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French horn player Bob Northern, known professionally as Brother Ah, died May 31 at age 86. He released five albums as a bandleader and recorded with Milt Jackson, Gil Evans, Donald Byrd, John Coltrane, Quincy Jones, Cal Tjader, Lalo Schifrin, Freddie Hubbard, Thelonious Monk and other artists. He also hosted a weekly jazz program on WPFW in Washington DC.
Brother Ah heard the music in everything
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Gleason appeared in more than 170 movies and television series including Bruce Almighty, 13 Going On 30, Drillbit Taylor, 12 episodes of The Middleman, four episodes of Will & Grace and three episodes of Desperate Housewives.
Mary Pat Gleason, A Cinderella Story and Mom actor, dies at 70
Gleason's impressive list of film credits includes Basic Instinct, The Crucible and Intolerable Cruelty.
https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...es-70-n1224111
Sweet had four top-ten US hits in the 1970s: Little Willy, Ballroom Blitz, Fox On The Run and Love Is Like Oxygen. With Priest's death, guitarist/keyboardist Andy Scott is now the only surviving original member. Lead singer Brian Connolly died of liver failure in 1997 and drummer Mick Tucker died of leukemia in 2002. The current incarnation of the band is called Andy Scott's Sweet, with Paul Manzi as lead singer.
Steve Priest, longtime bassist for Sweet, dies at 72
https://variety.com/2020/music/news/...es-1234625868/
Hine was half of the mid-1960s folk duo Rupert & Johnny. They released a version of Paul Simon's The Sounds Of Silence with a young Jimmy Page on guitar. Hine released nine solo albums and three albums as a member of Quantum Jump. He produced albums for Howard Jones, Tina Turner, Chris De Burgh, Stevie Nicks, Suzanne Vega, Duncan Sheik, Rush, the Fixx, the Waterboys and many other artists.
Producer and songwriter Rupert Hine dead at 72
https://ultimateclassicrock.com/rupert-hine-dead/
After scoring hits with Yes We Can Can and Fairytale, the Pointer Sisters became a trio in 1978 when Bonnie left the group to go solo. June died of cancer in 2002. Bonnie died today. Ruth and Anita remain. Among the Pointer Sisters' other hits are Fire, He's So Shy, Slow Hand, Jump, Automatic, Should I Do It, American Music, Neutron Dance and I'm So Excited.
Bonnie Pointer of the Pointer Sisters dead at 69
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainmen...isters-dead-69
Willie Nelson called Hand "the real deal." In other words, he was too authentically country to get played on any country radio stations outside of Waco and Austin. Hand released six albums, the last two on his own label, Slim Hand Records.
Legendary Texas singer-songwriter James 'Slim' Hand dies at 67
https://www.wideopencountry.com/james-slim-hand/
Vera Lynn was the first British artist to have a number-one hit in the United States. Her English-language version of Eberhard Storch's Auf Wiederseh'n, Sweetheart featured accompaniment by British sailors, soldiers and airmen and spent nine weeks at number one in 1952. It reached #10 in the UK and sold 12 million copies worldwide. Among her other hits are Again, Yours, You Can't Be True Dear, We'll Meet Again, My Son My Son, Such A Day and Don't Cry My Love.
Vera Lynn, singer of timeless classics in WWII-era Britain, dies at 103
https://www.npr.org/2020/06/18/88032...in-dies-at-103
Holm appeared in more than 200 plays, movies and television episodes. He won a Tony Award for his role in the Harold Pinter two-act play The Homecoming (1967), was nominated for an Academy Award for his role as athletic trainer Sam Mussabini in Chariots Of Fire (1981) and voiced Chef Skinner in Disney-Pixar's Ratatouille (2007).
Ian Holm, Lord Of The Rings and Alien star, dies at 88
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainmen...ien-dead-at-88
From 1965 to 1968, Brown was a session musician for Jamaican record label Studio One. His guitar work appears on recordings by Bob Marley, Johnny Nash, Jimmy Cliff, Doris Troy, Herbie Mann, Burning Spear, Toots & The Maytals and many other artists. Brown also toured with Toots & The Maytals and played lead guitar on Paul Simon's 1972 hit Mother & Child Reunion.
Jamaican guitarist Lynford 'Hux' Brown dies at 75
https://sflcn.com/classic-jamaican-g...dies-suddenly/
Schumacher also directed Flatliners, The Phantom Of The Opera, The Incredible Shrinking Woman and the video for INXS' 1988 hit Devil Inside and wrote the screenplays for Sparkle, Car Wash, The Wiz, D.C. Cab and St. Elmo's Fire.
Joel Schumacher, director of Batman & Robin, Batman Forever, The Lost Boys, St. Elmo's Fire, dies at 80
https://variety.com/2020/film/news/j...or-1234644961/
Huey, born Lawrence Franks Jr., reached #2 on Billboard's rap chart and #6 on both the Hot 100 and the R&B chart in 2007 with Pop, Lock & Drop It. Among his other hits – he released only two albums – are When I Hustle, PaYow! and Nobody Loves The Hood.
