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Various ways to donate to Guide Dogs of the Desert.
Sign up at Food 4 Less Community Rewards Program and every time you shop at your local Food 4 Less and use your rewards card or fuel rewards card, Guide Dogs of the Desert will benefit.
Food 4 Less is commited to giving $600,000 to non profits during the next 12 months through their Community Rewards Program.
If you have already enrolled AND have either used your Community Rewards Card and/or your Fuel Rewards Card at the register in the last six months, your participation will continue through August 31, 2017.
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Or Call 800-443-4438
Sign up at Ralphs Community Contribution Program and every time you shop at your local Ralph's and use your rewards card, Guide Dogs of the Desert will benefit.
Ralphs is commited to giving $2 Million to non profits during the next 12 months through their Community contributions Program.
Be sure to sign up even if you have already done so in the past. The new registration deadline is anytime after September 1, 2016. Any sign ups prior will no longer be valid.
What is AmazonSmile?
AmazonSmile is a simple and automatic way for you to support Guide Dogs of the Desert every time you shop, at no cost to you. When you shop at smile.amazon.com, you'll find the exact same low prices, vast selection and convenient shopping experience as Amazon.com, with the added bonus that Amazon will donate a portion of the purchase price to Guide Dogs of the Desert when you choose them.
How do I shop at AmazonSmile?
To shop at AmazonSmile simply go to smile.amazon.com from the web browser on your computer or mobile device. You may also want to add a bookmark to smile.amazon.com to make it even easier to return and start your shopping at AmazonSmile.
Can I use my existing Amazon.com account on AmazonSmile?
Yes, you use the same account on Amazon.com and AmazonSmile. Your shopping cart, Wish List, wedding or baby registry, and other account settings are also the same.
How do I select Guide Dogs of the Desert when shopping on AmazonSmile?
On your first visit to AmazonSmile (smile.amazon.com), you need to select Guide Dogs of the Desert to receive donations from eligible purchases before you begin shopping. We will remember your selection, and then every eligible purchase you make at smile.amazon.com will result in a donation.
Combined Federal Campaign
If you are a federal employee, please know that you can give to Guide Dogs of the Desert through the www.opm.gov/cfc. (CFC), which runs from September through December each year. Whether you donate a set amount per paycheck, or make a one-time donation, your contribution will go a long way to empower people who are blind or visually impaired.
Guide Dogs of the Desert's CFC number is 25219. Please use this number when donating to ensure your funds will be distributed to Guide Dogs of the Desert.
Combined Federal Campaign for Federal Employees Guide Dogs of the Desert is on the approved national list of organizations from which federal government employees can choose to support with charitable contributions. The Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) is conducted throughout post offices, the military, correctional facilities and all federal government branches. It is completely voluntary for government employees to contribute to the CFC and it is the only way that charities can solicit federal offices.
Each approved nonprofit such as Guide Dogs of the Desert must meet the fundraising, administrative and governance criteria set by the federal government. Nonprofits must apply each year in order to be considered for inclusion in the campaign.
Guide Dogs of the Desert has received thousands of dollars from CFC designations and counts on the generous donations of federal employees to help support our programs to enhance the lives of people who are blind or visually impaired.
For more information on the CFC, visit www.opm.gov/cfc.


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George Washington
Americans celebrated George Washington's birthday this month; but many don't think of Washington as a successful entrepreneur.
Director of the Center for Investors and Entrepreneurs John Berlau talks about Washington's legacy as a capitalist.
"Now, some pioneering scholars are documenting little known aspects of [George] Washington's life. His pursuits can be said to be just as creative as those of Franklin and Jefferson, but in a different way. Washington's creativity of the type one associates with modern entrepreneurs such as Bill Gates and even Donald Trump. Whereas Franklin built gadgets at his homestead, and Jefferson built fancy buildings, the notable things Washington built were a series of interconnected businesses. In the 2006 biography 'The Unexpected George Washington,' historian Harlow Giles Unger calls Washington 'one of America's leading entrepreneurs' and chronicles Washington's transformation of Mount Vernon from a sleepy tobacco farm into a type of industrial village."
Recently, there have been reports about endocrine disruptors and carcinogens in everyday cosmetics. CEI Studios just released a video explaining why women who use makeup shouldn't be concerned:
Alcohol Regulation Roundup
In her latest blog pot, Policy Analyst Michelle Minton summarizes ongoing fights against alcohol regulations around the nation.
Read "Alcohol Regulation Roundup" here.

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Practice Exam Question. "Capitalism is unstable, but not that unstable." Explain and discuss this statement with special reference to Harrod's knife-edge problem and modern developments in growth theory. (Please take this exercise seriously and treat like a real exam. You will be glad you did come finals.)
Student Response. Roy Harrod's famous 'knife edge' suggested a capitalist susceptibility to extreme instability in which, other than at the 'warranted' rate of growth, the economy would either shrink to zero or explode toward hyperinflationary infinity. Because capitalism, though unstable, is clearly not that unstable, economists scrambled to find a reason for the system's track record of not being that unstable.


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Jean de Cointac
Jean de Cointac, also Contat[1] or Cointa,[2] was a former French Dominican friar who was one of the voyagers attempting the French colonization of Brazil called France Antarctique. His theological theories brought him into conflict in the French fort of Coligny (in present day Rio de Janeiro), resulting in two Huguenots being expelled. Later on, Jean de Cointac himself was expelled from the fort.
France Antarctique[edit]
Jean de Cointac was a student at the Sorbonne and a Dominican friar who converted to Calvinism. Cointac was aboard the second set of ships to reach France Antarctique, after Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon and his crew made the first successful voyage in November, 1555. At the time, many Huguenots were seeking a safe haven from religious persecution in France. King Henry II, although Catholic, financially supported these voyages to the New World in an effort to avoid religious conflict at home and to expand his kingdom, though the Treaty of Tordesillas technically did not permit this colonization. The second embarkation headed to France Antarctique was prepared under the name of King Henry II, under Bois-Lecompte, a nephew of Villegagnon, with 290 voyagers sailing on three ships.[1] After sailing for four months, they landed at Fort Coligny on March 9, 1557.
Jean de Cointac was among a group of new arrivals who participated in theological debates in the new land, which eventually filled the fort with wranglings, factions, and feuds. Villegagnon took part with the student, and together devised a new religious doctrine that denounced both Catholicism and Calvinism. Supposedly inspired by the opinions of Cointac, Villegagnon declared that his opinion of Calvin had changed, and that he now held the so-called reformer to be an arch-heretic and an apostate.[1]
By 1558, the Portuguese overtook the Fort Coligny, destroying France Antarctique.
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- Parkman Francis, Jr. Pioneers of France in the New World. 2008. Print. [1]
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A WOMEN'S World Day of Prayer service is taking place in Upton Parish Church at 2pm on Friday, March 7.
The service has been written by the women of Egypt and has particular relevance this year, not just because of the country's political situation but also because Chris Lamb, who is organising the Upton service, has a daughter and son-in-law working in Egypt.
The service will last about an hour and children from Upton Primary school are taking part.
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With the regular legislative session behind her, Gov. Jan Brewer is on the road again in her bid to elect candidates across the nation who share her views.
Brewer just returned Monday night from Georgia where she helped raise money for U.S. Senate hopeful Karen Handel. And today she is in Colorado to aid Cynthia Coffman in her bid for state attorney general.
And that's just the beginning. In an extensive interview with Capitol Media Services, Brewer said the requests for her to help Republicans across the country come in faster than she can respond. But now, with more time available — with the exception of a special legislative session later this month — Brewer said she intends to help.
"I'm going to participate in any manner I can to help those candidates that I believe that are aligned with me philosophically, and that they are pragmatic and that they will get the job done," Brewer said.
That's only part of the agenda. The governor also hopes to use the time to replenish the coffers of Jan PAC, her political action committee which allows her to spend money independently on behalf of candidates for federal office.
Brewer managed to raise just $2,670 in the first three months of the year, a result she attributes to being tied to Phoenix during the legislative session. Yet the PAC spent more than $47,600, mostly paid to the consultants who are in charge of raising money.
That, however, hardly leaves her broke, with the governor herself proclaiming that "$300,000 is nothing to sneeze at."
