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Simon had 39 top-40 R&B hits between 1964 and 1978 including three number ones, The Chokin' Kind, Power Of Love and Get Down, Get Down. Among his other hits are Love Vibration, Music In My Bones, Your Time To Cry, Theme From Cleopatra Jones, Trouble In My Home and Drowning In The Sea Of Love..
Joe Simon, chart-topping R&B singer, dead at 85
https://www.billboard.com/music/rb-h...ad-1235010357/
The Marvels formed in 1960 in Inkster, Michigan. They signed with Motown/Tamla Records in July 1961 and Motown founder Berry Gordy Jr. changed their name to the Marvelettes. Wanda Young shared lead vocals with Gladys Horton. The Marvelettes' first single, Please Mr. Postman, went to number one on the Hot 100 and the R&B chart in December 1961. Among their other hits are Playboy, Don't Mess With Bill, Beechwood 4-5789, My Baby Must Be A Magician and The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game.
Wanda Young of iconic Motown group The Marvelettes dies at 78
https://www.yahoo.com/now/wanda-youn...222410878.html
Hanley played Candy Pruitt in 52 episodes of Here Come The Brides, 1968-70, and played Wanda Reilly Taylor in 30 episodes of Harper Valley PTA, 1981-82. She also appeared in multiple episodes of Simon & Simon, Love American Style, The Second Hundred Years and Love On A Rooftop.
Bridget Hanley of Here Come The Brides dies at 80
https://doyouremember.com/157738/bridget-hanley-dead
"Leo – and my name is Paul. You see, I like all women of the world....." Float On, the Floaters' only hit, reached #2 in the US and number one in the UK in September 1977 and inspired a Cheech & Chong parody called Bloat On.
Paul Mitchell, co-founder of the Floaters, has died
https://www.soultracks.com/story-pau...0D3Bqq1BXooLio
Crowe founded the Kentucky Mountain Boys in 1961 and changed the group's name to the New South in 1971. They released 15 studio albums and one live album. Among their best-known songs are Helen, Gotta Travel On, Ramblin' Boy, Train 45, The Model Church, Will You be Satisfied That Way and Down Where The River Bends.
J.D. Crowe, bluegrass banjo icon, dead at 84
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/m...-obit-1275941/
Evans appeared in several Broadway musicals including Gypsy and Hello, Dolly! He played Gee-Tar in the 1957 Broadway production of West Side Story, played Mouthpiece in the 1961 West Side Story movie and played a Gimbels security guard in the 2021 West Side Story movie. Evans was also one of the dancing chimney-sweeps in Disney's 1964 Mary Poppins movie.
Harvey Evans, actor in Broadway's golden years, dies at 80
https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment...es-80-81942159
Bob Hope lived to 100. George Burns lived to 100. Betty White was 17 days away from her 100th birthday.
Betty White, beloved Golden Girls actor, dead at 99
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/betty...b0f290e5219b87
Hale appeared in 45 episodes of The All New Mickey Mouse Club, 1989-95. In 1990, she and four of her castmates formed a band called The Party. The name stood for "Positive Attitude Reflects Today's Youth." They released four albums and nine singles including Summer Vacation, I Found Love, In My Dreams, That's Why and Free.
Tiffini Hale, former member of The Mickey Mouse Club, dead at 46
https://people.com/tv/tiffini-hale-f...ub-dead-at-46/
Julien played John "Goldie" Mickens in the 1973 movie The Mack, which also starred Don Gordon and Richard Pryor, and was the screenwriter and co-producer of Cleopatra Jones that same year. Julien also appeared in Uptight, Getting Straight, Psych-Out, How To Be A Player, The Savage Seven, The Black Klansman and Thomasine & Bushrod.
Max Julien, actor, sculptor, designer and The Mack star, dies at 88
https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebri...rican-25832714
Copeland played Andrea Whiting in 420 episodes of Search For Tomorrow, 1967-72, and Monica Courtland in 334 episodes of How To Survive A Marriage, 1974-75. She also appeared in multiple episodes of One Life To Live, The Edge Of Night, As The World Turns and Law & Order.
