Andrew Gold Dead From Heart Attack At 59
Singer / songwriter Andrew Gold has died at the age of 59 from a heart attack.
Gold was best known for his 1977 hit ‘Lonely Boy’ and 1978’s ‘Thank You For Being A Friend’, the later became the theme for the hit TV series The Golden Girls that ran from 1985-1992.
Gold continued in TV, He was the vocals for the theme song for ‘Mad About You’ known as ‘Final Frontier’.
Andrew Gold was born in Burbank. His mother Marni Nixon was the singing voice for many Hollywood actresses. She was the real singer for Natalie Wood in ‘West Side Story’, Deborah Kerr in ‘The King And I’ and Audrey Hepburn in ‘My Fair Lady’. His father Ernest Gold was an Academy Award winning composer. He wrote the music for ‘Exodus’.
Gold’s first band Bryndle featured Kenny Edwards, Wendy Waldman and Karla Bonoff. He worked closely with Linda Ronstadt as multi-instrumentalist on five of her albums from 1974’s ‘Heart Like A Wheel’ and onwards.
His big hit ‘Lonely Boy’ was featured in the movies ‘Boogie Nights’ and ‘The Waterboy’.
Andrew Gold worked with Art Garfunkel on the ‘Breakaway’ album. He played every instrument on Art’s solo hit ‘I Only Have Eyes For You’. He also played guitar and drums on Eric Carmen’s ‘She Did It’.
Andrew has sung on records or played live with three of the four Beatles, Paul McCartney, John Lennon and Ringo Starr and has toured with the Eagles and Jackson Browne.
A big 10CC fan, after the band broke up in the 80’s Gold formed Wax with Graham Goldman. They were together for 5 years and delivered the hits ‘Right Between Your Eyes’ and ‘Bridge To Your Heart’.
Legendary New Orleans rhythm and blues singer Benny Spellman died from respiratory failure Friday, according to family members. He was 79.
Though Spellman wasn’t from New Orleans, his music is synonymous with the city and he left an indelible mark on the local music scene with his sweet baritone voice. He worked and collaborated with other local giants of New Orleans music, Allen Toussaint and Ernie K-Doe, recording during the golden age of rhythm and blues in New Orleans.
A regular performer at the New Orleans Jazz & Hertigate Festival, immortalized on Tipitina’s Walk of Fame and a member of the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame, Spellman moved back to Florida after suffering a stroke 15 years earlier, according to family.
Signed on the Minit label, Spellman scored a minor, two-sided hit in 1962 with “Lipstick Traces (On a Cigarette)/Fortune Teller.” The recorded Toussaint compositions by Spellman were later covered by the O’Jays and the Rolling Stones respectively.
But it is Spellman’s voice in the background that spices up two of the cities most famous rhythm and blues numbers, Ernie K-Doe’s “Mother-in-Law” and Earl King’s “Trick Bag.”
Funeral arrangements are scheduled for Friday, June 10 at the St. Joseph Catholic Church, 140 West Government Street, Pensacola, Fla. 32502
http://www.wwltv.com/news/RB-legend-Benny-Spellman-dies-123172068.html
James Arness Passes At 88 Years Old - Legendary Star Of Gumsmoke. ...
San Francisco Chronicle
June 3, 2001
Gunsmoke, a favorite television show of this blogger when he was little, and a program that seemingly would never die until it's last episode aired in 1975, was the place where the name Marshal Matt Dillon became a household word.
Matt Dillon was expertly played by James Arness, who passed away at the age of 88 today, of natural causes, according to his website. ...
http://www.jamesarness.com/
James Arness was a man's man, and comes from a time when we expected actors to be taller than we were; he stood 6-foot-seven-inches in height. Arness, and his character Marshal Dillon, also stood tall in character.
"He had to specifically obey the letter of the law, no matter what else was going on," Arness said to the Archives of American Television. "He, number one, which I think was a totally different approach to other westers, even western movies, is he hated violence, particularly shooting. He hated to kill a man. And I tried to get that across, in the early going. I tried to get that across... It's something that not had been done, up to that point."
Arness also starred in the iconic science-fiction films Them and The Thing From Another World. Arness played the Thing because of his 6'7" height.
His website's message concludes with this:
Jim will be deeply missed by his family and friends.
In lieu of flowers the family asks that donation be made to United Cerebral Palsy in his name.
Jim is survived by his wife Janet, 2 sons and six Grand kids.
The services will be private for family only.
R.I.P. ...
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