Brewer has one other political chore on the horizon: Deciding who, if any, of the Republican contenders she will back who want to replace her.
"I know them all," she said. "They're all good friends."
But the governor said her decision likely comes down to who most agrees with her and the things she has done — and promises to keep fiscal those policies in place.
"I certainly am concerned about my legacy," she explained.
"I don't want my legacy to be that they get in there, they don't follow through with the plans we've laid out — and then get blamed for Arizona blowing up," Brewer continued. "I am concerned about that."
But that's only a piece of it.
Brewer wants continued support for her decision to expand the state's Medicaid program even if it does depend on funding from the Affordable Care Act. That federal program has become a lightning rod for GOP opposition.
Equally controversial has been Brewer's decision to have Arizona adopt the Common Core standards, crafted by the National Governors Association to spell out what students should know at various points in their education.
Several Republican contenders have called them federally imposed standards, saying they want to repeal them, and that concerns Brewer.
"They don't even understand what Common Core is," she said. "They don't even know where it started from," Brewer continued, saying some think of it as "a big boogey man hiding in a cookie jar."
Those two issues could tilt the balance in favor of former Mesa Mayor Scott Smith.
"Scott has been very supportive of my policies, it's true," she conceded in response to a question. "But I haven't made up my mind."
And, of course, Brewer said, whoever she chooses to back has to be "somebody that will beat the Democrat," choosing not to even acknowledge Fred DuVal, the presumptive front runner, by name.
In the interim, she is looking beyond Arizona's borders for candidates to support.
Her backing of Handel may already have helped.
Prior to Brewer's fundraiser at a Canton, Ga. fundraiser, Handel was running third. But a new survey released Thursday showed her just a percentage point behind frontrunner David Perdue.
Brewer said she opted to get involved in a GOP primary battle because she has known Handel since both were elected secretaries of state.
"She agrees with me philosophically," the governor said. "And she's a reasonable, pragmatic candidate."
But Handel may actually be more to the right of Brewer on the issue of gun rights.
Brewer last month vetoed legislation which would have allowed some gun owners — those with permits to carry a concealed weapon — to bring them in to public buildings that did not have armed guards and metal detectors at each public entrance. Handel, however, supported Georgia's HB 60 which does pretty much the same thing for buildings without guards.
Brewer minimized their differences on this issue, saying both believe in the Second Amendment right to bear arms. The governor said she vetoed the Arizona measure because she saw it as a mandate of sorts on local governments: If you want to keep guns out, you have to spend the money on guards and equipment.
"They wanted me to tell all the local governments to install all this equipment," Brewer said. "Well, we know they don't have the money for that."
Coffman, currently an assistant attorney general, is a bit of a different story.
"She is a person that I've met along the trail in my travels," Brewer said, calling her "another pragmatic person running for office." The governor also noted that Coffman's husband, Mike, is a Republican congressman from Colorado


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March 15th 1944 ~ December 18th 2011
Grammy Award-winning
percussion virtuoso and pioneer Ralph MacDonald, whose understated Afro-Caribbean
rhythms were known as the ghost behind
a multitude
of hit records of '70s and 80s pop stars has sadly died battling
cancer at the age of 67. He leaves behind a loving family including
his wife, Grace; their children
two children Anthony and Jovonni from a previous marriage;
and three grandchildren.
Afro-Trinbago-American percussionist, song-writer, musical arranger,
record producer, pioneer, plus conga drums and steelpan virtuoso was
born in Harlem, USA. Calypso and the steelpan were his roots and in
his creations he never strayed too far from them. Ralph began showing
his musical talent, particularly with the steelpan, even before his
teens, learning his craft at an early age from his father and five uncles,
immigrants from Trinidad, who all played professionally in calypso bands.
When he was 17, he landed a job playing pan for the Harry Belafonte
show; He wrote many songs for Harry, most of which are showcased on
Mr. Belafontes 1966 album Calypso Carnival". Ralph
remained with the Belafonte outfit for 10 years before going on his
own. His versatility made him a much sought-after session player on
records by jazz and jazz-soul fusion artists like Bobbi Humphrey, Rahsaan
Roland Kirk, Herbie Mann, David Sanborn, Ron Carter, Tom Scott, Maynard
Ferguson and Grover Washington Jr. for whom he co- wrote the 1975 hit
Mr. Magic. He is also featured on on George Benson's 1976
album, Breezin'; on percussion on Carole King's 1975 album, Thoroughbred,
and on Looking Glass's 1973 album Subway Serenade among many, many others.
In 1967, together with Bill Eaton and William Salter, he formed the
Antisia Music Incorporated, where Ralph convinced Roberta Flack to record
"Where is The Love", which he and William had earlier written.
Roberta did the song with Donnie Hathaway, the song sold 10 million
copies and generated two Grammies. Another of his noted compositions
is "Just the Two of Us" a mega-hit sung by Bill Withers and
covered my many other artists. His recording credits number in the hundreds
and include Burt Bacharach, George Benson, David Bowie, Aretha Franklin,
Art Garfunkel, Billy Joel, Quincy Jones, Carole King, Miriam Makeba,
David Sanborn, Paul Simon, Steely Dan, James Taylor, Luther Vandross,
Amy Winehouse, Bob James, Ashford and Simpson, Nana Mouskouri, The Average
White Band, Hall and Oates, The Brothers Johnson, and Jimmy Buffett.
Jo Spears
January 14th 1938 ~ December 14th 2011
"The Queen Mother" of country music, Billy Jo Spears has sadly
died at the age of 73, while battling cancer. She leaves behind a loving
family including her three sons, Tim, Kevin and Ronnie.
American country music singer; born Billie Jean Spears in Beaumont,
Texas, her father was a truck driver; her mother, a shipyard welder,
played guitar in the popular western swing band the Light Crust Doughboys.
Billie made
her professional debut at the age of 13 at a country music concert in
Houston, and after graduating from high school, she sang in nightclubs.
Billie cut her first single "Too Old For Toys, Too Young For Boys"
in Jack Rhodes' makeshift recording studio,while still a teenager, before
moving to Nashville, Tennessee in 1964. She gained her first recording
contract with United Artists Records, but soon moved over to Capitol
Records with her producer Kelso Herston. Billie did not follow the new
type of Country called countrypolitan unlike many of the artists of
that time, and she proved to Nashville that country music could still
have a more earthy sound. Her first chart success came with the song
'He's Got More Love In His Little Finger', released in November 1968,
followed by 'Mr Walker, It's All Over' which reached No.4 on the Country
chart and No.80 on the Pop charts. She had some vocal chord problems,
after 2 years recovery, she moved back to United Artists Records, and
returned to the charts in 1975 with a No.1 hit "Blanket on the
Ground", followed with hits such as "What I've Got In Mind",
"Sing Me An Old Fashioned Song", "Misty Blue", "'57
Chevrolet," "Love Ain't Gonna Wait For Us," "If
You Want Me," and others. In 1977 Billy appeared at the International
Festival of Country Music at Wembley Arena, London, UK, a booking that
was repeated often over the years. She had a very loyal fan base in
Britain and Billie continued to tour in the UK for more than 30 years.
She continued releasing albums in America until the late 80s and throughout
the 90s and onwards in the UK. Billie recovered from triple bypass surgery
in 1993 after which she continued to tour for more than 16 years. She
released around 30 albums, four of which went gold, the last of which
was in 2005. She paid her final visit to the UK earlier this year, 2011,
touring with the veteran Irish country singer Philomena Begley.
Jardine Taylor
February 24th 1917 December 9th 2011
Myra Taylor, one of the final living links to Kansas Citys heyday
as a jazz mecca, has died at the age of 94. Like a shining star she
performed well into 2011, but sadly Myra's health declined after and
she had been under hospice care at the Swope Ridge Geriatric Center,
for her last three months.
jazz singer Myra Taylor was born in Bonner Springs, Kansas, and
moved to Kansas City as a child. She began dancing and singing in her
teens finding an escape from life in domestic service. She danced at
the famed Sunset and Reno clubs on Kansas City 12th Street strip and
in 1930 she began touring the Midwest with Clarence Love's band, where
she became noticed for her singing. Myra then moved to Chicago in 1937
and worked with Warren Baby Dodds, Lonnie Johnson, Roy Eldridge
and Lil Hardin Armstrong. She returned to Kansas City in 1940
and Harlan Leonard hired her as the featured singer for his new band
Harlan Leonard and His Rockets. It was here Myra recorded her uptempo
version of the song I Dont Want to Set the World on Fire.
