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2013 Entertainment Industry Obituaries

One of the first 45-RPM records I owned was a Bobby "Blue" Bland song I won at a church fair by successfully tossing two out of three rings (similar to tossing horse shoes). I believe the title was Make Believe Lover. Played this song as soon as I returned home and quickly realized I'd never heard it before. In fact, I'd never even heard of Bobby Bland. The nickname, "Blue", was not included on that record.

Three days later, on the fair's final night, I won yet another record (can't remember which game booth but I was on a roll), a breezy little ballad called South Street by some obscure outfit called The Orlons.
 
Mister pastirchak, I'm glad you won that recording so you could finally have your lifelong question answered: Where do all the hippies meet? :D

When Bobby "Blue" Bland was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1992, B.B. King was part of the ceremony. (Two singers with five initial B's---that had to be a record!) King praised Bland for his blues recordings and then said, "There's no better singer in any genre."

Emmy Award-winning television writer/producer Gary David Goldberg (Family Ties, Spin City, Lou Grant, Brooklyn Bridge) died of brain cancer June 22 at age 68. "Sit, Ubu, sit!"

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-gary-david-goldberg-20130625,0,3900053.story
 
LARadioRewind said:
Mister pastirchak, I'm glad you won that recording so you could finally have your lifelong question answered: Where do all the hippies meet? :D
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"Hippies" back then were not the dope-smokin', free-lovin, placard totin', long-haired, flower-powered, Volkswagon Van drivin', high school dropout Haight-Ashbury types who danced naked in the park. That came later. The early day "Hippie" was, well, "hip", in the metropolitan sense. Country folks may never have heard of "hippies" til the term got hijacked by disciples of Janis Joplin, Grace Slick and Scott MacKenzie later in the '60s.

The hip guys always got the date and never had to ask twice for a good night kiss. Hip girls on the other hand never said "yes" to the first date request, and they never kissed on the first date. With such a disjointed culture, its no wonder their breed simply up and died.

So, how does all of this fit in the Entertainment Industry OBITs thread? Why, I think its pretty obvious...
 
Those of us who were fans of The Soupy Sales Show will recall that Hippy was the name of the hippopotamus hand-puppet. There was also Pookie, White Fang, Black Tooth and that groovy little "Soupy Shuffle" dance. And pies. Lots of pies. In the face.

Architect and stage designer Mark Fisher died June 25 at age 66. He designed gigantic sets for concert tours of Pink Floyd, Lady GaGa, Madonna, Metallica, U2, the Rolling Stones and other artists and he co-produced the opening and closing ceremonies for the 2010 Summer Olympics in London.

http://news.sky.com/story/1108512/rolling-stones-set-designer-mark-fisher-dies
 
LARadioRewind said:
Those of us who were fans of The Soupy Sales Show will recall that Hippy was the name of the hippopotamus hand-puppet.
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Was "Hippy" the character who sang "Ah Falafaga"? Wait, maybe I'm confusin' Soupy Sales with the Sandy Becker Show...
 
Longtime WBEZ-FM (Chicago) program director Jim Nayder hosted The Annoying Music Show. The program also aired occasionally on NPR Radio. Nayder also produced and hosted Magnificent Obsession, a series featuring recovering alcohoilics and recovering drug addicts. It ran for 20 years. Nayder died June 28, 2013. He was 59.

http://chicagoist.com/2013/06/28/wbezs_jim_nayder_dies.php
 
LARadioRewind said:
I would be remiss---and I certainly do not want to be remiss---if I neglected to mention The Annoying Music Show's The Annoying Music Show CD. Yes, that is the name of it.
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Wasn't that the name of those Weather Channel CDs a few years ago?
 
In my area---Glendale/Burbank/Pasadena---all but one of the old-fashioned record stores have either gone out of business or have quit selling records in favor of musical instruments and sheet music. Atomic Records in Burbank remains...and continues to thrive:

http://www.atomicrecordsla.com/Home.html

At first, a lot of people thought Sarah Guillot-Guyard's freefall during a Cirque de Soleil show at the MGM Grand was part of the act. It wasn't. The veteran aerialist fell to her death during the June 29 production of Ka. It was the first onstage death in the Cirque's 29-year history.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-cirque-death-20130701,0,2889433.story
 
LARadioRewind said:
At first, a lot of people thought Sarah Guillot-Guyard's freefall during a Cirque de Soleil show at the MGM Grand was part of the act. It wasn't. The veteran aerialist fell to her death during the June 29 production of Ka. It was the first onstage death in the Cirque's 29-year history.
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A similarly tragic blurring of reality and storyline happened in Kansas City, 1999, on a live pay-per-veiw wrestling show. Thanks to a faulty cable connection, pro wrestler Owen Hart fell from the rafters, landing in the ring some 50-feet below. At first, only his fellow wrestlers and ring officials knew the reality of what had happened. Spectators assumed it was all part of the storyline.
 
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