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2013 Entertainment Industry Obituaries

LARadioRewind said:
In a 40-year career, Pat Summerall broadcast (among other events) 16 Super Bowls, the Masters and the U.S. Open tennis tournament. He died of cardiac arrest April 16. His longtime broadcast partner John Madden said Summerall is "the voice of football and always will be."

http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2013/04/16/veteran-sports-broadcaster-pat-summerall-dies/
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Even after his "retirement", Summerall's presence never really faded. He remained semi-active, continuing occasional announcing duties in golf and football. I've always thought of Pat Summerall as the only true equal to Curt Gowdy. We've lost a giant.
 
IMO Pat Summerall was the voice I always associated with the biggest NFL games, especially the playoffs. I say this having been around long enough to hear Ray Scott who Summerall originally broadcast with when he retired from playing.
 
In 1943, 24-year-old evangelist Billy Graham heard gospel singer George Beverly Shea on the radio in Chicago. Graham went to meet him and they became friends. In 1947, Shea became part of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. He sang on thousands of radio/tv broadcasts and at evangelistic crusades. He recorded 70 albums and won a Grammy award in 1965. He was given a "lifetime achievement" Grammy in 2011. Shea died April 16 at age 104.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2013/04/16/george-beverly-shea-dies-billy-graham/2089545/
 
^^^ I don't know how you do it LAR, but again, yours is the first news release I've heard regarding a significant passing.

I won't go into detail, but George Beverly Shea's singing career played a very meaningful role in my own coming of age. He has left behind a footprint too large for anyone to fill these days, and yet he lived such a humble life.

He sang Precious memories from the depths of a precious soul. He indeed lived A Beautiful Life, and now he lives Beyond The Sunset.
 
In 1947, Shea started recording gospel albums (78 rpm at that time) for the Singspiration Sacred Recordings label. He later recorded for RCA (including a country album!) and then for Word. He wrote the words and music for The Wonder Of It All and he wrote the music for Rhea Miller's I'd Rather Have Jesus. When he turned 104 on February 1, 2013, Shea had a visitor---Billy Graham.
 
LARadioRewind said:
In 1947, Shea started recording gospel albums (78 rpm at that time) for the Singspiration Sacred Recordings label. He later recorded for RCA (including a country album!) and then for Word. He wrote the words and music for The Wonder Of It All and he wrote the music for Rhea Miller's I'd Rather Have Jesus. When he turned 104 on February 1, 2013, Shea had a visitor---Billy Graham.
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And the visitor who showed up yesterday took him home.
 
LARadioRewind said:
Richie Havens, most known for being the opening act at the 1969 Woodstock festival and for his 1971 version of George Harrison's Here Comes The Sun, died of a heart attack April 22 at age 72. (CNN's bulletin said the song was from 1970. CNN is wrong.)
http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/22/showbiz/richie-havens-obituary/index.html
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Yes, you're RIGHT and CNN is WRONG (as it should be). Milwaukee Sentinel Journal is one of several blogs hosting videos of Havens' performing Sun in '71. YouTube does too. I'm thinking Sun could have even been released in late '70, in some markets at least.
 
LARadioRewind said:
"I don't want anybody else; when I think about you, I touch myself..." Lovely lyrics! Chrissy Amphlett, lead singer of Australian rock band the Divinyls, died April 21 at age 53. She had suffered from breast cancer and multiople sclerosis.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/22/chrissy-amphlett-dead_n_3130683.html
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My thoughts and prayers go out to her friends and family, but I have to admit, I won't miss that song. Touch Myself put me on the spot (could I have worded that better?) with my pastor friend and a girl I was seeing (who would later become my wife).

We were kicking around what to do one night, so I chimed in with a suggestion we go to Karaoke (did I spell that right?), to see a mutual friend due to perform there. Well, we went, she performed. The night was going smoothly, so far. Sticking around for her next gig, all four of us killed time by "dining" on tacos & nachos. The second act just before our friend's encore, a couple of tweener-sisters, ages 9 & 10, stepped up and sang. Much to my embarassment, in front of my pastor pal, my fiance, and God Himself, their second number was Touch Myself. A 40-ish looking woman, their mother I presumed, coached from behind the stage. I could have crawled into a foxhole.
 