Kansas City is also where she recorded her best-known song, The
Spider and the Fly. She performed in USO shows during World War
II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War, performing in 32 different countries.
But Myra became frustrated at the American music business, and spent
most of the 50s in Juarez, Mexico, before relentlessly touring in Europe,
and then in 1965 she moved to Frankfurt, Germany, where she opened her
own club named Down by the Riverside. In 1977, Myra moved back to the
US and settled in Los Angeles, California to work in film and television,
including three episodes of the sitcom The Jeffersons. In
1994 she relocated once again in Kansas City. In 2000, she recorded
"My Night to Dream", for Analogue Production Originals records
and released it on the very inauspicious date of September 11th 2001.
Myra continued singing and performing with the group Wild Women of Kansas
City celebrating her 94th birthday with a concert at Knuckleheads Saloon
with Samantha Fish and Mike Zito. Her final performance was July 24th
2011 with the Wild Women of Kansas City at the Jardines nightclub
in Kansas City.
"Tappy" Tapia
January 1st 1908 December 2nd 2011
Maybe the
most beloved and revered figure in the ukulele world, Bill Tapia, who
performed with the likes of Bing Crosby and Louis Armstrong has away
peacefully in his sleep at his home in Westminster, California at the
age of 103. His loving wife Barbie and daughter Cleo sadly
died around the turn of the century.
jazz guitarist and ukulele player, also known as
known as "Uncle Bill" and "Tappy" was born to Portuguese
parents in Honolulu. He got his first instrument at the age of 7 from
Manuel Nunes, one of the first and most respected ukulele makers in
Hawaii. By the age of 10, he was already playing professionally playing
Stars and Stripes Forever for World War I troops in Hawaii.
Early in his career Bill was traveling back and forth from Hawaii
to the West Coast playing on steamships, then in vaudeville and quickly
expanding as a jazz guitarist, banjo and ukulele player. He performed
with names such as Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong, Elvis Presley and Hawaiian
musicians such as King Bennie Nawahi, Sol Hoopii, and Andy
Iona. Bill played with Johnny Nobles band at the opening of the
iconic Royal Hawaiian Hotel in 1927, returning to perform at the hotels
reopening in 2009! He spent World War II in Honolulu leading a 14 piece
band in blackout ballrooms, with all the lights out to avoid
possible detection by Japanese bombers. After the war, Bill relocated
to the San Francisco area, continuing to tour for several years with
swing bands such as Charlie Barnets group. He settled down with
wife Barbie and daughter Cleo, playing in TV orchestras, as a sideman
with local bands, and teaching guitar. An entire generation of Bay Area
guitarists have fond memories of learning their first licks from Tappy
at Campagna Music in Lafayette, where he worked for several decades.
By the turn of the last century, Bill had sadly lost both his wife and
daughter and he embarked on perhaps the unlikeliest career comeback
in music history. Returning to his ukulele roots, he released his first
CD Tropical Swing in 2004 at aged 96, that same year he
was inducted into the Ukulele Hall of Fame, and received a Lifetime
Achievement Award from the Hawaiian Academy of Recording Arts in 2011.
Bill toured until late in 2010 and continued to perform until his death
and he is widely believed to be the oldest performing musician ever
to take the stage.
February 17th 1949 ~ November 12th 2011
Texan drummer, singer-songwriter
Doyle Bramhall, has unexpectedly passed away in his sleep of heart failure
at his home in Alpine,
aged 62. He leaves behind a loving family including his wife, Barbara
Logan, daughter Georgia, and his son, renowned guitarist Doyle Bramhall
and singer-songwriter
was born and raised in Dallas, Texas and while still at high school,
he and
Jimmie Vaughan
formed The Chessmen. The highly talented band opened for Jimi Hendrix
when he played Dallas. In 1969, Doyle moved to Austin and formed the
band Texas Storm, again with his friend with Jimmie Vaughan and in the
1970s, he founded The Nightcrawlers with bassist Marc Benno, which this
time included Jimmie Vaughan's younger brother Stevie Ray Vaughan on
guitar. While in The Nightcrawlers, Doyle co-wrote the tune "Dirty
Pool," which appeared on Stevie Ray Vaughan's debut album, Texas
Flood. Doyle would wrote or co-wrote several other songs for the younger
Vaughan, such as "Life By The Drop" from SRV's The Sky Is
Crying album, and he played the drums on the Vaughan Brothers only album,
"Family Style". Doyle
released his debut solo record in 1994, which included appearances from
the Vaughans and his own son guitarist Doyle Bramhall II. He also collaborated
with Jennifer Warnes in the 1990s. His most recent solo album "Is
It News" was nominated for a Grammy in 2007. Doyle performed at
this years Main Street Fort Worth Arts Festival, sadly this was
to be one of his last appearances. He was due to appear at the Granada
Theatre with support from Fort Worths the Quaker City Night Hawks
on November 26th.
May 24th 1967 ~ November 8th 2011
rapper, record
producer and singer, Heavy
D, leader of the influencial hip-hop band Heavy D & the Boyz has
tragically died, suddenly and unexpectedly at the age of 44. He died
just after he had been rushed hospital while suffering respiratory difficulties
which started on his return home from a shopping outing.
Born Dwight Arrington Myers in Jamaican he moved with his family to
New York City when he was a young child. He was the former leader of
Heavy D & the Boyz, the influencial hip hop group which included
G-Whiz, "Trouble" T. Roy, and Eddie F. His debut album, Living
Large, was released in 1987, but it was his 2nd album Big Tyme which
was his breakthrough which included the hits "We Got Out Own Thang",
"Somebody for Me", and "Gyrlz, They Love Me". Tragically
Trouble T. Roy died aged 22 in a fall on July 15, 1990, his passing
led to a tribute on the follow-up platinum album, Peaceful Journey,
called "They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)" which is regarded
as a hip-hop classic. He released a total of seven studio albums throughout
his career. Heavy D & the Boyz gained even more fame by singing
the theme song for the television program In Living Color and also MADtv.
Heavy D performed the rap on Michael Jackson's hit single "Jam"
as well as sister Janet Jackson's hit single "Alright". He
then began focusing on his acting, appearing in television shows before
returning to the music charts with Nuttin' But Love. After appearing
in the off-Broadway play Riff Raff at Circle Repertory Company, he returned
to recording with the hit Waterbed Hev. In 2005, the Will Smith movie
Hitch played his hit song "Now That We Found Love". In 1997,
Heavy collaborated with B.B. King on his duets album Deuces Wild rapping
in the song "Keep It Coming". He also has a small role in
the 1999 Oscar-nominated movie The Cider House Rules. More recently
he recorded a series of reggae fusion albums and Heavy had performed
at the 2011 BET Hip Hop Awards just a few weeks ago on October 11th
Jimmy Savile
October 31st 1926 ~ October 29th 2011
British disc jockey, DJ pioneer,
TV presenter and charity fundraiser, Jimmy Savile, best known for his
BBC television show "Jim'll Fix It", and for being the first
and last presenter of the long-running BBC chart show "Top of the
Pops" has died peacefully in his sleep at his home in Leeds, two
days prior to his 85th birthday.
