Rolling Obituary Thread 2013

Producer Phil Ramone

Jesus/Jess Franco

wow, RIP you crazy auteur-pervert

Milo O'Shea, beetlebrowed actor from Romeo and Juliet to The Butcher Boy and "Frasier"

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/9969003/Actor-Milo-OShea-dies-aged-86.html

:-(

Had no idea he was still alive, what's he been doing for the past 40 years?

I saw him play Friar Lawrence in a NY staging of R&J in the '80s... have never seen the Zeffirelli film.

also, apparently he was on "Frasier"

he was great in the butcher boy as well iirc

ruth prawer jhabvala, screenwriter for merchant/ivory

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22015002

Carmine Infantino, comic book everything extraordinaire:

http://comicsbeat.com/rip-carmine-infantino/

Missed Milo O'Shea. He's the best kind of hammy in The Verdict: "You go see the Monsignor--he'll punch your ticket" (winks).

Milo O'Shea was, of course, the original Duran(d) Duran(d).

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/roger-ebert-dead-cancer-article-1.1307967

on achebe http://africasacountry.com/2013/04/05/chinua-achebe-a-poet-of-global-encounters/

Documentary filmmaker Les Blank.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/08/movies/les-blank-documentary-filmmaker-dies-at-77.html

RIP Lilly Pulitzer

RIP Andy Johns http://www.americanbluesscene.com/2013/04/legendary-jimi-hendrix-led-zeppelin-rolling-stones-engineer-dies/

Robert Zildjian, who split from the family business in the early 80s to start the Sabian cymbal company.

http://articles.latimes.com/2013/apr/04/local/la-me-robert-zildjian-20130405

Bigas Luna, director of 'Jamon Jamon'

http://www.writingforums.com/attachments/writers-lounge/2185d1312450036-how-why-did-chose-your-avatar-picture-spitting-image-thatcher.jpg

Annette Funicello

I had to check to see if I had an album of hers, and I do--a Rhino compilation put out in 1984. I don't remember a single song, not even "Tall Paul," her biggest hit. (There actually is a Frankie Avalon song I used to like called "A boy Without a Girl.")

Need to re-watch Back to the Beach in her honour when I don't have so much end of the semester crap going on.

Gus Triandos

http://davidsimon.com/gus-triandos-1930-2013/

http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/record-labels/1557242/updated-tim-carr-ar-exec-for-capitol-warner-bros-dreamworks

Tim Carr, A&R Exec for Capitol, Warner Bros., Dreamworks, Dead at 57

He started as a Minneapolis music critic later moved to NY and booked events at the Kitchen before joining the record industry

Mickey Rose, Woody Allen's co-writer on Take the Money and Run, Bananas

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-mickey-rose-20130411,0,1017612.story

RIP, Roosevelt Jamison, writer of "That's How Strong My Love Is," discoverer, manager and mentor of the great soul singers O. V. Wright and James Carr and thereby a key figure in Peter Guralnick's Sweet Soul Music. By day he helped run a hematology lab and a blood bank, where he rehearsed some of his acts. http://redkelly.blogspot.com/2013/03/roosevelt-jamison-1936-2013.html

Also http://www.peterguralnick.com/post/47106712366/roosevelt-jamison-1936-2013

Architect Paolo Soleri. Always wanted to do a C or D on Arcosanti.

LA Times obit

I'd come out somewhere in between on Arcosanti based on my visit-- not classic but not dud either.

James Redd, thanks for those touching Roosevelt Jamison obit items. An impressive guy.

Jonathan Winters, impish improviser

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/13/arts/television/jonathan-winters-comedian-dies-at-87.html

aw...

Sure, Steve. I figured you'd be interested and almost reposted on the Chitlin Circuit thread.

