Entertainment industry obituaries

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For five years, Daily played astronaut Roger Healey on I Dream Of Jeannie. For six years, he played an airline pilot and Bob Newhart's neighbor Howard Borden on The Bob Newhart Show. Newhart played a psychologist and I often wondered what he would have thought if Howard had told him, "Honest, Bob, my friend had a real live genie who lived in a bottle! Why are you looking at me as if I'm crazy?"

Bill Daily, co-star on I Dream Of Jeannie, The Bob Newhart Show, dies at 91

https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/i-...2OsS?ocid=AMZN

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The Hilltoppers were together from 1952 to 1957. McGuire was the bass singer. (Billy Vaughn, the pianist, quit the group in 1954 and formed his own orchestra. Among his many hits were Melody Of Love, The Shifting Whispering Sands, Sail Along Silv'ry Moon and A Swingin' Safari.) The Hilltoppers had 21 top-40 hits including Trying, Love Walked In, Poor Butterfly, Marianne, Only You and P.S. I Love You.

Don McGuire, last surviving member of the Hilltoppers, dies at 86

http://www.wkyt.com/content/news/Don...492776931.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hilltoppers_(band)

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Crime, arguably the world's loudest punk band, was together from 1976 to 1980. They played at San Quentin in 1979 and their best-known song, Hot Wire My Heart, was covered by Sonic Youth. Crime re-formed in 2006 and their most recent CD came out in 2017.

Johnny Strike, frontman of San Francisco punk pioneers Crime, dead at 70

https://www.kqed.org/arts/13840626/j...ime-dead-at-70

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Mazzie was a three-time Tony Award nominee for her roles in Passion, Mother In Ragtime and Kiss Me Kate but never won the award. She was, however, inducted into the American Theater Hall Of Fame in 2017. She had been married to Broadway actor Jason Danieley since 1997.

Marin Mazzie, Broadway musical star, dead at 57

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/13/o...ead-at-57.html

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Bentley was an advertising model for Toni hair care products when she was in her 20s. She had an uncredited role as a page girl in Andy Griffith's first film A Face In The Crowd and co-starred in C.H.U.D. and Scent Of Mystery. For 16 years she was married to Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Norman Mailer.

Actress Beverly Bentley dies at 88

https://t2conline.com/beverly-bentle...norman-mailer/

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Sutton appeared in 157 movies and tv episodes. The majority, including George & Mildred, Edward II, The Big Sleep and The Pink Panther Strikes Again, were British productions but he also had roles in several American films including Incognito, One More Time, The London Connection and The Prince & The Pauper.

Dudley Sutton dead at 85
The star was known to millions as Tinker Dill in TV's Lovejoy.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebri...inker-13252494

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Bennett was a member of Freeway and L.A. Express -- those were bands, not roads -- and was one of the session musicians collectively known as the Wrecking Crew. He played on thousands of songs for hundreds of artists including Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, Kenny Rogers, Carole King, Peggy Lee, Paul Anka, Joni Mitchell, Marvin Gaye, Ella Fitzgerald, the Monkees, the Grass Roots, the Beach Boys, the Four Tops, the Temptations, the 5th Dimension and the Partridge Family. Bennett also released nine jazz albums as a bandleader.

Jazz bassist and session musician Max Bennett dies at 90

https://www.notreble.com/buzz/2018/0...m-max-bennett/

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Allcock spent 11 years as lead guitarist for Fairport Convention. For four of those years, he doubled as Jethro Tull's keyboardist. As a multi-instrumentalist session musician, Allcock played on more than 300 albums.

Fans mourn death of Fairporter Maartin Allcock

https://www.banburyguardian.co.uk/ne...cock-1-8637714

http://www.maartinallcock..com

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After playing tenor sax on several Johnny Otis recordings, Cecil McNeely signed a solo contract with Savoy Records in 1949. Savoy founder Herman Lubinsky suggested Cecil call himself Big Jay McNeely because the name Cecil didn't sound "commercial." Lubinsky had changed his own name, too; his real first name was Hyman.

Big Jay McNeely, R&B's 'King of the Honkers,' dies at 91
The New York Times, Sep 17 2018

Big Jay McNeely, whose wailing tenor saxophone and outrageous stage antics helped define the sound and sensibility of early rock 'n' roll, died of prostate cancer September 16 in Moreno Valley, California at 91. Hailed as the King of the Honkers, McNeely was at the forefront of a group of post-bop saxophonists who, in the late 1940s, abandoned the heady reveries of jazz for the more gutbucket pleasures of rhythm & blues. In the process he played a pivotal role in establishing the saxophone — before the electric guitar supplanted it — as the featured instrument among soloists at the dawn of rock 'n' roll.

Best known for his acrobatics and daring in performance, McNeely whipped up crowds by reeling off rapid sequences of screaming notes while lying on his back and kicking his legs in the air. Other times he would jump down off the stage and blow his horn while strutting his way through the audience.

McNeely’s signature hit was a smoldering ballad, There Is Something On Your Mind, a top-ten R&B hit in 1959 featuring vocals by Little Sonny Warner. McNeely’s breakthrough record, however, had come a decade earlier: Deacon's Hop, a growling, percussive instrumental, spent two weeks at the top of Billboard’s Race Records chart, as it was then called, in 1949.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/17/a...eely-dies.html

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In 1967, the New York City Ballet's performance of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream set to Felix Mendelssohn's music was filmed and released as a movie. There was no dialogue, neither spoken nor sung. There was only ballet dancing. Mitchell portrayed Puck. Mitchell was honored with the American National Medal of the Arts in 1995.

Arthur Mitchell, pioneering dancer, choreographer, co-founder of Dance Theater of Harlem, dies at 84

https://www.essence.com/entertainmen...hell-has-died/