Joan Copeland, stage and screen actress and sister of playwright Arthur Miller, dies at 99
https://broadwayworld.com/article/Jo...at-99-20220104
Big Daddy Weave formed in 1998 in Mobile, Alabama. They've released ten albums and 30 singles. Six of their songs – Alive, Redeemed, Overwhelmed, The Only Name, My Story and Every Time I Breathe – went to number one on Billboard's Christian Adult Contemporary chart.
Jay Weaver, member of Big Daddy Weave, dies after Covid-19 battle
https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/04/enter...vid/index.html
The Force MD's – the initials stood for "Musical Diversity" – had four top-ten R&B hits in the 1980s: Tears, Tender Love, Touch & Go, and the number one Love Is A House.
Jessie Lee Daniels, founding member of the Force MD's, dies at 58
https://www.billboard.com/music/musi...ry-1235015809/
Bogdanovich directed 17 feature films including Paper Moon, Daisy Miller, Noises Off, Texasville, They All Laughed and What's Up, Doc? He played therapist Elliot Kupferberg in 14 episodes of The Sopranos, 2000-07.
Peter Bogdanovich, Oscar-nominated director of The Last Picture Show, dead at 82
https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/06/enter...ary/index.html
Poitier starred in 41 movies including Blackboard Jungle, No Way Out, The Defiant Ones, Porgy & Bess, To Sir With Love, Lilies Of The Field, In The Heat Of The Night, Let's Do It Again, Uptown Saturday Night, A Raisin In The Sun, Guess Who's Coming To Dinner and They Call Me Mister Tibbs!
Sidney Poitier, Oscar-winning actor and Hollywood's first Black movie star, dies at 94
https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/07/enter...ath/index.html
Among the many songs written by Bergman and her husband Alan are Sleep Warm, Nice 'N' Easy, Someone In The Dark, Moonlight, It Might Be You, The Windmills Of Your Mind, All His Children, Love Is Where You Are, In The Heat Of The Night, You Don't Bring Me Flowers, How Do You Keep The Music Playing and What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life.
Marilyn Bergman, Oscar-winning lyricist of The Way We Were, dies at 93
https://variety.com/2022/music/news/...st-1235149611/
Hickman played Chuck MacDonald in 148 episodes of The Bob Cummings Show, 1955-59, and starred in 148 episodes of The Many Loves Of Dobie Gillis, 1959-63. He also appeared in several movies including Cat Ballou, Ski Party, How To Stuff A Wild Bikini, Dr Goldfoot & The Bikini Machine and Rally 'Round The Flag, Boys!
Dwayne Hickman, The Many Loves Of Dobie Gillis star, dies at 87
https://www.yahoo.com/now/dwayne-hic...180449676.html
Saget was also the uncredited narrator on 206 episodes of the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, 2005-14, and produced 41 episodes of his Bob Saget's Here For You podcast, 2020-21.
Bob Saget, comedian and Full House star, dies at 65
The former America's Funniest Home Videos host was found at his hotel in Orlando.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...se-1235072029/
James Mtume formed the funk group Mtume in 1973 in Philadelphia. They had seven top-40 R&B hits in the 1980s. Juicy Fruit topped the chart for eight weeks in June-July 1983. Among their other hits were Breathless, Give It On Up, You Me & Me and Would You Like To Fool Around.
Jazz and R&B musician James Mtume dies at 76
https://amsterdamnews.com/news/2022/...ies-at-age-76/
The Parliaments formed in 1955 in Plainfield, New Jersey, and had a 1967 hit with I Wanna Testify. The group, named after a brand of cigarettes, evolved into Parliament in 1968. Their hits include Flash Light, Bop Gun, Chocolate City, Up For The Down Stroke and Tear The Roof Off The Sucker.
Calvin Simon, Parliament-Funkadelic co-founder, dead at 79
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/m...at-79-1281504/
Indiana Wants Me went to number one in Canada and #5 in the US in November 1970. Taylor had four other top-40 hits in Canada. He also co-wrote the Supremes' Love Child and I'm Livin' In Shame and the Four Tops' All I Need and I'll Turn To Stone.
Indiana Wants Me singer R. Dean Taylor dies at 82
https://www.soultracks.com/story-r-dean-taylor-dies