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2013 Entertainment Industry Obituaries

Gonna Miss Alan "Undercover Angel" O'Day. Sweet guy. Great songwriter..."Angie Baby" "Rock & Roll Heaven" "Train of Thought" (Cher). Miss ya Alan! I have interviewed over 850 artists, but you were one of the funniest and most genuine of them all!
 
O'Day also wrote The Drum for Bobby Sherman and co-wrote a lot of songs for the Muppet Babies tv series. I'm guessing that in 1984 somebody with the Jim Henson Company thought, "Grover and Elmo aren't nearly irritating and annoying enough---let's make a new series where they're babies!"
 
On the previous page, I mentioned words that I learned from Mad magazine. How could I have forgotten the most important one?: "Potrzebie."

In 1944, Jim Zabel became sports director of WHO in Des Moines, replacing Ronald Reagan. Yes, that Ronald Reagan. For 49 years Zabel was the play-by-play announcer for Iowa Hawkeyes football. He died May 23 at age 91 while preparing for his Sunday-evening Two Guys Named Jim program, which he had been co-hosting with former Iowa State coach Jim Walden.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...-zabel-iowa-broadcasting-legend-dies/2358185/
 
In 1951, guitarist Marshall Lytle joined Bill Haley's group, the Saddlemen. Two years later, the group had changed their name to the Comets and had their first chart hit, Crazy Man Crazy, which was written by Lytle (who had switched to slap bass---which is a style of playing, even though it sounds like cruelty to fish). Lytle played on Shake Rattle & Roll, Rock Around The Clock, ABC Boogie and other early Bill Haley hits. Lytle died of lung cancer May 25 at age 79.

http://www.vintagevinylnews.com/2013/05/passings-marshall-lytle-of-bill-haleys.html
 
Sad news about Marshall Lyttle. He was with group in Milwaukee's Potawatami Casino, seems like only 6 yrs ago, maybe more. Franny Beecher was on lead, Joey Grand on keyboards, vocalist was from Brittain. Joey is gone now too. I remember shouting out request for Skinny Minnie, and Lyttle said, "get out of here", good naturely, he said they hadn't done that for years. Maybe I should have asked for Lean Jean 17.
 
You should have asked Lytle why he quit the Comets---but he might have slugged you. I'm sure he always regretted his decision to leave. He and some of the other members formed a new group, the Jodimars. They recorded six singles for Capitol, 1955-57, then did one single for President Records. Even though their songs (Dancin' The Bop, Well Now Dig This, Rattle Shakin' Baby, Cloud 99, Let's All Rock Together) sounded similar to Bill Haley's hits, they didn't have Bill Haley...and none of them charted.
 
Maybe you know about Comet's related groups like the Kingsmen, "Weekend" or Everybody Out Of The Pool, another Comets related song by the Lifeguards. Trusting your intellect LA!
 
LARadioRewind said:
In 1951, guitarist Marshall Lytle joined Bill Haley's group, the Saddlemen. Two years later, the group had changed their name to the Comets and had their first chart hit, Crazy Man Crazy, which was written by Lytle (who had switched to slap bass---which is a style of playing, even though it sounds like cruelty to fish). Lytle played on Shake Rattle & Roll, Rock Around The Clock, ABC Boogie and other early Bill Haley hits. Lytle died of lung cancer May 25 at age 79.

http://www.vintagevinylnews.com/2013/05/passings-marshall-lytle-of-bill-haleys.html
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Sorry to see this post buried on page 19 of what seems to be an ongoing "obituaries" thread. Maybe it would have been better to start a new thread. Maybe it's just me, but I have no interest in reading obituaries just because they are obituaries.
 
There have been several other obituaries posted here but right now every post since May 27, with the exception of Fonz's post, has disappeared. At least I think they disappeared. The next time I open this thread, all the missing posts may be back. Maybe half of them will be back. Maybe this post will be gone. Maybe we should start an obituaries thread for all the posts and threads that have vanished during the past nine days.
 
A letter from the Managing Board Editor explains why all the posts from May 27 through June 3 have vanished and will not return...but the server problem has been fixed. Yay!

http://radiodiscussions.com/smf/index.php?topic=235287.msg2121780#msg2121780

Now let's get caught up on the obituaries that disappeared:

Marvin Junior---I wonder if he had a son named Marvin Junior Jr.?---was the baritone in the Dells. He co-wrote the Dells' first hit, Oh What A Nite, which reached #4 on the r&b chart in 1956. A new version, spelled correctly as Oh What A Night, reached #1 on the r&b chart and #10 on the Hot 100 in 1969. Junior died on May 29 from heart and kidney problems at age 77. Here is the obituary from Rolling Stone:

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/marvin-junior-dells-singer-dead-at-77-20130531
 
Isn't the word "stairstep" redundant? When you're talking about a staircase, isn't a "stair" the same as a "step"? Anyway, the Five Stairsteps was a group of four brothers and their sister. Their one big hit was Ooh Child in 1970. A decade later, the brothers reunited as the Invisible Man's Band and had a hit with All Night Thing. Lead singer Clarence Burke Jr. died May 26, one day after turning 64.

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-clarence-burke-20130530-1,0,5391177.story
 
Esther Williams, a champion swimmer who starred in several aquatic movie musicals in the 1940s-50s, died June 6 at age 91. Among her films were Jupiter's Mermaid, Million Dollar Mermaid, Dangerous When Wet, Skirts Ahoy, On An Island With You and Neptune's Daughter (with Red Skelton and the Academy Award-winning song Baby It's Cold Outside).

http://insidemovies.ew.com/2013/06/06/esther-williams-dead/
 
"Hey, babe, Happy 1959! Welcome to my bachelor pad. Come on in and sit on the couch and I'll mix us a couple of martinis and put some of these cool "Space Age" lounge music albums on the hi-fi. You know they were arranged and conducted by Bob Thompson."

Thompson also arranged radio and tv commercials, played piano for Mae West, and arranged albums for Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney. Thompson died of Alzheimer's disease May 21 at age 88.

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-adv-bob-thompson-20130610,0,2624956.story
 
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