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Willie King Alabama Blues Singer, Guitarist
Willie King, 65, an Alabama blues singer and guitarist whose career took him from backwoods juke joints to the largest blues festivals in North America and Europe, died Sunday in Alabama. King had a heart attack at his home in the Old Memphis community of Pickens County near the Mississippi line, said band member Debbie Bond. ...
Tullio Pinelli Co-Writer of Fellini Films Dies
Tullio Pinelli, 100, the Italian screenwriter best known for his close association with director Federico Fellini, died Saturday in Rome, according to European newspapers. The cause of death was not announced. Working with Fellini, and on occasion Ennio Flaiano, Pinelli co-wrote more than a dozen of Fellini's films, including such legendary works as “La Strada," “La ...
Jimmy Boyd Singer of 'I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus' Dies
Jimmy Boyd, a singer best known for recording the Christmas novelty hit “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus” in 1952 when he was 13, died Saturday. He was 70. Boyd, who also was a child actor, died of cancer at a Santa Monica convalescent hospital, said Eleanor Pillsbury, a longtime friend. Three weeks after the yuletide ...
Grand Ole Opry Member Hank Locklin Dies in Ala
Country singer and Grand Ole Opry member Hank Locklin has died. He was 91. Opry publicist Jessie Schmidt said Locklin died Sunday at his home in Brewton, Ala. Locklin's smooth tenor voice made hits of Send Me the Pillow You Dream On and Please Help Me I'm Falling. He recently released an album, By the Grace ...
Horton Foote Playwright, Screenwriter Chronicled Small-Town Southern Life Dies
Horton Foote, whose bittersweet stories of heartbreak and regret set in small Southern towns earned him wide popular acclaim as well as two Academy Awards and a Pulitzer Prize, died Wednesday. He was 92. Foote died in his sleep at his apartment in Hartford, Conn., said Paul Marte, a spokesman for the Hartford Stage theater company. ...
Ian Carr, Jazz Trumpeter and Author of Miles Davis Biography, Dies
Ian Carr, a Scottish-born trumpeter who, like his formidable influence, Miles Davis, was an early practitioner of jazz-rock fusion and later repaid his artistic debt by writing Davis’s biography, died on Feb. 25 in London. He was 75. The cause was complications after pneumonia and a series of mini- strokes, Alyn Shipton, Mr. Carr’s biographer, said ...
Sydney Chaplin Stage Actor and Son of Charlie Chaplin Dies
Sydney Chaplin, an actor who experienced his greatest success on stage, earning a Tony Award for starring in the late 1950s musical “Bells Are Ringing," died Tuesday. He was 82. Chaplin, the oldest surviving child of film legend Charlie Chaplin, died at his Rancho Mirage home of complications following a stroke, said Jerry Bodie, a longtime ...
Jazz Educator Dr. William L. Fowler Dies at 91
Dr. William Lambourne Fowler passed away at approximately 6:12 pm on February 27, 2009 at Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital in Valencia, California surrounded by his loving sons. He was 91 years old. During the Great Depression of 1929, young Bill Fowler taught himself to play blues harmonica, dirt-band mandolin, Dixieland tenor banjo, and finally jazz ...
Funeral Arrangements for Trumpeter Ian Carr
Following the sad passing of British trumpeter/bandleader Ian Carr on Feb 25, 2009, the funeral arrangements are as follows: Date: March 13, 2009 Time: 15:00 (GMT) Location: Golders Green Crematorium (West Chapel) Address: Hoop Lane, London, NW11 7NL Those interested may make donations to an Alzheimer's charity or support group ...
Radio Broadcaster Paul Harvey Dies
Paul Harvey, 90, a Chicago-based radio broadcaster whose authoritative baritone voice and distinctive staccato delivery attracted millions of daily listeners for more than half a century, died Feb. 28 in Phoenix. A spokesman for ABC Radio Network told the Associatd Press that Mr. Harvey died at his winter home, surrounded by family. No cause of death ...
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