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2013 Entertainment Industry Obituaries

Hi! How are You? The Long Time Play by Play Radio Announcer of the Kansas City Royals Fred White 76 died just a day after He retired, Skin Cancer Melanoma, He was sick before He retired though, here is the link:
My Prayers and Thoughts are with His Family and Relatives and Friends and Fans.
http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/15/4237772/former-royals-broadcaster-fred.html

P.S. I do not know if this news fit here though, He was a Baseball and College Basketball Play by Play, so it is pretty much Entertainment. If it does not fit here, the Moderator can change or move it to the Sports section. I would not mind. Thanks.

Take care All of You.
 
As someone who has been listening to, and enjoying, Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully for many many years---this is Scully's 64th year with the team!---I can say that baseball announcers are definitely entertainers.

Ray Guy, a Canadian political satirist who wrote for radio, television, newspapers and magazines, died of cancer May 14 at age 74. He also wrote several books and a play and was a commentator on CBS-TV (and is not to be confused with the Ray Guy who played for the Raiders).

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2013/05/14/nl-ray-guy-obituary-514.html
 
The Hollywood Reporter obituary of Alan O'Day says that he wrote Angel Baby for Helen Reddy. Ummm....shouldn't a Hollywood trade magazine get their facts straight? He wrote Angie Baby. The story said O'Day died of "cancer." It was brain cancer...and he had been battling it for six months. I guess the Undercover Angel singer now is an angel.
 
Ray Manzarek, Founding Member of The Doors, Passes Away at 74

Ray Manzarek, keyboardist and founding member of The Doors, passed away today at 12:31PM PT at the RoMed Clinic in Rosenheim, Germany after a lengthy battle with bile duct cancer. He was 74. At the time of his passing, he was surrounded by his wife Dorothy Manzarek, and his brothers Rick and James Manczarek.

Manzarek is best known for his work with The Doors who formed in 1965 when Manzarek had a chance encounter on Venice Beach with poet Jim Morrison. The Doors went on to become one of the most controversial rock acts of the 1960s, selling more than 100-million albums worldwide, and receiving 19 Gold, 14 Platinum and five multi-Platinum albums in the U.S. alone. "L.A.Woman," "Break On Through to the Other Side," "The End," "Hello, I Love You," and "Light My Fire" were just some of the band's iconic and ground-breaking songs.
 
Break On Through was a top-ten hit in Los Angeles but stalled at #125 on Billboard's Bubbling Under chart---go figure! The three surviving members of the Doors---make that two now---always refused to let advertisers use Doors songs in commercials. How I wish every singer and group could have had that same sense of ethics and respect for their music.

Here is a December 2011 interview. Manzarek uses some naughty words so don't let your boss catch you reading this at work:

http://thesunsetstrip.com/blog/thesunsetstripcom-exclusive-interview-ray-manzarek-doors
 
LARadioRewind said:
The three surviving members of the Doors---make that two now---always refused to let advertisers use Doors songs in commercials. How I wish every singer and group could have had that same sense of ethics and respect for their music.
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Done right classic music can be very appropriate for commercials. Right now there is a pretzel company using Patsy Cline's I Fall To Pieces and it makes perfect sense (if not a class ad in itself). I assume it makes a few bucks for her estate so what's the harm?
 
I can no longer enjoy any song once I hear it in a commercial. Usually the song doesn't even have anything to do with the product. I can't hear That Lady without thinking of the housewife dancing with a fershlugginer dust mop! Baby I'm-A Want You for potato chips? Arrgghhh! Viva Las Vegas became Viva Viagra? Sacrilege! A recent JC Penney tv commercial showing middle-school kids in new spring fashions used Get Ready; "Start makin' love to you" is not an appropriate lyric for an ad showing 13-year-olds! Write some new jingles, advertisers---quit ruining so many thousands of 1960s-70s-80s hits!

Getting us back on topic, here---sadly---is another death:

Zach Sobiech, member of A Firm Handshake, who had the 2013 hit Clouds, died of osteosarcoma on May 20. He was only 18.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDC97j6lfyc
 
LARadioRewind said:
I can no longer enjoy any song once I hear it in a commercial. Usually the song doesn't even have anything to do with the product. I can't hear That Lady without thinking of the housewife dancing with a fershlugginer dust mop! Baby I'm-A Want You for potato chips? Arrgghhh! Viva Las Vegas became Viva Viagra? Sacrilege! A recent JC Penney tv commercial showing middle-school kids in new spring fashions used Get Ready; "Start makin' love to you" is not an appropriate lyric for an ad showing 13-year-olds! Write some new jingles, advertisers---quit ruining so many thousands of 1960s-70s-80s hits!
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Note that I said "done right". I agree there are some totally inappropriate or misused songs. I don't know if the copyright holders have any say in the final commercial use after they sign away their permission or not but I think it would be strongly advised if possible.

And "fershlugginer"? Were you a fan of Mad Magazine at one time? I remember one of their favorite "companies" was "fergishner". More classic stuff!! ;D
 
Mad magazine taught me important words such as "fershlugginer" and "poiuyt" and "halavah" and "chicken fat" and "moxie" and "axolotl" and "veeblefetser." Now if you'll excuse me, I have to feed Flip the Bird, hose down my Mad zeppelin, and put some water in Arthur's flowerpot. And I still subscribe to Mad. Vootie!

One of the first songs I heard in a tv commercial was John Lennon's anthem Revolution. The ad was for Nike. I remember a tv comedian saying, "Can you imagine John Lennon after he wrote this song, saying, 'Hey, this would make a friggin' great friggin' sneaker commercial!'" (Actually he didn't say "friggin'"---I cleaned it up for a family audience.)
 
I wonder though just how many copies of classic commercial music are sold after a youngster hears it today for the first time? My daughters used to do that regularly (after they asked me to identify it of course).
 
LARadioRewind said:
Break On Through was a top-ten hit in Los Angeles but stalled at #125 on Billboard's Bubbling Under chart---go figure!
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Break On Through didn't get a heck of a lot of airplay on AM, which, in those days (as I recall), represented a fertile chunk of BillBoard's play stats. Airplay of B.O.T. in L.A. was chiefly on FM, I'm guessing.
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LARadioRewind said:
The Hollywood Reporter obituary of Alan O'Day says that he wrote Angel Baby for Helen Reddy. Ummm....shouldn't a Hollywood trade magazine get their facts straight? He wrote Angie Baby.
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Good catch, but that kind of gaffe happens ocasionally. One of the silliest errors I've ever read was published by, of all newspapers, the prestigious Long Island Press of the 1960's. An enthusiastic follower of their Saturday top-10 list, I laughed til it hurt at the listing of B.J. Thomas' Hooked On A 'Ceiling'. Even as a teenager, I remember thinking, where was the copy editor?!
 
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The Daily News once did a story about a financial scandal in Queens, which was described as "a burro of New York City." :eek:
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Making that so funny is that the NY Daily News is obviously a local paper, serving all five "burros". I refrain, where was the copy editor!!!
 
This was the Daily News that serves the San Fernando Valley, Conejo Valley and Antelope Valley areas of southern California...but the way some people rely on Spell-Check software, the error could have happened in other papers too.

Anyone who grew up in the Indianapolis area probably watched the Channel 6 Saturday morning tv Westerns hosted by Curley Myers, who sang and played guitar and was part of the Cap'n Stubby & the Buccaneers band. He died May 19 at age 93.

http://www.jconline.com/article/20130520/NEWS/305200025/TV-host-Curley-Myers-dies-93?nclick_check=1
 
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