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Joe Long sang and played bass with the Four Seasons from 1965 to 1975. The group's hits during those years include Beggin', C'mon Marianne, I've Got You Under My Skin, Tell It To The Rain, Watch The Flowers Grow, Will You Love Me Tomorrow, Working My Way Back To You and Opus 17 (Don't You Worry 'Bout Me).
Former Four Seasons member Joe Long dead at 79
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainmen...-joe-long-dead
McKeown was a member of the Bay City Rollers from 1973 to 1978. He recorded eight albums with the band and released nine solo albums. He sang on the hits Saturday Night, Money Honey, Rock & Roll Love Letter, I Only Want To Be With You and You Made Me Believe In Magic.
Les McKeown, Bay City Rollers singer, dead at 65
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/m...-obit-1159950/
Gregory "Shock G" Jacobs, Ron "Money B" Brooks, Earl "Schmoovy-Schmoov" Cook and James "Chopmaster J" Dight formed hip-hop group Digital Underground in 1987 in Oakland, California. I think there was a law forbidding rappers and hip-hop singers from using their real names. Anyway, Jacobs (who also called himself "Humpty-Hump") co-wrote the group's three biggest hits, The Humpty Dance, Same Song and Kiss You Back.
Digital Underground rapper Shock G dead at 57
https://pagesix.com/2021/04/22/digit...-g-dead-at-57/
Fries was the executive producer of Troop Beverly Hills and Tales From The Crypt, several television series including Firehouse, Thunder, The Super, The Amazing Spider-Man and Baby I'm Back! and more than 100 TV-movies, mini-series and documentaries.
Chuck Fries, prolific TV and film producer, dies at 92
https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/chu...er-1234959268/
Schmitt won 20 Grammy awards for his engineering and record producing, from Henry Mancini's Hatari! (1962) to Paul McCartney's Live Kisses (2013). Many of the albums he engineered went multi-platinum, including Steely Dan's Aja, Ray Charles' Genius Loves Company, Diana Krall's The Look Of Love and Frank Sinatra's two Duets albums. Schmitt was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Grammy award in 2006 and a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame in 2014.
Al Schmitt, legendary recording engineer, dies at 91
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...eer-dies-at-91
Hinch played on Judas Priest's 1974 debut album Rocka Rolla, which was produced by Rodger Bain, who had produced Budgie's first two albums and Black Sabbath's first three albums. Rocka Rolla failed to chart. Not in the UK, not in the US, not anywhere. Judas Priest has since had 11 top-40 albums.
John Hinch, drummer on first Judas Priest album, dead at 73
https://loudwire.com/john-hinch-judas-priest-dead-73/
Crawford was a Mouseketeer during the first season of the Mickey Mouse Club (1955-56), co-starred with Chuck Connors on The Rifleman (1958-63) and had four top-40 hits in 1962-63: Cindy's Birthday, Your Nose Is Gonna Grow, Rumors and Proud. Crawford starred with Jay Silverheels in the 1965 western Indian Paint and appeared in the 1966 John Wayne western El Dorado.
Actor/singer Johnny Crawford dies at 75
https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threa...d-rip.1084035/
Aaker appeared in all 164 episodes of The Adventures Of Rin Tin Tin (1954-59). His character, Rusty, had been orphaned in an Indian raid, after which he and his German shepherd were adopted by the US Cavalry soldiers at Fort Apache, Arizona. Aaker also appeared in several movies including Hondo, Destry, Jeopardy, Mister Scoutmaster, Take Me To Town, Bye Bye Birdie and A Lion Is In The Streets.
Lee Aaker dies: The Adventures Of Rin Tin Tin child star was 77
https://deadline.com/2021/04/lee-aak...ar-1234733916/
Olympia appeared in several movies including Steel Magnolias, Rich Kids, Working Girl and Look Who's Talking. She appeared in 39 episodes of Search For Tomorrow, 12 episodes of Sex & Violence, 12 episodes of Center Of The Universe and in the mini-series Tales Of The City, More Tales Of The City and Further Tales Of The City. She was the cousin of former Massachusetts Governor and 1988 Presidential candidate Michael Dukakis.
Olympia Dukakis, Oscar-winning Moonstruck actress, dies at 89
https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...es-89-n1266064
Hickey played Benjy Riordan in several episodes of the 1965-80 Irish drama series The Riordans and appeared in several movies including Gothic, Possession, My Left Foot, Breakfast On Pluto and Nuns On The Run.
Tom Hickey, star of The Riordans, dies at 77
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/a...died-1.4553532
d'Amboise also appeared in Off Beat, A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Best Things In Life Are Free and was the choreographer for the 1982 Irwin Corey comedy Stuck On You!
