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Re: Obituaries for 2021
« Reply #700 on: October 19, 2021, 11:07:08 am »
I agree...up to a point.   :beer:

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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!:
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« Reply #701 on: October 19, 2021, 01:27:01 pm »
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.
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« Reply #702 on: October 19, 2021, 06:12:37 pm »
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

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« Reply #703 on: October 19, 2021, 07:30:50 pm »
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

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He's dead,Jim.

See,I did have something good to say about him.
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« Reply #704 on: October 20, 2021, 12:08:26 pm »
Ralph Carmichael, composer and arranger, dies at 94. Posted on his Facebook page:
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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:
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... 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.  ...
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Re: Obituaries for 2021
« Reply #705 on: October 20, 2021, 03:19:08 pm »
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.
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Re: Obituaries for 2021
« Reply #706 on: October 20, 2021, 06:32:48 pm »
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.

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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.
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« Reply #707 on: October 21, 2021, 01:00:39 am »
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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.

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Re: Obituaries for 2021
« Reply #708 on: October 21, 2021, 10:27:58 am »
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« Reply #709 on: October 21, 2021, 10:45:08 am »
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.
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Re: Obituaries for 2021
« Reply #710 on: October 21, 2021, 11:10:32 am »
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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.

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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.
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« Reply #711 on: October 21, 2021, 12:35:03 pm »
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.
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Re: Obituaries for 2021
« Reply #712 on: October 22, 2021, 01:13:45 pm »
Peter Scolari, Emmy-Winning ‘Bosom Buddies’ Actor, Dies at 66


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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.



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« Reply #713 on: October 22, 2021, 01:35:27 pm »
Peter Scolari, Emmy-Winning ‘Bosom Buddies’ Actor
What a shame. He was so good in Bosom Buddies and the Bob Newhart Show.
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« Reply #714 on: October 22, 2021, 01:37:29 pm »
What a shame. He was so good in Bosom Buddies and the Bob Newhart Show.

Yes. And he was young. I truly hate cancer.
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« Reply #715 on: October 22, 2021, 04:34:29 pm »
Yes. And he was young. I truly hate cancer.

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I ain't real fond of it myself.
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« Reply #716 on: October 23, 2021, 12:00:25 am »
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I ain't real fond of it myself.
Me neither, and I had it easy.
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« Reply #717 on: October 24, 2021, 07:14:14 pm »
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/
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« Reply #718 on: October 24, 2021, 08:11:47 pm »
Jay Black, lead singer of The Americans, dies at 82



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Boy,THAT really makes me feel old!
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« Reply #719 on: October 24, 2021, 09:21:51 pm »
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/

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Re: Obituaries for 2021
« Reply #720 on: October 26, 2021, 06:40:41 pm »
Mort Sahl, legendary comedian, dead at 94
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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.   ...



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« Reply #721 on: October 26, 2021, 07:06:26 pm »
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

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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.
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« Reply #722 on: October 26, 2021, 07:19:47 pm »
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« Reply #723 on: October 26, 2021, 07:25:34 pm »
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
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« Reply #724 on: October 26, 2021, 08:21:08 pm »
“This Magic Moment”. One of THE best songs ever!
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« Reply #726 on: October 26, 2021, 08:24:18 pm »
“This Magic Moment”. One of THE best songs ever!
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I loved that song!!! 


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« Reply #728 on: October 29, 2021, 01:31:38 am »


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« Reply #729 on: October 29, 2021, 06:39:44 am »
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« Reply #730 on: October 29, 2021, 04:30:55 pm »
We have a couple that we are friends with, and we hang out to watched Astros games, and other stuff.
After the games, or when nothings going on, we'll play the jukebox.
The lady is in her mid-sixties, and quite coherent , very intelligent, but she can never remember song titles.

some of the gems:

"What's that song with the tree growing in it"
(It turned out to be "Honey" by Bobby Goldsboro, "It was just a twig").

"What's that song with the dog in it, something about a dog barking"
(This one was "Stagger Lee", " I was standing, on the corner, when I heard my bulldog bark").

The latest one was, about 6 months ago, "Who sings that song about a bad man Jose?"
Jay and the Americans, "Come a little bit Closer."


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« Reply #731 on: October 30, 2021, 03:12:44 pm »
Ivana Trump's Ex-Husband Rossano Rubicondi Dead at 49: 'I'm Devastated,' She Says



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Ivana Trump's ex-husband Rossano Rubicondi has died. He was 49.

Trump confirmed the news of Rubicondi's death to PEOPLE on Saturday. "I'm devastated," she told PEOPLE.

The actor and model's death was announced Friday by Italian TV personality Simona Ventura, who shared a throwback photo of herself and Rubicondi on Twitter.


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« Reply #733 on: October 30, 2021, 05:08:40 pm »

I loved that song!!! 


....Will last forever..Forever til the end of time    RIP

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One of the most romantic songs ever recorded. I loved this version, growing up in a time when popular music was still sweet and redolent of life's possibilities.

I also loved the version by Ben E. King and the Drifters, which I include below.

Music is such a deeply personal thing, and it touches us each in ways that we ourselves can only understand.

For me, this song takes me back to my first kiss. It happened at a high school party. It was autumn, and I was a senior. I can still feel the chill in the air and the thrill of the night, the darkness now setting in so early and yet alive with promises I dared not even dream of, because there at the party, to my heart's desire, was a girl. The Girl. The one in my class that I had spent so many long hours thinking of and longing for and imagining in my arms.

