Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Lavonne 'Pepper' Paire-Davis

Baseball great -- via the Sporting News.

Ralph G. Martin aka Ralph Martin Goldberg

Biographer -- via the New York Times.

Trevor Gordon

Musician; half of the pop duo The Marbles -- via noise11.com.





Jimmy O'Neill

Host of TV's 'Shindig!' -- via the L.A. Times.

Liz Lands

Vocalist -- via soul-source.co.uk.



Richard III aka Richard Plantagenet

Monarch -- via the BBC. This belated obituary is due to the fact that, although he died on August 22, 1485, his bones were only recently discovered, and confirmed to be his yesterday. Painted by popular culture, and the winning faction, as an unrepentant villain, he acheived immortality as the inspiration for one of Shakespeare's best-written and most compelling bad guys. If this helps anyone enjoy the Bard, it's well worth the ruckus.

"Death makes no conquest of this conqueror;
For now he lives in fame, though not in life."



Reg Presley aka Reginald Maurice Ball

Lead singer for the Troggs -- via the BBC.





Bart Van den Bossche

Actor, singer, and TV host -- via standaard.be.

Luigi Kuveiller

Cinematographer -- via westernboothill.blogspot.com.

Sweet Lou Wilson

Musician -- via eurweb.com.

Barbara Werle

Actress and singer -- via westernboothill.blogspot.com.


Monday, February 4, 2013

Stefan Kudelski

Inventor of the portable tape recorder, the famous Nagra -- via the New York Times.


Jon Fromer

Musician and producer --via the San Francisco Chronicle.

Council Cargle

Actor -- via deadlinedetroit.com.


James A. Boyd

Actor and voice talent -- via the New York Times. Best remembered as J. Arthur Crank in "The Electric Company."




Paul Taff

TV producer -- via legacy.com. Helped the success of both "Mister Rogers's Neighborhood" and "The French Chef."

Saturday, February 2, 2013

Thursday, January 31, 2013

Martha Greenhouse

Actress -- via Variety.

T.S. Cook

Screenwriter and producer -- via Variety. He wrote or co-wrote "The China Syndrome," "The Paper Chase," and "The Tuskegee Airmen."




Jaradhan Bandupadhyar

Actor -- via ibnlive.in.com.


Madounjeet Singh

Writer, artist, diplomat, and philanthropist -- via The Hindu.


Leung Ping-kwan aka P.K.

Poet -- via the New York Times.

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Leroy ‘Sugarfoot’ Bonner

Composer, musician, singer; leader of the Ohio Players -- via Spinner. One of the seminal bands of the era, Ohio Players were the R&B/funk band of choice when I was just the right age for that kind of thing. Does anyone remember the urban legend about "Love Rollercoaster"? We told each other that you could hear a scream during the song that was actually a murder in an adjoining sound studio that made its way onto the recording! Additionally, they produced the sexiest album covers of all time (OK, Roxy Music had some great ones as well). Listening to the music and looking at the album led us to our first stuttering steps toward uninhibited sexuality.








Metin Kacan

Novelist -- via hurriyetdailynews.com.

Gerhard Fieber

Animator -- via Die Welt.

Zvi Yavetz

Historian -- via haaretz.com.


Marusa Krese

Poet, writer, and journalist -- via delo.si.

Patty Andrews aka Patricia Marie Andrews

Singer; the last surviving member of the Andrew Sisters -- via the L.A. Times. The trio, consisting of Maxene, Patty, and LaVerne, sold 75 million records -- in the days when that was impressive! Themselves inspired by the Boswell Sisters, they had a brassy, loud, close-harmony swoop hooked to a hip sense of rhythm. Patty was the youngest, and the lead singer.
















Butch Morris aka Lawrence Douglas Morris

Master of 'conduction' -- improvised music created by a large ensemble; musician, composer -- via the New York Times.



Jirina Jiraskova

Actress -- via Radio Prague.


Tom Ebbbert

Tromobonist -- via triblive.com. Played with the Dukes of Dixieland!


Jim Cosman

Former  MLB pitcher -- via triblive.com.

Anselm Hollo

Poet and teacher -- via the Poe\try Foundation.