Mendes formed Brasil '66 in 1966. Among their hits are Mas Que Nada, Constant Rain, Scarborough Fair, Night & Day, The Frog, The Look Of Love and The Fool On The Hill. Lead singer Lani Hall has been married to Herb Alpert since December 1973.
Sérgio Mendes, Brazilian singer and pop artist, dead at 83
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/06/enter...ath/index.html
Sha Na Na formed in 1969 in New York City. They took their name from the "Sha-na-na-na" chorus of the Silhouettes' 1958 number-one hit Get A Job. Screamin' Scott Simon replaced original pianist Joe Witkin in 1970 and remained with Sha Na Na until the band's breakup in December 2022.
Scott Simon, 52-year Sha Na Na singer who co-wrote song for Grease, dies at 75
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/scott-simo...220621659.html
Will Jennings and Steve Winwood wrote 11 of Winwood's hits including Valerie, Higher Love, Roll With It, While You See A Chance, Back In The High Life Again and Don't You Know What The Night Can Do. Jennings also co-wrote Tim McGraw's Please Remember Me, Whitney Houston's Didn't We Almost Have It All, Dionne Warwick's I'll Never Love This Way Again, Barry Manilow's Somewhere In The Night and Looks Like We Made It, the Crusaders' Street Life and Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes' Up Where We Belong.
Will Jennings, co-writer of My Heart Will Go On, Tears In Heaven and other classics, dies at 80
https://variety.com/2024/music/obitu...st-1236136369/
Singer/organist George Bruno "Zoot" Money released ten solo albums and two albums as leader of Zoot Money's Big Roll Band. He also recorded with Alan Prtice, Alvin Lee, Alexis Korner, Georgie Fame, Peter Green, Eddie Harris, Long John Baldry, Widowmaker, Humble Pie, the Animals and many others.
Zoot Money dies at 82
https://www.clashmusic.com/news/zoot-money-has-died/
Brian Keith "Herbie" Flowers was a member of Blue Mink from 1969 to 1977. The sestet had seven top-30 hits in the UK. Our World, their only U.S. hit, reached #64 in October 1970. Flowers also played with the jazz-rock group C.C.S. (Collective Consciousness Society), whose 1970 instrumental version of Led Zeppelin's Whole Lotta Love reached #13 in the UK and #58 in the U.S.
Bass guitar legend Herbie Flowers dies at 86
Throughout his 50-year career, Flowers contributed to the recordings of David Bowie, Lou Reed, Elton John, Paul McCartney and many more.
https://www.nme.com/news/music/bass-...ged-86-3791670
Thulsa Doom! Darth Vader! Mufasa! Terence Mann! Admiral James Greer! And "This...is CNN." Jones won three Tony awards, two Primetime Emmy awards, a Daytime Emmy award, a Grammy award and an honorary Academy Award for lifetime achievement.
James Earl Jones, Tony-winning actor and voice of Darth Vader, dies at 93
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/james-e...r-darth-vader/
How did we overlook Alabama vocalist/guitarist/keyboardist/fiddle player Jeff Cook? He died November 7 2022 of Parkinson's disease. Alabama had 80 country hits (including duets), 1977-2011. Sixty-six made the top 40, 52 made the top ten and 33 went to number one. Among their biggest hits are Tennessee River, Why Lady Why, Old Flame, Love In The First Degree, Mountain Music, Dixieland Delight, Down Home, High Cotton, Take Me Down, Jukebox In My Mind, Song Of The South, The Closer You Get, Forty Hour Week, If You're Gonna Play In Texas and I'm In A Hurry & Don't Know Why.
Jeff Cook, co-founding member of country band Alabama, dies at 73
https://www.tennessean.com/story/ent...s/69611215007/
Maze, originally known as Raw Soul, formed in 1970 in Philadelphia. They had 24 top-40 R&B hits, 1977-94. Back In Stride (1985) and Can't Get Over You (1989) went to number one. Among their other hits are Silky Soul, Love Is The Key, Too Many Games, Running Away and I Wanna Be With You
Soul legend Frankie Beverly, Maze frontman and Before I Let Go singer, dies at 77
https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/09/...-beverly-dead/
Valente released 75 studio albums, ten live albums and more than 500 EPs and singles between 1955 and 1995. The Breeze & I and Malagueña were her only U.S. hits, both reaching the top ten in 1955, but she had many hits in France, Italy, Germany, Austria, the U.K. and South America. Among her best-known songs are Poinciana, Estrellita, C'est Si Bon, I Love Paris, Tonight We Love, The Breeze & I, El Mosquito, La Golondrina, Canto De Ossanha and Aquarela Do Brasil.
French-Italian singer Caterina Valente dies at 93
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/...173134364.html
McQueen played Dutch in The Karate Kid (1984) and The Karate Kid Part II (1986) and appeared in 20 other movies including Firepower, Nightforce, Red Line, Fever Pitch, The Fascination and Surface To Air.
Chad McQueen, The Karate Kid star and son of Steve McQueen, dead at 63
https://nypost.com/2024/09/12/entert...en-dead-at-63/
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