Obituaries for 2020

[TomSea]

CBS News Journalist Maria Mercader Dies at 54 After Testing Positive for Coronavirus
Jeremy Fuster

Maria Mercader, a CBS News veteran who worked for over 30 years as a reporter and talent director, died on Sunday after testing positive for coronavirus. She was 54.



More:   https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/cbs-news-journalist-maria-mercader-dies-at-54-after-testing-positive-for-coronavirus/ar-BB11Sun0?OCID=ansmsnnews11

NBC also lost someone on their staff about 5-7 days ago.

[TomSea]

David Schramm, Star on NBC’s ‘Wings,’ Dies at 73
Jordan Moreau
17 hrs ago


David Schramm, a stage actor who was also a star on the NBC comedy “Wings,” has died. He was 73.

Schramm was a founding member of New York’s The Acting Company, which announced the news of his death on Sunday.

He played Roy Biggins, the rival airline owner on “Wings,” and appeared in all 172 episodes between 1990 and 1997. ...


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Wings was good, wow, 172 whole episodes, rest in peace.

[jmyrlefuller]

Tomie dePaola
Children's author/illustrator dies at 85

dePaola is best known for Strega Nona, an old Italian woman based on his own grandparents. He parlayed the character into a series of children's books, which are among approximately 250 that he wrote or illustrated during his lifetime.

dePaola died March 30 from injuries sustained in a fall and complications from surgery.

Obituary from Time magazine

Wikipedia

Strega Nona at the Internet Archive

[Cyber Liberty]

Tomie dePaola
Children's author/illustrator dies at 85

dePaola is best known for Strega Nona, an old Italian woman based on his own grandparents. He parlayed the character into a series of children's books, which are among approximately 250 that he wrote or illustrated during his lifetime.

dePaola died March 30 from injuries sustained in a fall and complications from surgery.

Obituary from Time magazine

Wikipedia

Strega Nona at the Internet Archive

Thanks for the Strega Nona link!

[Gefn]

Nobel laureate and Princeton physicist Philip Anderson dies at age 96

Philip Warren Anderson, one of the greatest theoretical physicists of the postwar era, died Sunday, March 29, at Princeton Windrows, age 96. Anderson was the Joseph Henry Professor of Physics, Emeritus, at Princeton University. His illustrious career included a Nobel Prize and fundamental contributions to understanding the nature of materials and collective phenomena more generally — from everyday items such as magnets to exotic superconductors and new forms of matter such as topologically ordered states. He also contributed to the Anderson-Higgs mechanism, which is a key basis for the Standard Model of Particle Physics.

https://www.princeton.edu/news/2020/03/30/nobel-laureate-and-princeton-physicist-philip-anderson-dies-age-96

[jmyrlefuller]

Thanks for the Strega Nona link!

The Internet Archive is a wonderful resource for books. They have most of dePaola's books.
https://archive.org/search.php?query=tomie+depaola&and%5B%5D=mediatype%3A%22texts%22&page=2

[TomSea]

PIONEER DEAD Famed neurosurgeon Dr. James T. Goodrich who separated conjoined twins dies from coronavirus complications

    Niamh Cavanagh

    Mar 31 2020, 11:04 ETUpdated: Mar 31 2020, 12:16 ET

A WORLD famous neurosurgeon who separated conjoined twins four years ago has died after being diagnosed with coronavirus.

Dr James Goodrich, a pediatric neurosurgeon at New York City's Montefiore Medical Centre, died yesterday after suffering complications due to COVID-19.

Twins that Dr Goodrich separated in 2016Credit: Facebook

Montefiore Medical Centre CEO, Dr Philip Ozuah said: "Dr Goodrich was a beacon of our institution and he will be truly missed.

Read more at: https://www.the-sun.com/news/615922/neurosurgeon-james-goodrich-dead-coronavirus-conjoined-twins/

Saddened by this tragedy indeed and for everyone this is happening too. More pictures at link.

[Neverdul]

Adam Schlesinger, Emmy Winner and Fountains of Wayne Cofounder, Dies of Coronavirus Complications

https://variety.com/2020/music/news/adam-schlesinger-coronavirus-dead-dies-1203552130/

Adam Schlesinger, a musician and songwriter highly regarded for his work as a member of Fountains of Wayne and an Emmy-winning songwriter for TV’s “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” has died as a result of coronavirus complications, Variety has confirmed. He was 52.

He had previously been reported Tuesday morning as “very sick and heavily sedated” by his attorney of 25 years, Josh Grier. He had been in an upstate New York hospital for more than a week at that time, Grier said.

