Singer and musician -- via the Nyasa Times.
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 18, 2013
Thursday, August 15, 2013
Haji aka Barbarella Catton
Actress, dancer, and burlesque performer -- via the BBC. One of the trio of deadly protagonists in "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!"
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Tim Wright
Bassist and composer -- via Rolling Stone. Founding member of Pere Ubu, he also played with DNA, and contributed to the groundbeaking "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts."
Jack Clement aka Cowboy Jack
Music producer, engineer, songwriter, and arranger -- via the New York Times. He wrote "Ballad of a Teenage Queen"!
Monday, August 12, 2013
Margaret Pellegrini
Actress -- via the New York Times. One of three remaining actors who played Munchkins in the 1939 classic film "The Wizard of Oz."
Lloyd Moss
Classical-music radio host and children's author -- via the New York Times. The silver-tongued announcer kept me entranced for years during his shifts on WQXR in New York. He was authoritative but friendly, and his syndicated "First Hearing" led me to a lot of recordings I might have missed, and gave us listeners many insights as to HOW to listen to music.
Lew Cady aka Lewis Carter Cady
Creative marketing director, publisher and writer of one of the supreme comic creations, "The Little Kingdom Come," devout baseball fan and beer devotee -- via the Denver Post.
One of the funniest and most memorable characters in Denver's history, I knew Lew for decades, only because a) I grew up here, and had friends in Central City (where we could get bar service while still in high school), where he founded and published the Central City newspaper "The Little Kingdom Come," "published whenever we damn well please," from 1970 to just recently. Long before The Onion, Lew's scurrilous rag neatly skewered all the feuds and foibles endemic to every small mountain town, focusing specifically on "old," pre-gambling Central City. I treasure the few paper copies of the "Kingdom Come" I have -- they are still hilarious. Lew could deflate pomposity and capture the essence of a bar regular with equal pithiness, teaching me much about the funny. And b) he loved baseball as much as I do! He enjoyed it wherever it was played, but his loyalty was all for the Denver teams -- first the Bears, then the Zephyrs, and finally, for better or worse, with the Rockies.
One of the funniest and most memorable characters in Denver's history, I knew Lew for decades, only because a) I grew up here, and had friends in Central City (where we could get bar service while still in high school), where he founded and published the Central City newspaper "The Little Kingdom Come," "published whenever we damn well please," from 1970 to just recently. Long before The Onion, Lew's scurrilous rag neatly skewered all the feuds and foibles endemic to every small mountain town, focusing specifically on "old," pre-gambling Central City. I treasure the few paper copies of the "Kingdom Come" I have -- they are still hilarious. Lew could deflate pomposity and capture the essence of a bar regular with equal pithiness, teaching me much about the funny. And b) he loved baseball as much as I do! He enjoyed it wherever it was played, but his loyalty was all for the Denver teams -- first the Bears, then the Zephyrs, and finally, for better or worse, with the Rockies.
Leon Ferrari
Artist -- via the New York Times. His provocative pieces were condemned, besides others, by the current Pope.
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