Entertainment industry obituaries

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Among the many series Silverman brought to television: Soap, Scooby-Doo, Cheers, Barnaby Jones, Diff'rent Strokes, All In The Family, Maude, Good Times, Real People, The Waltons, The Smurfs, The Jeffersons, The Bionic Woman, The Facts Of Life, The Love Boat, Charlie's Angels, Three's Company, Roots, Rich Man Poor Man, Fantasy Island and Eight Is Enough. Whew!

Fred Silverman, TV executive who led programming at ABC, CBS and NBC, dies at 82

https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/fre...ve-1203487260/

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Barbarin began playing drums when he was six and eventually switched to trombone. He released three albums as a bandleader and played on more than 20 albums by Wynton Marsalis, Harry Connick Jr., the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and other artists.

Trombonist Lucien Barbarin dies of cancer at 63

https://syncopatedtimes.com/tromboni...-cancer-at-63/

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Professionally, Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins Clark Conheeney used only three of her six names. Many of her 80 novels and short stories shared titles with popular songs. Among them: Silent Night, Deck The Halls, As Time Goes By, You Belong To Me, I'll Be Seeing You, I'll Walk Alone, Every Breath You Take, On The Street Where You Live, Moonlight Becomes You, The Second Time Around and The Shadow Of Your Smile. She was an excellent writer of mysteries but she wasn't very good at coming up with original titles.

Author Mary Higgins Clark, 'Queen of Suspense,' dies at 92

https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment...ge-92-68684043


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Gill co-founded British rock band band Gang Of Four in 1976. He was the band's lead guitarist and produced or co-produced their ten studio albums and two live albums. Three of their albums, Solid Gold, Songs Of The Free and Hard, charted in the US in the early 1980s. Gang Of Four had a top-ten US dance hit in 1983 with Is It Love and reached #14 on the alternative rock chart in 1991 with Don't Fix What Ain't Broke. Among their other hits are Damaged Goods and I Love A Man In Uniform.

Andy Gill, influential guitarist with Gang Of Four, dies at 64
Gill's guitar sound inspired Kurt Cobain, Michael Stipe and Red Hot Chili Peppers, whose debut album he produced.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/20...r-dies-aged-64

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Serkin, the son of pianist Rudolf Serkin and grandson of violinist Adolf Busch, won a Grammy award in 1966 for Most Promising New Classical Recording Artist. Serkin released 72 albums. He favored the music of Mozart, Schumann, Bach, Brahms and Beethoven. Serkin also released seven albums as a member of the Tashi Quartet.

Peter Serkin, pianist with pedigree who forged a new path, dies at 72

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/01/a...rkin-dead.html

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Beane grew up in Memphis and learned guitar from his neighbor Larry Lee, who would later become a sideman for Jimi Hendrix and Al Green. Beane recorded with Isaac Hayes (most notably the fuzztone guitar solo on Walk On By), Rufus Thomas, Al Green, George Clinton, William Bell, David Porter and others.

Legendary Funkadelic guitarist Harold Beane dies at 73

https://www.soultracks.com/story-harold-beane-dies

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Reynolds was 10 when he appeared in the Our Gang short Washee Ironee. His first movie appearance (uncredited) was in the 1934 Laurel & Hardy adaptation of Babes In Toyland. Reynolds had roles in dozens of movies and tv shows including Boys Town, Santa Fe Trail, Love Finds Andy Hardy and I Love Lucy. He produced and directed hundreds of episodes of M*A*S*H, Lou Grant, F Troop, My Three Sons, The Andy Griffith Show and other series. Whew! He won six Emmy awards.

M*A*S*H co-creator and longtime television producer Gene Reynolds dies at 96

https://fox6now.com/2020/02/05/mash-...olds-has-died/

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The country rock band New Riders Of The Purple Sage formed in 1969 in San Francisco. (There were three earlier groups using the name Riders Of The Purple Sage. The most famous was a 1942-52 Western swing band led by Foy Willing.) Buddy Cage, the band's pedal steel guitarist, was also a session musician who played on Bob Dylan's Blood On The Tracks and on albums by Anne Murray, David Bromberg, Brewer & Shipley, the Brooklyn Cowboys and other artists.

Buddy Cage, New Riders Of The Purple Sage pedal steel guitarist, dies at 73

https://bestclassicbands.com/buddy-c...riders-2-5-20/

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Among his many films: Spartacus, Champion, I Walk Alone, Lust For Life, Strangers When We Meet, Gunfight At The OK Corral, Town Without Pity, The War Wagon, The Way West, The Arrangement, The Man From Snowy River, A Lovely Way To Die, Lonely Are The Brave and 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea.

Kirk Douglas, indomitable icon of Hollywood's Golden Age, dies at 103

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...artacus-670526

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Conway was 24 when he began an acting career after working as a sales analyst for IBM. Among his films: Slaughterhouse Five, Jennifer 8 and Gods & Generals. He co-starred in the tv series Oz, The Bronx Is Burning and The Black Donnellys and was the voice of the 1995-2002 revival of the 1963-65 sci-fi series The Outer Limits: "There is nothing wrong with your television.....For the next hour we will control all that you see and hear....."

Kevin Conway, Gettysburg and Thirteen Days actor, dies at 77

https://www.thewrap.com/kevin-conway...or-dies-at-77/