He was also well known for his support of various charities and fundraising
efforts, particularly Stoke Mandeville Hospital; he raised over £40,000,000
during his long and colourful career. Born in Leeds, Jimmy was a Bevin
Boy, conscripted during World War II to work as a coal miner at South
Kirkby Colliery, West Yorkshire. Having started playing records in dance
halls in the early 1940s, he claimed to be the first ever disc jockey
and is acknowledged as one of the pioneers of twin turntables for continuous
play of music. Jimmy
later lived in Salford, and worked as manager of the Plaza Ballroom
in Oxford Road, Manchester, in the mid-fifties and he also managed the
Mecca Locarno ballroom in Leeds around the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Mecca also owned the Palais, a dance hall in Ilford, Essex, and Jimmy
did a stint as manager there between 1955 and 1956. His Monday evening
records-only dance sessions, at 1/- admission, were a huge favourite
with local teens. He also was a hospital porter at Broadmoor Hospital
and Leeds General Infirmary and became a semi-professional sportsman,
competing in the 1951 Tour of Britain cycle race and over 300 other
professional bike races, plus competed in 212 marathons and worked as
a professional wrestler. He started his radio career working as a Radio
Luxembourg DJ from 1958 to 1967. Among his programmes was the Teen and
Twenty Disc Club. In 1968 he joined BBC Radio 1, where he initially
presented Savile's Travels and the discussion show Speakeasy. His best-remembered
contribution to Radio 1, however, is the Sunday lunchtime show Jimmy
Savile's Old Record Club, where entire top tens from years gone by were
played. This was the first show to feature old charts. It began in 1973
as The Double Top Ten Show and ended in 1987 as The Triple Top Ten Show,
at which point he left Radio 1 after 19 years. His television career
stared in 1960 when he presented Tyne Tees Television's music programme
"Young at Heart!; although the show was broadcast in black and
white, he dyed his hair a different colour every week. During the early
1960s he co-hosted (with Pete Murray) New Musical Express Poll Winners'
Concert, annually held at Empire Pool, Wembley, with acts such as The
Beatles, Cliff Richard and The Shadows, Joe Brown And the Bruvvers,
The Who, and many others. These were filmed and recorded and later broadcast
on television. On New Year's Day, 1964, he presented the first edition
of British music chart television programme Top of the Pops. On July
30 2006 he also co-hosted the final edition, ending the show with the
words "It's number one, it's still Top of the Pops", before
being shown turning off the studio lights after the closing credits.
On December 31st 1969, Jimmy hosted the BBC/ZDF co-production Pop Go
The Sixties, shown across Western Europe, celebrating the hits of the
1960s. He presented the legendary television programme Jim'll Fix It
from 1975 to 1994. In 1971 he was awarded the OBE, and in 1990 he was
knighted for his services in the Queen's Birthday Honours List. The
same year he was honoured with a papal knighthood from the Vatican making
him a Knight Commander of Saint Gregory the Great. Jimmy was also a
Knight of Malta and was awarded honorary Commando Green Beret by the
Royal Marines in the 1970s for being one of only two civilians to complete
the Royal Marine Commando speed march, 30 miles across Dartmoor carrying
30 lb of kit.
December 7th 1910 ~ October 21st 2011
Edmundo Ros, the musician, pioneer and bandleader who introduced Latin
American music to British audiences has died peacefully in his sleep
in a nursing home in Benimeli, Spain. The 100 year old legend sadly
leaves behind
his wife Susan and his two children Douglas and
Luisa from his first marriage to Britt Johansen.
bandleader, vocalist and arranger who made his career in Britain, Edmundo,
was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad; he enrolled in military academy
where he became interested in music and learned to play the euphonium.
From 1927-37 he lived in Caracas, Venezuela, where he played in the
Venezuelan Military Academy Band as well as being a tympanist in the
Venezuela Symphony Orchestra. He received a music scholarship from the
government, under which from 1937-1942 he studied harmony, composition
and orchestration at the Royal Academy of Music, London, UK. At the
same time he was the vocalist and percussionist in Don Marino Barettos
band at the Embassy Club and recorded with Fats Waller. In August 1940
he formed his own rumba band, Edmundo Ros and His Rumba Band and in
1941 he cut his first track 'Los Hijos de Buda'. At the Bagatelle a
visit from Princess Elizabeth and party, helped make his name and the
future Queen danced in public for the first time to Edmundo's music.
In later years his orchestra was often invited to play at Buckingham
Palace. By 1946 he owned a club, a dance school, a record company and
an artistes' agency. His band grew to 16 musicians and was renamed Edmundo
Ros and His Orchestra. His number 'The Wedding Samba', 1949, sold three
million 78s. His album Rhythms of The South in 1958 was one of the first
high-quality LP stereo records: it sold a million copies. In 1950, King
George VI invited him to perform at Windsor, and that same year he married
the beautiful Swedish aristocrat Britt Johansen. In 1951 Ros bought
the world famous Coconut Grove on Regent Street and in 1964 renamed
it Edmundo Ros's Dinner and Supper Club. Only those mentioned in "Who's
Who" were allowed membership in the club, and the BBC had regular
radio broadcasts there. He was with Decca Records from 1944 to 1974,
and altogether made more than 800 recordings. He got the smart idea
of recording Broadway musical melodies arranged to different Latin rhythms:
the mambo, cha cha cha, rumba, samba, baion, bolero, valse creole, meringe,
guaracha, and the conga. He also made a series of TV shows for the US
and European markets. In 1975 after his 7th Japanese tour and a BBC
recording session, he announced the disbanding of the orchestra. Emundo
retired and moved to Jávea, Alicante, Spain with his second wife
Susan. He gave his last public performance on 8 January 1994 when he
conducted and sang with the BBC Big Band with Strings at The Queen Elizabeth
Hall in London. The concert was broadcast over BBC Radio 2 and it was
such a success that a Japanese recording company invited them into a
recording studio in London to make yet another Edmundo Ros CD. At the
turn of the century, Edmundo was honoured when he was awarded the Order
of the British Empire by Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, in the 2000
New Year's Honours List.
"Betty" Driver
May 20th 1920 ~ October 15th 2011
Child singing star Betty Driver, and national
treasure after
42 years starring
in over 2,800 episodes as
Coronation Street's Betty Turpin, has sadly died from pneumonia at the
age of ninety one.
in Leicester, England, but at aged two Betty moved to West Didsbury,
Manchester, with her family. At the age of 8, pushed by her mother,
she began performing professionally with Terence Byron Repertory Theatre
Company; singing for the BBC by the age of 10; and began touring across
the UK in her first revue at the age of 12. Whilst performing in London
at the age of 14, Betty was spotted by the agent Bert Aza, despite her
young age, he booked her for the lead in a revival of Mr Tower Of London,
which had brought Gracie Fields to prominence 19 years earlier. When
she was still only 14, when she made her first record "Jubilee
Baby", and had another major success with "The Sailor with
the Navy Blue Eyes" and made several more hit records. She
was also approached by George Formby
to appear in their new film Boots! Boots! . At
16 she was in a West End show "Home and Beauty". Film director
Basil Dean, after seeing her in Jimmy Hunter's Brighton Follies, cast
her in the 1938 film Penny Paradise, and after a few months of variety
and radio work, she returned to the studio to make her second film,
"Let's Be Famous". In the 1940s, Betty became a noted big
band singer and during the Second World War, she travelled through Europe
with ENSA, entertaining the troops. She also appeared for seven years
on the radio show Henry Hall's Guest Night and on her own show, A Date
with Betty, which was first broadcast live from the People's Palace
in London's East End on 14 July 1949. The show's format was based around
her singing, doing sketches and introducing guests., her words were
scripted by an up and coming young Bob Monkhouse. In 1953 married Wally
Petersen, a South African singer who had guested on one of her shows
but the union was not a success, Peterson was a serial womaniser and
made free with Betty's money. The couple parted in 1960. Betty went
on to perform in Australia where she performed her own show, Cyprus,
Malta and the Middle East. On her return to England she appeared in
various Ealing Comedies, on stage in The Lovebirds, Pillar to Post and
What A Racket, and on TV with James Bolam in Love on the Dole and in
Pardon the Expression, alongside Arthur Lowe, after which she retired
and started running a pub with her sister Freda in Derbyshire. But in
1969 Betty came out of retirement to play police officer's wife Betty
Turpin on Coronation Street, a role she would play for over 40 years.
She was the longest serving barmaid in the history of the Rover's Return
and Betty's legendary Hot Pot is now an iconic dish, which has been
offered as a ready meal in UK supermarkets. Betty was honoured with
an MBE, when she was named a Member of the Order of the British Empire
by Queen Elizabeth II on the Millennium New Year's Honours List on Dec
31st 1999 and in May 2010 Betty was awarded the Lifetime Achievement
Award at the British Soap Awards.
