Obituaries for 2021

[sneakypete]

I agree...up to a point.   

@Cyber Liberty

Let the people know what a parasite he was. We already have too many false gods/prophets as it is.

I agree in general with your stance,but not when it comes to politicians and related weasels.

When it comes to public figures being praised for false reasons or no reason at all,we differ.

When it comes to parasites like Powell and his master Kissinger who only harmed America while enriching themselves,I say "Let the dogs out!:

[verga]

Flame suit unnecessary. IMO Powell endorsed an obviously anti-American socialist candidate twice because they shared the same melanin content. And we are in the state we're in today because of it. That cancels anything else good he may have done before.

[MOD4]

This is a thread for obituaries. Please post criticisms and praise for Colin Powell in this news thread: https://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,451440.0.html

[sneakypete]

This is a thread for obituaries. Please post criticisms and praise for Colin Powell in this news thread: https://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,451440.0.html

@MOD4

He's dead,Jim.

See,I did have something good to say about him.

[mountaineer]

Ralph Carmichael, composer and arranger, dies at 94. Posted on his Facebook page:

Ralph Carmichael
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With profound sadness we share with you the news that our beloved Ralph Carmichael passed away on October 18 at the age of 94. Without exaggeration, Ralph’s talent and influence has shaped the world of music for generations and will continue to bless and enrich our world for many generations to come. He was extraordinarily gifted, was the consummate professional and a dear friend. We extend our deepest condolences to his wife Mar and their family and pray for God’s comfort to surround them. ...

He was one of the giants and pioneers in contemporary Christian music. From Wikipedia:

... In 1951, he was invited to score a film for the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association; in all he wrote the musical score for twenty of their films. For BGEA, he made the funky urban soundtrack for the 1970 film The Cross and the Switchblade. By the late 1950s, secular producers had taken notice of Carmichael's radio and film work. He was invited to assist the composer at the television sitcom I Love Lucy and was soon arranging music for that show as well as Bonanza and The Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Show and for singer Rosemary Clooney. In 1958, Carmichael was hired by producer Jack H. Harris to score his science fiction film, The Blob. With the success of the film, Carmichael was brought back to score Harris' follow-up film, 4D Man. He arranged and composed music for a Bing Crosby Christmas special television program, which prompted his denomination to strongly suggest he not apply for renewal of his ordination. He also composed and conducted the theme music for the 1965 sitcom, My Mother the Car.

His big break came at the end of the 1950s, when his work came to the attention of Capitol Records, who asked him to provide the arrangements for an album of mainly sacred Christmas songs by one of the label's biggest stars, Nat King Cole. The result, The Magic of Christmas, was released for the 1960 festive season, by which time Capitol had already set Carmichael to work with Cole on more secular albums. ...

It is in the field of Christian music that Carmichael has been most prolific. In particular, his experiments in pop-rock style in the 1960s and 1970s have brought him recognition as the "Father of Contemporary Christian Music". He founded Light Records in order to widen the audience for the music of the Jesus People. He was subject to controversy from within the church, being called a heretic for his use of guitars in worship and his adaptations of Gospel songs to big band stylings.  ...

[jmyrlefuller]

Although I may make an exception for particularly heinous people... isn't it poor form to speak ill of the dead? And Gen./Sec. Powell was certainly not someone I would consider heinous.

[sneakypete]

Although I may make an exception for particularly heinous people... isn't it poor form to speak ill of the dead? And Gen./Sec. Powell was certainly not someone I would consider heinous.

@jmyrlefuller


Ok,so you don't know anything about him,yet whine about people who know posting info. The evil he has done and abetted will still be happening years from now,no matter how dead he is.

[Smokin Joe]

@jmyrlefuller


Ok,so you don't know anything about him,yet whine about people who know posting info. The evil he has done and abetted will still be happening years from now,no matter how dead he is.

"The evil men do lives after them, the good is oft interred with their bones."

Mark Anthony, at the Forum, from Julius Caesar.

