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In Memoriam, Happy Birthday / RIP Dr. John, 77
« on: June 07, 2019, 11:50:31 PM »

Mac Rebennack, the pianist, singer, songwriter and producer better known as Dr. John, who embodied
the New Orleans sound for generations of music fans, died on Thursday.  He was 77.

A family statement released by his publicist said the cause was a heart attack.  The statement did not
say where he died.  He had been living in recent years on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain, La.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/06/obituaries/dr-john-dies.html

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Simon & Garfunkle's The Sounds of Silence in a VW ad that suggests they are going
to introduce an all-electric, contemporary-styled vehicle inspired by the classic VW bus.

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In Memoriam, Happy Birthday / RIP Leon Redbone, 69
« on: May 31, 2019, 05:05:17 PM »

Leon Redbone, who burst onto the pop-music scene in the mid-1970s with a startlingly throwback
singing style and a look to go with it, favoring songs from bygone eras drolly delivered, died on
Thursday in Bucks County, Pa.  He was 69.

His family announced the death on his website.  A specific cause of death was not given, but
Mr. Redbone had retired from performing in 2015 because of ill health.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/30/obituaries/leon-redbone-dead.html

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I still occasionally get the feeling right before ten o'clock that I should be getting ready for something.
(sigh)

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In Memoriam, Happy Birthday / RIP Hal Blaine, 90
« on: March 15, 2019, 05:17:14 PM »

The drummer who was a member of, and coined the name, "the Wrecking Crew."

"Hal Blaine, the ubiquitous drummer whose work in the 1960s and ’70s with Elvis Presley,
Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, the Beach Boys, Simon & Garfunkel, the Ronettes and many
others established him as one of the top session musicians of all time, died on Monday at
his home in Palm Desert, Calif. He was 90."

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/12/obituaries/hal-blaine-dead.html

see also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recordings_of_songs_Hal_Blaine_played_on

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I haven't seen Tom Stienstra's outdoors column in the Sunday Chronicle for several weeks.  Anybody
know why it's been missing?

I'm guessing that Stienstra's Sunday column, along with the "Sunday Drive" feature, was simply
eliminated.  And now the Insight section has been axed as well, reduced from a dozen pages to
three and placed at the end of section A.  The sad downward spiral of newspapers continues.

Yes, a lot of the material is available online.  But then, why go to the Chronicle's web site?  I can
get that commentary anywhere.  And I don't want to sit at my computer on Sunday mornings.

One used to go to the cafe with one's sweetie on Sundays for a fashionably late brunch, trading
sections of the Sunday paper back and forth, and pointing out items of interest.  What do kids do
now, each just staring at their own phones?  Where's the romance in that?

52

Bob Dylan's Blowin' in the Wind, the preeminent anthem of the Civil Rights Movement, in
an advertisement for a piss beer that will not be named.

*sigh*

53

George Clinton's Atomic Dog for E-Trade?!

54

I haven't seen Tom Stienstra's outdoors column in the Sunday Chronicle for several weeks.  Anybody
know why it's been missing?

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In Memoriam, Happy Birthday / RIP Ricky Jay, 70
« on: November 25, 2018, 07:26:14 PM »

Ricky Jay, the master-showman magician, actor, scholar, special effects consultant and author who
was called "the most gifted sleight-of-hand artist alive" by writers for the most prestigious publications
of his time, died on Saturday at his home in Los Angeles.  He was believed to be 70, although some
sources said he was 72.

Winston Simone, his manager, confirmed the death but did not specify a cause.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/25/obituaries/ricky-jay-dead.html

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In Memoriam, Happy Birthday / RIP Douglas Rain, 90
« on: November 12, 2018, 10:11:48 PM »

Douglas Rain, Chilly Voice of a Computer Named HAL, Dies at 90

Douglas Rain, who performed for 32 seasons with the Stratford Festival in Ontario but
was perhaps most famous for one faceless movie role -- the voice of the HAL 9000
computer in Stanley Kubrick's landmark 1968 film, 2001: A Space Odyssey -- died on
Sunday in St. Marys, Ontario. He was 90.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/12/obituaries/douglas-rain-dead.html

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A bit of Peter Gabriel's Solsbury Hill, along with George Clooney and Natalie Dormer, for Nespresso.

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In Memoriam, Happy Birthday / RIP Paul Allen, 65
« on: October 15, 2018, 04:28:30 PM »

Paul G. Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft who helped usher in the personal computing revolution
and then channeled his enormous fortune into transforming Seattle into a cultural destination,
died on Monday in Seattle.  He was 65.

The cause was complications of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, his family said in a statement.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/obituaries/paul-allen-dead.html

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Canned Heat's Let's Work Together for Amazon.

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Prince's Let's Go Crazy for Capital One.

No Doubt's Just A Girl for Macy's.

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