A number of us had walked out behind the house and ambled through the woods to the edge of a clearing, talking and laughing, though I recall not what about because my mind was set on only one thing. A week or so before, I had gathered my courage, and walking home from school I told her that I really liked her, and did so with my heart virtually beating a hole through my chest and I remember all these years later only that she was non-committal, but that she smiled and that was all I needed at that moment.

And then, sitting on a tree stump on that cool October night, with a plastic cup of something in my hand, and the music wafting into the woods from the house just beyond... suddenly, she appeared before me.  I am certain that I said "Hi" or "Hello", but I cannot recall because the only thing I do remember is that I felt her hands on my knees and just as suddenly, her face was near mine and I could smell her perfume and she kissed me.

And this song, like no other, brings me back to that moment.


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« Reply #734 on: October 30, 2021, 06:20:32 pm »
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What a shameless hussy!!

Just kidding - that's a very sweet story.  happy77 
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« Reply #736 on: November 06, 2021, 06:42:17 pm »
Pro wrestler Angelo "King Kong" Mosca, also known in Canada as one of the greatest players in Canadian football history, dies at 84.

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« Reply #737 on: November 06, 2021, 07:41:20 pm »
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One of the most romantic songs ever recorded. I loved this version, growing up in a time when popular music was still sweet and redolent of life's possibilities.

I also loved the version by Ben E. King and the Drifters, which I include below.

Music is such a deeply personal thing, and it touches us each in ways that we ourselves can only understand.

For me, this song takes me back to my first kiss. It happened at a high school party. It was autumn, and I was a senior. I can still feel the chill in the air and the thrill of the night, the darkness now setting in so early and yet alive with promises I dared not even dream of, because there at the party, to my heart's desire, was a girl. The Girl. The one in my class that I had spent so many long hours thinking of and longing for and imagining in my arms.

A number of us had walked out behind the house and ambled through the woods to the edge of a clearing, talking and laughing, though I recall not what about because my mind was set on only one thing. A week or so before, I had gathered my courage, and walking home from school I told her that I really liked her, and did so with my heart virtually beating a hole through my chest and I remember all these years later only that she was non-committal, but that she smiled and that was all I needed at that moment.

And then, sitting on a tree stump on that cool October night, with a plastic cup of something in my hand, and the music wafting into the woods from the house just beyond... suddenly, she appeared before me.  I am certain that I said "Hi" or "Hello", but I cannot recall because the only thing I do remember is that I felt her hands on my knees and just as suddenly, her face was near mine and I could smell her perfume and she kissed me.

And this song, like no other, brings me back to that moment.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bacBKKgc4Uo   

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What a sweet, tender memory. As I read it, I was briefly transported back to the era and similar memories. Thank you for that. And thank you for including Ben E. King's version.


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More sad news has hit the bodybuilding world in already tragic year – pro bodybuilder and former Mr. Olympia champion Shawn Rhoden has reportedly died of a heart attack. He was 46 years old. The pro bodybuilder was a modern legend in the sport who also faced serious controversy in the years after winning the Mr. Olympia in 2018.

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Former Mr. Olympia Shawn Rhoden Dead At 46 Years Old
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More sad news has hit the bodybuilding world in already tragic year – pro bodybuilder and former Mr. Olympia champion Shawn Rhoden has reportedly died of a heart attack. He was 46 years old. The pro bodybuilder was a modern legend in the sport who also faced serious controversy in the years after winning the Mr. Olympia in 2018.

Sources close to Generation Iron have reported that Shawn Rhoden suffered a fatal heart attack. Rhoden’s trainer, Chris Aceto, has also confirmed to close friends that the bodybuilder had passed away. Rhoden is said to have suffered a prior heart attack and had faced prior health concerns. Posts on social media from fellow athletes, experts, and fans have begun to pour out Saturday morning for the late pro bodybuilder.  ...

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Well I guess that ends any hope of a QL reunion.  :(
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Well I guess that ends any hope of a QL reunion.  :(

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Captain Archer looks so young!
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« Reply #747 on: November 11, 2021, 05:39:30 pm »
   RIP:

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« Reply #748 on: November 11, 2021, 05:50:09 pm »
   RIP:

Graeme Charles Edge was an English musician, songwriter, and poet, best known as the co-founder and drummer of the English band the Moody Blues.



Terrible news.  Loved the Moody Blues in the day.

Outside it taking until Rush being inducted in the RR HOF in 2013.  Adding the Moody Blues in 2017 was in second place as the most criminal Hall oversight.   Here is my favorite clip of them, and maybe one of the first rock videos ever.


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« Reply #749 on: November 11, 2021, 06:12:37 pm »
Terrible news.  Loved the Moody Blues in the day.

Outside it taking until Rush being inducted in the RR HOF in 2013.  Adding the Moody Blues in 2017 was in second place as the most criminal Hall oversight.   Here is my favorite clip of them, and maybe one of the first rock videos ever.

 

@catfish1957 Hell,even my mother and father,who were in their 70's when the Moody Blues came out,loved them and would ask me to play it again when I would be getting high in my bedroom and listening to some tunes.

They also claimed to have loved Uriah Heep,but I think they were just screwing with me on that one.
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