[MOD4]

 

[PeteS in CA]

I think it would be more accurate to say that Ralph Carmichael was a pioneer in CCM. Dimension Records (Harvest Flight, Phoenix Sonshine), Starsong Records (Resurrection Band), and Maranatha! Records (Children of the Day, The Way, Love Song, Mustard Seed Faith, Sweet Comfort, .........), for example, sprang up independently of Carmichael's Light Records (part of Word Records). Larry Norman was so independent he was almost independent of himself, and he also was Randy Stonehill's start. I'm not sure how much Myrrh Records (2nd Chapter of Acts, Barry McGuire, and quite a few others) owed to Carmichael. Phil Keaggy started out independent. The late 60s and early 70s was the time of the Jesus Movement, and a lot of local musicians all over the US became Christians and their music got "converted" as well (All Saved Freak Band, anybody?).

Don't misunderstand, Carmichael was significant and very early. The Archers and Jamie Owens (Collins) were on Light Records. Perhaps his greatest achievement/influence (not sure what word to use) was the signing of Andrae' Crouch and the Disciples. In so doing he brought the black Gospel sound to a wider audience, and Andrae' was a song writer who could evolve that traditional sound into something broader, too.

[sneakypete]

In so doing he brought the black Gospel sound to a wider audience, and Andrae' was a song writer who could evolve that traditional sound into something broader, too.

@PeteS in CA

Gospel is Gospel. It don't have a color. Don't believe it,go to a few "full Gospel" churches primarily populated by white people
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BTW,I am white,and have attended services at a few black Gospel churches (and was wecomed to be there) ,just to asorb the happiness and the joy.

The white fundies have it too,but are a little more reserved.

Say what you will,but fundies take going to church seriously,even if not all of them are quite as devout as they seem in life away from the church. While there,they ARE "true believers". No one should ever doubt that.

Oh,yeah. ANYBODY that has ever heard blues,rythm and blues,or bluegrass music has heard Gospel music. They just didn't realize it. It ALL comes from the same roots,the Protestant Churches of the south.

[PeteS in CA]

I was speaking of musical style, not of theology. By the same token, "Southern Gospel Quartet" is a musical style, not a term limiting the Gospel to just southerners or to just groups of four.

[Gefn]

Peter Scolari, Emmy-Winning ‘Bosom Buddies’ Actor, Dies at 66

Peter Scolari, who starred opposite lifelong friend Tom Hanks in the early 1980s sitcom Bosom Buddies, died Friday. He was 66.

Scolari, an Emmy winner whose credits also included Newhart and HBO’s Girls, had been living with cancer for the past two years.

A native of New Rochelle, New York, Scolari landed his first major acting role in the short-lived 1980 ABC comedy Goodtime Girls. Later that year, he and a then-unknown Hanks starred in Bosom Buddies, playing two guys who disguise themselves as women to live in an affordable, all-female apartment building.

The show, also on ABC, lasted just two seasons, but it sparked a 40-plus year friendship between the two actors. Scolari and Hanks would work together several times over the next decades, with Scolari appearing in his friend’s directorial debut, That Thing You Do!, and the Hanks-produced HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon. The two both did voice work on 2003’s The Polar Express.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/peter-scolari-emmy-winning-bosom-buddies-actor-dies-at-66/ar-AAPQ7Oa?ocid=uxbndlbing

[mountaineer]

Peter Scolari, Emmy-Winning ‘Bosom Buddies’ Actor

What a shame. He was so good in Bosom Buddies and the Bob Newhart Show.

[Gefn]

What a shame. He was so good in Bosom Buddies and the Bob Newhart Show.

Yes. And he was young. I truly hate cancer.

[sneakypete]

Yes. And he was young. I truly hate cancer.

@Gefn

I ain't real fond of it myself.

[Smokin Joe]

@Gefn

I ain't real fond of it myself.

Me neither, and I had it easy.

[jmyrlefuller]

Jay Black, lead singer of The Americans, dies at 82



Black was the stage name of David Blatt. In the early 1960s, a one-hit wonder group known as Jay and the Americans (best known for the treacly "She Cried"), found itself unable to chart a follow-up hit, so lead singer John Traynor departed and the Americans merged with The Empires, a doo-wop group for which Blatt was a vocalist. Blatt took on the "Jay" stage name (anglicizing his last name to Black in the process) and propelled the Americans back into the spotlight with a string of hits featuring his voice, somewhat richer in tone and occasionally more operatic than most pop acts of the 1960s: "Come a Little Bit Closer," "Cara Mia," "This Magic Moment," and several other hits that got lost in the recurrent rotation shuffle. The band eventually broke up in the 1970s, and when it reunited in 2006, it was without Black; the band acknowledged that relations between Black and the rest of the band had been contentious for a long time.

