Lawrence Brooks, US’s oldest WW2 veteran, dies at 112 (September 12, 1909 - January 5, 2022) https://americanmilitarynews.com/2022/01/uss-oldest-ww2-veteran-lawrence-brooks-dies-at-112/
That one seems to have come from out of nowhere. From what I've seen, he did a show last night which he tweeted about this morning.
Veronica Yvette Bennett,78, cancer "And it's time for a rest to go out on a high. I've given my best, so this is goodbye." (Michel Berger/Luc Plamondon) English adaptation Tim Rice-- from "Farewell to a Sex Symbol"
Dallas Frazier, 82, complications from a stroke last year. How many times have you heard it said of a recently deceased songwriter that "everyone recorded his songs." Well, sometimes it is true; good bad, and indifferent, everyone recorded his songs, themselves good bad and indifferent. Pretty sure I spotted one of Frazier's when I was going through Ronnie Spector's discography yesterday. And while he may need divine forgiveness for "Alley Oop" and "Mohair Sam" and maybe "Elvira," he should get it quickly for "Beneath Still Waters:" "Beneath still waters There's a strong undertow The surface won't tell you What the deep water knows" (Dallas Frazier)
He's a drug store truck drivin man He's a head of the Ku Klux Klan When summer rolls around He'll be lucky if he's not in town Well he's got him a house on the hill He plays country records till you've had your fill He's a fireman's friend, he's an all night DJ But he sure does think different from the records he plays He's a drug store truck drivin man He's a head of the Ku Klux Klan When summer rolls around He'll be lucky if he's not in town Well he don't like the young folks I know He told me one night on his radio show He's got him a medal he won in the war Weighs five hundred pounds and sleeps on his floor He's a drug store truck drivin man He's a head of the Ku Klux Klan When summer rolls around He'll be lucky if he's not in town He's been like a father to me He's the only DJ you can hear after three I'm an all night musician in a rock 'n' roll band And why he don't like me, I can't understand (Gram Parsons/McGuinn) Ralph Emery, 88
Tuskegee Airman Charles McGee dies at 102 (December 7, 1919 - January 17, 2020) https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/celebrated-tuskeegee-airman-charles-mcgee-dies-102-82300940
I don't know as she was much of an actress; at least she didn't get a lot of great parts. But she was one of the great beauties of her time, and not a slacker when the camera was rolling anyway. You're apt to think I chose this to get her in a bikini-- but I didn't. I chose it because I know she loved to surf, and beach life in general... Yvette Mimieux, 80, old age... "Catch a wave and you're sittin' on top of the world" (B. Wilson/ Mike Love)
Marvin Lee Aday-- Jim Steinman's voice, Todd Rundgren's finest hour... "And I know that I've been released, But I don't know to where, And nobody's gonna tell me now, And I don't really care. No, no, no. I got a taste of paradise. That's all I really need to make me stay. I got a taste of paradise. If I had it any sooner you know You know I never would have run away from my home. Heaven can wait. And all I've got is time until the end of time. I won't look back. I won't look back. Let the altars shine." (Steinman)
Louie Anderson, Iconic Stand-Up Comic and ‘Baskets’ Star, Dies at 68 Louie Anderson, the big-hearted everyman who rose to fame as a stand-up comic, then channeled the spirit of his late mother ... The Hollywood Reporter Louie Anderson, Emmy-winning comedian, dies at 68 Louie Anderson, whose more than four-decade career as a comedian and actor included his unlikely, Emmy-winning performance as ... Associated Press on MSN.com
James Forbes, 69 Forbes is the second member of the 1972 USA Olympic basketball team that has passed. (Dwight Jones, 2016) The gold medal game of the '72 Olympic basketball tournament remains one of the most highly controversial events in sports. To this day no members of the U.S. team have accepted their silver medals which remain stored in vault in Switzerland waiting to be claimed.
Don Wilson 88 (February 10, 1933 - January 22, 2022) co-founder of The Ventures https://www.udiscovermusic.com/news/don-wilson-ventures-co-founder-dies/ A few years earlier:
Johnny Fever. https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/howard-hesseman-wkrp-cincinnati-star-174637421.html
Its like a stock market that only goes down these days... Hargus "Pig" Robbins 84, Kidney and heart disease and bacterial infection. As I understand it, the session players were a bit confused at first as to just what Dylan was after on this track; but Robbins understood immediately, and it is his manic hollers in the background more than anything else that make it work... And his work directly with the Nashville community produced so many actual classics-- "I Fall to Pieces," "Crazy," "She Thinks I Still Care," "Coat of Many Colors," "King of the Road," "Green Green Grass of Home,""Delta Dawn," "Night Life," "Shadowland" -- that you don't have to be a country fan to be familiar with his playing. Story goes that during the "Blonde on Blonde" sessions, whenever Dylan wanted to try something different, he would sidle over to Al Kooper and ask him to tell Robbins; seems he respected him so much he just couldn't bring himself to call him "Pig." "40000 headmen couldn't make me change my mind If I had to take a choice between the deaf man and the blind I know just where my feet should go, and that's enough for me" (Winwood) Grant him peace, but not silence...