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re: Endless Sleep - The Obituary Thread
Posted on 1/19/24 at 8:21 pm to Kafka
Posted on 1/19/24 at 8:21 pm to Kafka
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Mary Weiss, the lead vocalist of the Shangri-Las, has died at age 75.
Weiss’s death was confirmed to The Messenger by Miriam Linna, who runs the independent Norton Records label, which released Weiss’ final solo album, Dangerous Game, in 2007. “She was such a star to everyone in the rock ‘n’ roll business,” Linna said.
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Posted on 1/25/24 at 12:18 am to Kafka
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Melanie, the singer who performed at Woodstock in 1969 and had major pop hits with “Brand New Key” and “Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)” in the early ’70s, died Tuesday at age 76.
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Melanie did not always get her due in the male-dominated folk-rock scene of the time, and was too rarely mentioned even in the company of female artists like Joni Mitchell. She speculated with the Guardian about why that might have been: “It wasn’t the age of smiling women,” she said. “It had to be much more broody and I was way too cherubic. Men can be cute. Randy Newman can sing ‘Short People’ and that’s OK because he’s a guy, he’s got something to say. But a girl? How could she possibly have any social significance?"
Posted on 1/25/24 at 5:36 am to Kafka
Melanie - Beautiful girl, great voice, great human being.
RIP
RIP
Posted on 1/30/24 at 5:29 pm to hogcard1964
William (Bill) Foster Hayes III (June 5, 1925 – January 12, 2024) was an American actor and recording artist. His song "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" hit the top of the Billboard charts between March and May of 1955.
Hayes was a singer on the Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca variety show Your Show of Shows in the early 1950s. He had a supporting role in the 1952 black comedy Stop, You're Killing Me. During the Davy Crockett craze in 1955, three recorded versions of "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" were in the top 30. Hayes' version was the most popular: It was number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for five weeks, sold over two million copies, and was awarded a gold disc.
He also starred on Broadway in Rodgers and Hammerstein's Me and Juliet (1953). Hayes had other small hits in the 1950s, including "The Berry Tree" and covers of "High Noon" and "Wringle, Wrangle"; the latter was his only other Hot 100 hit, reaching number 33 in 1957.
The Ballad of Davy Crockett: Bill Hayes
Following a successful career as a musician that began in the late 1940s, Hayes began to focus on dramatic acting parts in the late 1960s, which led him to be cast in a role that gained him additional fame to a younger generation. This new chapter began in 1970 when he originated the character of Doug Williams on NBC's Days of Our Lives, which he continued to play until 2023.
Hayes was a singer on the Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca variety show Your Show of Shows in the early 1950s. He had a supporting role in the 1952 black comedy Stop, You're Killing Me. During the Davy Crockett craze in 1955, three recorded versions of "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" were in the top 30. Hayes' version was the most popular: It was number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for five weeks, sold over two million copies, and was awarded a gold disc.
He also starred on Broadway in Rodgers and Hammerstein's Me and Juliet (1953). Hayes had other small hits in the 1950s, including "The Berry Tree" and covers of "High Noon" and "Wringle, Wrangle"; the latter was his only other Hot 100 hit, reaching number 33 in 1957.
The Ballad of Davy Crockett: Bill Hayes
Following a successful career as a musician that began in the late 1940s, Hayes began to focus on dramatic acting parts in the late 1960s, which led him to be cast in a role that gained him additional fame to a younger generation. This new chapter began in 1970 when he originated the character of Doug Williams on NBC's Days of Our Lives, which he continued to play until 2023.
Posted on 1/30/24 at 7:57 pm to bleeng
Damn. He was a regular on a soap until age 98? That's amazing.
Posted on 1/31/24 at 8:13 am to FightinTigersDammit
Brian Wilson
@BrianWilsonLive
My heart is broken. Melinda, my beloved wife of 28 years, passed away this morning.
Our five children and I are just in tears.
We are lost.
Melinda was more than my wife. She was my savior.
She gave me the emotional security I needed to have a career.
Brian Wilson
@BrianWilsonLive
She encouraged me to make the music that was closest to my heart. She was my anchor. She was everything for us. Please say a prayer for her.
Love and Mercy Brian
Brian Wilson
@BrianWilsonLive
How to take care of the person next to you with out expecting anything in return, how to find beauty in the darkest of places, and how to live life as your truest self with honesty and pride.
We love you mom. Give Grandma Rose and Pa our love.
Posted on 1/31/24 at 8:17 am to deernaes
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Dwight Twilley RIP
Damn. I listen to "Girls" all the time...
