TOMMY SMOTHERS .... my heart is broken as the treasured people who made me laugh through my childhood and ever onward go before me to the other side. I'll see him again.
“It’s hard for me to stay silent when I keep hearing that peace is only attainable through war,” Smothers said at the 2008 Emmy Awards
I’m sad to hear this. He was funny and subversive. And he had to be smart to play such a delightfully dopey character.
Just heard about David Soul passing. In the 70s, when I was a wee'un and my parents were out on Saturday night, my now-departed sister and I would sit down with the lights off and watched Starsky & Hutch religiously. I don't think there's a single episode of that show I missed. Gonna play some Silver Lady later and make a smoothie in his honor.
Just heard about David Soul passing. In the 70s, when I was a wee'un and my parents were out on Saturday night, my now-departed sister and I would sit down with the lights off and watched Starsky & Hutch religiously. I don't think there's a single episode of that show I missed. Gonna play some Silver Lady later and make a smoothie in his honor.
When I was a wee'un my sister had me watch Salem's Lot with her. For the longest time I had a difficult time falling asleep if I heard any sort of noise outside the window.
When I was a wee'un my sister had me watch Salem's Lot with her. For the longest time I had a difficult time falling asleep if I heard any sort of noise outside the window.
Hilariously I stopped watching because Soul's character is a journalist, and as my sister was a massive Stephen King fan, I turned to her and said "all his main characters are bloody writers" and went to my room to play Football Manager instead. To this day, I don't think I've seen it all the way through.
"NOT EVEN FIGS! ... Raisins! ,,, Ahhh .... liaisons! Isn't it rich? ... Aren't we a pair? Me here at last on the ground ... you in mid-air! Where are the clowns? There ought to be clowns ... "
SO many hours spent singing along with Glynis Johns to those great Stphen Sondheim lyrics. Many, many hours of my life. How lucky we were to have had them both.
Did we note Bill Hayes, 98, from Days of Our Lives??
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-67967665 Fifty years playing Doug Williams. Not only acting and singing his love and a marriage to Julie, but actually married to Susan the actress. Helping me giggle my way through study vac at the end of high school, and the beginning of university - and continuing on until quite recently, when I’d forgotten all about them. Many dedicated viewers will be heartbroken.
I'm saddened to learn about the passing of acclaimed musicologist and discoverer, or is that, unearther - if there is such a word - of the works of PDQ Bach, Peter Schickele, who has died at the age of 88.
He was a serious composer in his own right, but it was his work in resurrecting PDQ which left many audience members giggling, if not a little bemused on first contact with the last and, most-definitely, least of Papa Bach's many children.
I played one of his pieces - the 'New Horizons in Music Appreciation version of the first movement of Beethoven's Fifth' on a radio program I was presenting many years ago. If you haven't heard it, the idea was that sports commentary had taken over just about every aspect of human endeavour, with the exception (up to that stage) of classical concerts. It went on from there.
After the item aired, I had a number of listeners tell me they'd been checking their radios, convinced that somehow, the orchestral performance had got mixed up with a sports broadcast - which, indeed it had!
I'm saddened to learn about the passing of acclaimed musicologist and discoverer, or is that, unearther - if there is such a word - of the works of PDQ Bach, Peter Schickele, who has died at the age of 88.
He was a serious composer in his own right, but it was his work in resurrecting PDQ which left many audience members giggling, if not a little bemused on first contact with the last and, most-definitely, least of Papa Bach's many children.
I played one of his pieces - the 'New Horizons in Music Appreciation version of the first movement of Beethoven's Fifth' on a radio program I was presenting many years ago. If you haven't heard it, the idea was that sports commentary had taken over just about every aspect of human endeavour, with the exception (up to that stage) of classical concerts. It went on from there.
After the item aired, I had a number of listeners tell me they'd been checking their radios, convinced that somehow, the orchestral performance had got mixed up with a sports broadcast - which, indeed it had!
Mary Weiss, a singer who was part of the 1960s girl group the Shangri-Las, has died, according to multiple reports. She was reportedly 75 years old.
Recognizable hit songs by the Shangri-Las include “Leader of the Pack” and “Remember (Walking in the Sand),” which was later covered by Aerosmith as well as many other musical acts.
Truly, the end of an era of grace, wit, sparkling talent.
I’m sad to hear this. He was funny and subversive. And he had to be smart to play such a delightfully dopey character.