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Herman won Tony awards for Hello Dolly and La Cage Aux Folles and in 2009 was honored with a Tony for Lifetime Achievement. He also composed the scores for Parade, From A To Z, Mack & Mabel, Milk & Honey, Dear World and The Grand Tour. Among his best-known songs: Hello Dolly, Put On Your Sunday Clothes, If He Walked Into My Life and We Need A Little Christmas.
Mame, Hello Dolly, La Cage Aux Folles composer Jerry Herman dies at 88
https://www.wlwt.com/article/mame-an...t-88/30343814#
LaBeef, born Thomas Paulsley LaBeff in Smackover, Arkansas, formed a country band when he was 18 and began performing in clubs and on the radio. LeBeef released 25 albums and had minor country hits with I'm Through, Every Day, Blackland Farmer and a remake of Jimmie Rodgers' Oh Oh I'm Falling In Love Again.
Rockabilly veteran Sleepy LaBeef dies at 84
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/...153834294.html
Mendelson produced a documentary about Willie Mays. Then he produced a documentary about Charles Schulz. Then Coca-Cola management asked if he'd like to produce an animated Christmas special they could sponsor. Schulz allowed Mendelson to use the Peanuts characters and A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965) became the first of 45 (so far) Peanuts specials. There have also been five Peanuts feature films and three Peanuts television series. Good grief!
Lee Mendelson, Peanuts producer and Christmas Time Is Here co-writer, dies at 86
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/m...d-obit-931727/
In Vladimir Nabokov's 1955 novel Lolita, a middle-aged professor becomes sexually obsessed with a 12-year-old girl who reminds him of a childhood sweetheart who had died of cancer. He marries the girl's mother and begins an affair with his new stepdaughter. The novel was first published in France after six American publishers rejected it. I can't imagine any American publisher putting out such a book in 2019. Fifteen-year-old Sue Lyon starred in the 1962 movie adaptation and later appeared in The Night Of The Iguana, The Flim-Flam Man, 7 Women, Tony Rome and Four Rode Out.
Sue Lyon, teenage star of Stanley Kubrick's Lolita, dies at 73
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...was-73-1265070
The surreal, unpredictable, norm-shattering sketch comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus aired on the BBC from 1969 to 1974. Beginning in 1974, the episodes were shown on PBS in the United States. There were also five Monty Python movies, 15 comedy albums, several books and a touring stage show. Jim Carrey, Mike Myers, Seth MacFarlane, Weird Al Yankovic, The Simpsons creator Matt Groening and South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone are among the many entertainers who credit Monty Python as a major influence.
Neil Innes, Monty Python collaborator and Rutles singer, dies at 75
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation...dies-at-age-75
Producer Herb Bernstein heard Tanega singing at a camp in the Catskills in 1965 and brought her to see Four Seasons songwriter/producer Bob Crewe, who signed her to his New Voice label. Her first single, Walkin' My Cat Named Dog, was a #22 hit in the first week of April 1966. Yes, she really did have a cat named Dog. On April 16, Tanega performed the song – lip-synced it, actually – on American Bandstand. She never had another hit.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SPZVrmJ2HH8
Singer-songwriter Norma Tanega dies of cancer at 80
http://normatanega.com/site/biography/
Lexii, born Alexis Alijai Lynch, was the granddaughter of Roger Troutman, who, with his three brothers and some friends, formed Zapp in 1977 and had hits with Computer Love, More Bounce To The Ounce and I Want To Be Your Man. Lexii released several mixtapes and original songs via SoundCloud. Among her best-known songs: 18, Jealous, Joseph's Coat, Cold Hearted, Growing Pains and Love Me For Me. Roger died in 1999 after being shot several times by his brother Larry, who then committed suicide. Lexii died today. She was only 21.
Rapper Lexii Alijai dies at 21
https://heavy.com/entertainment/2020...ies-at-age-21/
Sheldon released 22 albums as a bandleader and/or singer and recorded several albums with Stan Kenton, Herbie Mann, André Previn, Tom Waits, Art Pepper, Anita O'Day and others. Sheldon also was a trumpet player and music director on The Merv Griffin Show, co-starred in The Cara Williams Show (1964-65), starred in Run Buddy Run (1966-67) and appeared in several episodes of Dragnet.
Jack Sheldon, jazz trumpeter and Schoolhouse Rock! singer, dies at 88
https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/s...-rock-obituary
Grebb played keyboards, guitar and saxophone with the Buckinghams, who had five top-20 hits in 1967-68: Kind Of A Drag, Don't You Care, Mercy Mercy Mercy, Susan and Hey Baby They're Playing Our Song. When the Buckinghams broke up in 1970, Grebb joined Lovecraft. When Lovecraft broke up in 1972, he formed the Fabulous Rhinestones. He also released two solo albums, toured with Chicago in 1980-81 and was a member of Bonnie Raitt's band for 25 years. Grebb committed suicide this morning. Yikes!