I always liked "I'm On Fire"
Posted on 1/31/24 at 9:19 am to Mizz-SEC
Brian Wilson has taken more hits than a lot of people could stand.
Posted on 2/2/24 at 7:30 pm to FightinTigersDammit
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Wayne Kramer, founding member of the legendary Detroit proto-punk outfit MC5 and one of rock’s greatest guitarists, has died at the age of 75
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On Rolling Stone’s 250 Greatest Guitarists of All Time list — with Kramer sharing placement alongside Fred “Sonic” Smith — we wrote, “Forged in Detroit during the 1960s, the MC5 guitar tandem of Kramer and Smith worked together like the pistons of a powerful engine. Combining Chuck Berry and early Motown influences with a budding interest in free jazz, the pair could kick their band’s legendarily high-energy jams deep into space while simultaneously keeping one foot in the groove.”
Formed in Detroit in the mid-Sixties, MC5 (shorthand for Motor City Five) first came to prominence as the house band for left-wing rallies in the city at the time. Following a performance outside the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1968, Kramer and company returned to Detroit and its Grande Ballroom in October of that year to lay down what would become their landmark album Kick Out the Jams.
The live LP — with its rallying cry “Kick out the jams, motherfrickers” — would ultimately land on Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. “Kick Out the Jams writhes and screams with the belief that rock & roll is a necessary act of civil disobedience. The proof: It was banned by a Michigan department store,” Rolling Stone wrote of the album. “The MC5 proved their lefty credentials the summer before the album was recorded when they were the only band that showed up to play for the Yippies protesting the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago.”
While MC5’s tenure was short-lived — the band only released two studio albums, 1970’s Back in the USA and 1971’s High Time before their initial break-up — the group had a lasting impact on what would become punk rock, both in its overtly political lyrics and the Kramer/Smith tandem’s explosive riffs.
Posted on 2/3/24 at 7:19 pm to Kafka
RIP Family Man
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Posted on 2/3/24 at 7:36 pm to TFTC
As the Official MB obit thread, we appreciate:
1. A description of who you're talking about, or at least a name.
2. Maybe a fricking link
1. A description of who you're talking about, or at least a name.
2. Maybe a fricking link
Posted on 2/3/24 at 8:29 pm to Kafka
Aston Barret... bassist for Bob Marley and the Wailers..
Posted on 2/4/24 at 10:18 pm to TFTC
Man, just saw this about Astin Barret—sorry to lose him.
I was just yesterday playing Lively Up Yourself on my bass.
I was just yesterday playing Lively Up Yourself on my bass.
Posted on 2/7/24 at 10:21 pm to Marco Esquandolas
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Mojo Nixon, the unapologetically brash musician, actor, and radio DJ, died of “a cardiac event” on Wednesday, Feb. 7, his family confirmed to Rolling Stone. He was 66. Nixon was aboard the Outlaw Country Cruise, an annual music cruise where he was a co-host and regular performer.
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Nixon enjoyed a supremely weird yet singular career after he and his former partner, Skid Roper, scored a bizarro breakthrough in 1987 with their novelty hit “Elvis Is Everywhere.” A deranged bit of cowpunk/rockabilliy pastiche that honored (and lightly skewered) the King of Rock and Roll’s diehard fans, “Elvis Is Everywhere” and its charming low-budget video became an unexpected MTV staple.
Nixon and Roper recorded six albums together during the Eighties; after they split, Nixon embarked on a career of his own, releasing a bunch of solo albums and a handful of collaborative LPs (including one with the Dead Kennedys’ Jello Biafra). He also scored work as an actor and radio DJ, eventually becoming a regular presence on SiriusXM’s Outlaw Country channel in the mid-2000s, where he was known as “The Loon in the Afternoon.”
Posted on 2/12/24 at 6:27 pm to Kafka
Kenji Suzuki (January 16, 1950 – February 9, 2024), known as Damo Suzuki , was a Japanese musician best known as the vocalist for the German Krautrock group Can between 1970 and 1973.
Born in 1950 in Kobe, Japan, he moved to Europe in the late 1960s where he was spotted busking in Munich, Germany, by Can bassist Holger Czukay and drummer Jaki Liebezeit. Can had just split with their vocalist Malcolm Mooney, and asked Suzuki to sing over tracks from their 1970 compilation album Soundtracks.
Afterwards, he became their full time singer, appearing on the three hugely influential albums Tago Mago (1971), Ege Bamyasi (1972) and Future Days (1973).
Suzuki's free-form, often improvised, lyrics were largely indiscernible, leading many critics to think they were sung in no particular language.
