So, as 2018 folded with the death of Dr Hook’s Ray Sawyer, so 2019 opens with the Captain, who died yesterday. Otherwise known as Daryl Dragon, he was a 7os sideman with the Beach Boys, which, for me, gave his schmaltzy hit some credibility. And yes, Tenille was by his side.
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SteveT says
At the age of 21 I went on a road trip around the USA with a couple of mates.
On the radio almost incessantly was the song You never did it like that which for me was made special by Tennile’s sexy voice.
As far as I know they never did anything else worthwhile.
Twang says
I always liked this, though the lyrics are, umm, of their time…
I first heard this song on a C&T album my Dad had… imagine my surprise when it turned up on a Ry Colder album!
Paul Wad says
Another one gone already is Bob Einstein, who most people will know as Marty Funkhouser on Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Neela says
He did a great episode of Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee.
Milkybarnick says
Looked him up – he was also “Super Dave” who used to appear on Clive James’s shows from time to time (and was really funny from what I remember).
daff says
And another one today : Pegi Young – the former Mrs Neil Young. She was such an inspiration for many of his earlier songs.
dai says
She was married to Neil for over 30 years until recently. She was also a singer-songwriter in her own right and organiser of the annual Bridge concerts, they ran for many years raising massive amounts for the special needs Bridge school in California that she founded.
Junior Wells says
That’s a really sad thing especially as not that long since Shakey moved on from their marriage.
dai says
Yep, also Neil’s house burnt down in the California fires.
Junior Wells says
Hopefully not his music archives?
Kaisfatdad says
I wanted to know a little more about her so I Googled.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/04/obituaries/pegi-young-dead.html
She sounds like a rather remarkable lady who achieved great things for kids with disabilities. A sad loss.
John Walters says
RIP Dean Ford of Marmalade fame. This is a great tune.
Feedback_File says
Cracking song – one of those that takes me straight back to my flared trousered and bum fluff ‘tached youth.
deramdaze says
Originally called Dean Ford & The Gaylords.
Their summer of love 45, I See The Rain, was give the thumbs-up in one of those NME/MM Discs of the Week features by none other than Jimi Hendrix.
Of course, it flopped!
Pessoa says
True that. Great psych-pop tune.
Paul Wad says
The Hollies was probably the last of the great 60s bands not to have lost one of its original members (I’d be pleased to be proved wrong), but sadly their original bass player, Eric Haydock, died at the weekend.
NigelT says
The only one I can think of with all members still standing is The Spencer Davis Group. I actually chatted with Spencer about that and the chances if a reunion – he would have loved to have done a 50th anniversary thing, but I don’t think Steve was interested, and Muff hadn’t picked up a bass since he left.
Jorrox says
Manfred Mann, I think, has all original members still with us. Apart from Jack Bruce (one single only and the best thing he ever played on) all the later members are still alive too.
John Walters says
Eric coached me at football in his post music career at Bramhall FC. He also owned a musical instrument shop on Hillgate in Stockport where he sold me a Strat in the ‘80s.
Sad News.
Twang says
I remember that shop! I went is as a spotty 17 year old and the guy behind the counter did the classic music shop thing – completely ignored me and blasted out an endless volley of notes from the Les Paul he was holding before grunting “‘elp you?”.
Sniffity says
Perhaps you should have stood outside and looked through any window.
John Walters says
The shop was right next to the “Bus Stop”
Sniffity says
Ron Smith, erstwhile Judge Dredd artist (whose talent was always taken for granted, IMHO) has drawn his last breath at 94.
Junior Wells says
Another one for the list, alas, is the wonderful singer/back up singer Clydie King. Ray Charles, Dylan et al …..et al.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/clydie-king-ray-charles-bob-dylan-singer-dead-777417/
Junior Wells says
I feel like the grim reaper posting again so soon, and this one is close to the heart. Chris Wilson a gentle giant blues/country singer, phenomenal harp player and pretty good sax player plus an excellent English teacher has died. Cancer got him and got him quick. Not a songwiter he only put out 5 albums but what a presence in the Melb scene. I’ve sen him solo, big venues, small venues. Always that deep powerful voice, harp to draw the marrow out of your bones and an impish repartee with the audience. Close cropped hair, oversized t shirts,a big fat gut he always looked like sonething the cat dragged in but the women loved him Mrs Wells included. He also had an occasional segment on 3RRR reviewing music books – his recommendations never disappointed.
A go fund me campaign raised $A100,000 for his family and his treatment in 2 days.
Farewell one of the good guys.
Junior Wells says
I prefer Wilson’s version to Bob
Junior Wells says
And lastly some blues
Tiggerlion says
Wonderful stuff, Junior. This is the first I’ve heard of him. I’ll make sure I hear him more.
Sniffity says
Windsor Davies – acted a bit, I believe. Gone at 88.
dai says
SHUUUUUUUTTTT UP!!!