His Oscar nomination in 1997 was for writing the theme song for the Tom Hanks-directed film “That Thing You Do!,” one of his first successful forays outside the realm of his own music-making with Fountains of Wayne. He was also nominated for a Golden Globe at that time.

“Welcome Interstate Managers” in 2003, the album that generated “Stacy’s Mom” (and its Rachel Hunter-starring video), remained their most popular work.


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[goatprairie]

Adam Schlesinger, Emmy Winner and Fountains of Wayne Cofounder, Dies of Coronavirus Complications

https://variety.com/2020/music/news/adam-schlesinger-coronavirus-dead-dies-1203552130/

Adam Schlesinger, a musician and songwriter highly regarded for his work as a member of Fountains of Wayne and an Emmy-winning songwriter for TV’s “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” has died as a result of coronavirus complications, Variety has confirmed. He was 52.

He had previously been reported Tuesday morning as “very sick and heavily sedated” by his attorney of 25 years, Josh Grier. He had been in an upstate New York hospital for more than a week at that time, Grier said.

His Oscar nomination in 1997 was for writing the theme song for the Tom Hanks-directed film “That Thing You Do!,” one of his first successful forays outside the realm of his own music-making with Fountains of Wayne. He was also nominated for a Golden Globe at that time.

“Welcome Interstate Managers” in 2003, the album that generated “Stacy’s Mom” (and its Rachel Hunter-starring video), remained their most popular work.


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www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzllVlzzeuo

That's how far out of the loop I am. I've never heard of this guy or the group.

[Smokin Joe]

That's how far out of the loop I am. I've never heard of this guy or the group.

Me, neither, but that's why I check the music threads out. Might hear something I like I hadn't seen before.

[musiclady]

Ellis Marsalis, Patriarch of New Orleans Most Musical Family - dead of Coronavirus

This is a great loss.

His album "Resolution of Romance" with his son Wynton, is one of the most beautiful jazz albums I've ever heard.

[sneakypete]

Ellis Marsalis, Patriarch of New Orleans Most Musical Family - dead of Coronavirus

This is a great loss.

His album "Resolution of Romance" with his son Wynton, is one of the most beautiful jazz albums I've ever heard.

@musiclady

It can't possibly be true,but it sure SEEMS like that entire family is musically gifted,doesn't it?

[mountaineer]

Yes, an extremely talented family. My sister had the thrill of recording with Wynton when she was attending Eastman. Afterwards, he attended a "wrap party" at her house. What another thrill. Excuse me, now I need to cue up some Ellis Marsalis tunes.

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[musiclady]

@musiclady

It can't possibly be true,but it sure SEEMS like that entire family is musically gifted,doesn't it?

They say that music is the most frequently inherited trait, so combine that with the environment that the patriarch raised them in, and I guess the natural ability blossomed into an amazingly gifted family.

[musiclady]

Yes, an extremely talented family. My sister had the thrill of recording with Wynton when she was attending Eastman. Afterwards, he attended a "wrap party" at her house. What a thrill. Excuse me, now I need to cue up some Ellis Marsalis tunes.

Jealous!

[EasyAce]

They say that music is the most frequently inherited trait, so combine that with the environment that the patriarch raised them in, and I guess the natural ability blossomed into an amazingly gifted family.

@musiclady

The only families in jazz I could say were equal to the Marsalises were:

The Heaths---Percy (longtime bassist with the Modern Jazz Quartet), Albert (nicknamed "Tootie"; drummer extraordinaire, who also stepped in with the MJQ after their longtime drummer Connie Kay died), and Jimmy (saxophonist).

The Jones boys---Hank (pianist), Thad (great trumpeter), and Elvin (arguably the greatest jazz drummer of the 1960s---Art Blakey and Tony Williams might have been up there with him---with and without his work in John Coltrane's "classic quartet").

RIP Ellis.

[sneakypete]

They say that music is the most frequently inherited trait, so combine that with the environment that the patriarch raised them in, and I guess the natural ability blossomed into an amazingly gifted family.

@musiclady

It has also GOT to be said that talent was nurtured and fed by attending church services and singing gospel music.

Nobody seems to want to admit it for some reason,but the root of ALL popular music in America today is one Protestant Church or another.

Does the name "Aretha" ring any bells?

How about "church boy" Same Cooke?


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[Cyber Liberty]

They say that music is the most frequently inherited trait, so combine that with the environment that the patriarch raised them in, and I guess the natural ability blossomed into an amazingly gifted family.