After leaving Can in 1973, he abandoned music and became a Jehovah's Witness. Having left that organisation, he returned to music in the mid-1980s and began to tour widely. Over the following decades Suzuki recorded a large number of albums under different aliases, which he later grouped as "Damo Suzuki's Network".
He was first diagnosed with colon cancer when he was 33 years old; a disease that his father died of when Suzuki was five years old. He was diagnosed with colon cancer again in 2014 and given a 10% chance of survival. He died on February 9, 2024, aged 74. The documentary Energy explores Suzuki's battle with cancer and relationship with his wife.
Born in 1950 in Kobe, Japan, he moved to Europe in the late 1960s where he was spotted busking in Munich, Germany, by Can bassist Holger Czukay and drummer Jaki Liebezeit. Can had just split with their vocalist Malcolm Mooney, and asked Suzuki to sing over tracks from their 1970 compilation album Soundtracks.
Afterwards, he became their full time singer, appearing on the three hugely influential albums Tago Mago (1971), Ege Bamyasi (1972) and Future Days (1973).
Suzuki's free-form, often improvised, lyrics were largely indiscernible, leading many critics to think they were sung in no particular language.
After leaving Can in 1973, he abandoned music and became a Jehovah's Witness. Having left that organisation, he returned to music in the mid-1980s and began to tour widely. Over the following decades Suzuki recorded a large number of albums under different aliases, which he later grouped as "Damo Suzuki's Network".
He was first diagnosed with colon cancer when he was 33 years old; a disease that his father died of when Suzuki was five years old. He was diagnosed with colon cancer again in 2014 and given a 10% chance of survival. He died on February 9, 2024, aged 74. The documentary Energy explores Suzuki's battle with cancer and relationship with his wife.
Posted on 2/12/24 at 8:01 pm to bleeng
The good shite that Can did, like Halleluwah, was unstoppable. Jaki Liebezeit was an amazing drummer.
Posted on 2/23/24 at 10:13 am to timbo
James Mack Van Eaton (December 23, 1937 – February 9, 2024), known as Jimmy Van Eaton or J. M. Van Eaton, was an American rock and roll drummer, singer and record producer, best known for his recordings as the drummer in sessions with Jerry Lee Lewis and others at Sun Records in the 1950s. Lewis referred to him as "The creative rock 'n' roll drummer". He was one of the last surviving figures from the golden age of Memphis’ Sun Records
He featured notably contributed to records by Jerry Lee Lewis, such as "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On", on which he regularly played with the guitarist Roland Janes.
In addition to recordings by Lewis and Riley, Van Eaton performed on recordings by other Sun musicians, including Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Charlie Rich, Charlie Feathers, Bill Justis, and Ray Smith.
The very pulse of Sun Records, Van Eaton’s distinctive bluesy backbeat and frenetic fills helped define the sound and feel of Sam Phillips’ label, and his playing would power numerous all-time classics like Lewis’ "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On," Riley’s “Red Hot,” Bill Justis’ "Raunchy” and “Lonely Weekends” by Charlie Rich.
He featured notably contributed to records by Jerry Lee Lewis, such as "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On", on which he regularly played with the guitarist Roland Janes.
In addition to recordings by Lewis and Riley, Van Eaton performed on recordings by other Sun musicians, including Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Charlie Rich, Charlie Feathers, Bill Justis, and Ray Smith.
The very pulse of Sun Records, Van Eaton’s distinctive bluesy backbeat and frenetic fills helped define the sound and feel of Sam Phillips’ label, and his playing would power numerous all-time classics like Lewis’ "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On," Riley’s “Red Hot,” Bill Justis’ "Raunchy” and “Lonely Weekends” by Charlie Rich.
Posted on 3/7/24 at 10:34 pm to bleeng
Steve Lawrence, Grammy-Winning Pop Stylist and Actor, Dies at 88
His late wife, singer Eydie Gormé, was his "partner onstage and in life" for more than 55 years.
BY CHRIS KOSELUK
Steve Lawrence, the charismatic Grammy- and Emmy-winning crooner who delighted audiences for decades in nightclubs, on concert stages and in film and television appearances, died Thursday. He was 88.
Lawrence died in Los Angeles of complications from Alzheimer’s disease, publicist Susan DuBow announced. He partnered with the late Eydie Gormé, his wife of 55 years, in a very popular act.
With his boyish good looks, silky voice and breezy personality, Lawrence broke into show business when he won a talent competition on Arthur Godfrey’s CBS show and signed with King Records as a teenager. The singer chose to stay old school and resist the allure of rock ‘n’ roll.
