Santos was inducted into the International Latin Music Hall Of Fame in 2003.
Latin jazz saxophonist Ray Santos dies at 90
https://worldmusiccentral.org/2019/1...os-dies-at-90/
Rolling Stone called Hellfire, Tosches' 1982 book about Jerry Lee Lewis, "the best rock & roll biography ever written." Tosches also wrote biographies of Dean Martin, Sonny Liston and country singer Emmett Miller, as well as books about country music and early rock'n'roll.
Nick Tosches, music journalist and biographer, dead at 69
https://pitchfork.com/news/nick-tosc...er-dead-at-69/