Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread

[EnochRoot]

He probably deserves his own thread, but I got a text about eight hours ago that Willis Reed died and nobody has posted it yet so I'm just gonna drop it here.

I don't feel qualified enough to start the thread, but he absolutely deserves one.

[A_B]

The late, unexpected appearance of a thread for him seems apropos.

[brian]

Jerry Green, the last sportswriter to have covered every Super Bowl.

(His streak had ended last month.)

[rass]

Gary Brooker. The distinctive voice of 60s/70s English rock band, Procol Harum. Particularly notable for A Whiter Shade of Pale.

Keith Reid, ‘Deep And Private’ Longtime Lyricist With Procol Harum, Dies At 76

Particularly notable for writing the lyrics to A Whiter Shade of Pale (and A Salty Dog which for some reason was my PH fave growing up and hearing it infrequently on the radio)

[DaveInSeattle]

Mark Russell, political satirist with a star-spangled piano, dies at 90

Mark Russell, Washington’s social-political satirist and stand-up comic who spoofed, teased and laughed at celebrities, politicians, politics and popular culture for more than 50 years from behind his star-spangled piano, died March 30 at his home in D.C. He was 90.

The cause was complications from prostate cancer, said his wife, Alison Russell.

From the waning years of Dwight Eisenhower’s administration through the presidencies of 10 succeeding chief executives, Mr. Russell poked fun at the foibles and flaws of the well-known, the pompous and the powerful in monologues replete with pithy one-liners and musical ditties. He called himself “a political cartoonist for the blind.”

Also was parodied in an early Simpsons episode:

[Pruitt IV]

My father really liked Mark Russell, but man, he was just not funny.

Kind of from the Art Buchwald school of political humour. More rib-tickling than scathing.

[The Sybian]

I have a vague memory of Mark Russell filming or performing in the auditorium in my college dorm. Looked him up, and he was from Buffalo, so maybe I'm not making this up.

[MaxWebster]

y i'd always had this distant knowledge that he was from Buffalo and I think you're right; i feel like he used to play here and those shows were on PBS. I think my dad would always try to get me to watch those back in the 80s.... ehh.

I have a vague memory of Mark Russell filming or performing in the auditorium in my college dorm. Looked him up, and he was from Buffalo, so maybe I'm not making this up.

[The Sybian]

y i'd always had this distant knowledge that he was from Buffalo and I think you're right; i feel like he used to play here and those shows were on PBS. I think my dad would always try to get me to watch those back in the 80s.... ehh.

I have a vague memory of Mark Russell filming or performing in the auditorium in my college dorm. Looked him up, and he was from Buffalo, so maybe I'm not making this up.

Yeah, I remember seeing him on PBS. I don't think my parents watched, but when the Simpson's made fun of him, I knew who he was. Pretty sure he filmed the show in Millard Fillmore Hall. I tried Googling, but someone described Russell as the "greatest export from Buffalo since Millard Fillmore," so that dominated the Google hits and I wasn't digging beyond the first 3 hits.

[DaveInSeattle]

Bobbi Ercoline, Whose Hug Became a Symbol of Woodstock, Dies at 73

Bobbi Ercoline, who one morning during the Woodstock music festival rested her head on her boyfriend’s chest and in that drowsy moment became a symbol of 1960s hippiedom, died on March 18 at her home in Pine Bush, N.Y. She was 73.

Her Woodstock boyfriend and later her husband, Nick Ercoline, said the cause was leukemia.

About a half-million people attended the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, Aug. 15-18, in 1969, a cultural phenomenon that has endured in the popular imagination partly with the help of “Woodstock,” a 1970 documentary, and its album soundtrack, featuring Jimi Hendrix, Joan Baez, Jefferson Airplane, Richie Havens and many more musicians.

Ms. Ercoline’s tender moment became the subject of a photograph chosen for the cover of the soundtrack album, a three-LP set that was once a familiar sight in record collections in dorm rooms and coffee houses throughout the country.

[EnochRoot]

Co-founder of Sire Records, Seymour Stein, legendary music mogul who discovered The Talking Heads, The Ramones, Madonna, The Replacements, The Pretenders, etc… and signed British acts such as Echo & the Bunnymen, The Smiths, Depeche Mode to stateside deals has passed away at 80.

[sancarlos]

I read a great biography of The Replacements awhile ago. Seymour Stein didn’t discover them, but he brought them up to major-label status. What really impressed the notoriously hard-partying band was that Stein could keep up with them drink-for-drink, even though he was 20 years older than them.

[EnochRoot]

I read a great biography of The Replacements awhile ago. Seymour Stein didn’t discover them, but he brought them up to major-label status. What really impressed the notoriously hard-partying band was that Stein could keep up with them drink-for-drink, even though he was 20 years older than them.

