07 – Dennis Thomas, Musician/saxophonist – co-founded “Kool and the Gang” 1964-present) hits include: “Ladies’ Night”, “Celebration”, “Get Down on It” won 2 Grammy Awards – age 70 07 – Jane Withers, Actress – played Joy Smythe in movie “Bright Eyes” opposite Shirley Tem...
Legendary drummer for Kool & The Gang,George “Funky” Brown, died at his Los Angeles home on Thursday night (Nov. 16) following a battle with stage 4 cancer. Brown was diagnosed with lung cancer a few years earlier and was in remission for a while. Brown returned to touring with the ...
Hate to spoil the party What are you guys havin' The same Waiter another round for the gang It's strange how I always felt outta place Joe the butcher's my ace But in comes freckle face So I said see you later 'Fore I hurt him and his two ugly thumb breakers He met...
December 31, 2020, 12:00pm Little Richard, Founding Father of Rock Who Broke Musical Barriers, Dead at 87 Pianist-singer behind “Tutti Frutti,”“Good Golly Miss Molly,” and “Long Tall Sally” set the template that a generation of musicians would follow. ...
Seagram and fellow rapper Gangsta P were both shot by an unidentified gunman while they were getting out of a van in East Oakland. P survived his wounds but Seagram died an hour after the shooting at Highland Hospital, having sufferedmultiple gunshot wounds. Police say Seagram released a song...
s. roemer mentioned a code name, mr. lincoln, but was unsure as to whether it referred to korshak or one of the callers—a man named murray humphreys. known as the camel, more often as the hump, this british-born hood, who died in 1965, was regarded as an elder statesman of the ...
His first and indeed biggest solo hit was "Just Like Eddie", a tribute to Eddie Cochran who had died in a car crash in 1960. Heinz went on, over the next few years, to record probably more singles with Meek than any other of the RGM acts and an album of predominantly Cochran materia...