“Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.” Goethe
Hal Willner, Film and TV Music Producer, Dies at 64
The 'Saturday Night Live' staffer apparently contracted the coronavirus.
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Mort Drucker, who had a decades-long association of drawing Mad Magazine, has died at age of 91. I used to love reading Mad Magazine because of the great art by Drucker (and great, humorous writing).
RIP, you entertained so many with your gift.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entert...6hi-story.html
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I just found out about Mort Drucker. I am truly sad.
While there's a lot going on, it seems that Hamilton Bohannon passed...
https://times-herald.com/news/2020/0...ohannon-passes
Music legend Bohannon passes
Mike Huckaby has died, according to various sources
54 years, Covid-19 and a stroke. I keep reading that the coronavirus can bring up strokes as well. It's scary.
"How does the Green Goblin have anything to do with Herpes?" - The Dying Detective
Hillary was right!
RIP Andre HarrellAndre Harrell, a veteran music executive best known as the founder of Uptown Records, where Sean “Puffy” Combs got his start in the business, who later went on to head Motown Records, has died. He was 59.
"How does the Green Goblin have anything to do with Herpes?" - The Dying Detective
Hillary was right!
Little Richard, the man who was the bedrock for rock'n'roll and a huge influence on everybody from James Brown and Elvis to Prince has died at 87.
"How does the Green Goblin have anything to do with Herpes?" - The Dying Detective
Hillary was right!
Just a monster talent. And what an incredible legacy he leaves behind.
Oh my....haven't turned on the TV yet. He was an icon of the rock n' roll genre. What a great sense of humor he had, particularly about himself. I recall an interview he gave once about how he was getting irritated that the bland Pat Boone would do covers of his hits and chart higher. But this was a while back and I've not found a video of it. But IIRC it was not with bitterness that he told the story but with a wicked sense of humor about it. RIP Little Richard, you are a giant in rock n' roll music
Here's a reference about the Pat Boone covers from Rolling Stone
I can't think of any reason why I would want a Pat Boone cover of a Little Richard song.In a sign of how segregated the music business and radio were at the time, though, Pat Boone’s milquetoast covers of “Tutti Frutti” and “Long Tall Sally,” both also released in 1956, charted as well if not higher than Richard’s own versions. (“Boone’s “Tutti Frutti” hit Number 12, surpassing Little Richard’s by nine slots.) Penniman later told Rolling Stone that he made sure to sing “Long Tall Sally” faster than “Tutti Frutti” so that Boone couldn’t copy him as much.
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