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2013 Entertainment Industry Obituaries

Golly gee, there have been a lot of deaths in the past few weeks! Here is the latest:

Claude King had six top-ten country hits but was most known for the 1962 hit Wolverton Mountain, which reached number one on the country chart and #6 on the Hot 100. King co-wrote the song with Merle Kilgore. It was a true story about Merle's uncle, Clifton Clowers. King died on March 7 at age 90.

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/1551135/wolverton-mountain-singer-claude-king-dies
 
deltas69 said:
Cause I'd really like just one more circa 1968 real Mountain Dew. If only Mr. Peabody and Sherman could help us.. ;D I'd like a few cases of the original Coors...What they sell now is no where close...Must be owned by a radio group..Buy a winning combination..and change the entire lineup..recipe...whatever..then wonder..why ain't we selling like it used to ??? ???
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Yeah, we used to have real sugar radio stations, and now we have HCFS radio stations.
 
Clive Burr, a member of Iron Maiden from 1979 to 1982, died in his sleep March 12 at his home in London. He was 56 and had been suffering from multiple sclerosis. He played drums on the band's first three albums, Iron Maiden, Killers and The Number Of The Beast.
 
Grand Ol Opry star Jack Green died in his sleep Thursday night. He was best known for his 1967 hit, There Goes My Everything, a song which Englebert Humperdink soon bridged into the pop charts. Greene was 83.

Note to LARR: Hope you don't mind me scoopin' you...
 
There Goes My Everything was written by Dallas Frazier (who also wrote Elvira, Alley Oop and Beneath Still Waters) and was the first of Jack Greene's five number-one country hits.

I thought we should have a single thread for all the entertainment industry obituaries this year. I thought the majority would be singers from the 1950s-60s so I started the thread here. Was there a better place to put it? (Be kind.)
 
LARadioRewind said:
There Goes My Everything was written by Dallas Frazier (who also wrote Elvira, Alley Oop and Beneath Still Waters) and was the first of Jack Greene's five number-one country hits.

I thought we should have a single thread for all the entertainment industry obituaries this year. I thought the majority would be singers from the 1950s-60s so I started the thread here. Was there a better place to put it? (Be kind.)
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Hell No, this is a great thread in a great location, '50s/'60s Oldies. Keep up the great coverage. Some of the Obits you've listed I didn't even know about til I opened up your thread.
 
Is it Bobby Smith or Bobbie Smith? I see both those spellings in various news stories. Anyway, Smith sang lead on each of the Spinners' six singles for Tri-Phi (1961-62) and on a few of the Motown singles (1964-65). On Atlantic Records, in addition to I'll Be Around, Smith also sang lead on Could It Be I'm Falling In Love.
 
Rockabilly singer/guitarist Eddie Bond died of Alzheimer's disease on March 20, 2013. He was 79. In 1953 he was touring with an 18-year-old singer named Elvis Presley. Elvis asked to join Bond's band and Bond rejected him! I wonder what ever happened to that guy. Anyway, Bond recorded seven singles: one on Ekko and one on Diplomat (1957) and five on Mercury (1958). Boppin' Bonnie and Love Love Love are two of his better-known songs. Bond, born in Memphis, is in the Rockabilly Hall of Fame.
 
Great post on Eddie Bond. I was vaguely familiar with him, and again, would not have known about his passing had I not logged on this evening.

Again, LARR, keep up the good work on this thread. Call me morbid, but I just eat this stuff up!
 
I'll be polite and call you Mister Morbid. :D

Big-band singer Fran Warren died on her 87th birthday, March 4, 2013. Her obituary did not appear in the Los Angeles Times until March 21. She was a featured vocalist with the bands of Claude Thornhill, Art Mooney, Charlie Barnet, Billy Eckstine and others. Including her duets, Warren had eleven top-30 hits between 1947 and 1953; among them are A Sunday Kind Of Love, Early Autumn, I Said My Pajamas & Put On My Prayers (with Tony Martin), I Love The Guy and It's Anybody's Heart.

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-passings-20130321,0,3498748.story
 
LARadioRewind said:
I'll be polite and call you Mister Morbid. :D
Big-band singer Fran Warren died on her 87th birthday, March 4, 2013. Her obituary did not appear in the Los Angeles Times until March 21.
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-passings-20130321,0,3498748.story
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Delayed obituaries for distant 20th century era celebrities isn't unusal. Many in their final years have long since terminated all connections to their former celebrity, and that included agents and fans. When they pass, araingments are handled quite privately by surviving kin, according to the will of the departed, which often insisted on privacy and no fanfare.

Noted Hollywood author Rich Lamparsky of "Whatever Happened To..." fame had a knack for tracking down legendary celebrities of yesteryear. Many of them would keep him at arms length, some balking at photo requests. A few even declined interviews. One typical response might go something like (paraphrasing), "Hollywood is a part of my past... I am no longer in touch with anyone..."
 
melan8tr said:
radioman148 said:
Mastaclocksetta said:
Bobbie Smith Dead: Lead Singer of the Spinners Dies at 76 From Lung Cancer

http://www.spinner.com/2013/03/18/bobbie-smith-the-spinners-dead-dies/
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Other than "I'll Be Around" I believe Phillipe Wynne was the lead singer on most of the other Spinners big hits during the 70s.
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yes ,until he had the misfortune of a massive heart attack...
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I had the good fortune to see the Spinners several times during the 70s. When Phillipe Wynne did the encore "Mighty Love" I never saw anyone pour so much heart & soul into a song. The sweat would pour off of him as he roamed the audience bringing it straight from the heart.
 
radioman148 said:
melan8tr said:
radioman148 said:
Mastaclocksetta said:
Bobbie Smith Dead: Lead Singer of the Spinners Dies at 76 From Lung Cancer

http://www.spinner.com/2013/03/18/bobbie-smith-the-spinners-dead-dies/
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Other than "I'll Be Around" I believe Phillipe Wynne was the lead singer on most of the other Spinners big hits during the 70s.
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yes ,until he had the misfortune of a massive heart attack...
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I had the good fortune to see the Spinners several times during the 70s. When Phillipe Wynne did the encore "Mighty Love" I never saw anyone pour so much heart & soul into a song. The sweat would pour off of him as he roamed the audience bringing it straight from the heart.
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he was a human dynamo..not even james brown (the hardest working man in show biz)worked as hard as wynne
 
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