Flaherty was a regular on the sketch comedy series SCTV from 1976 to 1981 and appeared in more than 40 movies and TV movies including Happy Gilmore, 1941, Used Cars, Double Negative, Nothing Personal, Slackers, Going Berserk and Back To The Future Part II.
Joe Flaherty, SCTV and Freaks & Geeks actor, dies at 82
https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...-82-rcna146053
Heath recorded with John Coltrane, Dexter Gordon, Benny Golson, Art Farmer, Jimmy Heath, Kenny Drew, Nina Simone, Milt Jackson, Herbie Hancock, Yusef Lateef, Wes Montgomery and others. In 1975, Heath and his two brothers formed a band cleverly known as the Heath Brothers. They released 13 albums.
Albert 'Tootie' Heath, percussive paragon of modern jazz, dies at 88
https://www.wrti.org/arts-desk/2024-...azz-dies-at-88
Henry's first single, Ain't Got No Home, reached #3 on the R&B chart and #20 on the Top 100 in January 1957. Among his other hits are But I Do, You Always Hurt The One You Love, Lonely Street, On Bended Knees. A Little Too Much and Standing In The Need Of Love.
New Orleans R&B legend Clarence 'Frogman' Henry dies at 87
https://www.fox8live.com/2024/04/08/...henry-dies-87/
FireHouse formed in 1989 in Charlotte, North Caroilina. Among their hits are Love Of A Lifetime, Don't Treat Me Bad, All She Wrote, Reach For The Sky, Sleeping With You, I Live My Life For You and When I Look Into In Your Eyes.
FireHouse frontman C.J. Snare dead at 64
https://nypost.com/2024/04/08/entert...re-dead-at-64/
NewsHour airs seven nights a week on more than 350 PBS stations. The program began in 1975 as The Robert MacNeil Report and a year later, with the addition of Jim Lehrer, became The MacNeil/Lehrer Report. MacNeil left in 1975. Lehrer left in 2011. Geoff Bennett and Amna Nawaz are the current hosts.
Robert MacNeil, creator and first anchor of PBS NewsHour nightly newscast, dies at 93
https://apnews.com/article/robert-ma...0287f0688bb145
Thompson played rookie detective Nopke in five episodes of Baretta, 1975-76, and appeared in 18 movies and TV movies including Cargo, American Me, Deep Cover, The White Buffalo and The Dream Makers.
Ron Thompson, actor In Baretta and Ralph Bakshi’s American Pop, dies at 83
https://deadline.com/2024/04/ron-tho...ry-1235884934/
In 1959, the six Tavares brothers began performing with their father in music clubs in and near their hometown of New Bedford, Massachusetts. From 1964 to 1969, the brothers performed as Chubby & The Turnpikes. Renamed Tavares, they had 20 top-40 R&B hits and three number ones – She's Gone, It Only Takes A Minute and Whodunit – in the 1970s-80s. Among their other hits are Check It Out, Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel, More Than A Woman and Remember What I Told You To Forget..
Arthur "Pooch" Tavares, lead singer for the Grammy-winning, Billboard-topping R&B group Tavares, dies at 81
https://www.southcoasttoday.com/stor...s/73354016007/
The Allman Brothers Band formed in 1969 in Jacksonville, Florida. Betts wrote their hits Ramblin' Man, Louisiana Lou & Three Card Monty John, Crazy Love, Jessica and Revival (Love Is Everywhere) and co-wrote Angeline, Can't Take It With You and Straight From The Heart.
Allman Brothers Band co-founder Dickey Betts dies at 80
https://www.wusf.org/arts-culture/20...ta-county-home
Mandisa released six albums. Three went to number one on Billboard's Christian Albums chart. She released 27 singles, including duets. Among her best-known songs are Stronger, Overcomer, Unfinished, My Deliverer, Back To You, It's Christmas and Waiting For Tomorrow.
Mandisa, Grammy-winning singer and American Idol alum, dead at 47
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mandi...b0167f7bf4a9df
Carter played Private "Sugie" Sugarman on 92 episodes of The Phil Silvers Show, 1955-59; Sergeant Joe Broadhurst in 42 episodes of the Dennis Weaver series McCloud, 1970-77; and Colonel Saul Tigh in the 1978 Battlestar Galactica movie and 21 episodes of the 1978-79 Battlestar Galactica TV series.
Terry Carter, Battlestar Galactica and McCloud actor, dies at 95
https://variety.com/2024/film/people...ud-1235979429/
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