Jonathan Winters' body of work is one that I need to undertake before I check out. Every time I've seen him over the years, he just automatically made me feel good. There's an Aunt Blabby clip I remember from Carson or somewhere that had Carson or whoever was with him in tears.

v sad to lose Winters

the Maron interview is well worth a listen for Winters fans - v little Maron, and a lot of impish Winters.

thanks vg, will search!

aw dammit, they've made it premium so you would have to pay to listen
here's the link anyway -- keep an eye on the site, maybe they'll un-premium it in light of his passing idk

http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episodes/episode_173_-_jonathan_winters

Maron said on Twitter that he was going to re-run the episode again. Also: http://www.xojane.com/entertainment/jonathan-winters-biography

i have the app on my phone so i think i can access it anyway!

There's an Aunt Blabby clip I remember from Carson or somewhere that had Carson or whoever was with him in tears.

Winters' old lady character was Maude Frickert. Carson's ripoff of that character was Aunt Blabby.

RIP New York session guitarist Hugh McCracken, who played with everybody under the sun and passed away last month at 70. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/04/arts/music/hugh-mccracken-a-studio-musician-in-high-demand-dies-at-70.html?_r=0

Mr. McCracken delighted in telling stories about his famous friends. When he met John Lennon, he recalled, Mr. Lennon said he had heard that Mr. McCracken had worked with Mr. McCartney. “Yes,” Mr. McCracken answered.

“Well,” Mr. Lennon said, “you know that was just an audition to get to me.”

http://thekey.xpn.org/2013/04/13/rip-vince-montana-jr-member-of-mfsb-and-founder-of-the-salsoul-orchestra/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/chicago-bluesman-jimmy-fast-fingers-dawkins-famous-for-stellar-guitar-playing-dead-at-76/2013/04/12/c4a414b8-a3bf-11e2-bd52-614156372695_story.html

fuckin bummer, a giant

posted by Bill D*hl on F*cebook
The sad news I heard from a friend is true--the Ovations' Nathan "Pedro" Lewis passed away April 10 in Memphis at age 69. He was a terrific interview with an incredible memory, and I always enjoyed getting together with him when I visited Memphis. The Memphis Commercial-Appeal didn't even run an obituary online, just a death notice. What a shame--a founding member of one of Memphis' greatest '60s soul groups deserved better.

Kevin Peek, guitarist from prog(ish) band Sky :

http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-australia/small-funeral-for-disgraced-sky-guitarist-kevin-peek/story-e6frg13u-1226580649832

Seems he wasn't the most popular man...

http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/04/14/3344354/rock-and-soul-songwriter-george.html

JACKSON, Miss. -- Songwriter George Jackson, co-author of "Old Time Rock and Roll" and hundreds of other soul, rock and rhythm and blues tunes, has died. He was 68.

Jackson died Sunday morning at his home in Ridgeland, a suburb of Jackson, said Thomas Couch Sr., board chairman of Malaco Records. Jackson had been sick with cancer for about a year.

"It was not unexpected, but it's always too soon," Couch said.

Born in Indianola, Miss., Jackson was writing songs by the time he was in his teens. It was Ike Turner who brought Jackson to New Orleans R&B pioneer Cosimo Matassa's studio in 1963, where he recorded his first song.

Jackson recorded dozens of singles in the 1960s and worked in Memphis, Tenn., but made his mark as a writer, beginning with FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Ala. He later was a songwriter for crosstown rival Muscle Shoals Sound Studios before returning to Memphis. When Malaco bought Muscle Shoals Sound, it hired Jackson to write songs, said Wolf Stephenson, Malaco's vice president and chief engineer.

"George had hooks coming out of his ears," Stephenson said. "They weren't all hits, but I never heard him write a bad song. He never really got the recognition that's normally due a writer of his stature."

The Osmonds recorded Jackson's "One Bad Apple" in 1970, taking it to No. 1. Jackson and Thomas Jones III wrote "Old Time Rock and Roll," which Bob Seger recorded in 1978.

Stephenson said "Old Time Rock and Roll" is truly Jackson's song, and he has the tapes to prove it, despite Seger's claims that he altered it.

...

He wrote for ZZ Hill ("Downhome Blues") and Seger and the Osmonds and Candi Staton...

RIP