March 12th 1930 September 6th 2011
American R&B hitmaker, bandleader and musician Wardell Quezergue,
a New Orleans' legend has sadly died at the age of 81 from complications
of congestive heart failure. Wardell leaves behind five sons, Brian,
Donald, Wayne, Victor and Martin; eight daughters, Violetta Johnson,
Gaynelle Mitchell, and Iris, Diana, Yoshi, Helen, Ramona and Lesley;
a brother, Leo; and many grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.
Sadly Yoshi Tamaki, his wife of 60 years, died earlier this year.
Quezergue an American
conductor, bandleader, music arranger and
producer, known among New Orleans musicians as the Creole Beethoven
was born into a musical family in New Orleans and took up music at a
very early age. After playing with Dave Bartholomews band from
the late 1940s and serving as an army musician in Korea, he emerged
as a bandleader in his own right in the mid-1950s with his Royal Dukes
of Rhythm who became a welcome fixture on the New Orleans music scene.
Along with the drummer Smokey Johnson, he wrote the 1964 instrumental
It Aint My Fault, later sampled by Mariah Carey, the
rapper Silkk the Shocker and others. As well as his band and songwriting
career, Wardell worked mainly as a producer and arranger with the cream
of New Orleans musicians, such as Professor Longhair and Fats Domino,
with songs including Barefootin
by Robert Parker, Big
Chief by Professor Longhair, Iko Iko by the Dixie
Cups, Groove Me by King Floyd, Mr. Big Stuff
by Jean Knight and Misty Blue by Dorothy Moore
among so many others.
He later worked as an arranger on the albums Fiyo on the Bayou
for the Neville Brothers; Orchid in the Storm for Aaron
Neville; Goin Back to New Orleans for Dr. John; Deacon
Johns Jump Blues for `Deacon John Moore; and two albums
for the blues singer Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Gate
Swings and American Music, Texas Style, just to name
a few. On July 19th 2009, a tribute was mounted to honor Wardell Quezergue
at the Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall. Also in 2009 Wardell released
his own album, Music for Children Ages 3 to 103: The St. Agnes
April 25th 1933 ~ August 22nd 2011
Leiber, one of the most important songwriters in the history of rock
& roll, whose 60+ year partnership with Mike Stoller produced over
200 iconic songs has tragically died from heart failure in Cedars-Sinai
Medical Centre, LA, at the age of 78. He leaves behind a loving family
his sons Jed, Oliver and Jake.
Influencial American
Jerry was born in Baltimore, his family moved to L.A. when he was in
his teens. At aged 17, as a senior at Fairfax High, Jerry met his composer-songwriting
partner Mike Stoller in 1950, when they formed the legendary 6 decade+
partnership Leiber and Stoller. Together they played a key role in the
birth of rock 'n' roll, writing and composing such iconic hits as "Hound
Dog" which originally topped the "race" music charts
as a rhythm and blues single by Big Mamma Thornton in 1953; "Jailhouse
Rock", "Poison Ivy", "Charlie Brown", "Yakety
Yak", "On Broadway" and the hit "Stand By Me,"
which they co-wrote with singer Ben E. King.. They went on to pen more
than 200 tunes covered by such recording stars as Elvis Presley, Buddy
Holly, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, James Brown, B.B. King, the
Drifters and Peggy Lee. Elvis alone recorded over 20 Leiber and Stoller
songs. In 1950, Jimmy Witherspoon recorded and performed their first
commercial song, "Real Ugly Woman". Their first hit composition
was "Hard Times," recorded by Charles Brown, which was a rhythm
and blues hit in 1952. "Kansas City", which was first recorded
in 1952 as "K. C. Loving" by rhythm & blues singer Little
Willie Littlefield, became a No. 1 pop hit in 1959 for Wilbert Harrison.
In the 1960s, Leiber and Stoller founded Red Bird Records, which issued
the Shangri-Las' "Leader of the Pack" and the Dixie Cups'
"Chapel of Love". After selling Red Bird, they continued working
as independent producers and writing songs. Their last major hit production
was "Stuck in the Middle With You," by Stealers Wheel in 1972.
In 1975, they recorded an album of art songs with Peggy Lee, entitled
Mirrors. A remixed and expanded version of this album was released in
2005 as Peggy Lee Sings Leiber & Stoller. In 1977, A&M Records
recruited them to write and produce the Elkie Brooks album , "Two
Days Away", their composition "Pearl's A Singer" became
a hit for Brooks, and remains her signature tune today. They produced
another album for her, Live and Learn, in 1979. Aside from rock music,
they also composed songs in other genres such as cabaret and jazz, working
with the likes of crooner Frank Sinatra and the French songstress Edith
Piaf. They were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1985,
the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1987 and their awards include a
National Academy of Songwriters Lifetime Achievement Award-1996, Distinguished
Artist Award/Los Angeles Music Center- 1997, NARAS Trustees Award -1999,
Johnny Mercer Award/National Academy of Popular Music-2000, Ivor Novello
International Songwriters Award-2000, ASMAC Presidents Award-
2005, World Soundtrack Award/Flanders International Film Festival- 2005.
Their song Kansas City" has been named the official song
of Kansas City, Missouri, Elvis Presley's recording of Hound Dog
has been placed in the Grammy Hall of Fame and contestants performed
their songs on American Idol, on May 11 2011. In 2009, Simon & Schuster
published Hound Dog: The Leiber & Stoller Autobiography, written
by Leiber and Stoller with David Ritz.
February 1st 1964 ~ August 11th 2011
musician, former frontman
songwriter of the metal rock band Warrant has tragically and died
at the age of 47. His body was found at the Comfort Inn Hotel in Woodland
Hills, California; no cause of death has yet been determined. Jani sadly
leaves behind his third wife, Kimberly, and four children; his two daughters
Taylar and Madison, and two step daughters, Brittany and Ryan.
Born John Kennedy Oswald, in Akron, Ohio, he was playing in
local bands by the age of 11 under the stage name Mitch Dynamite and
attended Field High School in Mogadore, Ohio, where he showed himself
to be a gifted athlete and musician. After playing with an Akron band
named Cyren, John moved to Los Angeles and played in the group Plain
Jane under the stage name Jani Lane. The inspiration for his nom de
metal came from his German grandparents' pronunciation of "Johnny".
Jani went on to become lead vocalist, frontman, lyricist and songwriter
with the more estabished Californian glam metal band Warrant. The band
immediately benefited from their new singer's songwriting abilities.
With Warrant, Jani wrote 3 hit singles: "Heaven," "Down
Boys" and "Sometimes She Cries" for thier debut album
Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich which peaked at number 10 on the billboard
200 and another 3 hit singles: "Cherry Pie," "I Saw Red,"
and "Uncle Tom's Cabin" for the second album Cherry Pie which
peaked at No.7 on The Billboard 200. He co-wrote and performed the song
"The Power" in the '92 movie "The Gladiator" and
also had an unreleased project "Jabberwocky" which has become
an underground fan favorite worldwide. He left Warrant in March 1993,
following the release of the band's critically acclaimed record Dog
Eat Dog which peaked at number 25 on The Billboard 200. However he returned
to the band in Sept 1994, helping the band to secure a new record with
Tom Lipsky of CMC International. He and the band then recorded Ultraphobic
in '95, Belly to Belly in '96, Greatest & Latest in '99 and a cover
album Under the Influence in 2001. He left the band for good in 2008.
In the years of 2000s Jani also had a successful solo career, releasing
the solo album Back Down to One in 2002, as well as acting in films,
recording guest vocals for several rock artists and continued to write
songs for artists such as Alice Cooper. In 2008 he finished finished
work on his side project, Saints of the Underground, along with Bobby
Blotzer and Robbie Crane, both from Ratt, and Keri Kelli from Alice
Cooper. Their album, Love the Sin, Hate the Sinner was released on April
22, 2008. In the summer of 2010, Jani went on tour with Great White,
filling in for singer Jack Russell who was recuperating from surgery.