Rigid Digit says
Very good at playing Welsh characters.
When I was a kid, I thought It Ain’t Half Your Mum was the funniest thing ever.
Rarely repeated
dai says
Welshman good at playing Welsh characters? Fancy that. Best thing he was in was Grand Slam, don’t know if it was ever shown outside Wales though.
hubert rawlinson says
Edward ‘Ted’ McKenna drummer with The Sensational Alex Harvey Band and others.
Gatz says
Diana Athill has breathed her last after 101 years of well lived life, as documented in her wonderful books. For readers of my generation she came to prominence with Stet, a memoir of her half century as a book editor. From then on she published several more memoirs, often reflecting on age as she neared 90 and then 100, but united by precise prose and piercing psychological insight (which she was equally willing to turn on her own life). But the book I will turn to tonight is Instead of a Letter, and remembrance of a doomed love affair published in 1962 when she was already 44 years old.
duco01 says
Sports journalist Hugh McIlvanney has died, aged 84.
Was he the greatest British sportswriter ever? Well, he was the best I ever read.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/jan/25/hugh-mcilvanney-veteran-sports-reporter-dies-aged-84
Gatz says
It has just been announced that comedian Jeremy Hardy has died of cancer at the far too young age of 57. In later years he fell back on some familiar routines in the News Quiz (though doesn’t everyone on that programme?), but in the 90s and onwards he was one of the funniest people in Britain.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-47056671
Locust says
Izzy Young, the godfather of folk, died at the respectable age of 90 on Monday night here in Stockholm, where he lived and worked since the 70s. A long life well spent.
Edit: Just read that his daughter said he left surrounded by family and his closest friends, to music being played live. A perfect end!
fatima Xberg says
Swiss actor Bruno Ganz died yesterday. I’ll always remember him as Tassilo, the country singer-turned-private-eye from a German TV series, or for his acting in Wim Wenders’ movie “Der amerikanische Freund”.
But he’ll probably always be associated with a certain German dictator.
Moose the Mooche says
Gary says
And Andrea Levy yesterday. Small Island is a book I wholeheartedly recommend. Through four characters it gives a very credible idea of the realities of post war immigration (from Jamaica to UK). I loved it.
ip33 says
Sad to report that Ken Nordine passed away yesterday. Artist on some fantastic albums and inventor of ‘Word Jazz’.
Have some Purple.
Lando Cakes says
Oh no. Until I scrolled down this thread I was unaware of that. I love Colours, which I think might even have been a Word recommendation.
Gatz says
Another Monkee down. Word is coming through that Peter Tork has died at the age of 77. I still play The Monkees music with pleasure, and he was my second favourite.
(Of course I still remember The Monkees in the exact order in which I liked them as a kid. Chances are you remember yours too.)
Mike_H says
Peter Hurford OBE, noted classical organist (particularly for his recordings of Bach’s organ works) and founder of the St. Albans International Organ Festival. He had been in retirement since 2009 due to Alzheimers Disease. He died on Sunday March 3rd aged 88.
Mike_H says
Jacques Loussier, French jazz pianist known for his trio’s interpretations of classical pieces, particularly his “Play Bach” series of recordings, died on March 5th. He was 84.
Best known in the UK for the version of “Air On A G-String” which was used for a Hamlet cigar ad, in the days when tobacco advertising was allowed on TV.
(Pastorale In C-Minor)
minibreakfast says
I think this one has been revealed as a hoax, Mike. Hope so.
Mike_H says
Be good if it was.
minibreakfast says
Guardian and Telegraph now reporting it. Not a great few days for pianist composers, what with Legrand and Previn.
fentonsteve says
Magenta Devine, 61.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-47473388
Junior Wells says
Dorothy Masuka.
For those who don’t know her, file next to Miriam Makeba.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/dorothy-masuka-death-south-african-jazz-singer-apartheid-thabo-mbeki-obituary-a8812791.html
Rigid Digit says
Danny Kustow – TRB guitarist
(TRB mentioned only a few dats ago on here).
The one song he wrote on Power In The Darkness – Ain’t Gonna Take It
Gary says
Surprised Jan Michael Vincent wasn’t added to this thread last month. I don’t know much about him except that he had serious health problems for a long time and that he starred in one of my all-time favourite movies, the magnificent Big Wednesday, a film ostensibly about surfers but really about growing older.
Sewer Robot says
Oops! I did mean to salute JMV – he did appear in an absolute mountain of sh*t, but I always liked him and Big Wednesday is truly magnificent. I also have a soft spot for ropey 70s post-apocalyptic movie Damnation Alley (I think it’s actually the film he made immediately before BW) which is like Judge Dredd’s Cursed Earth strip if, instead of the limitless cash of just being able to draw stuff, you were restricted to a pre-Alien budget.
