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tikilongbeach
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|  Posted: 2013-01-07 1:07 pm Permalink
Huell Howser, rest in peace.
www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Huell-Howser-Death-California-Gold-185922911.html
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Atomic Tiki Punk
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From: Costa Misery
| Posted: 2013-01-07 1:46 pm Permalink
Wow! I had heard he was sick & his very sudden retirement from the show biz
was out of the blue just a few months ago......RIP Huell
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bamalamalu
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Joined: Mar 20, 2006
Posts: 384 | Posted: 2013-01-10 10:35 am Permalink
Happy Trials, Rex.
Rex Trailer, host of ‘Boomtown’ TV show, dies at 84
http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/2013/01/10/rex-trailer-host-boomtown-show-dies/LFjejyLVQ3pbPIH7Soh3dP/story.html
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King Bushwich the 33rd
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| Posted: 2013-01-12 12:41 am Permalink
Veteran radio broadcaster Frank Page passed away at the age of 87 on Jan 9, 2013
Voice of Louisiana Hayride, who helped introduce Elvis Presley to worldwide audiences on the show in 1954.
Fox Memphis: Frank Page
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bamalamalu
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Posts: 384 | Posted: 2013-01-16 7:20 pm Permalink
Conrad Bain, of "Maude" and "Diff'rent Strokes," 89.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/16/entertainment-us-usa-people-bain-idUSBRE90F1N620130116
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bamalamalu
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Posts: 384 | Posted: 2013-01-17 11:20 am Permalink
And now Dear Abby
http://news.yahoo.com/dear-abby-advice-columnist-dies-age-94-184114087.html
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King Bushwich the 33rd
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| Posted: 2013-01-18 1:37 pm Permalink
Radio Disk Jockey Jimmy O'Neill
Jan. 8, 1940 - Jan 11, 2013
Worked at L.A. top 40 station KRLA. At the age of 20, he had the most popular program in his time slot, making him the youngest person ever to have a No. 1 show -- a record that still stands.
Host of ABC's "Shindig!" one of the earliest teen-oriented music TV shows. "Shindig!" featured the Who, the Rolling Stones, Sam Cooke, the Beach Boys and the Righteous Brothers among its list of superstars.
Daily News: Jimmy O'Neill
Shindig!
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Big Kahuna
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From: SoMass
| Posted: 2013-01-30 3:47 pm Permalink
Patty Andrews at 94 
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/50644514
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King Bushwich the 33rd
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| Posted: 2013-02-05 12:08 am Permalink
Reg Presley, lead singer of 60s British rock band The Troggs.
June 12, 1943 - February 4, 2013
BBC: Reg Presley
YouTube: Love Is All Around
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lucas vigor
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From: "I've chopped my way through real jungle
| Posted: 2013-02-06 11:39 am Permalink
Glenn Miller trombonist Paul Tanner dies at 95
Feb. 6, 2013, 1:09 PM EST
CARLSBAD, Calif. (AP) -- Paul Tanner, a trombonist with the Glenn Miller Orchestra who later played a space-age instrument on the Beach Boys hit "Good Vibrations," has died at 95.
Bing: More on Paul Tanner
His stepson, Douglas Darnell, of Youngstown, Ohio, says Tanner died of pneumonia Tuesday morning at an assisted living center in Carlsbad, Calif.
Tanner performed with Miller from 1938 to 1942. During his long career, he also worked as a movie studio and ABC musician in California, and performed with Tex Beneke, Henry Mancini and Arturo Toscanini, among others.
He also helped develop the electro-theremin, a keyboard-style electronic instrument. Tanner provided its eerie sound on several Beach Boys recordings, including "Good Vibrations."
Tanner also was a music professor at UCLA for 23 years and helped write several books.
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lucas vigor
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From: "I've chopped my way through real jungle
| Posted: 2013-02-07 6:41 pm Permalink
Jazz great Donald Byrd dies at 80
Feb. 7, 2013, 7:00 PM EST
WENN
Influential jazz great Donald Byrd has died, aged 80.
Bing: Videos of Donald Byrd
The news was announced by the trumpeter's nephew Alex Bugnon, who told AmoebaMusic.com that certain family members were trying to keep the death under "an unnecessary shroud of secrecy."
Byrd reportedly passed away on Monday, but details of his death have not been released.
The jazz man launched his career with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers in the 1950s and performed alongside the likes of John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk and Herbie Hancock.
His Blue Note Records album "Black Byrd" became a bestseller for the iconic company and led to the trumpeter forming a group called The Blackbyrds in the 1970s.
Byrd's work has been sampled by hip-hop artists including Public Enemy, Nas and the Pharcyde.
A statement from his nephew reads: "Let's remember Donald as a one of a kind pioneer of the trumpet, of the many styles of music he took on, of music education. In sum, Donald was an avid, eternal student of music, until his death."
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King Bushwich the 33rd
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From: Ling Cod Beach, CA 90803
| Posted: 2013-02-18 12:13 am Permalink
*William Watts "Buck" Biggers
June 2, 1927 – February 10, 2013
Co-creator of the Underdog, Tooter Turtle, Tennessee Tuxedo, Go Go Gophers, The World of Commander McBragg and Klondike Kat
New York Daily News: W. Watts Biggers
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*Record producer and songwriter George Francis "Shadow" Morton
September 3, 1940 – February 14, 2013
Songwriter of "Remember (Walking In The Sand)", “Give Him a Great Big Kiss” and “I Can Never Go Home Anymore,” which became hits for the Shangri-Las.
As a producer, Mr. Morton was best known for Janis Ian’s hit single “Society’s Child,” several albums by the psychedelic rock group Vanilla Fudge; and “Too Much Too Soon” (1974), by the New York Dolls.
New York Times: "Shadow" Morton"
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tikilongbeach
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| Posted: 2013-02-18 08:27 am Permalink
Los Angeles Lakers owner Jerry Buss. January 27, 1934 - February 18, 2013
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King Bushwich the 33rd
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From: Ling Cod Beach, CA 90803
| Posted: 2013-02-20 11:55 am Permalink
British Musician Kevin Ayers
co-founded the Soft Machine
Aug 16, 1944 - Feb 18, 2013
Spin: Kevin Ayers
BBC DJ John Peel wrote in his autobiography that "Kevin Ayers' talent is so acute you could perform major eye surgery with it."
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Singer/Guitarist Tony Sheridan
early collaborator of The Beatles
May 21, 1940 - Feb 16, 2013
BBC News: Tony Sheridan
Official Tony Sheridan site
Sheridan and the Beatles recorded nine songs together, with Sheridan singing on seven of them ("My Bonnie," "The Saints," "Why (Can't You Love Me Again)," "Nobody's Child," "Take Out Some Insurance On Me, Baby," "Sweet Georgia Brown" and "Swanee River").
But the Beatles were listed as The Beat Brothers. (The word “Beatles” did not translate in German—except as a slang term for the male sex organ).
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| Posted: 2013-03-05 08:49 am Permalink
Rick Huxley, bass player for the Dave Clark Five. Feb. 13.
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