Garcia was born in Oakland, California, but was a long time resident of New Zealand. Self-taught, his break came when he substituted for an ill colleague on a radio show. Subsequently, he went on to become composer/arranger at NBC Studios for such televison shows as Rawhide 1962and Laredo, 1965-67, MGM and Universal Studios and films like the George Pal, MGM films, The Time Machine (1960) and Atlantis, the Lost Continent (1961), as well as his orchestrated themes for Father Goose (1964) and The Benny Goodman Story (1956). He collaborated with many musical and Hollywood stars - Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Anita O’Day, Mel Torme, Julie London, Oscar Peterson, Stan Kenton, Maynard Ferguson, Walt Disney, Orson Welles, Jane Wyman, Ronald Reagan, Andy Williams, Judy Garland, Henry Mancini, and Charlie Chaplin making arrangements and conducting orchestras as needed.
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From the Daily Freeman:
KINGSTON — The leader of the 1970s disco act Andrea True Connection has died, according to the funeral home handling her arrangements.
Andrea Marie Truden, who lived on Studio Lane in Woodstock, was 68 when she died on Nov. 7 at Kingston Hospital, the Gilpatric-VanVliet Funeral Home said in an obituary. A cause of death was not released.
Truden’s band is best known for the 1976 disco hit “More, More, More” (see video below) and also released the singles “N.Y. You Got Me Dancing” in 1977 and “What’s Your Name, What’s Your Number” in 1978.
"More, More, More" currently is being used in a TV commercial for the Post cereral Honey Bunches of Oats.
Truden, known professionally as Andrea True, also had a career as an adult film actress, according to the movie website imdb.com.
She was born in 1943 in Nashville, Tenn.
Truden was to be cremated, according to the funeral home.
KINGSTON — The leader of the 1970s disco act Andrea True Connection has died, according to the funeral home handling her arrangements.
Andrea Marie Truden, who lived on Studio Lane in Woodstock, was 68 when she died on Nov. 7 at Kingston Hospital, the Gilpatric-VanVliet Funeral Home said in an obituary. A cause of death was not released.
Truden’s band is best known for the 1976 disco hit “More, More, More” (see video below) and also released the singles “N.Y. You Got Me Dancing” in 1977 and “What’s Your Name, What’s Your Number” in 1978.
"More, More, More" currently is being used in a TV commercial for the Post cereral Honey Bunches of Oats.
Truden, known professionally as Andrea True, also had a career as an adult film actress, according to the movie website imdb.com.
She was born in 1943 in Nashville, Tenn.
Truden was to be cremated, according to the funeral home.
Ex-heavyweight contender Ron Lyle dies at 70
(AP) –
DENVER (AP) — Former heavyweight contender Ron Lyle, who fought Muhammad Ali for the title in 1975 and later battled George Foreman, has died in Denver at age 70.
Lyle died Saturday from complications from a sudden stomach ailment, said Ron McKinney, a Salvation Army official in Denver. Details weren't immediately available.
McKinney, a family friend who hired Lyle to start the charity's boxing program in 2002, said Lyle retired from the program last December but continued to work out at the gym every day
"I just saw him yesterday (Friday)," McKinney said. "You looked at him and he looked like he was ready to step into the ring. Shake hands with him, and it's like shaking a piece of steel."
The gym, called Red Shield Cox-Lyle Boxing, would show replays of Lyle's fights every Friday night as inspiration for some of the program's 100 students, McKinney said.
Lyle lost to both Ali and Foreman in the mid-1970s.
After his career in boxing, Lyle lived in Las Vegas where he trained young boxers and worked as a security guard.
He made a brief comeback in 1995 at age 54 and hoped to fight Foreman again in a fight jokingly billed as "Old and Older." Lyle hoped for a better result than the 1976 match in which he took a beating from Foreman. He also toyed with the idea of fighting Mike Tyson but neither fight materialized.
Irving Elman, whose writing credits include the comic play "Uncle Willie," which
ran on Broadway for four months in 1956-57, and who later worked as a producer
on such TV dramas as "Matt Lincoln," "Slattery's People" and "The High
Chaparral," died of cardiopulmonary arrest Tuesday at a retirement home in La
Jolla, his family announced. He was 96.
-Los Angeles Times wire reports
Eleazar actor Lorenzo Garci'a Gutiérrez, who outside better known as Chelelo Jr passed away during the first hours of Wednesday in the General Hospital of this border city, Tijuana, informed the authorities into nosocomio. The artist, original of the city of Reynosa, Tamaulipas, of 53 years of age, according to the medical report, died because of a chronic renal insufficiency, by diabetic complication. Garci'a Gutiérrez, also cinematographic director, was born the 13 from December of 1957 and had the opportunity to also act with personalities of the stature of the deceased Antonio Aguilar, who in addition was his great friend. Eleazar Garci'a participated in films like the fall of Colossus, the Major, All were brave, Dyer and Boots… texanas and wild bullets, that were productions in video format home, and whose thematic the Mafia and the drug trafficking try generally on. (Notimex)
ran on Broadway for four months in 1956-57, and who later worked as a producer
on such TV dramas as "Matt Lincoln," "Slattery's People" and "The High
Chaparral," died of cardiopulmonary arrest Tuesday at a retirement home in La
Jolla, his family announced. He was 96.
-Los Angeles Times wire reports
Eleazar actor Lorenzo Garci'a Gutiérrez, who outside better known as Chelelo Jr passed away during the first hours of Wednesday in the General Hospital of this border city, Tijuana, informed the authorities into nosocomio. The artist, original of the city of Reynosa, Tamaulipas, of 53 years of age, according to the medical report, died because of a chronic renal insufficiency, by diabetic complication. Garci'a Gutiérrez, also cinematographic director, was born the 13 from December of 1957 and had the opportunity to also act with personalities of the stature of the deceased Antonio Aguilar, who in addition was his great friend. Eleazar Garci'a participated in films like the fall of Colossus, the Major, All were brave, Dyer and Boots… texanas and wild bullets, that were productions in video format home, and whose thematic the Mafia and the drug trafficking try generally on. (Notimex)
