Rolling Obituary Thread 2013

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

patt summerall

awww, heard him announce football and more for decades

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2013/04/16/pat-summerall-cbs-fox-nfl/2088571/

Scott Miller of Game Theory and the Loud Family.

(ILM thread/discussion here)

Storm Thorgerson

oh man

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/29/De-Loused_in_the_Comatorium.jpeg

George Beverly Shea, gospel singer for Billy Graham, really old

Rita MacNeil, CanCon diva

Mike Denness, Scottish former captain of the England cricket team (and thus a useful bit of pub quiz trivia)

Original Parliament/Funkadelic bassist Cordell "Boogie" Mosson (according to Bootsy Collins' fb page).

dude was a monster on those mid-period Funkadelic records :(

USA Today founder Al Neuharth
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/04/19/al-neuharth-newspaper-founder-dies-at-89/2097995/

Children's book author E.L. Konigsburg

Chrissy Amphlett of the Divinyls

http://www.wafb.com/story/22041592/funeral-arrangements-announced-for-george-perkins

Louisiana soul singer

and singer Artie Blues Boy White

http://blogs.suntimes.com/hoekstra/2013/04/the_deep_soul_of_artie_blues_b.html

Allan Arbus, photographer and ex-husband of Diane, who turned to acting (guest shots as a M*A*S*H psychiatrist)

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/24/arts/television/allan-arbus-mash-actor-dies-at-95.html

RIP crazy good guitarist Bob Brozman

http://www.santacruz.com/news/2013/04/25/santa_cruz_music_icon_bob_brozman_dies

Sad, only 59.

R.I.P. George Jones

master cellist janos starker

http://indianapublicmedia.org/news/world-renowned-cellist-janos-starker-dies-88-48050/

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/26/arts/music/cordell-mosson-of-parliament-funkadelic-dies-at-60.html?ref=music

Deanna Durbin, silver-screen teen idol of the '30s and '40s

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/01/movies/deanna-durbin-1930s-star-of-universal-pictures-dies-at-91.html

RIP. Did you see Christmas Holiday when it played, I can't remember.

RIP DD

I don't think I've seen any of her films.

Came up recently on the Justin Bieber thread (re Anne Frank)...Had no idea she was still alive. My dad had a thing for her--bought him a CD once.

Kenneth Appel, the man who proved the four-color theorem using computers: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/29/technology/kenneth-i-appel-mathematician-who-harnessed-computer-power-dies-at-80.html?pagewanted=all

Best part is

Before their revolutionary work was published, Dr. Appel and Dr. Haken enlisted their entire families to check hundreds of pages of calculations, making sure that diagrams of map configurations matched the computer printouts and did not have typos. Andrew Appel said his sister, Laurel, found some 800 mistakes, most of which she could fix herself.

Chris Kelly of Kris Kross:

http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/01/showbiz/georgia-chris-kelly-obituary/index.html

Brozman was a suicide; he hadn't been able to play guitar for quite some time.

Should have said "play guitar up to his standards"; he had degenerative problems relating to an old car accident, and the rumor is that the deterioration was accelerating.