Thanks UT for pinpointing that aspect of 'All Right Now' and 'You Shook Me' - I've always loved how the bass comes in on both of those songs but didn't really think about it in any technical way. RIP both Mr. Fraser and Mr. Porcaro.

James Best, best remembered as Sheriff Roscoe P. Coltrane from 'The Dukes Of Hazzard', dead at 88.

Geoffrey Lewis, frequent co-star with Clint Eastwood, father of actress Juliette Lewis, has died. He was 79.

Bummer. He was the J.K. Simmons of his generation

Every character he ever played was very likeable. Even as the head bad guy in "High Plains Drifter", he was very likeable.

I had no idea Juliette Lewis was his daughter. But now I can see the resemblance.

I liked him.

Stan Freberg, 88.
A funny sumbitch.

Stan Hochman a local sportswriter who had bit parts in Rocky. funny intelligent, driven, honest... all around great guy. I knew him a tiny bit. RIP sir.

RIP Percy Sledge, dead of liver cancer.

1941 - 2015

I just saw that! I'd forgotten all about him. But that song was epic. what was it called again? ;)

Robert Z'Dar, famous for the "Maniac Cop" movies, died March 30. He was instantly recognizable due to his massive chin/jawline, which was due to cherubism.

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Are you talking about "When A Man Loves A Woman"?

;)

Yeah, no, I don't get it.

Mary Doyle Keefe, aka 'Rosie The Riveter', dead at 92.

One of the most annoying Brits of the 70s

Keith Harris

Heaven knows the competition for that sobriquet is pretty stiff.

I think he rose in people's estimation when he wasn't investigated for Yewtree.

fair point, Dana

You have to be over 60 to remember Jane Meadows, from The Honeymooners...

Jayne Meadows, Actress and Steve Allen's Wife and Co-Star, Dies at 95

No, no, no you don't.

I would have guessed she'd died years ago.

Suzanne Crough Condray, youngest daughter Tracy Partridge, on "The Partridge Family", found dead at 52.

'Louie Louie' Singer Jack Ely of The Kingsmen, Dies in Oregon at 71

Damn. They're dying faster than I can post 'em.

One of my favorite golfers, Calvin Peete died this morning. He was 71.

Jack Ely of the Kingsmen.
"Louie, Louie, garble garble garble..."

I think the only lyrics to that song are "louie, LouIE, oh baby, we gotta go", the rest is just an aardvark being strangled in the studio room in which it was recorded.

Ben E King is no longer standing by us.

The entries in this thread have been making me feel old lately. We're losing touch with the past when all these guys die.

If only we could predict which babies being born would become famous (for things other than being royal)

I like your thinking. But if you'll permit, a slight amendment:

If only we could predict which babies being born would become famous reality tv stars, we could intervene Minority Report stylee.

better left unsaid why such a thing might be wished for, eh? ;)

and now Ruth Rendell

....but there was a famous person born too..... Introducing Princess Cornelia Ursula Niacin D'Wales

Thank yours stars that no one suggested "Camilla"

....yet

Grace Lee Whitney, 85

http://cellar.org/2015/GraceLeeWhitney.jpg

As Janice Rand, Captain Kirk's Yeoman Purser and original lust interest. Not mine, I was too young even when watching the show in reruns.

In the future we will all be equal, except there will still be hot women, except they will be Starfleet officers.

Didn't care for her in that role, liked her in other things better. RIP

You may not know who Errol Brown was, but, you know his voice:



The Hot Chocolate singer, Errol Brown was 71.



Man, music has taken a real hit in the last few weeks...

B.B. King dead at 89.
https://www.yahoo.com/music/las-vega...008689321.html

Came here to post that very story.

There is a huge, HUGE hole in the world today.

I hate to bring this up, anyone remember the video of the mouse, to that song?

Not a good month for singers named King

I'm quite sure I don't know what you're talking about.


Maybe I have an idea...

Yep.

Heh...I had that song on a 45.

Important bassist Louis Johnson, one of the Brothers Johnson and session player for Quincy Jones, dead at 60. You have heard Mr. Johnson's work on half the hit records of the 70s and 80s. He was a monster.

This song showcases Mr Johnson's aggressive pop/slap technique in full. Just the first 15 seconds of it is enough to give you an idea:



You could find him everywhere:



Of course, the brilliant "Strawberry Letter 23", in which Mr Johnson's parts created a hidden rhythm that was one of the secrets to the single.



You've never heard most of his part because it was mixed so perfectly and became part of the song, but here is the isolated bass part, and believe me, it's just unbelievably genius:

Wow. I've always loved Strawberry Letter # 23...I think it's one of the prettiest funky songs I've ever heard (I had that 45 too!) It's hard for me to pick out particulars in arrangements, though I was taught how to try by my ex...so hearing the bass part isolated then listening again to the song. Just wow. It's so damn intricate. Thanks UT!

PS. what is making that clicky sound? Some kind of percussion, but what?

In the right channel during the verses? Don't know, it's a woodblock on the left, maybe just sticks on the right.

no, what video?

ffs.

I replied.


then, some time later,



I discovered, no, the cellar discovered for me, that there were more replies beyond the last post on an arbitrary page. the last page I saw, not the last post in the thread. D'oh!!!!

Mary Ellen Trainor - the mother in "The Goonies" - the psychiatrist in all four "Lethal Weapon" movies - appeared in tons of shows and movies - dead at 62.

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IMDb says born in 1950.

Parker Lewis's mom? Noooooo

Wikipedia says 1952.

Now what?

You gave us the IMDb link, so go stand in the corner. :p:

Christopher Lee, dead, at how-ever-old-he-was.

Also, Ornette Coleman...

Shit, Christopher Lee?
I had him on my Celebrity Death List in 2012...

Not that that's the only reason to mourn his passing this year of course.

Hah!


Sent by thought transference

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Rick Ducommun, Tom Hanks' neighbor in "The 'Burbs", died last Friday.

Wiki page

Crap. Comedy takes a serious body blow:

http://www.epictimes.com/derrickblai...er-dead-at-74/