September 23rd 1928 ~ July 26th 2011
Frank Foster, one of the great jazz tenor soloists has
sadly died aged 82
of complications from kidney failure. He leaves behind a loving family
including his wife and personal manager of nearly 45 years, Cecilia
American jazz saxophonist and composer, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and
he moved to Detroit, Michigan in 1949 where he joined the local jazz
scene, playing with musicians such as Wardell Gray. After finishing
his two year military service in 1953 he joined Count Basie's big band
and contributed both arrangements and original compositions to Count
Basies band including the standard, Shiny Stockings,
and other popular songs such as Down for the Count, Blues
Backstage, Back to the Apple, Discommotion,
and Blues in Hoss Flat as well as arrangements for the entire
Easin It album. He also played with Elvin Jones, the Thad JonesMel
Lewis big band, the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. From
1972 to 1976, Frank was full-time Assistant Professor in the Black Studies
Program at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He also formed
and lead several groups, most notably Living Color and The Loud Minority.
He co-led a quintet with Frank Wess in 1983, and toured Europe as a
member of Jimmy Smith's quintet in 1985. Then in June 1986 Frank succeeded
Thad Jones as leader of the Count Basie Orchestra for nearly ten years.
In 1995, he resumed his leadership of three musical groups: The Non-Electric
Company, Swing Plus, and The Loud Minority Big Band, each of which he
had organized years prior to assuming leadership of the Basie unit in
1986. Frank suffered a stroke in 2001 that impaired his left side to
the extent that he could no longer play the saxophone. After continuing
to lead The Loud Minority on limited engagements for much of the 2000s,
he had recently turned his leadership responsibilities for the band
over to Cecil Bridgewater. Until his death he continued composing and
arranging at his home in Chesapeake, Virginia. Among his many honors,
Frank received two Grammy Awards, the first for his big band arrangement
of the Diane Schuur composition, "Deedles Blues" - Best
Arrangement Accompanying a Vocal in 1987, and the second for his arrangement
of guitarist/vocalist George Bensons composition, Basies
Bag - Best Instrumental Arrangement, Jazz Category, 1988). He
also received two Grammy nominations: first, for his big band arrangement
of Charles Trenets composition, "Beyond the Sea" and
for an album with his fellow Basie alumnus Frank Wess entitled "Frankly
September 14th 1983 ~ July 23rd 2011
27 year old English singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse, known for her powerful
contralto vocals and her eclectic mix of musical genres including R&B,
soul and jazz, has sadly died. Two ambulances were called to Amy's home
in Camden, London, shortly afterwards, the Metropolitan Police confirmed
that she had died.
Born in Southgate,
London, at nine years old, Amy attended the Susi Earnshaw Theatre School
and at ten, she founded a short-lived rap group called Sweet 'n' Sour.
She stayed at the Earnshaw school for four years before seeking full
time training at Sylvia Young Theatre School, she appeared in an episode
of The Fast Show in 1997 before allegedly being expelled at 14 for "not
applying herself" and for piercing her nose. Amy had taken up the
guitar at 13 and was writing songs by the age of 14. She began working
soon after, including as a showbiz journalist for the World Entertainment
News Network, in addition to singing with local group the Bolsha Band.
She signed to Simon Fuller's 19 Management in 2002. Amy's 2003 debut
album, Frank, was critically successful in the UK and was nominated
for the Mercury Prize. Her 2006 follow-up album, Back to Black, led
to six Grammy Award nominations and five wins, tying the then record
for the most wins by a female artist in a single night, and made Winehouse
the first British female to win five Grammys,including three of the
"Big Four": Best New Artist, Record of the Year and Song of
the Year. On 14 February 2007, she won a BRIT Award for Best British
Female Artist; she had also been nominated for Best British Album. She
won the Ivor Novello Award three times, one in 2004 for Best Contemporary
Song (musically and lyrically) for "Stronger Than Me", one
in 2007 for Best Contemporary Song for "Rehab", and one in
2008 for Best Song Musically and Lyrically for "Love Is a Losing
Game", among other distinctions. The album was the third biggest
seller of the 2000s in the United Kingdom. She was credited as an influence
in the rise in popularity of female musicians and soul music, and also
for revitalising British music. British singer Adele had credited Amy's
success in the US for making her and fellow British singer Duffy's journey
to the United States and American singer Lady Gaga credited Amy with
paving the way for her rise to the top of the charts. Tragically her
problems with drug and alcohol illness, and her self-destructive behaviours
were regular tabloid news from 2007 until her death, and had sadly started
to affect her short but amazing and iconic career.
February 4th 1931 ~ July 17th 2011
esteemed jazz tenor-saxophinist and vocalist, Gil Bernal,
has sadly
died of congestive heart failure at the age of 80. He
leaves behind by his wife, Harriet; two sons, Gil Jr. and Nick; three
daughters, Colette, Lisa and Michelle; 10 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
saxophonist Gil, is described by many as having one of the most sensual
sounds in Jazz.
Born in Los Angeles, he began singing and playing the tenor sax in his
early teens and joined local bands playing at parties and dances. By
the age of 18, he had joined up with Lionel Hampton, spending the next
three years playing with Quincy Jones, Little Jimmy Scott and Benny
Powell, touring the U.S. and Canada with the band as a featured tenor-sax
soloist and vocalist. He also played sax on 1950s and early 60s
hits such as Duane Eddy's "Rebel Rouser" and The Robins' "Smokey
Joe's Cafe" and Youngblood. Next he did a stint with
his own band in Las Vegas, before joining Spike Jones' band as saxophone
soloist, vocalist, and impressionist, spending the next six years touring
the U.S., playing Las Vegas and Lake Tahoe, as well as appearing on
numerous NBC and CBS television shows. After which he returned to L.A.
where he founded his own band, which included Shelley Mann and Shorty
Rogers, playing the busy L.A. music scene and working Vegas and Lake
Tahoe, this time with his own band. In 1967, his The Eyes Of Love,
from the film Banning, was nominated for an Academy Award. Many of his
records, like Can You Love A Poor Boy and To Make
A Big Man Cry are very collectable by Northern Soul fans. Other
notable recordings are "Keep Those Wandering Eyes Off My Baby"
for American Records, "Starwberry Stomp" for Spark Records
and "Tower Of Strength" for the Imperial label. Over his 60
year career, Gil worked on several projects with Ry Cooder, including
overdubs on "Buena Vista Social Club", the 1997 recording
of veteran Cuban musicians and "Chavez Ravine", a 2005 concept
album about an earlier era in Los Angeles, including a version of Leiber
and Stoller's "Three Cool Cats". As one of L.A.s most
in-demand session players, he recorded with many other greats, including
Ray Charles, Big Mama Thornton, The Dominos, The Coasters, Quincy Jones
Orchestra, Buddy Bregman Orchestra, Henry Mancini Orchestra, David Rose
Orchestra, Dan Terry Orchestra and many others.
Cuddly Dudley
May 22nd 1924 ~ July 15th 2011
Pioneer and Trail Blazer, Jamaican singer Cuddly Dudley, noted for being
Britain's first black rock & roller, has sadly died
at the age of 87.
English-Jamaican rock & roll singer, dancer and actor, Cuddly Dudley,
came to fame in the UK on the early teenage music ITV TV show, Oh Boy!
, and is noted for being Britain's first black rock & roller.
Born Dudley Heslop, in Kingston, Jamaica, he started performing when
very young with a "native song and dance act" for tourists.
In 1947 emmigrated to Britain where he first spent a year in the play
Sauce Tartare at the Cambridge Theatre in the West End, before singing
in clubs for 6 months. He then played in Folies Bergeres at the Hippodrome,
London and toured Australia in Cole Porter's Kiss Me, Kate, before joining
Sid Milward's Comedy orchestra, The Nit Wits, supporting Max Bygraves.