Jacques d'Amboise, ballet legend who danced in Seven Brides For Seven Brothers and Carousel, dies at 86
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...sel-dies-at-86
McRae played defensive tackle in six games with the Chicago Bears in 1967 before becoming an actor. He appeared in 37 movies, 1972-2006, including Dillinger, Norma Rae, Shaft In Africa, 48 Hrs., Another 48 Hrs., Rocky II, 1941, Cannery Row, *batteries not included, Lightning Jack, Paradise Island and National Lampoon's Vacation.
Frank McRae, actor In Licence To Kill and Last Action Hero, dies at 80
https://deadline.com/2021/05/frank-m...ry-1234750695/
Price's first single, Lawdy Miss Clawdy, topped the R&B chart for seven weeks in 1952. He had three more number ones in 1959: Stagger Lee (which also went to number one on the Hot 100), Personality and I'm Gonna Get Married. Among his other hits are Just Because, Question, Misty, Lady Luck, and Where Were You On Our Wedding Day.
Hall of Fame Personality, Stagger Lee singer Lloyd Price dies at 88
https://www.soultracks.com/story-lloyd-price-dies
Kitaen appeared in the video for Ratt's Back For More and in the videos for Whitesnake's Still Of The Night, Here I Go Again, Is This Love, Fool For Your Loving and The Deeper The Love. She played Lisa DiNapoli in 47 episodes of Santa Barbara (1989) and Mona Loveland in 37 episodes of The New WKRP In Cincinnati (1991-93) and voiced a cat named Annabelle in 38 episodes of the 1992-97 animated series Eek! The Cat.
Tawny Kitaen, Whitesnake video vixen and Bachelor Party star, dies at 59
https://www.thewrap.com/tawny-kitaen...ar-dies-at-59/
Tony appeared in 33 episodes of Angels (1982-83), 14 episodes of Grange Hill (1985) and eight episodes of Chalkface (1991). He also appeared in several movies including The Saint, As You Like It and Notting Hill and voiced Xalek in four Star Wars video games.
Tony Armatrading, Notting Hill actor and brother of singer Joan, dies at 59
https://www.syracuse.com/celebrity-n...ies-at-59.html
Lloyd appeared in two movies directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Saboteur in 1942 and Spellbound in 1945. Lloyd was associate producer of 182 episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1957-62) and appeared in four episodes. He was executive producer of 63 episodes of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1963-65). He played Bodalink in the 1952 Charlie Chaplin movie Limelight, played Dr. Daniel Auschlander in 132 episodes of St. Elsewhere (1982-88), played Dr. Isaac Mentnor in 49 episodes of Seven Days (1998-2001) and appeared in multiple episodes of Wiseguy, Home Fires, The Practice and Murder She Wrote. Whew!
Norman Lloyd, star of Saboteur and St. Elsewhere, dies at 106
The actor worked with everyone from Alfred Hitchcock and Charlie Chaplin to Daniel Day-Lewis and Amy Schumer.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/obituar...s-106-n1267052
The Staple Singers formed in 1948 in Chicago. Their hits include Respect Yourself, Heavy Makes You Happy, I'll Take You There, New Orleans, Be What You Are, Let's Do It Again and If You're Ready (Come Go With Me). The Staple Singers were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame in 1999 and the Gospel Music Hall Of Fame in 2018.
Pervis Staples, founding member of the Staple Singers, dies at 85
https://www.npr.org/2021/05/13/99655...dies-at-age-85
Simmons released ten albums as a bandleader. He recorded six albums with Carmen McRae and five albums with Joe Williams and played on albums by Etta Jones, Red Holloway, Dakota Staton, Betty Carter, Roy Eldridge, Johnny Griffin, Anita O'Day and others.
Norman Simmons, pianist who made an elegant art out of accompaniment, dies at 91
https://www.wbgo.org/music/2021-05-1...ent-dies-at-91
Ed Bruce and his wife Patsy co-wrote Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys and his recording of the song reached #15 on Billboard's country chart in January 1976. A remake by Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson was number one for four weeks in March 1978. Ed and Patsy, with Bobby Borchers, wrote When I Die, Just Let Me Go To Texas, a #52 hit for Ed Bruce in September 1977 and, retitled Texas (When I Die), a #5 hit for Tanya Tucker in Februry 1979.
Patsy Bruce, Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys songwriter, dies at 81
https://www.tennessean.com/story/ent...ys/5121831001/
Grodin appeared in 36 movies including Dave, Ishtar, Sunburn, Beethoven, Beethoven's 2nd, Rosemary's Baby, Heaven Can Wait, The Lady In Red, The Great Muppet Caper and The Incredible Shrinking Woman. He played Matt Crane Stevens in 65 episodes of the 1964-66 drama series The Young Marrieds and played Dr. Bigelow in five episodes of Louis C.K.'s 2010-15 series Louie.
Charles Grodin, Heartbreak Kid and Midnight Run actor, dead at 86
https://nypost.com/2021/05/18/charle...ar-dead-at-86/