Black, who had been suffering from dementia since 2014, died in 2021 from pneumonia.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/jay-black-jay-and-the-americans-singer-dead-obit-1247111/

[sneakypete]

Jay Black, lead singer of The Americans, dies at 82

@jmyrlefuller

Boy,THAT really makes me feel old!

[deb]

Jay Black, lead singer of The Americans, dies at 82


Black was the stage name of David Blatt. In the early 1960s, a one-hit wonder group known as Jay and the Americans (best known for the treacly "She Cried"), found itself unable to chart a follow-up hit, so lead singer John Traynor departed and the Americans merged with The Empires, a doo-wop group for which Blatt was a vocalist. Blatt took on the "Jay" stage name (anglicizing his last name to Black in the process) and propelled the Americans back into the spotlight with a string of hits featuring his voice, somewhat richer in tone and occasionally more operatic than most pop acts of the 1960s: "Come a Little Bit Closer," "Cara Mia," "This Magic Moment," and several other hits that got lost in the recurrent rotation shuffle. The band eventually broke up in the 1970s, and when it reunited in 2006, it was without Black; the band acknowledged that relations between Black and the rest of the band had been contentious for a long time.

Black, who had been suffering from dementia since 2014, died in 2021 from pneumonia.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/jay-black-jay-and-the-americans-singer-dead-obit-1247111/

“This Magic Moment”. One of THE best songs ever!
 RIP

[mountaineer]

Mort Sahl, legendary comedian, dead at 94
By Samantha Ibrahim   
October 26, 2021 6:24pm

Stand-up comedian Mort Sahl has died at the age of 94.

A friend confirmed the news to the New York Times that he passed away on Tuesday at his home in Mill Valley, California.

The comic was known for his biting and cutting edge humor well into the 1950s and ’60s.

Sahl’s trademark look involved V-neck sweaters and rolled-up newspapers.   ...



Story at NY Post

[sneakypete]

Mort Sahl, legendary comedian, dead at 94
By Samantha Ibrahim   
October 26, 2021 6:24pm

Stand-up comedian Mort Sahl has died at the age of 94.

A friend confirmed the news to the New York Times that he passed away on Tuesday at his home in Mill Valley, California.

The comic was known for his biting and cutting edge humor well into the 1950s and ’60s.

Sahl’s trademark look involved V-neck sweaters and rolled-up newspapers.   ...



Story at NY Posther

@mountaineer

He was one of the good ones. When you consider his thick NY accent,it's amazing he was as popular as he was. Then again,appearing on shows like the Ed Sullivan Show back in the 50's pretty much guaranteed you getting national exposure. I suppose there must have been other shows playing on the other networks,but I honestly didn't know anybody that wasn't watching Ed Sullivan.

The only fault I ever found with him was he talked so damn fast.

I can't be the only one still missing Buddy Hackett,either. Funniest damn man that ever lived.

[mountaineer]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5yd3Nqp19s

[skeeter]

Mort Sahl, legendary comedian, dead at 94
By Samantha Ibrahim   
October 26, 2021 6:24pm

Stand-up comedian Mort Sahl has died at the age of 94.

A friend confirmed the news to the New York Times that he passed away on Tuesday at his home in Mill Valley, California.

The comic was known for his biting and cutting edge humor well into the 1950s and ’60s.

Sahl’s trademark look involved V-neck sweaters and rolled-up newspapers.   ...



Story at NY Post

A few days ago I was doing was doing some research into the Monterey Jazz Festival and came across Sahls name, as he was master of ceremonies for the first one in 1958. I was amazed he was still around. RIP

[mystery-ak]

“This Magic Moment”. One of THE best songs ever!
 RIP

Loved Jay and the Americans...had their albums...what a voice!