Rolling Obituary Thread: 2016

RIP Natalie Cole

UK hip hop producer Mark B

http://www.factmag.com/2016/01/01/mark-b-died/

actor wayne roger who played trapper john

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-35209348

Dale Bumpers

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/01/02/461774137/former-arkansas-gov-dale-bumpers-dies-at-90

oh shit, MArk B :(

Cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond

http://variety.com/2016/film/news/vilmos-zsigmond-dead-dies-cinematographer-1201670799/

The cinematographer of the 70s?

Yep, turns out he shot a few Mindy Project episodes too. Gotta keep busy!

Robert Stigwood

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/robert-stigwood-dies/

Zsigmond and Wexler so close together (five days) is almost a match for Antonioni/Bergman on the same day.

Mind=blown

Pianist-composer Paul Bley.

:-(

his open, to love album is some of my favourite solo piano playing

Pierre Boulez

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-35241250

Elizabeth Swados

http://www.theatermania.com/new-york-city-theater/news/elizabeth-swados-obituary_75480.html

Christy O'Connor Jr

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/golf/35241893

Cuban trumpeter Alfredo "Chocolate" Armenteros. http://www.salsaforums.com/threads/rip-alfredo-chocolate-armenteros.26427/

Pat Harrington Jr.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/pat-harrington-jr-dead-one-844621

I had no use for his signature sitcom, but RIP anyway.

big band singer Kitty Kallen

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/kitty-kallen-silken-voiced-pop-singer-of-little-things-mean-a-lot-dies-at-94/2016/01/07/e4819528-b571-11e5-a842-0feb51d1d124_story.html

André Courrèges.

http://theboot.com/red-simpson-dead-dies/

Red Simpson, a pioneer of the “Bakersfield sound” and an icon in the sub-genre of country trucking songs, has died unexpectedly. He was 81.
According to the Bakersfield Californian, Simpson had suffered a heart attack on Dec. 18, after returning from a tour. Family friend Gene Thome tells the paper, “He seemed to be doing better,” but on Friday night (Jan. 8), Simpson went into cardiac arrest and could not be revived.

http://www.post-gazette.com/news/obituaries/2016/01/09/Soul-legend-Otis-Clay-dies-at-73/stories/201601090143

Mr. Clay, a 2013 inductee to the Blues Hall of Fame, grew up in the '40s in the small Mississippi town of Waxhaw, singing in church and hearing blues and soul on the radio.

In the late '50s he sang in Chicago gospel groups, and in 1962 split off with his first secular soul songs. He had his first R&B hit in 1967 with "That's How It Is (When You're in Love)" and a pop hit in 1968 with a cover of Sir Douglas Quintet's "She's About a Mover."

In 1972, he moved to Hi Records (home of Al Green) and released "Trying to Live My Life Without You," produced by Willie Mitchell, the man behind the Green hits. The song later became a No. 5 hit for Bob Seger.

Those early albums made him a popular touring attraction in Europe and Japan, where he recorded a number of live albums. He was also nominated for a Grammy for Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance.

In recent years, he recorded for Bullseye Blues and he recorded a gospel album in 2007 called “Walk a Mile in My Shoes.”

Ed 'Stewpot' Stewart

Phantasm star Angus Scrimm:

http://www.ew.com/article/2016/01/10/angus-scrimm-obituary-phantasm

just seen that, v. sad, such a great monster

aw :(

Italian actress and director Silvana Pampanini, who worked with Buster Keaton, Vittorio Gassman, Marcello Mastroianni, Alberto Sordi, Totò, Jean Gabin, Henri Vidal, Abel Gance and Vittorio De Sica, passed away on January 6, reports the AFP. She was 90. “Pampanini never married but was reported to have sparked the romantic ardor of a string of famous men, from Cuban leader Fidel Castro and Egypt’s King Farouk I to Orson Welles and Omar Sharif.”

http://artdaily.com/news/84178/One-of-Italy-s-leading-post-war-cinema-stars--Silvana-Pampanini--dead-at-90-according-to-local-media#.VpJ9-PkrLDc

Richard Libertini.

oh no

you are verrry handsome *smak smak*

Hopefully someone put his soud backinbowl.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9bkwy2w4qI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eI8o5C5l9J8

Bowie :(

Ridiculous. Absurd.

David Bowie R.I.P

Darragh OTM.

probably time to move to a planet that doesn't seem quite as unhealthy as this one. place is a fucker

This has carried on all day and its gone well past annoying at this stage.

Presumably it'll all be sorted out in the morning.

Night.

baseball Hall of Famer Monte Irvin, 96, denied the major leagues til age 30 by segregation

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/13/sports/baseball/monte-irvin-star-outfielder-who-lost-his-prime-to-racism-dies-at-96.html

Lorraine Hearne, my great aunt, at age 100.

Good vibes crypto.

sorry, crypto

Stanley Siegel, goofy New York TV morning-show host of the '70s who had himself psychoanalyzed on air for 10 minutes every week. I also remember him interviewing a coked-up Truman Capote, who'd just come from Studio 54.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/13/arts/television/stanley-siegel-a-riveting-and-irrepressible-talk-show-host-dies-at-79.html

What about the punk rock episode(s), Morbs!

The non-fictional rival of the Quincy punk rock episode.

saw this for the first time (i remember) last night. he's pretty benign about it as these things went. his Sparks interview is on YT as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k37XXZL1YY

Seeing things on FB about Giorgio Gomelsky passing away from cancer at age 82.

