Interesting, overlooked, and significant obituaries from around the world, as they happen, emphasizing the positive achievements of those who have died. Member, Society of Professional Obituary Writers.
Sunday, August 8, 2010
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Friday, August 6, 2010
Phelps Collins aka Catfish
Rhythm guitarist was underrated funkmaster who played with James Brown, Parliament -- older brother to Bootsy -- via Cincinnati.com
Great obituary site found -- Life in Legacy
Here's a wonderful and educational compilation of information and links regarding the recently deceased. Check it out!
Harry Klein
Great British jazz saxophonist -- via the Guardian. You've all heard him, even if you don't know him -- he played on the Beatles' "White Album"!
Robin King
Author, illustrator, radio host, and voiceover artist -- via the alt.groups.obits and San Francisco Chronicle
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Mitch Jayne
Bassist of The Dillards -- via John Trout's Bluegrass World. Best known to most as the Darlings in "The Andy Griffith Show," The Dillards pioneered electrified bluegrass and founded the California sound that morphed into country rock.
David William
Former Stratford Shakespeare Festival director -- via lfpress. Here's a nice, thorough appreciation of him from the Telegraph --
Robert F. Boyle
Genius film art director worked extensively with Hitchcock -- via the New York Times
Robert Boyle Accepts an Honorary Oscar
Uploaded by celebitchy. - Videos of family and friends from around the world.
Robert Boyle Accepts an Honorary Oscar
Uploaded by celebitchy. - Videos of family and friends from around the world.
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Frances Kuyper
"Cake lady" was innovator and pioneer in the decoration of baked goods -- via the L.A. Times
Monday, August 2, 2010
Mitch Miller
The old maestro -- musician, music producer and TV host -- via the New York Times. He was hopelessly corny, hated rock and roll, tried to get Sinatra to record novelty records. Yet he was immensely successful in music in the period between the Swing Era and rock and roll -- a time of syrupy ballads and overwrought crooning. He created and hosted "Sing Along with Mitch" in the early 1960s -- this hokey concept epitomized the suffocating whiteness we all yearned to escape from as kids. Still, I have the albums at home, and they did teach me the American song literture that predated the American Song Book. Follow the bouncing ball!
William Bowen Rogers
Documentary filmmaker with a unique niche -- he specialized in projects that were shown in museums. Via the Dallas Morning News
Joel Crager
One of the most distinctive announcers of network TV -- via musicradio77.com. Best remembered for his intros to the "ABC Sunday Night Movie" --
Suso Cecchi D’Amico
Brilliant Italian screenwriter who brought us such classics as "Bicycles Thieves," "Big Deal on Madonna Street" and "The Leopard" -- via the BBC
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