DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

[GHT]

Little Richard was a professional singer and musician all his working life. Playing guitar, keyboards and singing in his first band, The Marks Brothers. The band made many TV & radio appearances and secured a recording contract with Carrere Records.
The incredible excitement, flamboyant persona and amazing powerhouse delivery, Little Richard was one of the greatest originators of rock & roll of all time.

The electric, preacher-style vocals, pumping boogie piano and the glamorous, ever so camp stage act with fabulous costumes, will transport you back to a time when the awesome, unmistakable sound of ‘The Architect of Rock & Roll’ literally shook the world of music. Along with Elvis, Chuck Berry & Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard will always be a true, King of Rock & Roll.

I looked up the lyrics to: "Tutti Frutti," at the end of which, it says: "English Translation."

A-bop-bop, a-loo-mop, a-lop-bop-bop
Tutti Frutti, all rootie
Tutti Frutti, all rootie
Tutti Frutti, all rootie
Tutti Frutti, all rootie
Tutti Frutti, all rootie
A-bop-bop, a-loo-mop, a-lop-bop-bop
I got a gal, her name's Sue
She knows just what to do
I got a gal, her name's Sue
She knows just what to do
I've been to the east
I've been to the west
But she's the gal
That I love the best
Tutti Frutti, all rootie
Tutti Frutti, all rootie
Whooo, Tutti Frutti, all rootie
Tutti Frutti, all rootie
Tutti Frutti, all rootie
A-bop-bop, a-loo-mop, a-lop-bop-bop
I got a gal, her name's Daisy
She almost drives me crazy
I got a gal, her name's Daisy
She almost drives me crazy
She's a real gone cookie
Yes, sir-ree
But pretty little Susie
Is The gal for me
Tutti Frutti, all rootie
Tutti…

 

[Doctor Strange]

The great Jerry Stiller (not to the Coronavirus):

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/11/obituaries/jerry-stiller-seinfeld-dead.html

Let's get out the aluminum Festivus pole in his honor.

 

[MisterCairo]

Indeed...

 

[Trenchfriend]

He was a robust monument of a man! R.I.P., Arthur!!

 

[LizzieMaine]

"Stiller and Meara" did some of the snappiest comedy of the sixties and seventies, just playing themselves.

 

[Doctor Damage]

Fred Willard. I loved him in those Christopher Guest mockumentaries.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowb...ctor-Fred-Willard-dead-86-natural-causes.html

 

[Frunobulax]

Fred Willard. I loved him in those Christopher Guest mockumentaries.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowb...ctor-Fred-Willard-dead-86-natural-causes.html

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Brilliant comedian.

 

[MisterCairo]

I had no idea he was nearing 90.

"And to think in some countries these dogs would be eaten..."

 

[Rmccamey]

Phyllis George, Ms. Texas, Ms. America, sportscaster, died at the age of 70. One of the first to break into the good ol' boys club of sports network broadcasting.

 

[MisterCairo]

Another figure from the history of the Beatles has died. Astrid Kirchherr, the photographer who was girlfriend then friends with Klaus Voormann who came across the original Beatles lineup, with Pete Best on drums and Stu Sutcliffe on bass (he could barely play).

Widely credited with giving the Beatles their distinctive hairstyle, she later claimed that Stu first adopted a look favoured by German bohemians, and that the rest asked her to style them like it (except for Best who had incredibly wavy hair).

She and Sutcliffe fell in love and were to marry. Sutcliffe was a much better artist than musician, and he left the Beatles to be with her. Sadly he died of an aneurysm, commonly attributed to a beating he'd suffered in Hamburg.

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/astrid-kirchherr-photographer-beatles-dead

She was 81.

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/06/01/10/0046648900000258-4561862-image-m-24_1496309450108.jpg

 

[Cornelius]

The death of Michel Piccoli on May 12 has just been announced by his family. Acted in 170 films(!) between 1945 and 2014, seemingly equally comfortable as character actor or leading man. Queue up some of his titles to watch over this coming Quarantined-holiday weekend.

 

[MisterCairo]

Ken Osmond, best known as the irascible Eddie Kaskel on Leave it to Beaver, has died, aged 76.

He acted after Beaver ended in 1963 but, typecast as Haskel, became an LA cop, retiring in 1988 in part due to injuries including being shot in the line of duty.

https://nationalpost.com/pmn/entert...aver-star-who-played-eddie-haskell-dies-at-76


Best character on the show, and a credit to Osmond, it was supposed to be a guest appearance, but he so impressed with his sycophantic take on Eddie, he became a central element of the show.

 

[belfastboy]

Ken Osmond, best known as the irascible Eddie Kaskel on Leave it to Beaver, has died, aged 76.

He acted after Beaver ended in 1963 but, typecast as Haskel, became an LA cop, retiring in 1988 in part due to injuries including being shot in the line of duty.

https://nationalpost.com/pmn/entert...aver-star-who-played-eddie-haskell-dies-at-76


Best character on the show, and a credit to Osmond, it was supposed to be a guest appearance, but he so impressed with his sycophantic take on Eddie, he became a central element of the show.

I loved Eddie!

 

[Benny Holiday]

I just heard the great Christian apologist and evangelist Ravi Zacharias passed away on May 19 from cancer of the spine. A brilliant speaker and theologian, he toured all around the world and spoke at many, many universities in the USA and Canada. He was author of some 30 books. Some of his best quotes (out of a huge many):

"Philosophy has become existential; art has become sensual; education has become skeptical; religion has become mystical; our culture has become trivial; Christianity has been made minimal; and we wonder what has happened to us in society."

"If you believe in subjective morality, why do you lock your doors at night?"

"When you say there's too much evil in this world, you assume there's good. When you assume there's good, you assume there's such a things as a moral law on the basis of which to differentiate between good and evil. But if you assume a moral law, you must posit a moral Law Giver, but that's who you're trying to disprove and not prove. Because if there's no moral Law Giver, there's no moral law. If there's no moral law, there's no good. If there's no good, there's no evil. What was your question?"

His legacy also lives on in many YouTube clips of his debates and discourses.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...e094c6-96a0-11ea-9f5e-56d8239bf9ad_story.html

 

[Lean'n'mean]

French journalist, author, sketch & screenwriter, lyricist, academidician & many other things, Jean Loup Debadie. has died aged 81.

Lyrics by Jean Loup Debadie.

 

[St.Ignatz]

This post is for my nephew Dustin. He didn't enlist to be a hero but he was one. My thoughts on memorial day are always dominated by him. He didn't fall in Iraq or Afghanistan though he served in both but here at home. His spirit and lust for life marked his short life and his passing is a great loss to his family and our nation. I miss you Dustin and mourn your loss every day.
Tom D.

 

[AbbaDatDeHat]

This post is for my nephew Dustin. He didn't enlist to be a hero but he was one. My thoughts on memorial day are always dominated by him. He didn't fall in Iraq or Afghanistan thoigh he served in both but here at home. His spirit and lust for life marked his short life and his passing is a great loss to his family and our nation. I miss you Dustin and mourn your loss every day.
Tom D.

To Dustin....
Salute
B

 

[Trenchfriend]

R.I.P., Larry Kramer.

 

[Lean'n'mean]

Bulgarian born conceptual artist, Christo Vladimirov Javacheff, better known simply as, Christo, has died aged 84. Best known for wrapping monuments, buildings & landscapes in fabric or plastic sheeting.

 

[Lean'n'mean]

Bollywood composer & musical director, Wajid Khan, has died from complications of a kidney infection,(possibly COVID related or transplanted organ rejection) aged 42.