Damnation Alley is up on Yer Tube btw – I’m not recommending it mind, I just said I have a soft spot for it…
https://youtu.be/UcmVSVkSKJk
Sitheref2409 says
I’m glad he’s being remembered for Big Wednesday, which is a really great movie.
Airwolf was cool, but Big Wednesday was so good I bought it on DVD and rewatch it frequently.
Moose the Mooche says
Pat Laffan, immortalised forever as the great Pat Mustard.
Bargepole says
Bernie Torme – guitarist with, among others, Gillan and Ozzy.
Beezer says
Ahhh, man, that’s a shame.
Another one from my teenage years gone.
count jim moriarty says
Dick Dale. He had health problems for many years – apparently his treatment and medication was costing $3000 per month.
Rigid Digit says
Ranking Roger – Vocalist / Toaster of The Beat.
Billybob Dylan says
Sorry, I didn’t see this. I just created a new post. I was quite shocked to hear of his passing, especially as he was only 56.
Sewer Robot says
Not F.A.B.
As no-one else has stepped up, I’m gonna mention Shane Rimmer, best known perhaps as the voice of Scott Tracy on Thunderbirds, but was in heaps more Gerry Anderson stuff, as well as most of the other cool shows from that time, being available to fill the role of “the American geezer” (although he was Canadian).
I was surprised to read he was in Coronation Street for quite a few episodes, but, Thunderbirds aside, the thing I always remember him for was his part in the 80s drama A Very British Coup where he teased Ray McAnally’s football-loving Yorkshire Prime Minister by misnaming his favourite club as “Sheffield Tuesday”.
(Hmmmm. AVBC is on All 4 and I’ve not seen it in a long time – might have a watch tomorrow).
Bargepole says
Paul Raymond, keyboard player and guitarist with UFO, passed away suddenly of a heart attack last weekend.
davebigpicture says
Edward Kelsey: Joe Grundy in The Archers. I can’t imagine they’ll replace the actor as the character is about 90.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-48036700
fentonsteve says
*brace yourselves for a Ruth Archer impression*
“Err Nerr!”
dai says
Ken Kercheval of Dallas fame (83), played the legendary loser Cliff Barnes (I am re-watching Dallas at the moment).
Black Celebration says
He was great – so many impenetrable business deals in Dallas. It generally involves “Punk!” Anderson, the bank and options on oilfields. Cliff would look stressed because something is not going well.. How come the bank has frozen his line of credit and calling in their loans and why is Punk not returning his calls…?
A grinning JR appears, uninvited, in his office followed by Cliff’s apologetic secretary .”You’re a loser, Barnes – always were!” . Cliff looks horrified “It’s YOU that’s behind all of this?”
“Well you crossed the line, Barnes. You didn’t think I would let the (insert unfathomable business transaction here) just *happen*, do you? Why…you must be even more stupid than I thought you were. And that’s saying somethin’!”
Cliff – “JR – you bastard son of a ….”
JR – ” now now Barnes, don’t get all worked up now…Your health is all you got now…*grin*
And so on
dai says
He was such a jerk, he deserved it. JR without the brains or charm, expertly played by Khercheval.
Sewer Robot says
The J.R./ Cliff thing was the closest drama has come to being professional wrestling: the plucky challenger seems to be getting on top. This time he might do it! Wait… the bad man (*hiss! boo!*) has a wheel brace hidden behind his back AND THE REF CAN’T SEE IT!
One crunch of metal on bone later and Barnes is flat out on the floor.
J.R. basks a moment in the opprobrium of the crowd, replaces his cowboy hat and, leaving the ring, departs for the changing room with Barnes’ girlfriend.
Rematch next Friday – tune in to see who will prevail!
fentonsteve says
Boon Gould, guitarist with Level 42, on 30th April.
Moose the Mooche says
Oh no! A good man in a storm indeed.
Gary says
Peggy Lipton. She was excellent in Twin Peaks. (OH YES!)
Moose the Mooche says
D’oh!
Rigid Digit says
Niki Lauda
3 times F1 World Champion, Airline boss, head of Mercedes Motorsport, and wearer of contact lenses
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/46781936
Locust says
Art Neville at 81 years old. Founding member of The Meters, and a Neville Brother. Leaving us a little less funky.
Slug says
Valerie Harper, wise-cracking best friend in the ‘Mary Tyler Moore Show’ and then star of her own long running spin-off series ‘Rhoda’.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/30/obituaries/valerie-harper-dead.html
davebigpicture says
I like to think there’s an entry phone on the Pearly Gates.
Valerie Harper buzzes
“Hello, this is Carlton your doorman.”
Sniffity says
Voiced by Lorenzo Music, who alas also expired some years ago.
