Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Ivan Moravec

Pianist -- via Gramophone.






Patsy Stoneman

Musician -- via the Tennessean. AKA Pattie Inez Stoneman.



Griffin Kolinski

Heavy metal vocalist -- via the PRP.


Danny Klega

Actor -- via the Los Angeles Daily News. AK Dusan Klega. Best remembered as Ivan the Cosmonaut in an episode of the TV sitcom "Gilligan's Island."






Charles B. Slackman

Illustrator -- via The East Hampton Star.


Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Vasili Pichul

Director -- via ABC News. Best known for "Little Vera" (1988).


Vic Firth

Timpanist and drumstick manufacturer -- via the Boston Globe.




Robin Phillips

Wolfgang Gonnenwein

Conductor and music director -- via Slipped Disc.

Iceu Wong

Singer -- via CNN Indonesia.


Monday, July 27, 2015

Mario Sereni

Baritone -- via Slipped Disc. Had a 27-year career at the Met; best known for his performance as Germont in the famous "Libson Traviata" with Callas and Kraus, March 27, 1958.










William C. Brown III

Vocalist with the Mad Lads; sound engineer for Stax Records -- via the Memphis Commercial Appeal.





Curtis Anderson

Singer and DJ -- via Go Fund Me.

Corsino Fortes

Poet -- via Ocean Press.

Yasuo Minagawa

Framer -- via the New York Times.

Cirilo Vila Castro

Composer and pianist -- via bethovenfm.cl.




Norbert Schwefel

 Musician -- via morganweb.de.



Robert Davis Harris Jr.

Actor -- via the Greensboro News & Record. Best known as Old Man Cadwell in Roth's "Cabin Fever."



Jose "Saza" Sazatornil

Actor -- via El Nuevo Dia.


Doug Rowe



Musician -- via noise11.com.

Sunday, July 26, 2015

James L. White

Screenwriter -- via the Hollywood Reporter.


Natasha Parry

Actress -- via the Hollywood Reporter. 

Eddie Hardin

Singer and keyboardist -- via Ultimate Classic Rock. Replaced Steve Winwood when he left the Spencer Davis Group.

A.S. Ibrahim Rowther

Producer -- via the Indian Express.


Daron Norwood

Country singer -- via Taste of Country.

T. Kanakam

Actress -- via sakshi.com.

Justin Lowe

Guitarist -- via Hollywood Life.

Mitch Aliotta



Bassist -- via Oldies Music News.


Tom Beard

Actor -- via Playbill.


Robert Broberg

Singer and songwriter -- via the Aftonbladet.



Saturday, July 25, 2015

Peg Lynch

Comedy pioneer on radio and TV; creator and star of the highly regarded "Ethel and Albert"/"The Couple Next Door" program -- via Facebook. An unsung comedy genius who created the 15-minute, five-days-a-week domestic comedy that lasted nationally from 1944 to 1960. One of the first women to write and star in her own series, eventually churning out around 11,000 scripts. Intelligent and low-key humor akin to Paul Rhymer's well-loved "Vic and Sade."







Don Joyce

Sally Gross

Dancer and choreographer -- via the New York Times. AKA Sarah Freiberg.




Bosse Ostlin


Actor -- via Expressen.


Tom Moore

Dieter Moebius

Electronic music pioneer -- via Factmag.




Lou Lenart

War hero and film producer -- via the L.A. Times. AKA Layos Lenovitz.




Paul Freeman

Mildred Joanne Smith

Actress -- via the Hollywood Reporter. Known for her single film credit as Cora, wife of Sidney Poitiier's wife in his film debut, "No Way Out" in 1950.



Carmino Ravosa

Composer, lyricist, singer, pianist, producer, director, and musical historian -- via the White Plains Daily Voice. A beloved writer of songs for kids, his particular style sticks in my head for the years he spent on "Captain Kangaroo."








Arthur G. Wright

Acclaimed session guitarist -- via Soul Source.







Fred Slatten



Shoemaker -- via the L.A. Times.

Friday, July 24, 2015

Raj Wali Shah Khattak

Poet -- via Pakistan Today.



Ho Hung-hei

Master umbrella maker -- via EJ Insight.

Vaclav Snitil

Violinist -- via Slipped Disc.






Rinaldo "Rugger" Ardzoia

Former MLB player -- via the Chronicle. On April 30, 1947, he pitched 2 innings for the Yankees in a loss to the Browns.


Bisheshar Pradeep

Writer -- via Jagran Josh.

Van Alexander

Bandleader, arranger, and composer --via Variety. AKA Alexander Van Vliet Feldman. His arrangement of "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" was a big hit for Chick Webb, and the first for Ella Fitzgerald.






Kyoko

Musician and singer -- via Pitchfork.

Al Checcho

Actor -- via the Hollywood Reporter.

Dave Black

Guitarist -- via Ultimate Classic Rock.

Thursday, July 23, 2015

Banza Stone

Singer -- via Afrika Reporter. AKA Ramadhan Masanja.




John Taylor

Alan Kupperberg

Comics illustrator --- via Bleeding Cool.

Nova Pilbeam

Actress -- via the Hollywood Reporter. Best remembered as the kidnapped daughter in Hitchcook's original version of "The Man Who Knew Too much" (1934).








Martin L. West

Scholar and writer -- via the Telegraph.


Ray Jessel

Comedy writer and cabaret performer -- via Variety. Had a late hit with "What She's Got (The Penis Song)". An old-time belter, not politically correct; a filthy Irving Berlin. Some have objected to his transgender topic (the song's narrator has a girlfriend with one), but the music video seems to make clear that's it's all in good fun, and that, hey, maybe it's not such a bad thing after all!)