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scott
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response 150 of 244:
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Feb 18 23:49 UTC 2000 |
Screamin' Jay Hawkins, died Feb 13. Quite the showman. :(
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mcnally
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response 151 of 244:
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Feb 19 00:18 UTC 2000 |
Promoters are already organizing the "Screamin' Jay Hawkins Voodoo Zombie"
tour.. :-|
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bruin
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response 152 of 244:
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Feb 19 01:32 UTC 2000 |
William Oliver Swofford died of cancer in Shreveport, LA, on 2/12/00. That
name may not ring a bell until I tell you that, using only his middle name
professionally, he had top ten hits in 1969 with "Good Morning Starshine"
(from the musical "Hair") and "Jean" (from "The Pride Of Miss Jean Brodie").
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goose
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response 153 of 244:
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Feb 25 16:25 UTC 2000 |
Israili pop star Ofra Haza died Feb 23, 2000 at the age of 41. Details of
her death are not being released, but she had been in the hospital for several
weeks. Her funeral was attneded by both current PM Ehud Barak and former
PM Shimon Peres.
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krj
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response 154 of 244:
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Feb 27 04:10 UTC 2000 |
Holy shit. I saw the report on cnn.com when she went into the hospital
-- I vaguely recall that the report was of heart problems.
Ofra Haza was one of the first artists in the mid-80s world music boom.
Her album "Yemenite Songs" was quite popular in our household for a
few years.
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krj
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response 155 of 244:
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Mar 27 20:05 UTC 2000 |
The April issue of the British magazine Folk Roots quotes Israeli
sources as saying that Ofra Haza died of AIDS, which is still
considered a taboo subject there.
Today's web news reports the death of Ian Dury, from cancer.
Ian Dury and the Blockheads were part of the first wave of British
punk on the Stiff Records label; Dury's big hit was "Sex and Drugs
and Rock and Roll," and there was a second hit with
"Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick," which is an old favorite song
of Leslie's.
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krj
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response 156 of 244:
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Mar 27 20:12 UTC 2000 |
Dury was 57. His music career had fizzled in the 1980s, and he
turned to acting and painting. He appeared in the films "The Cook,
The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover," and in Roman Polanski's "Pirates."
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katie
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response 157 of 244:
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Mar 27 21:20 UTC 2000 |
Last week Ed(?) McCurdy died. He wrote "Last Night I Had The Strangest
Dream," among other beloved and popular songs.
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dbratman
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response 158 of 244:
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Apr 1 00:58 UTC 2000 |
Vivian Fine, one of the more prominent women among the large, fruitful
generation of American composers prominent in the 1930s-50s, died
recently. She was 86.
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bruin
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response 159 of 244:
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May 3 13:30 UTC 2000 |
And another jazz legend has bitten the dust!
Trumpeter Jonah Jones died on April 30, 2000, at the age of 90. He had
played with the Cab Calloway orchestra, and later had a successful solo
career with jazzed-up versions of Broadway show tunes such as "On The
Street Where You Live" and "Baubles, Bangles & Beads." He retired from
performing in 1993.
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goose
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response 160 of 244:
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Jun 1 14:03 UTC 2000 |
Latin percussionist Tito Puente passed away yesterday.
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scott
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response 161 of 244:
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Jul 2 13:39 UTC 2000 |
'Cub' Koda, an Ann Arbor rock star from years ago, died last night.
He's most famous for the Brownsville Station hit "Smokin in the Boys Room".
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tpryan
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response 162 of 244:
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Jul 2 14:05 UTC 2000 |
He's gone to dance the "Martain Boogie" after some "Random
Drug Testing".
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orinoco
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response 163 of 244:
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Jul 2 21:52 UTC 2000 |
I'd had no idea he was from Ann Arbor....
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katie
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response 164 of 244:
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Jul 3 03:58 UTC 2000 |
He was my neighbor of late.
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happyboy
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response 165 of 244:
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Jul 3 04:03 UTC 2000 |
i'm havin a memory here...was he by any chance a
native american?
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katie
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response 166 of 244:
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Jul 3 12:43 UTC 2000 |
Perhaps you're thinking of Ricky Medlocke and his brothers, of "Blackfoot."
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happyboy
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response 167 of 244:
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Jul 3 14:17 UTC 2000 |
oh...maybe. useta hang out with *whoever*
at the liberty inn in the mid 80's once in
awhile.
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isis
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response 168 of 244:
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Jul 4 00:32 UTC 2000 |
Cub Koda was actually from Waterloo, Michigan. I used to live down the street
from him, back in my Chelsea days...
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bruin
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response 169 of 244:
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Sep 12 18:30 UTC 2000 |
Just heard that jazz musician Stanley Turrentine had died. He was
scheduled to perform at the Ann Arbor Blue & Jazz Festival this weekend.
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goose
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response 170 of 244:
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Sep 13 03:11 UTC 2000 |
Yep, he apparently had a stroke a day or so ago.
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tpryan
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response 171 of 244:
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Nov 1 17:59 UTC 2000 |
Steve Allen passed away in the evening of Octover 30, 2000.
Known also a TV personality that brought The Tonight Show to network
TV (for 3 years before Jack Parr had it for a few more and Johny Carson
hosted for 30 years), Steve Allen also is know for writting over 4,000
songs. He wrote a number of them for Steve Lawernce and Eddie Gormet,
who where the featured singers on his TV show.
If I recall correctly he also wrote "This Could Be the Start
of Something Big".
Your memories?
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brighn
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response 172 of 244:
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Nov 1 20:50 UTC 2000 |
I was sharing this around the office: One of my favorite bits is actually
timely. Back when the Tonight Show was Allen's, he did a "man in the street"
bit (much like Leno's Jaywalking). He went about asking people their reactions
if it turned out the President was heterosexual. He got everything from "I
don't think that would be apporpriate at all, he should resign" to "I don't
think that sort of thing really matters, it's a private thing."
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tpryan
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response 173 of 244:
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Nov 1 23:11 UTC 2000 |
Steve Allen was also one to who did not have to get the laughs
himself, as long as people remember his *show* for being funny.
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bmoran
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response 174 of 244:
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Nov 2 16:42 UTC 2000 |
Steve also introduced quite a few new musicians on his show. One was a
young guy from California named Frank Zappa, who tapped drumsticks on an
upsidedown bicycle. When Steve asked him how long he had been playing the
bicycle, Frank replied 'about 20 minutes, the rest of the band didn't show
up, so I had to do something'. Steve laughed.
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