He became influenced by early rock 'n' roll and, being black, with a
strong voice, decided to change musical style, he also adopted a big
grin, flashy suits and snazzy ties and manager manager, Guy Robinson,
promoted him as "Bristol's answer to The Big Bopper". At this
time Dudley also a co-founded The Dominoes, with pianist Iggy Quail
and vocalist Boysie Grant. This change of direction led to him getting
a residency on Jack Good's new TV series Oh Boy!. Dudley appeared on
both pilot recordings of Oh Boy! as Dudley Heslop, but changed back
to Cuddly Dudley, before the main series started. He was usually backed
by the house band, Lord Rockingham's XI and appeared in a total of 21
episodes, the most appearances by any artist, one more than Cliff Richard,
whilst The Drifters, who became The Shadows and Marty Wilde appeared
on 17 shows each. His first recordings as Cuddly Dudley were on the
TV spin-off album Oh Boy! in 1958, where he sang "Hey Hey Hey Hey"
(later covered by The Beatles) and "Lets Rock While the Rocking's
Good". A solo single "Later" b/w "Lots More Love"
was released in 1959, and in 1960 he appeared, as himself, in the film
Girls of the Latin Quarter. After the finish Oh Boy! in May 1959, he
began touring with his own all-black band, The Embraceable Four, with
whom he supported The Platters on their 1960 UK tour, and released a
second single, a cover of Chuck Berry's "Too Pooped To Pop"
and in 1961 he took over as lead singer with The Redcaps,
with whom he released a single "Sitting On A Train". By 1963/64
Dudley had rejoined pianist Iggy Quail and recorded some of the first
bluebeat and ska tracks outside Jamaica and they formed a trio with
bassist Clyde Davies. They accompanied comedians such as Bob Monkhouse
and Tommy Trinder and had a residency at the Kingfisher Club.Dudley
released several singles but retired from the music business in the
latter 60s
May 22nd 1924 ~ July 14th
Delaney, born showman, drum pioneer, one of the most inventive, exciting
and one of the finest drummers Britain has ever produced, captivating
audiences with his energetic leaps across the stage from drums to timpani
has sadly died at the age of 87. Married three times, he is survived
by his son and three daughters.
Eric must be the ultimate
drummer's drummer!! Born in Acton, London, UK, Eric was playing drums
to live audiences at 6 and by aged 10 was in his first group, with his
mother on piano and his father on banjo. In his early teens he was acclaimed
as a "Drum Genius" taking drum command and
touring the UK with
the Royal Kiltie Junior Band and the Hughie Green Roadshow. By the time
he was 16, Eric was voted Britain's Best Young Swing Drummer, and in
1941 at the age of 17, Eric joined George Shearing of the famous Ambrose
Octet touring the variety theatres of that time. Although best known
as a jazz drummer, Eric was a multi-percussionist, as well as the drums
he played xylophone, glockenspiel, timpani, military side drum, tubular
bells, a variety of Chinese gongs and tam tams and incorporated many
everyday items such as brushes and whistles into his shows over the
years. Over the years Eric been voted No.1 of 8 titles including,
Drummer of the Year and Musician of the Year, Band of the Year award
and appeared on 3 Royal Command performances. In 1995 Eric was invited
to perform at the Royal College of Music, London with some of the finest
drummers and percussionists from across Europe, and he overwhelmed them
all with his spellbinding technique. Over his long career Eric has played
everywhere, with everyone and
most genres.
In 1998 he moved to Benidorm where he became a nightly attraction playing
at the Talk of the Town into the early hours of the morning, when many
of the other cabaret performers would stay on to watch him. He returned
to Britain in 2006 and continued entertaining audiences and inspiring
a new generation of musicians, Eric continued to play till his end.
A book "The Magnificent Eric Delaney" described as bits and
pieces from the life of a living legend as told and assembled by his
long time friend, trumpet player Eddie Sammons was published in 2008.
30th 1943 ~ July 11th 2011
Grill, a veteran lead singer and musician has sadly died at the age
of 67,
after 45 years as a
guiding light and constant force of the Californian rock
'n' roll band The
Grass Roots
as a singer, musician and songwriter. He died from the effects of a
stroke and head injuries. Rob had been in a coma since tragically
a head injury several weeks earlier when he fell after suffering a stroke.
He leaves behind a loving family including his wife Nancy.
American lead singer, songwriter and bass guitarist, Robert Frank Grill
was born in Los Angeles, and was an early member of the California rock
and roll band, The Grass Roots in 1967, soon
after it was created by songwriters Steve Barri and P.F. Sloan in 1966.
Between 1967 and 1972, the band set a record for being on the Billboard
charts for 307 straight weeks and have sold over 20 million records
worldwide. The band also hold the all time attendance record for a one
act, at the US concert of 600,000 people on July 4th 1982 in Washington
DC. Their hit singles include: Let's Live For Today, I'd Wait A Million
Years, Midnight Confessions, Sooner Or Later, Two Divided By Love and
Temptation Eyes. The band disbanded in 1975, but since 1978 Rob and
a newer lineup of The Grass Roots have continued to tour and play many
live shows each year. He lead the group into the new millennium and
beyond, he has been the guiding light and the common thread for the
positive output that the group has given music listeners around the
world for over forty years. In 2008, he and the band released a live
album chronicling their fourteen Top 40 Billboard hits titled "Live
Gold". During 2010 and 2011, The Grass Roots had heavy touring
schedules throughout the U.S. both on their own and as part of the Happy
Together: 25th Anniversary Tour. Prior to Grass Roots, Rob had attended
Hollywood High, and after graduating he began working at American Recording
Studios with Cory Wells of Three Dog Night' fame and John Kay of Steppenwolf
of fame. Rob also launched a solo career in 1979, assisted on his solo
album by several members of Fleetwood Mac. In his long career he composed
sixteen songs for The Grass Roots and his solo album, including "Come
On And Say It" which was a single "A" side for the band.
In 2006, his former manager Marty Angelo published a book, Once Life
Matters: A New Beginning, which contains many stories about his life
on the road with Rob and the Grass Roots in the early 1970s.
11th 1942 ~ June 18th
golden years with the E Street Band,
the "Big Man," saxophonist Clarence Clemons has sadly
at the age of 69, in Palm Beach, Florida, from complications of a stroke
he suffered last Sunday. Five times married Clarence leaves behind his
four beloved sons, Clarence III, Charles, Christopher and Jarod.
American saxophonist Clarence
Clemons was born in Norfolk, Virginia; at aged 9, his father gave him
an alto saxophone as a Christmas present and paid for music lessons.
He later switched to baritone saxophone and played in a high school
jazz band. At age 18, Clarence had one of his earliest studio experiences,
recording sessions with Tyrone Ashley's Funky Music Machine, a band
from Plainfield, New Jersey that included Ray Davis, Eddie Hazel and
Billy Bass Nelson, all of whom later played with Parliament-Funkadelic.
He also performed with Daniel Petraitis, a New Jersey and Nashville
legend. These sessions were eventually released in 2007 by Truth and
Soul Records as Let Me Be Your Man. While at Maryland State College
he joined his first band, The Vibratones, which played James Brown covers
and stayed together for about four years in the early to mid 60s, before
playing with
The Joyful Noyze. In July 1972, Bruce Springsteen began recording his
debut album Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. and during recording
breaks, he jammed with Clarence and The Joyful Noyze on at least two
occasions at The Shipbottom Lounge in Point Pleasant, New Jersey. When
Springsteen decided to use a tenor saxophone on the songs "Blinded
By The Light" and "Spirit In The Night" it was Clarence
he called and from 1972 until his death, he was a prominent member of
Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, playing the tenor saxophone. He also
released several solo albums and in 1985 had a hit single with "You're
a Friend of Mine", a duet with Jackson Browne. As a guest musician
he featured on Aretha Franklin's classic "Freeway of Love"
and on Twisted Sister's "Be Chrool to Your Scuel" as well
as performing in concert with The Grateful Dead and Ringo Starr &
His All-Starr Band. He has recorded with dozens of artists from Roy
Orbison to The Four Tops
to Scarlet Rivera
to Lady Gaga As an actor he featured in several films, including New
York, New York and Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. He also made
cameo appearances in several TV series, including Diff'rent Strokes,
Nash Bridges, The Simpsons and The Wire. Together with his TV writer
friend Don Reo he published his autobiography, Big Man: Real Life &
Tall Tales, in 2009.
October 20th 1938 ~ May
19th 2011
Nicknamed the "Golden Girl of Pop",
singing star and blonde bombshell of the 60s, Kathy Kirby, has sadly
after short illness, at
aged 72.
She leaves behind a loving family and friends.
