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Sam Hinton Folk Songwriter and Singer Dies
Hinton was one of the founders of the folk-song movement that began in the 1930s. A onetime San Diego area resident, he also wrote two books on the sea and seashore animals. Sam Hinton, folk singer, songwriter, naturalist and San Diego civic treasure who delighted school children and folk-festival audiences for decades, has died. He was ...
Bob Greenberg Music Industry Executive
Bob Greenberg, 75, a longtime music industry executive who held key positions at several record labels including Atlantic, Warner Bros., MGM/UA and Mirage, died Friday in West Hills, a day after suffering a stroke, his brother Jerry said. Born May 8, 1934, in New Haven, Conn., Bob Greenberg got his start in the business in the ...
Patrick Swayze Dies
Patrick Swayze, the hunky actor who danced his way into viewers' hearts with “Dirty Dancing" and then broke them with “Ghost," died today after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 57. “Patrick Swayze passed away peacefully today with family at his side after facing the challenges of his illness for the last 20 months," said ...
Jim Carroll, Poet and Punk Rocker, is Dead
Jim Carroll, the poet and punk rocker in the outlaw tradition of Rimbaud and Burroughs who chronicled his wild youth in The Basketball Diaries, died Friday at his home in Manhattan. He was 60. The cause was a heart attack, said Rosemary Carroll, his former wife. As a teenage basketball star in the 1960s at Trinity, ...
Pierre Cossette Father of the Grammy Awards Telecast Dies
Pierre Cossette, the avuncular old-school talent agent, manager, music mogul and Broadway producer often called the father of the Grammy Awards telecast for persuading nervous TV executives to put “longhairs with high heels and makeup" on a live national broadcast in 1971, died Friday. He was 85. Cossette, who had suffered in recent years with congestive ...
Luther Thomas 1950-2009
Citing a broadcast by the NYC public radio station WKCR, NPR's A Blog Supreme has posted an item saying that saxophonist Luther Thomas has died.The St. Louis native and former Black Artists Group member (pictured) has lived in Copenhagen, Denmark for a number of years, and at this point there don't seem to be ...
Army Archerd Dies at 87; Variety Columnist Watched over Hollywood for Half a Century.
Reporter known for being a trusted figure who stood apart from the industry broke the story of Rock Hudson's battle with AIDS. Army Archerd, a prolific reporter who chronicled the personal and professional lives of Hollywood stars and moguls for more than half a century from his columnist's perch at Daily Variety, and rocked the entertainment ...
17-Year-Old Daughter of Saxophonist Jesse Davis Shot and Killed in Oakland, CA
Desiree Davis, the granddaughter of the late trumpeter Howard McGhee and daughter of alto saxophonist Jesse Davis, was shot and killed on Monday, September 7, 2009 in Oakland, California while visiting with friends. The 17-year-old, who moved to Oakland from New Orleans with her mother and sister after Hurricane Katrina, was a high school senior and ...
Wycliffe Johnson, Boisterous Reggae Producer and Musician, Dies at 47
Wycliffe Johnson, an innovative composer and producer known as Steely, who held sway over two decades of reggae music, died on Tuesday in East Patchogue, N.Y. He was 47 and lived in Kingston, Jamaica. The cause was a heart attack following pneumonia, said his daughter Kerry Johnson. He had moved to Brooklyn this summer for treatment ...
Chris Connor Jazz Vocalist Legend Passes at 81 Years
Legendary jazz vocalist Chris Connor, who first came to prominence with the orchestras of Claude Thornhill and Stan Kenton and went on to record dozens of successful albums and singles, died on Saturday evening, August 29 at the Community Medical Center in Toms River, NJ following a long bout with cancer, according to her publicist Alan ...
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