If you ever saw someone crashing a car, truck or motorcycle in a movie or television show, chances are you were watching stuntman Bill Anagnos. He performed in hundreds of movies, tv shows and commercials. He also had roles in The Warriors, Can't Stop The Music, Beat Street and Malcolm X and was John Travolta's double in Saturday Night Fever.
Stuntman/actor Bill Anagnos dies at 60
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/da...7160&fhid=5763
Yesterday, Germs bassist Lorna Doom died. Her bandmates included Darby Crash and Pat Smear. Today, Red Aunts bassist Debi Martini died. She called herself E.Z. Wider and, later, Debbi Dip. Her bandmates were Angel, Cougar and Sapphire. There must be a law that forbids punk-rock singers from using their real names. The Red Aunts formed in 1991 in Long Beach. They released five albums and six singles before breaking up in 1998.
Red Aunts bassist Debi Martini has died
https://pitchfork.com/news/red-aunts...tini-has-died/
Young was a member of rockabilly band The Stompers, 1954-58. They toured with Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Roy Orbison. Young then became an original member of Bill Black's Combo, which had several instrumental hits and was the opening act for the Beatles' US concerts in 1964. As a session musician, Young played guitar on 150 top-40 pop and country hits including Suspicious Minds, Kentucky Rain, Pancho & Lefty, I Can Help, In The Ghetto, Highwayman, Sweet Caroline, Son Of A Preacher Man, The Letter, Down In The Boondocks and Always On My Mind and he played sitar on Cry Like A Baby and Hooked On A Feeling.
Reggie Young, studio guitarist on dozens of classic hits, dies at 82
http://tasteofcountry.com/reggie-young-dead/
McKenna, born in Lennoxtown, Scotland, also played with Ian Gillan, Greg Lake, Dream Police and Womack & Womack and in the late 1980s led his own band, McKenna's Gold. He played on all seven albums by the Sensational Alex Harvey Band.
Ted McKenna, drummer with Rory Gallagher, Michael Schenker, Sensational Alex Harvey Band, dies at 68
https://www.loudersound.com/news/ted...ker-dead-at-68
Striepeke was a makeup artist on more than 100 movies and tv series, including 16 Tom Hanks films. He created the facial makeup of the apes in Planet Of The Apes and co-created the peel-off face masks used in episodes of Mission: Impossible.
Dan Striepeke, Oscar-nominated makeup artist on Spartacus, Patton, Forrest Gump, Saving Private Ryan, dies at 88
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...was-88-1177554
An August 2018 Variety article went into detail about Striepeke's unique methods of what we might call "face remodeling":
Veteran makeup artist Dan Striepeke has special bond with Tom Hanks
https://variety.com/2018/artisans/pr...ks-1202919496/
Andras "Andy" Vajna, born in Budapest, studied filmmaking at UCLA and went on to produce 59 movies. He owned a radio station, several tv stations and a film production company in Hungary and headed the Hungarian National Film Fund which supported local filmmakers. Among the movies Vajna produced: Nixon, Evita, Red Heat, I Spy and Die Hard With A Vengeance.
Andy Vajna, producer of Rambo, Total Recall, Terminator 3, dies at 74
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/en...224832725.html
The Browns -- Jim Ed, Maxine and Bonnie -- had a number-one pop and country hit in 1959 with The Three Bells. Among their other hits: Scarlet Ribbons, Money, Would You Care, The Old Lamplighter and Beyond The Shadow. The trio broke up in 1967, two years after Jim Ed began recording solo. He went on to have 34 top-40 country hits including Pop A Top and six duets with Helen Cornelius.
Country Music Hall of Famer Maxine Brown Russell of the Browns dies at 87
https://www.tennessean.com/story/ent...io/2640329002/
Ballard performed with Spike Jones in the 1940s; performed on Broadway in the '50s; was a regular on The Perry Como Show and co-starred with Eve Arden on The Mothers-In-Law in the '60s; appeared in Disney's Freaky Friday and was a regular on The Doris Day Show in the '70s; and continued to act on stage, on television and in movies in the '80s and '90s. Whew! And in 1954, she was the first person to record Bart Howard's In Other Words (Decca 29114). The song, retitled Fly Me To The Moon, has since been recorded by more than 300 artists including Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Johnny Mathis, Nat "King" Cole and Diana Krall.
Kaye Ballard, star of The Mothers-In-Law, dies at 93
https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/ka...-93/ar-BBSBnP4
Barnett was a comedy writer for Broad City and The Cleveland Show and was co-creator and executive producer of Rel Howery's tv series Rel. He also was a featured comedian on HBO's Funny As Hell series.
Kevin Barnett, comedian and co-creator of Fox's comedy series Rel, dies at 32
https://deadline.com/2019/01/kevin-b...an-1202539506/
Birdsong sang in the Los Angeles Community Choir before attending Manhattan School Of Music and Juilliard. He released five albums and many hip-hop artists have incorporated samples of his music into their recordings. He also worked as a session musician and co-produced a few albums for Roy Ayers and Stevie Wonder. Here is Birdsong's best known song, Cola Bottle Baby:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3AKrwna2C8
Jazz/funk/disco keyboardist Edwin Birdsong dies at 77
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/m...ituary-782778/
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