Yeah, I think a good chunk of Stein's successes are among that vein, where a smaller label gem is hidden among the weeds.

Him signing Madonna from his hospital bed was pretty freakin funny.

[Johnnie]

[Steve of phpBB]

Damn.

[HaulCitgo]

Spring break trip and packed the sealed up never played catan. In his honor a game night is worthy

[rass]

Vivian Trimble, best known for her work with Luscious Jackson, has died at 59 following a battle with cancer.

[wlu_lax6]

Billy Hahn

Terps player in the early 70s and Gary Williams long time assistant. Head coach at La salle and assistant for Huggins at WV.

[Reaper]

Oscar-nominated actor (for Barton Fink), Michael Lerner, 81. Also appeared in Harlem Nights, Eight Men Out, Elf and many, many more. His son Sam and brother Ken play son/father on The Goldbergs as Geoff and Lou Schwartz.

[Johnny Carwash]

First-ballot That Guy Hall of Famer. RIP.

[mister d]

Billy Hahn

Terps player in the early 70s and Gary Williams long time assistant. Head coach at La salle and assistant for Huggins at WV.

Fuck Billy Hahn.

[EnochRoot]

Oscar-nominated actor (for Barton Fink), Michael Lerner, 81. Also appeared in Harlem Nights, Eight Men Out, Elf and many, many more. His son Sam and brother Ken play son/father on The Goldbergs as Geoff and Lou Schwartz.

He was also in a few episodes of the Rockford Files...

[sancarlos]

When I was a kid, I loved his "Snappy answers to stupid questions".

[Pruitt IV]

A legend.

[Baloney]

Irish World Rally Championship driver Craig Breen dies in a testing crash, a horrible reminder of just how dangerous rallying can be.

[Reaper]

The Script guitarist and co-founder, Mark Sheehan 46. No cause of death yet, just states "after a brief illness."

[Reaper]

Barry Humphries, better known as Dame Edna, passes away at 89 in Sydney. Thankfully he's been staying out of the US recently or he may have been taken out sooner.

[Baloney]

Barry Humphries, better known as Dame Edna, passes away at 89 in Sydney. Thankfully he's been staying out of the US recently or he may have been taken out sooner.

His character Sir Les Patterson, Cultural Attache' to the Court of St James was quite entertaining.

[Reaper]

A Jamaican farewell to Harry Belafonte, 96.

[wlu_lax6]

A Jamaican farewell to Harry Belafonte, 96.

Arguably the best guest on the Muppet Show.

[Pruitt IV]

My mother will be fangirling him in heaven today. She loved the guy.

[Reaper]

While making sure someone didn't already post this, I found this gem from ten years ago that seems a bit offensive today.

I heartily endorse bfj's tweet:

I'm so sick of hearing Day-O at the ballpark that I want to invent a time machine so I can punch a pregnant Mrs. Belafonte in the uterus.

[Steve of phpBB]

Harry Belafonte obscure?

[Reaper]

Harry Belafonte obscure?

This was debated a couple pages back, but I still haven't started the Non-obscure but not-own-thread worthy dead thread.

[mister d]

My mother will be fangirling him in heaven today. She loved the guy.

You spelled it right but my eyes have read it wrong three times already.

[sancarlos]

He may not be as well-remembered today, but when I was a kid, Harry Belafonte was a legitimate big deal star. Singer, actor, social activist. In the papers all the time.

Btw, this was a great film, if you ever get a chance to see it.
[Eddie Muller voice] From 1959, starring Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan and Ed Begley Sr., a film noir gem, Odds Against Tomorrow.

By the way, what is big and grey and sings?
Harry Elefonte!

[rass]

Dick Groat - 2-time WS champ, 1960 NL MVP, member of the college baseball and college basketball HOF, owner of a PPG average that is still 2nd all-time at Duke, professional basketball player, Pitt basketball radio analyst for 40 years, golf course designer

[A_B]

I'm not gonna give jerry Springer a thread if Harry Belafonte didn't get one. Wouldn't discrepect the GROAT either.

[bfj]

While making sure someone didn't already post this, I found this gem from ten years ago that seems a bit offensive today.

I heartily endorse bfj's tweet:

I'm so sick of hearing Day-O at the ballpark that I want to invent a time machine so I can punch a pregnant Mrs. Belafonte in the uterus.

TWILTS because where else can I post that kind of shit?

[bfj]

While making sure someone didn't already post this, I found this gem from ten years ago that seems a bit offensive today.

I heartily endorse bfj's tweet:

I'm so sick of hearing Day-O at the ballpark that I want to invent a time machine so I can punch a pregnant Mrs. Belafonte in the uterus.

TWILTS because where else can I post that kind of shit?

RIP Harry