Gary says
It passed me by that Freda Dowie passed away last month, aged 91. She played Terence Davies’ mother opposite Pete Postlethwaite in my favourite ever film, Distant Voices, Still Lives. Davies has said that he would never have made the film if she had turned down the role. She was also memorable in the TV adaptation of Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit.
(A curious bit of movie trivia: while reading an article about Dowie, I came across the fact that Lorraine Ashbourne, who played Davies’ sister Maisie in DVSL, is married to Andy Serkis.)
IanP says
Larry Wallis died last month. Amongst a long CV, he was a Pink Fairy, a Motorhead, and wrote for Dr Feel good.
If memory serves, he was also performing solo on the famous Stiff tour.
Black Type says
Peter Sissons, broadcaster and classmate of John Lennon. RIP.
Martin Hairnet says
I thought he was a classmate of George Harrison? He was 77, so that would put him in The Quiet One’s class, I think.
Black Type says
Lennon and Tarby at primary school, Macca and George (and Bill Kenwright) at the Liverpool Institute. Just missing Ringo and Cilla for the full set.
Rigid Digit says
David Bellamy
Naturalist, Botanist and Environmentalist.
Always excitable, and extremely passionate about his subject.
A big bushy beard too
Lenny Henry’s impression on Tiswas has caused me, at the very mention of David Bellamy, yo utter:
“Well wobble me gwape nuts Chris”
Moose the Mooche says
There used to be some top-quality nutters on TV didn’t there? Same period as Barbara Woodhouse (siii-IIIIT!), James Burke, Carl Sagan, Johnny Ball (the arm-wavingest man in the universe). Bless ’em all.
Sitheref2409 says
Jilly Goolden?
And on a point of order – Carl Sagan was not a nutter. Polymath, but I would argue one of the saner smart folks out there.
Moose the Mooche says
I do not mean nutter as a term of disparagement. Certainly not.
I think more generally, as was said recently upon the passing of Clive James and Jonathan Miller, there is a paucity of properly clever people on the box as there was in the days when it was supposedly dominated by Dusty Bin and J*mmy S*vil*.
Now the BBC’s idea of an intellectual is Lucy Worsley, whose main shtick is dressing in silly clothes and pinching ideas off other people.
Colin H says
You have a point there, Moosemeister. One striking TV memory I have (I have no idea why) is of a rather dry interview programme with Isaiah Berlin. I’ve just checked online and this must have been a 45 minute programme where Berlin is interviewed by Bryan Magee on his philosophical ideas in 1979. I would have been 11 at the time. As I recall, there was no set as such – just a bare, clinical space with two dry intellectuals talking. You would never get this today. Even if it was re-run as ‘slow TV’ on BBC4 it would be TOO slow – they’d have to superimpose witty comments on the screen and other effects (like reindeer trudging through snow) to keep the viewer visually on board…
Moose the Mooche says
…or a commentary by Dave Lamb and some plinky-plonky incidental music.
Sitheref2409 says
I absolutely despise Lucy Worsley.
The Lipscomb lass though. She knows her onions and delightfully in one of her books absolutely skewers Starkey, which had me smiling as I read it.
Beezer says
My brother once helped carry him up and down a hill in Northumberland on a stretcher for charity.
My memoirs are writing themselves.
count jim moriarty says
Surely ‘gwapple me gwapenuts’!
Sewer Robot says
No salute for Danny Aiello?
Granted, he never got the career bounce he should have after Do The Right Thing, but he was a quality player..
dai says
Sewer Robot says
There’s no way they’d let her up those stairs now.
It’s health and safety gone mad!!
davebigpicture says
Another piece of childhood gone: Big Bird puppeteer Caroll Spinney
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-50705508
mikethep says
Anna Karina’s gone.
Kaisfatdad says
Anna Karina was born in Denmark! She hitchhiked to Paris in search of fame and fortune.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/dec/15/anna-karina-french-new-wave-star-dies-aged-79-jean-luc-godard
Marriage to Jean Luc Godard was not easy.
“We loved each other a lot,” Karina told AFP in an interview in Paris in March 2018. “But it was complicated to live with him,” she added.
“He was someone who could say to you, ‘I am going to get some cigarettes’ and come back three weeks later.”
Chrisf says
As we close out the year, still time for one more….. Kenny Lynch
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-50836579
dai says
Band on the Run cover star.
Rigid Digit says
Martin Peters – West Ham, Tottenham, Norwich and Sheffield United. Scored in the 66 World Cup Final. Was the first £200k player. Described as 10 years ahead of his time. Fine player, rarely injured
Gave it all up in 1981 to sell insurance
Gatz says
One of the greats has left us as author and muralist Alasdair Gray has died. He was 85 and in poor health since a fall down a flight of stone steps a few years ago broke his back and left him in a wheelchair, but a sad loss nonetheless.
https://canongate.co.uk/news/alasdair-gray-author-and-artist-has-died-aged-85/