Not in my family.  My brother played organ for a Lutheran Church, I can't carry a tune in a basket and flunked out of Band.

[musiclady]

Not in my family.  My brother played organ for a Lutheran Church, I can't carry a tune in a basket and flunked out of Band.

There are exceptions to every rule.

Consider yourself exceptional. 

[EasyAce]

How about "church boy" Same Cooke?


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@sneakypete

This was Sam Cooke in his gospel years---when he first attracted attention as the lead voice (and most popular and respected such voice) of the legendary Soul Stirrers . . .

The Soul Stirrers, "Nearer My God to Thee"

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The Soul Stirrers, "Be With Me Jesus"

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You had a point about Aretha Franklin, too. Columbia Records spent several years trying to find a way to push her but to no avail. When they dropped her, Jerry Wexler of Atlantic Records signed her up at once. Asked what he thought he could do that Columbia couldn't, Wexler laid it down flatly: "We're gonna put her back in church." Meaning he'd let Aretha do what Columbia couldn't or wouldn't---let her lean on her gospel roots. (And, give in when session musician Spooner Oldham, noticing how uncomfortable she was just singing, told Wexler, "I know you hired me to play piano but look at her. Put her at the piano and let me play the organ or the vibes or something." Bull's eye.) The rest, of course . . .

Aretha Franklin, "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)"

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Motown did much the same thing with Gladys Knight & the Pips when they signed with the company and were put on the Soul subsidiary label. Producer/writers Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong handed them a song they'd written that played right to the Pips' gospel origins. Gladys Knight herself once said the group lived with the song for a full week, "tearing it down, doing the little things," and the result was not just their first crossover hit but just sweat right out of the classic black storefront church from opening to fade . . .

Gladys Knight & the Pips, "I Heard It Through the Grapevine"

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[sneakypete]

@sneakypete

This was Sam Cooke in his gospel years---when he first attracted attention as the lead voice (and most popular and respected such voice) of the legendary Soul Stirrers . . .

@EasyAce

Yes,I know about the earlier years,but I figured most people would be more familiar with something spiritual (in every sense) from his later years.

Plus,it helps make the point about the origins of R&B,soul,rock and roll,blues,country,and every other form of America music coming straight out of the Protestant Churches.

BTW,I love just writing "Aretha" on posts about music because I know when the time comes that someone finally asks "Aretha who?",it's time to have dirt thrown in my face because I will have truly outlived my time.

[sneakypete]

@sneakypete

 

Gladys Knight & the Pips, "I Heard It Through the Grapevine"

@EasyAce

To this very day I can't make up my mind who did that song the best,Gladys,or CCR. I generally tend to lean towards CCR,but then I hear her version again,and things ain't as clear as they were before.

If you knew how big a fan of CCR I was back in those days,you would know this is saying something wonderful about Gladys Knight.

[EasyAce]

@EasyAce

To this very day I can't make up my mind who did that song the best,Gladys,or CCR. I generally tend to lean towards CCR,but then I hear her version again,and things ain't as clear as they were before.

If you knew how big a fan of CCR I was back in those days,you would know this is saying something wonderful about Gladys Knight.

@sneakypete
I'm a lifelong Creedence Clearwater Revival and John Fogerty fan, but while it was fun to hear them jam "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" in their style, it just wasn't Gladys Knight & the Pips taking it to church! Some also swear by Marvin Gaye's version, which was a bigger hit than either of those, but while I like that version I've still got to hand the trophy to Gladys and her cousins . . .

[goatprairie]

@sneakypete
I'm a lifelong Creedence Clearwater Revival and John Fogerty fan, but while it was fun to hear them jam "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" in their style, it just wasn't Gladys Knight & the Pips taking it to church! Some also swear by Marvin Gaye's version, which was a bigger hit than either of those, but while I like that version I've still got to hand the trophy to Gladys and her cousins . . .

I agree. Like GK and the P's and MG's versions much more than CCR. I like CCR overall better than those GK and MG, but that latter two do IHITTG much better than CCR. More soul to it.
Actually, not a big fan of the song, but it's interesting to hear the difference as to how certain musicians do their versions of a particular song.

[musiclady]

I agree. Like GK and the P's and MG's versions much more than CCR. I like CCR overall better than those GK and MG, but that latter two do IHITTG much better than CCR. More soul to it.
Actually, not a big fan of the song, but it's interesting to hear the difference as to how certain musicians do their versions of a particular song.

I liked it best when it was covered by the California Raisins.