Good ol' Mom probably thought that would be cute---kinda like two risqué Shirley Temples. She sounds like the moms who try to make "beauty queens" of their five-year-old daughters. The kids featured on TLC's Toddlers & Tiaras series should be allowed to be kids instead of being forced to wear gobs of makeup and dress like a prostitute.

It's worth noting that after I Touch Myself reached #4 in 1991, the Divinyls never had another U.S. hit. There ya go!
 
jfrancispastirchak said:
LARadioRewind said:
Richie Havens, most known for being the opening act at the 1969 Woodstock festival and for his 1971 version of George Harrison's Here Comes The Sun, died of a heart attack April 22 at age 72. (CNN's bulletin said the song was from 1970. CNN is wrong.)
http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/22/showbiz/richie-havens-obituary/index.html
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Yes, you're RIGHT and CNN is WRONG (as it should be). Milwaukee Sentinel Journal is one of several blogs hosting videos of Havens' performing Sun in '71. YouTube does too. I'm thinking Sun could have even been released in late '70, in some markets at least.
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Richie's "Alarm Clock" album, which included "Here Comes The Sun", was released in early December, 1970. The single release came in February, 1971 (information from Google Books' online archive of Billboard magazine back issues).

CNN's right.
 
LARadioRewind said:
Good ol' Mom probably thought that would be cute---kinda like two risqué Shirley Temples. She sounds like the moms who try to make "beauty queens" of their five-year-old daughters. The kids featured on TLC's Toddlers & Tiaras series should be allowed to be kids instead of being forced to wear gobs of makeup and dress like a prostitute.
It's worth noting that after I Touch Myself reached #4 in 1991, the Divinyls never had another U.S. hit. There ya go!
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Good ol' Mom was probably caught up in that mindset handed down by Moms of the '90s who would take their daughters to Brittany Spears concerts. It was a sickening commentary on the times; thirty-ish moms wrestling with their own self-esteem problems, vicariously seeking remedy for their own hangups through the lives of their misguided children. They thought they could forge meaningful bonds with their teen and tweener daughters by dressing like them, scant as that was, and pumping and stomping to the badgirl beat of little Miss BRATTany. Well that sure paid off, didn't it. No wonder Touch Myself hit the charts!
 
Michael, as you point out, Here Comes The Sun is a 1971 single. It was included on the Alarm Clock album, which charted on January 3, 1971 (for the week ending January 9). It was recorded and released in 1970, yes, but the obituaries in Billboard, USA Today and the Los Angeles Times all refer to the album as from 1971. So it's me, Billboard, USA Today and the Times against CNN. It depends on whether you want to go by release date...or by chart date. I go by chart date. So CNN and I are both right---it's like the old "tastes great"/"less filling" argument.

Allan Arbus seemed to be suitable for playing doctors. In addition to his role on M*A*S*H, he played Dr. Schulman on three episodes of Brooklyn Bridge, the 1991-93 series that starred former Happy Days co-star Marion Ross---yeah, somehow Mrs. Cunningham became Jewish!---and he played Dr. Atwill on two episodes of the 1992-93 series In The Heat Of The Night.
 
LARadioRewind said:
Michael, as you point out, Here Comes The Sun is a 1971 single. It was included on the Alarm Clock album, which charted on January 3, 1971 (for the week ending January 9). It was recorded and released in 1970, yes, but the obituaries in Billboard, USA Today and the Los Angeles Times all refer to the album as from 1971. So it's me, Billboard, USA Today and the Times against CNN. It depends on whether you want to go by release date...or by chart date. I go by chart date.
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The complication in doing that is that a January 3 issue of Billboard would have been printed and shipped in late December. Billboard used to actually shut down their chart department from December 24-January 2. They'd start doing short survey weeks in autumn, so they could have chart data in the year-end issue and the first issue of the new year.

The wholesale data that led to a first charting on January 3 would have been from, at the latest, December 17-23, 1970.
 
Okay. If anybody asks, I'll say that Bryan Adams' Summer Of '69 came out in spring of '68. :D
 
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