C.D. Wright, Poet

https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/stanza/c-d-wright-january-6-1949%E2%80%93january-12-2016

More on Gomelsky: http://dangerousminds.net/comments/the_mad_genius_behind_the_rolling_stones_and_yardbirds_giorgio_gomelsky

Somehow completely missed that Brett Smiley died! Love this album so much

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4vn-c9iD8c

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/obituary/6836578/brett-smiley-dead

Really weird series of events: I posted "Va Va Va Voom" on a friend's FB wall Sunday morning, not because I knew Smiley had died (I didn't...actually, I thought he'd been dead for a few years, and that's why someone made a documentary about him), but because I'd finally burned his album onto a CD after it had sat on my hard drive for a year-plus and I thought he might like the song. Someone pointed his death out to me in a comment, then later that day news of Bowie's death.

fuck you 2016!

Mother and Daughter within one day, WTF.

It's really awful and really weird. I love Singin in the Rain.

Deservedly known as one of the greatest.

This is just horrible. Daughter and mother in consecutive days. Really devastating for the family.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xphwl0_the-long-day-closes-tammy-by-debbie-reynolds_shortfilms

her singing voice was so warm & beautiful

Thanks for that link Dr. M.

https://scontent.fbos1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/15726740_10155437349902137_4557479705149858241_n.jpg?oh=c8ab98ffa9f448d43cc6b2e5818f0b5c&oe=58DF9382

I think the fix was in when Abe Vigoda, classic example of a celebrity everybody assumed was already dead, died at the end of January.

Edward Albee y'all?

Completely missed that Geek Love author Katherine Dunn passed this year too

any other year i'd still be mourning ralph stanley

Debbie Reynolds was 84 and just experienced the massive trauma of her child dying before her, after 48 hours or so of her life hanging in the balance. This isn't 2016 at work, just the tragic result of massive emotional strain on someone who was perhaps physically fragile to begin with. My grandmother was a decade or so younger than Debbie when my dad died, and I was seriously worried the shock and strain would kill her.

This isn't complete just yet (sadly) but it's something I've been putting together for some time: a playlist populated by songs from artists who have passed in 2016. I'll be adding and rearranging; would welcome input on anyone I've missed or necessary tracks for inclusion.

Thankful for the Fallen: A Playlist of Those Lost to 2016

Colonel Abrams also died this year, I think you missed him? I'd add at least "Trapped" and "I'm Not Gonna Let" from him to the list.

Also, since I see you have Päivi Paunu on the list, an even more important Finnish musician who died this year was Lasse Mårtenson. Here's a few suggestions for his essential songs:

- "Laiskotellen" (the Finnish entry to the 1964 Eurovision song contest)
- The theme from the TV series "Myrskyluodon Maija" (his best-known composition)
- "Hän on mennyt vuorten taa" (incredible folk duet with Cay Karlsson)

Awful year for classical music too with Boulez, Maxwell Davies, Harnoncourt, Marriner, etc all going. The tenor Johan Botha as well.

Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds is giving me eerie flashbacks to this summer, when my grandma and her sister and her brother-in-law all died one after another within a span of about four days. Shit like that makes everything feel so fragile. Guh.

French musician/composer Pierre Barouh died yesterday.

Miruts Yifter, a pioneering Olympic-gold-winning runner from Ethiopia, died recently (I saw him run several times in the '70s).

http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-miruts-yifter-20161223-story.html

Ulysses, don't sleep on Bobs Hutcherson and Cranshaw...they're on at least one album together

...and the engineer was Rudy Van Gelder

Another Hollywood familial death pair: Zsa Zsa Gabor's adopted son Oliver died a week after she did, after a motorcycle accident on the day she died.

Alf

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/28/arts/music/alphonse-mouzon-jazz-and-fusion-drummer-dies-at-68.html

Reported three days ago (though of course it's been a busy three days)

^Just breaking

My mom, my wife and I just went through the long list of notable deaths, and, man, the number of people who meant something to me. Just horrifying. So many names I'm ashamed I'd already forgotten were this year. Alan Rickman, Harper Lee ... Curtis Hanson, Kenny Baker ... Alan Vega, Anton Yelchin ... Bernie Worrell, Bill Cunningham ... Tony Conrad, Garry Shandling ...

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/notable-deaths/2016

Just remembered Michael Cimino

Another bow to Carlos Nine, one of my favourite artists. Barely any comics sites gave a toss despite his mad skills shitting all over 99.8% of the artists in the industry.

I saw on Facebook that Ethiopian drummer Temare Haregu, who played with Hailu Mergia and was a founder of the Walias Band and can be heard on an Ethiopiques compilation or 2, has passed away.

The Beatles' first manager Allan Williams

Wow. RIP, Man Who Gave The Beatles Away

rage is playing music by deceased people, including people i didn't know had died (pm dawn, the drummer out of inspiral carpets), so i'm learning about musical deaths via this uplifting playlist

William Christopher (MASH's Father Mulcahy)

http://abc7.com/entertainment/william-christopher-father-mulcahy-on-mash-dies-at-84/1680901/

Just came to post that. RIP

:(

he was so good

It feels so stupid to point out that this thread is almost over, but it also seems important. Need a good word for things that are important and stupid

'ilxor'

rip mariah carey

sad they paraded her half naked body around times square in the year's waning moments, 2016 is really ruthless

rip jim calhoun

I think Don Lemon is going to kill himself tonight.

Animation great and artistic pioneer Tyrus Wong, dead at 106 at the end of 2016
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/30/movies/tyrus-wong-dies-bambi-disney.html
http://tyruswongthemovie.com/

Ross Johnson, RJR Nabisco chief exec in '80s

just so we could go on an up note

the Ghost Ship fire managed to escape mention on this thread. Cherushii at least deserves mention I'd suspect

http://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2016/12/07/remembering-bay-area-producer-cherushii-a-victim-of-the-ghost-ship-fire

Is there a 2017 thread yet?

yes.

Specifically Rolling Obituary Thread: 2017

thanks guys