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.
― clemenza, Friday, 12 April 2013 19:21 (eleven years ago) link
v sad to lose Winters
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 12 April 2013 19:34 (eleven years ago) link
the Maron interview is well worth a listen for Winters fans - v little Maron, and a lot of impish Winters.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 12 April 2013 19:35 (eleven years ago) link
thanks vg, will search!
― media conglomerates are pedaling the same product (stevie), Friday, 12 April 2013 20:04 (eleven years ago) link
aw dammit, they've made it premium so you would have to pay to listenhere'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
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 12 April 2013 20:10 (eleven years ago) link
Maron said on Twitter that he was going to re-run the episode again. Also: http://www.xojane.com/entertainment/jonathan-winters-biography
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 12 April 2013 22:29 (eleven years ago) link
i have the app on my phone so i think i can access it anyway!
― media conglomerates are pedaling the same product (stevie), Saturday, 13 April 2013 09:45 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 13 April 2013 12:36 (eleven years ago) link
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.”
“Well,” Mr. Lennon said, “you know that was just an audition to get to me.”
― What About The Half That's Never Been POLLed (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 14 April 2013 11:59 (eleven years ago) link
http://thekey.xpn.org/2013/04/13/rip-vince-montana-jr-member-of-mfsb-and-founder-of-the-salsoul-orchestra/
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 14 April 2013 15:12 (eleven years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 14 April 2013 15:14 (eleven years ago) link
fuckin bummer, a giant
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Sunday, 14 April 2013 15:31 (eleven years ago) link
posted by Bill D*hl on F*cebookThe 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.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 14 April 2013 16:53 (eleven years ago) link
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...
― OORT (Matt #2), Sunday, 14 April 2013 17:07 (eleven years ago) link
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.
...
― curmudgeon, Monday, 15 April 2013 04:05 (eleven years ago) link
He wrote for ZZ Hill ("Downhome Blues") and Seger and the Osmonds and Candi Staton...
RIP
― curmudgeon, Monday, 15 April 2013 14:01 (eleven years ago) link
patt summerall
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 16 April 2013 21:37 (eleven years ago) link
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/
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 16 April 2013 22:15 (eleven years ago) link
Scott Miller of Game Theory and the Loud Family.
― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Thursday, 18 April 2013 02:18 (eleven years ago) link
(ILM thread/discussion here)
― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Thursday, 18 April 2013 02:19 (eleven years ago) link
Storm Thorgerson
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 18 April 2013 21:07 (eleven years ago) link
oh man
― ice cr?mated (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 18 April 2013 21:38 (eleven years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/29/De-Loused_in_the_Comatorium.jpeg
― abanana, Thursday, 18 April 2013 22:52 (eleven years ago) link
George Beverly Shea, gospel singer for Billy Graham, really old
Rita MacNeil, CanCon diva
― abanana, Friday, 19 April 2013 17:22 (eleven years ago) link
Mike Denness, Scottish former captain of the England cricket team (and thus a useful bit of pub quiz trivia)
― ailsa, Friday, 19 April 2013 17:25 (eleven years ago) link
Original Parliament/Funkadelic bassist Cordell "Boogie" Mosson (according to Bootsy Collins' fb page).
― Pope Frank is the messenger of your doom (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 19 April 2013 17:40 (eleven years ago) link
dude was a monster on those mid-period Funkadelic records :(
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 19 April 2013 17:47 (eleven years ago) link
USA Today founder Al Neuharthhttp://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/04/19/al-neuharth-newspaper-founder-dies-at-89/2097995/
― Thirty-Six Views of ILX, by Mari3sa (WilliamC), Saturday, 20 April 2013 01:08 (eleven years ago) link
Children's book author E.L. Konigsburg
― tokyo rosemary, Saturday, 20 April 2013 23:54 (eleven years ago) link
Chrissy Amphlett of the Divinyls
― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Monday, 22 April 2013 13:01 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.wafb.com/story/22041592/funeral-arrangements-announced-for-george-perkins
Louisiana soul singer
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 20:58 (eleven years ago) link
and singer Artie Blues Boy White
http://blogs.suntimes.com/hoekstra/2013/04/the_deep_soul_of_artie_blues_b.html
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 21:01 (eleven years ago) link
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
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 02:15 (eleven years ago) link
RIP crazy good guitarist Bob Brozman
http://www.santacruz.com/news/2013/04/25/santa_cruz_music_icon_bob_brozman_dies
― brony orlando (crüt), Thursday, 25 April 2013 19:45 (eleven years ago) link
Sad, only 59.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 25 April 2013 19:54 (eleven years ago) link
R.I.P. George Jones
― curmudgeon, Friday, 26 April 2013 14:25 (eleven years ago) link
master cellist janos starker
http://indianapublicmedia.org/news/world-renowned-cellist-janos-starker-dies-88-48050/
― Salt Mama Celeste (donna rouge), Sunday, 28 April 2013 16:42 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/26/arts/music/cordell-mosson-of-parliament-funkadelic-dies-at-60.html?ref=music
― curmudgeon, Monday, 29 April 2013 04:30 (eleven years ago) link
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
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 13:37 (eleven years ago) link
RIP. Did you see Christmas Holiday when it played, I can't remember.
― Blue Yodel No. 9 Dream (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 13:48 (eleven years ago) link
RIP DD
― Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 13:49 (eleven years ago) link
I don't think I've seen any of her films.
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 14:09 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 14:27 (eleven years ago) link
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
― Blue Yodel No. 9 Dream (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 18:03 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Blue Yodel No. 9 Dream (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 18:06 (eleven years ago) link
Chris Kelly of Kris Kross:
http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/01/showbiz/georgia-chris-kelly-obituary/index.html
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 2 May 2013 02:51 (eleven years ago) link
Brozman was a suicide; he hadn't been able to play guitar for quite some time.
― Three Word Username, Thursday, 2 May 2013 09:52 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Three Word Username, Thursday, 2 May 2013 10:01 (eleven years ago) link
Jeff Hanneman of Slayer http://thequietus.com/articles/12176-jeff-hanneman-of-slayer-r-i-p
― media conglomerates are pedaling the same product (stevie), Thursday, 2 May 2013 22:57 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.memphisflyer.com/SingAllKinds/archives/2013/05/02/memphis-musician-sid-selvidge-dies-after-a-struggle-with-cancer
Also was a dj and a Professor
― curmudgeon, Friday, 3 May 2013 02:52 (eleven years ago) link