Rapper Huey, known for Pop, Lock & Drop It, dies in shooting outside St. Louis
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...tside-n1232242
Ben Stiller and Stuart Cornfeld founded Red Hour Productions in 1999. The name came from one of Stiller's favorite Star Trek episodes, "The Return Of The Archons" (1967), which featured the inhabitants of Beta-III taking part in an annual festival, a night of violence and destruction beginning at 6 PM, which is known as the Red Hour. Cornfeld produced Blades Of Glory and The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty, served as executive producer for several television series including Burning Love, The Birthday Boy, The Meltdown, Another Period and Big Time In Hollywood FL and had roles in seven films including Fast Times At Ridgemont High.
Stuart Cornfeld, producer of Tropic Thunder, Dodgeball and Zoolander, dies at 67
https://variety.com/2020/film/news/s...er-1234692034/
Jiles learned to play guitar at age nine, led Buck Owens' band in the 1960s and co-wrote songs for Patsy Cline, Carl Belew, Porter Wagoner, Janie Fricke, Norma Jean, T. Texas Tyler and other artists.
Charles Lawton Jiles, longtime Upland resident and singer/songwriter, dies at 90
https://www.pe.com/2020/06/26/charle...er-dies-at-90/
Carr released four solo albums and was half of the 1970s duo LeBlanc & Carr who had hits with Falling, Midnight Light and Something About You. Carr played lead guitar on hundreds of recordings by Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel, Barbra Streisand, Rod Stewart, Bob Seger, Boz Scaggs, Joan Baez, José Feliciano and others.
Legendary Muscle Shoals guitarist Pete Carr dead at 70
https://www.al.com/news/2020/06/lege...ead-at-70.html
Lionel Frederick "Freddy" Cole was the brother of Ike Cole and Nat "King" Cole and the uncle of Natalie Cole. He began playing piano at age six, studied at Juilliard and the New England Conservatory of Music, released 37 albums and was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in 2007. Among his best-known songs are Black Coffee, Whispering Grass, It's Christmas Time and The Joke Is Me.
Jazz singer and pianist Freddy Cole dies at 88
https://jazz.fm/freddy-cole-obituary...inger-pianist/
Into The Night was a hit in 1980 and again in 1989. Mardones recorded a new version of the song in 2012. Among his other hits: Hometown Girls, I Need A MIracle, I Want It All and a duet with Katrina Carlson, I Know You By Heart.
Benny Mardones, Into The Night singer-songwriter, dead at 73
https://www.billboard.com/articles/c...-night-dead-73
Reiner was a writer and sketch comic on Sid Caesar's Your Show Of Shows, 1954-57, and Caesar's Hour, 1954-57. Reiner and Mel Brooks formed a comedy duo in 1960. They were famous for their "2000-year-old man" sketches and recorded five albums, the most recent in 1997. Reiner created The Dick Van Dyke Show and appeared in 32 episodes as Alan Brady. He also directed 15 movies, won nine Emmy awards and had roles in 23 films including Oh God, Fatal Instinct, Ocean's Eleven and Gidget Goes Hawaiian. Whew!
Carl Reiner, longtime comedy legend, dies at 98
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/30/enter...bit/index.html
Mandel (music) and Paul Francis Webster (lyrics) won a Grammy and an Oscar for The Shadow Of Your Smile, the love theme from the 1965 Richard Burton-Elizabeth Taylor movie The Sandpiper. Mandel (music) and Mike Altman (lyrics) wrote Suicide Is Painless, the theme song of the 1970 movie M*A*S*H. It was sung in the movie by Walter Waldowski (John Schuck). An instrumental version was used as the theme song of the 1972-83 M*A*S*H television series. Altman is the son of director Robert Altman.
Famed Hollywood composer Johnny Mandel dies at 94
https://www.billboard.com/articles/n...-composer-dies
Hicks appeared in 29 feature films and shorts including Darkman, Intruder, Maniac Cop, The Demolitionist, Spider-Man 2 and Oz The Great & Powerful.
Danny Hicks, Evil Dead II star, dies at 68
https://www.horrorgeeklife.com/2020/...ar-dies-at-68/
Hugh Downs was the announcer for Kukla, Fran & Ollie and The Tonight Show with Jack Paar, hosted Concentration from 1958 to 1969, co-hosted NBC's Today from 1962 to 1971, anchored ABC's 20/20 from 1978 to 1999, hosted PBS' Live From Lincoln Center from 1990 to 1996 and hosted the PBS talk show Over Easy. Whew!
Legendary broadcaster Hugh Downs dies at 99
https://fox4kc.com/news/legendary-br...ns-dies-at-99/