“It didn’t attract me as much,” Lawrence once said. “I grew up in a time period when music was written by Irving Berlin and Cole Porter and George and Ira Gershwin and Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein and Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart and Sammy Cahn and Julie Stein. Those people, I related to — what they were writing — because it was much more melodic.”
Lawrence’s smooth stylings were heard on dozens of solo albums, starting in 1953 with an eponymous LP. In 1963, he topped the Billboard Hot 100 with the Gerry Goffin-Carole King pop ballad “Go Away Little Girl.” The single became the first in history to reach No. 1 by two different artists after Donny Osmond recorded his version in 1971.
Lawrence also made the top 10 with 1957’s “Party Doll” (No. 5), 1959’s “Pretty Blue Eyes” (No. 9), 1960’s “Footsteps” (No. 7) and 1961’s “Portrait of My Love” (No. 9).
On Broadway, Lawrence starred as Sammy Glick in the long-running What Makes Sammy Run?, a musical adaptation of Budd Schulberg’s novel, and received a best actor Tony nomination in 1964. A year later, he hosted a short-lived CBS variety program, and in the 1970s, he was a semi-regular on The Carol Burnett Show, appearing on more than two dozen episodes.
Many will remember Lawrence for his portrayal of manager Maury Sline in The Blues Brothers (1980). When Jake (John Belushi) and Elwood (Dan Aykroyd) need to quickly raise money to save their childhood orphanage, they turn to Maury to book a gig. Lawrence utters one of the film’s most memorable lines when he hears how much they’re looking for. “Five thousand dollars?” he sputters. “Who do you think you are? The Beatles?”
He reprised the character in the 1998 sequel, Blues Brothers 2000.
Lawrence also played a pal of Steve Martin‘s greeting card writer in The Lonely Guy (1984); was Morty Fine, the father of Fran Drescher‘s character, on CBS’ The Nanny; and guest-starred on other series including Night Gallery; Sanford and Son; Murder, She Wrote; Frasier; Hot in Cleveland; and Two and a Half Men.
At the height of their popularity in the 1960s and ’70s, Lawrence and Gormé were one of show business’ hottest couples. If a variety show were on TV, it was only a matter of time before Steve & Eydie would be booked for it.
They won an Emmy in 1979 for their NBC special, Steve & Eydie Celebrate Irving Berlin, and had fun on game shows, appearing on What’s My Line?, I’ve Got a Secret and Password All-Stars, to name just a few.
When they weren’t shining on the small screen, they were wowing fans in concert and at top nightclubs throughout the country. They were a staple in Las Vegas, headlining Caesars Palace, the Sands, the Sahara and the Desert Inn, etc., and the Las Vegas Entertainment Awards honored them four times as Musical Variety Act of the Year.
His late wife, singer Eydie Gormé, was his "partner onstage and in life" for more than 55 years.
BY CHRIS KOSELUK
Steve Lawrence, the charismatic Grammy- and Emmy-winning crooner who delighted audiences for decades in nightclubs, on concert stages and in film and television appearances, died Thursday. He was 88.
Lawrence died in Los Angeles of complications from Alzheimer’s disease, publicist Susan DuBow announced. He partnered with the late Eydie Gormé, his wife of 55 years, in a very popular act.
With his boyish good looks, silky voice and breezy personality, Lawrence broke into show business when he won a talent competition on Arthur Godfrey’s CBS show and signed with King Records as a teenager. The singer chose to stay old school and resist the allure of rock ‘n’ roll.
“It didn’t attract me as much,” Lawrence once said. “I grew up in a time period when music was written by Irving Berlin and Cole Porter and George and Ira Gershwin and Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein and Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart and Sammy Cahn and Julie Stein. Those people, I related to — what they were writing — because it was much more melodic.”
Lawrence’s smooth stylings were heard on dozens of solo albums, starting in 1953 with an eponymous LP. In 1963, he topped the Billboard Hot 100 with the Gerry Goffin-Carole King pop ballad “Go Away Little Girl.” The single became the first in history to reach No. 1 by two different artists after Donny Osmond recorded his version in 1971.
Lawrence also made the top 10 with 1957’s “Party Doll” (No. 5), 1959’s “Pretty Blue Eyes” (No. 9), 1960’s “Footsteps” (No. 7) and 1961’s “Portrait of My Love” (No. 9).
On Broadway, Lawrence starred as Sammy Glick in the long-running What Makes Sammy Run?, a musical adaptation of Budd Schulberg’s novel, and received a best actor Tony nomination in 1964. A year later, he hosted a short-lived CBS variety program, and in the 1970s, he was a semi-regular on The Carol Burnett Show, appearing on more than two dozen episodes.
