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2013 Entertainment Industry Obituaries

LARadioRewind said:
She spent her life trying to imitate Marilyn Monroe but never got to meet her. Striptease artist Dixie Evans was known as the "Godmother of Burlesque" and in the early 1990s opened a burlesque museum and started the annual Miss Exotic World pageant. She died on August 3 at age 86. In her memory, let's all fly our G-strings and pasties at half-mast.

http://www.latimes.com/obituaries/la-me-dixie-evans-20130818,0,6352359.story
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An interesting piece of information. But how is it related to radio?
 
LARadioRewind said:
This thread is for news of deaths in the entertainment industry. When I started it, I put it in the 1950s-60s forum because I thought that most of the deaths would involve people who were popular during those decades. If you have a suggestion for a better forum in which to have next year's obituary thread, let me know. And, speaking of 1960s:


http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-207_162-57599580/sid-bernstein-who-brought-beatles-to-shea-stadium-dies/
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I do believe that you missed the point, LA. There is a board titled "Off The Air" where posts not related to radio can be posted (for example, posts about strippers). I'm a bit surprised that this board's moderator hasn't moved some of your posts.
 
Fonz, this thread is titled Entertainment Industry Obituaries, not Radio Industry Obituaries.. Go look! And a stripper does qualify as an entertainer---unless it's a janitor who strips old wax off of floors. Anyway, when 2014 arrives and entertainers die---and both those things are inevitable---I will start a new obituary thread in the Off The Air forum. Meanwhile...

Jazz pianist Marian McPartland recorded 52 albums, started her own record label (Halcyon), and hosted the Peabody Award-winning Piano Jazz program on NPR. She died on August 20 at age 95.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-207_162-57599501/jazz-legend-marian-mcpartland-dies/
 
Yes, this is a radio website...and yet there are threads about television and bread and ice cream and DiGiorno pizza and "things that annoy you" and "The Fantastic Word Game." Go figure!

R&B/jazz singer Donna Hightower recorded several singles and albums in the 1950s but never had a chart hit. In the 1970s she lived in Spain and recorded several more singles which became hits in Europe. She died on August 19 at age 86.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Hightower
 
LARadioRewind said:
She spent her life trying to imitate Marilyn Monroe but never got to meet her. Striptease artist Dixie Evans was known as the "Godmother of Burlesque" and in the early 1990s opened a burlesque museum and started the annual Miss Exotic World pageant. She died on August 3 at age 86. In her memory, let's all fly our G-strings and pasties at half-mast.

http://www.latimes.com/obituaries/la-me-dixie-evans-20130818,0,6352359.story
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In a related issue: He once said: "I can see things in a person that most people can't". He faithfully went to his job every day for 32 years without missing a day. He worked as a dressing room attendant at Sammy's Boom Boom Room in Minerva Ohio. Lenny "Peepers" Wilson died on August 17th at the age of 86.
 
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Fonz, I'm sorry for your loss. I know you and your girlfriend, "Bubbles" Braticelli, were frequent visitors to that strip club. At least Peepers died doing what he loved to do.

Broadway actress Julie Harris won a record five Tony awards, starred with James Dean in East Of Eden, was nominated for an Oscar for her role in The Member Of The Wedding and co-starred on Knots Lnding. She died of congestive heart failure August 24 at age 87.

http://www.latimes.com/obituaries/la-me-julie-harris-20130825,0,6701921.story
 
British character actor Michael Goldie co-starred on several tv series including Coronation Street, Doctor Who, Wycliffe, Inspector Morse and Z-Cars and played Kenneth of Cowfell in the 1991 film Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves. Goldie died on August 27 at age 86.
 
Jay P. Richardson, son of the Big Bopper know as Big Bopper Jr., died August 21st in Katy, Texas He was 54, born two months after the Big Boppers plane crash. Last June he had a heart pump installed.
 
British broadcaster David Frost died on August 31. Now, three days later, another British broadcaster named David has died. Eerie! In a 68-year career spent mostly at the BBC, David Jacobs was arguably best known as the host of Juke Box Jury. He died on September 2 at age 87.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-23938128
 
stevations said:
Jay P. Richardson, son of the Big Bopper know as Big Bopper Jr., died August 21st in Katy, Texas He was 54, born two months after the Big Boppers plane crash. Last June he had a heart pump installed.
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This is sad news. Jay P. Jr. was touring with the John Mueller Winter Dance Party Tour. The tour plays our area every year and I never miss it. Without a doubt it is (or was) the best Holly revival show out there.

https://www.facebook.com/Winterdanceparty
 
David Jacobs was the original host of one of UK's most popular radio shows, "Pick of the Pops". This show which featured the Top hits of the week, started in 1959. In 1962 Jacobs was replaced by Alan "Fluff" Freeman, arguably the most popular radio broadcaster in the UK.
Freeman hosted the show until 2000--quite a run!
 
William Froug wrote and produced dozens of radio programs, including an adaptation of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, then moved into the new medium of television. He produced episodes of Bewitched, Gilligan's Island, The Twilight Zone, Alcoa Theatre and other series, wrote several books about screenwriting, and taught screenwriting at UCLA. Froug died on August 25 at age 91.

http://www.emmys.tv/news/2013/willi...g-writer-producer-and-longtime-ucla-professor
 
From 1950 to 1959, Cal Worthington was a country DJ on KXLA in Pasadena The station became top-40 KRLA and Cal Worthington became the most well-known automobile dealer in the United States. At one time, he owned 29 dealerships. In 1971, Worthington started doing commercials with "Spot." His commercials were parodies of the ads of competitors Ralph Williams and Fletcher Jones, who often posed with puppies that were available for adoption. At first, Worthington used dogs, then started using snakes, frogs, tigers, hippos, bears, elephants and other animals, always referring to each animal as "My dog Spot." He composed the jingle that ended with "Go see Cal, go see Cal, go see Cal." He became so well-known, he even made an appearance on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. Worthington had a goose in his lap and when the goose defecated, Carson said, "Be glad it wasn't the elephant." :)

Cal Worthington died September 8 at his ranch near Orland, California. He was 92.

http://www.latimes.com/obituaries/la...,3935712.story

Here is a composite of Cal Worthington commercials, including one where he's standing atop a small airplane in flight as it turns upside down. Yes, he was secured. He lived to make many more commercials.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOsLdT4slsk
 
Blues harmonica player John "Juke" Logan played on the theme songs for Roseanne and Home Improvement, on the soundtracks to La Bamba and Streets Of Fire, and on hundreds of albums and commercials. He also served as music consultant on the 1999 animated film The Iron Giant. Logan died of esophageal cancer on August 30. He was 66.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_"Juke"_Logan
 
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