Buckinghams keyboardist Marty Grebb dies at 73
https://sportinfo.com.ng/marty-grebb...t-passed-away/
The telenovela Yo Soy Betty, La Fea ("I am Betty, the ugly one") aired on Colombian television from 1999 to 2001. Adaptations of the series have been produced in 25 countries. Nine are still on the air in 2020. The United States adaptation, Ugly Betty, starred America Ferrara and aired on ABC from 2006 to 2010. Horta was the head writer and executive producer. He had previously written and produced the sci-fi series Jake 2.0 and The Chronicle.
Silvio Horta, Ugly Betty creator, found dead of apparent suicide at 45
https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/sil...ty-1203459934/
Buck Henry, born Henry Zuckerman, was a regular on The New Steve Allen Show and That Was The Week That Was, co-created Get Smart with Mel Brooks and hosted 10 episodes of Saturday Night Live. Henry appeared in several tv episodes and in 42 movies including Eating Raoul, Catch 22, The Graduate and Grumpy Old Men.
Buck Henry, co-creator of Get Smart, writer of The Graduate and co-director of Heaven Can Wait, dies at 89
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/...042320310.html
Byrnes, born Edward Byrne Breitenberger, appeared in dozens of tv shows and movies including Maverick, Marjorie Morningstar, Up Periscope, Yellowstone Kelly, Back To The Beach and Troop Beverly Hills. He played tv dance show host Vince Fontaine in Grease and with Connie Stevens had a #4 hit in 1959 with Kookie, Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb. "What's with this comb caper, baby? Why do you wanna latch onto my comb? Baby, you're the ginchiest!"
Edd Byrnes, Kookie on 77 Sunset Strip, dies at 87
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...okie-77-938511
Peart played in an Ontario band called Hush before joining Rush in 1974. In 1983, Peart was named best rock drummer in Modern Drummer magazine's annual readers poll. He was also named best multi-percussionist and honored for best recorded performance and became the youngest drummer to be chosen for the Hall of Fame. He went on to win 30 more awards in the annual polls.
Neil Peart, Rush drummer who set a new standard for rock virtuosity, dies at 67
Hall of Fame drummer and lyricist succumbs to brain cancer.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/m...ituary-936221/
Singer/songwriter/guitarist Comstock led Bobby Comstock & The Counts, who had a 1959 hit with a version of Redd Stewart's Tennessee Waltz and a 1960 hit with a version of Hank Williams' Jambalaya. In 1963, they recorded Your Boyfriend's Back, an answer song to the Angels' My Boyfriend's Back. Among their other hits: Let's Stomp, I Want To Do It and The Garden Of Eden.
Ithaca native and music legend Bobby Comstock dies at 78
https://whcuradio.com/news/025520-le...legend-passes/
Hains, born in Melbourne, appeared in FX's American Horror Story, Amazon's Sneaky Pete and the Netflix series The OA. His mother, Jane Badler, starred in the 1983-85 NBC sci-fi series V.
Harry Hains, American Horror Story actor, dead at 27
https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/10/enter...ntl/index.html
Kirsch played Richard Ryan in 107 episodes of Highlander, 1992-98. He also appeared in episodes of Friends, JAG, Invincible and other series and operated Stan Kirsch Studios, an acting school in Los Angeles.
Highlander actor Stan Kirsch dies by suicide at 51
https://www.nydailynews.com/snyde/ny...mvq-story.html
Caro was the son of flamenco guitarist Sarita Heredia, who released the album Flamenco Singing & Dancing in 1959. The Left Banke, formed in 1965 in New York City, had big hits with Walk Away Renee in 1966 and Pretty Ballerina in 1967.
Left Banke lead singer Steve Martin Caro dies at 71
https://bestclassicbands.com/steve-m...tuary-1-15-20/
Darrow was a member of The Dry City Scat Band, The Floggs and Kaleidoscope before joining the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band in 1967. He played on the albums Rare Junk, Uncle Charlie & His Dog Teddy and Alive, then co-founded The Corvettes, who released two singles produced by Mike Nesmith and became Linda Ronstadt's touring band. Darrow also released ten solo albums.
Former Nitty Gritty Dirt Band guitarist/mandolin player Chris Darrow dies at 75
https://tasteofcountry.com/nitty-gri...s-darrow-dies/
Saxophonist Charlie Parker was nicknamed "Bird." Jimmy Heath earned the nickname "Little Bird." He released 18 albums as a bandleader and ten as a member of The Heath Brothers, a small group that included his brothers Percy and Albert. Heath also played on albums by Nancy Wilson, Cal Tjader, Herbie Mann, Donald Byrd, Nat Adderley and other artists.
Jimmy Heath, jazz saxophonist who played with Miles Davis and Milt Jackson, dies at 93
https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news...-93/ar-BBZ7xFz
Olney, a folk singer and guitarist, released 20 studio albums and six live albums. Among his best-known songs are Border Town, Big Cadillac, You Never Know, When The Deal Comes Down and Postcard From Mexico. He also wrote songs for Steve Young, Kieran Kane, Mimi Fariña, Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris and other artists.
Singer David Olney dies at 71 during performance at Florida's 30A Songwriters Festival
https://variety.com/2020/music/news/...al-1203472389/