Many will remember Lawrence for his portrayal of manager Maury Sline in The Blues Brothers (1980). When Jake (John Belushi) and Elwood (Dan Aykroyd) need to quickly raise money to save their childhood orphanage, they turn to Maury to book a gig. Lawrence utters one of the film’s most memorable lines when he hears how much they’re looking for. “Five thousand dollars?” he sputters. “Who do you think you are? The Beatles?”
He reprised the character in the 1998 sequel, Blues Brothers 2000.
Lawrence also played a pal of Steve Martin‘s greeting card writer in The Lonely Guy (1984); was Morty Fine, the father of Fran Drescher‘s character, on CBS’ The Nanny; and guest-starred on other series including Night Gallery; Sanford and Son; Murder, She Wrote; Frasier; Hot in Cleveland; and Two and a Half Men.
At the height of their popularity in the 1960s and ’70s, Lawrence and Gormé were one of show business’ hottest couples. If a variety show were on TV, it was only a matter of time before Steve & Eydie would be booked for it.
They won an Emmy in 1979 for their NBC special, Steve & Eydie Celebrate Irving Berlin, and had fun on game shows, appearing on What’s My Line?, I’ve Got a Secret and Password All-Stars, to name just a few.
When they weren’t shining on the small screen, they were wowing fans in concert and at top nightclubs throughout the country. They were a staple in Las Vegas, headlining Caesars Palace, the Sands, the Sahara and the Desert Inn, etc., and the Las Vegas Entertainment Awards honored them four times as Musical Variety Act of the Year.
Posted on 3/23/24 at 6:38 pm to Mizz-SEC
James (Jimmy) Brian Gordon Hastings (May 12, 1938 – March 18, 2024) was a British musician associated with the Canterbury scene who played saxophones, flute and clarinet.
He played with his brother Pye Hastings in Caravan, and also with Soft Machine (Third and Fourth), Hatfield and the North, National Health, Bryan Ferry, Trapeze, Chris Squire (Fish Out of Water), among others He played alto saxophone, clarinet and flute with Humphrey Lyttelton's eight-piece jazz band. With the other members of the Lyttelton band, he performed on the 2001 Radiohead album Amnesiac.
"Jimmy was a very accomplished jazz musician and also taught at the London College of Music as well as being a Professor of Saxophones for the Royal Marines School of Music in Portsmouth. His brother Pye dubbed him the 'One take wonder' for his amazing ability. As a recording engineer he kept us all on our toes, and circular breathing, Jim that was solo heaven."
He played with his brother Pye Hastings in Caravan, and also with Soft Machine (Third and Fourth), Hatfield and the North, National Health, Bryan Ferry, Trapeze, Chris Squire (Fish Out of Water), among others He played alto saxophone, clarinet and flute with Humphrey Lyttelton's eight-piece jazz band. With the other members of the Lyttelton band, he performed on the 2001 Radiohead album Amnesiac.
"Jimmy was a very accomplished jazz musician and also taught at the London College of Music as well as being a Professor of Saxophones for the Royal Marines School of Music in Portsmouth. His brother Pye dubbed him the 'One take wonder' for his amazing ability. As a recording engineer he kept us all on our toes, and circular breathing, Jim that was solo heaven."
Posted on 4/20/24 at 1:39 pm to bleeng
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Clarence "Frogman" Henry, the New Orleans musician whose signature croak helped him score a memorable Fifties novelty hit, “Ain’t Got No Home,” died Sunday, April 7. He was 87.
Henry’s family confirmed his death to New Orleans’ CBS affiliate 4WWL. No exact cause of death was given, though according to various reports, Henry’s health had been declining for several years and he’d recently undergone an unspecified surgery.
While “Ain’t Got No Home” helped him launch his career, he arguably reached his peak in the early Sixties. In 1961, he scored his biggest hit with a rendition of “(I Don’t Know Why) But I Do,” while achieving modest success with versions of “You Always Hurt the One You Love” and “Lonely Street.” A few years later, the Beatles took Henry along as an opening act on their 1964 North American tour.
Henry was born in 1937 and grew up in the Algiers neighborhood of New Orleans. Playing trombone and piano, he scored gigs in the early Fifties performing alongside Bobby Mitchell and the Toppers, as well as sax player Eddie Smith. It was after an extremely long and exhausting gig with Smith’s band one night that Henry found himself still on stage with an eager audience before him; so, he started improvising a song, which later became “Ain’t Got No Home.”
“I just hit a riff on the piano,” Henry recalled in an interview. “I kept it. It stayed in mind.”
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