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Ray Ellis Arranger for Darin, Mathis, Day and Holiday Dies
Ray Ellis dies at 85; arranger worked with Bobby Darin, Johnny Mathis, Doris Day, scores of others. Ellis, a saxophone player who turned to arranging pop music, wrote charts for hits by the Four Lads, Bobby Darin, Connie Francis, Doris Day, Johnny Mathis, Barbra Streisand, Billie Holiday and many others. Ray Ellis, the versatile ...
Michael Crichton Million-Selling Science-Fiction Author Dies at 66
Best-selling author Michael Crichton, who wrote such novels as The Andromeda Strain and Jurassic Park, and created the popular TV drama ER, has died at 66, his family said today. Crichton, a medical doctor turned novelist whose books have sold more than 150 million copies worldwide, died “unexpectedly" Tuesday in Los Angeles after a private battle ...
Jheryl Busby Ex-Motown Chief Dies
Jheryl Busby, the former president and chief executive of Motown Records who helped foster the careers of Boyz II Men and Johnny Gill, has died. He was 59. Busby was found early Tuesday in a hot tub at his home in Malibu, said Los Angeles County Assistant Coroner Chief Ed Winter. “It was a possible accident ...
Jimmy Carl Black Mothers of Invention Drummer Dead at 70
Jimmy Carl Black, the original drummer for Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, passed away this past weekend after a bout with lung cancer. He was 70. Black, the self-proclaimed Indian of the group, served with the Mothers from their acclaimed 1966 debut Freak Out! until Zappas 1970 album Weasels Ripped My Flesh. Black is ...
Yma Sumac Peruvian Songbird Silenced
Yma Sumac, 'Peruvian songbird' with multi-octave range, dies at 86 The singer with a persona matching her exotic voice became an international sensation in the 1950s. Yma Sumac, the Peruvian-born singer whose spectacular multi-octave vocal range and exotic persona made her an international sensation in the 1950s, has died. She was 86. Sumac, who was diagnosed ...
Studs Terkel, Giant
There is little or no mention of it in his obituaries, but Studs Terkel's first book was about jazz. The oral historian, broadcaster and master interviewer died yesterday in Chicago at ninety-six. Terkel won the Pulitzer Prize for his best-selling 1985 book The Good War: An Oral History Of World War II. Many of his other ...
Estelle Reiner Singer-Actress Dies
Estelle Reiner, 94, a singer, artist and actress known for her cameo role in her son Rob Reiner's 1989 film When Harry Met Sally, died Saturday, her family announced. A cause of death was not given for Reiner, who was married to comedian Carl Reiner for nearly 65 years. She also appeared in Fatso, directed by ...
E. Roger Muir Backed Howdy Doody dies
E. Roger Muir, who helped create and was executive producer of The Howdy Doody Show, the puppet-and-people program that first hooked millions of kids on television in its early days. Muir died Thursday near his home in Wolfeboro, N.H. Mr. Muir, who went on to produce other successful shows, including Concentration, was 89. The cause was ...
Porn's Pied Piper Deep Throat Director Dies
This is kinda strange country, isn't it? Judges can see Deep Throat but they can't listen to those [Nixon] tapes. Johnny Carson- at the time when the movie was challenging Watergate as the topic du jour. I went to see Deep Throat cause I'm fond of animal pictures. I thought it was about giraffes. ...
Star Keyboardist Merl Saunders Dies
SAN FRANCISCO -- Keyboardist Merl Saunders, the gentle lion of the San Francisco music scene best known as co-captain of guitarist Jerry Garcia's solo excursions outside the Grateful Dead, died Friday at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center after fighting infections. The 74-year-old musician suffered a debilitating stroke 6 1/2 years ago and, although he lost the ability ...
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