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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/
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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
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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
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"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
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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/
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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
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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
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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/
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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
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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