In Memoriam

[Old Man Ollie 1962]

Robert Dowdell (Lt. Cdr. Chip Morton) in 'Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea' and Stoney Burke, two ABC series of the 1960s, has died. He was 85.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad passed away at 91.

[MajorHoy]

"Mort Walker, Creator of ‘Beetle Bailey’ Comic Strip, Dies at 94" -

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/27/o...artoonist.html

[Phoenixx9]

Southern Soul diva Denise Lasalle also passed, aged 78.

One of those singers who had one international hit with a bit of a novelty record ("My Toot Toot") but never really stopped working, cranking out very good blues and soul albums on Malaco records.

Ah, I loved "My Toot Toot"!

[PaulBullion]

"Mort Walker, Creator of ‘Beetle Bailey’ Comic Strip, Dies at 94" -

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/27/o...artoonist.html

That is a legendary strip. RIP, Mr Walker.

[PaulBullion]

Ah, I loved "My Toot Toot"!

It's a bit of a zydeco jam, isn't it? Probably played a lot in New Orleans for carnival.

[The Darknight Detective]

That is a legendary strip. RIP, Mr Walker.

One of the first comics I ever read was Beetle Bailey. I even recall the early '60s King Features cartoon shorts that aired on WPIX during the early '70s (around the same time I started reading the funnies).

RIP

[The Darknight Detective]

It's a bit of a zydeco jam, isn't it? Probably played a lot in New Orleans for carnival.

The versions I recall are from Rockin' Sidney and Fats Domino.

[The Darknight Detective]

Jazz giant Hugh Masekela succumbed to cancer. I saw him in concert when I was a teenager, opening for Paul Simon along with Miriam Makeba and Ladysmith Black Mbazo.

I discovered both of them due to Simon's excellent Graceland album. You're very lucky, Paul.

RIP

[MajorHoy]

One of the first comics I ever read was Beetle Bailey. I even recall the early '60s King Features cartoon shorts that aired on WPIX during the early '70s (around the same time I started reading the funnies).

WPIX Channel 11! Ah, a fellow NYC/tri-state area kid!

Can't remember if I would get Beetle Bailey in the New York Daily News or the Newark Star Ledger. (Possibly both.)

Might even have been in Newark Evening News before that paper stopped publication in 1972.

[The Darknight Detective]

WPIX Channel 11! Ah, a fellow NYC/tri-state area kid!

Yep. Born in Brooklyn and moved to Long Island when I was 2 (I lived on the island until '92).

Can't remember if I would get Beetle Bailey in the New York Daily News or the Newark Star Ledger. (Possibly both.)

Definitely the Daily News for my family, Major.

[MajorHoy]

Yep. Born in Brooklyn

So was my Dad (back in '26).

. . . and moved to Long Island . . .

That he didn't do.

Definitely the Daily News for my family, Major.

What about Newsday?
(Though we didn't get that where I grew up in New Jersey.)

[The Darknight Detective]

What about Newsday?
(Though we didn't get that where I grew up in New Jersey.)

We started getting Newsday on Sundays around 1976 and daily by the '80s (while continuing with the Daily News). I can recall getting the Long Island Press on Sundays during the first half of the '70s, FWIW.

[PaulBullion]

Dennis Edwards, former lead singer of the Temptations, passed away at 74. He sang lead on "Papa Was a Rolling Stone."

[Kirby101]

Dennis Edwards, former lead singer of the Temptations, passed away at 74. He sang lead on "Papa Was a Rolling Stone."

What a great voice.