British singer born Kathleen
O'Rourke in
Ilford, Essex, portrayed as a 'blonde bombshell', and was often compared
to Marilyn Monroe. It began in 1954, at 16, she went to watch the famous
bandleader Bert Ambrose at the Ilford Palais de Danse, when during the
show, in an episode that went down in showbusiness legend, she walked
up to the maestro and asked if she could sing with his band, Ambrose
agreed; her
renditions of two standards "Love Me Or Leave Me" and "All
Of Me" were greeted with wild applause. Ambrose, recognising a
remarkable voice and talent, immediately signed her up. She remained
with his band for 3 years and he became her lover and remained her manager
and mentor until his death in 1971. She had 5 Top 40 hits between 1963-65,
the best known of which is her rendition of "Secret Love"
in 1963, also that same year she won Top British Female Singer in the
New Musical Express poll. Kathy was one of the biggest stars of the
mid 1960s, appearing many times at he London Palladium, sang at the
Royal Command Variety Performance and three television series for BBC
TV. She represented the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest
in 1965, and came second with the song "I Belong". On 31 December
1976, she performed her hit song "Secret Love" on BBC1's A
Jubilee Of Music, celebrating British pop music for Queen Elizabeth
II's impending Silver Jubilee. In the 1970's sadly her life was blighted
by misfortune and failed comebacks. Her money drained away, and at one
point tragically she was said to be sleeping in a shop doorway. She
suffered a much-publicised nervous breakdown and was eventually diagnosed
with schizophrenia. A lesbian affair with a fan accompanied by scandalous
tabloid headlines ended with the other woman being jailed for fraud
and forgery. Kathy retired entirely from show business in the 80's and
became a virual recluse. Even so, she retained a large fan base and
interest in her work continued, particularly among gay men for whom
she was something of an icon. A 2005 biography was adapted into a stage
show about her life, called "Secret Love", which opened in
Leeds in May 2008.
May 1st 1936 ~ April 11th 2011
The sought after session guitarist of Chicago's once-thriving blues
scene, Lacy Gibson, has sadly died of a heart attack at the age of 74.
He leaves behind a large loving family, his wife Ann, a son, five daughters,
seventeen grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
jazz influenced blues guitar virtuoso, and vocalist born in Salisbury,
North Carolina; moving to Chicago in 1949 he learned from veterans Sunnyland
Slim, T-Bone Walker and Muddy Waters and picked up pointers from immaculate
axemen Lefty Bates, Matt "Guitar" Murphy, and Wayne Bennett.
Lacy made a name for himself as a session player in 1963, assuming rhythm
guitar duties on sides by Willie Mabon, Billy "The Kid" Emerson
and Buddy Guy on various labels. He also made his vocal debut with his
self-penned blues ballad "My Love Is Real" at Chess the same
year. He was a musician's
his versatile guitar and unique rich style of joining the influences
of jazz and blues and pop quickly became a mainstay on stages and in
recording studios for numerous bands led by such blues luminaries as
Son Seals, Otis Rush, Ray Charles, Jimmy
Boy Arnold, Big
Time Sarah,
Billy "The Kid" Emerson, Sun Ra and
a leader he recorded three albums, beginning with "Wishing Ring"
on his brother-in-law Sun Ra's label in 1971. Lacy also recorded at
Chicago's famed Chess Records, singing vocal on his tune "My Love
Is Real" with Buddy Guy on guitar. He also cut four tracks for
Alligator Records' "Living Chicago Blues" series in 1980,
then released "Switchy Titchy" on the Black Magic label in
1983. His most recent release was "Crying For My Baby" in
1996 for Delmark. Most recently, semi-retired because of heart problems,
he helped run and occasionally played sets at an after-hours club on
Chicago's West Side called Ann's Love Nest, named in honor of Lacy's
loving wife.
September 22nd 1944 ~April 9th 2011
year old Grammy-winning sound engineer and record producer Roger Nichols
has died after a brave year long battle with pancreatic cancer. He sadly
leaves behind his wife, writer-musician Conrad Reeder and his two daughters
Cimcie and Ashlee.
American sound engineer, record producer, and 7-time Grammy Award-winner
Roger also nicknamed "The Immortal" was born in Oakland, California.
He started out in 1965 when he and some friends created their own recording
studio, Quantum Studios, in what was originally a four car garage, in
Torrance, CA. From the 1970 onwards Roger is best known for his work
with the group Steely Dan and John Denver, but his work includes numerous
major music acts including the Beach Boys, Stevie Wonder, Frank Zappa,
Crosby Stills & Nash, Al Di Meola, Roy Orbison, Cass Elliot, Plácido
Domingo, Gloria Estefan, Diana Ross, Bela Fleck & the Flecktones,
Rickie Lee Jones, Kenny Loggins, Mark Knopfler, Eddie Murphy, Michael
McDonald, James Taylor, and Toots Thielemans, among others. Although
now common place, back in 1978, he pioneered the technique of "digital
drum replacement" by inventing the Wendel sampling computer, which
was used to provide some of the drum and percussion sounds on Steely
Dan's album, Gaucho, notably the song "Hey Nineteen". He also
invented and produced a rubidium nuclear clock under his company name
Digital Atomics, which provided the accuracy of nuclear timekeeping
to better synchronize digital recording equipment, In 1977, 78, 81 and
2000 he was awarded 6 Grammy Awards for his work with Steely Dan and
another in 1997 for John Denver "All Aboard!" album. In 2006
his work was formally recognized by The Recording Academy Producers
and Engineers Wing.
6th 1939 ~ March 18th 2011
Jet Harris, legenary first bass guitarist with Cliff Richard and The
Shadows, has sadly died after battling throat cancer. He was 71 years
old. Jet leaves behind his four sons and loving partner, Janet Hemingway.
Born Terence Harris in Honeypot Lane, North London, Jet
started off playing clarenet
a young teenager before making his own double bass and forming a school
band with friends Peter Newman, John Welsh, and Ray Edmunds. He played
in several bands including The Vipers Skiffle Group and The Most Brothers
and a stint with Wee Willee Harris & Tony Crombie's Rockets before
in 1959 he joined Cliff Richard's backing group The Drifters, who later
changed their name to The Shadows. In 1959, after the neck of his Framus
bass was damaged, he was presented by the importers a Fender Precision
Bass,with one of the first to come to Britain from the United States.
Jet also contributed vocally, adding backup harmonies and had a trademark
scream used in the Shadows' "Feeling Fine" and Cliff Richard's
"Do You Wanna Dance?". In
1962, he left the Shadows following personal disagreements. He released
instrumental and vocal work with some success, and as part of a duo
with former Shadows drummer Tony Meehan, topping the UK Singles Chart
in early 1963 with "Diamonds". Jet and Meehan followed this
with two further hit singles, "Scarlett O'Hara" and "Applejack".
His singles were relatively unusual in that they made prominent use
of the bass as a lead instrument, and the best of them "Diamonds,"
"The Man With the Golden Arm", and "Man From Nowhere"
had a menacing, shuddering bass reminiscent of the best James
Bond soundtracks. Jimmy Page was a session guitarist on the Diamonds
single. Sadly Jet had started on a 30 year road of alcoholism, before
his recovery. He still played occasionally, with backing band The Diamonds
or as a guest with The Rapiers, and teamed up with Tony Meehan for a
support performance in Cliff Richard's 1989 'The Event' concerts. In
1998 he was awarded a Fender Lifetime Achievement Award for his role
in popularising the bass guitar in Britain. Jet was appointed Member
of the Order of the British Empire in the 2010 New Year Honours, also
the same year he was presented with a special award from the US Fender
guitar company for his services to their company in effectively launching
their bass guitar in the UK in 1960.
August 19th 1969 ~ March 15th 2011
Hip-hop and R & B star Nate Dogg has been battling
health issues for several years; after having survived strokes in 2007
and 2008, he has sadly died of congestive heart failure at the age of
Born Nathaniel Dwayne Hale in Long Beach, California,
he began singing as a child in the New Hope Baptist Church in Long Beach,
and at Life Line Baptist Church in Clarksdale, Mississippi, where his
father was a pastor. At the age of 16 he dropped out of high school
in Long Beach, California and left home to join the United States Marine
Corps, serving for three years. He was the friend and partner in the
rap game with Snoop Dogg, Warren G, RBX, Daz Dillinger and he was the
cousin of Butch Cassidy and Lil' ½ Dead. Nate, Snoop Dogg and
Warren G, all belonged to the Rollin 20 Crips gang and formed a rap
trio called 213, recording there first demo in the back of the famed
V.I.P record store in Long Beach. Nate made his debut on hip hop artist
Dr. Dre's 1992 The Chronic album, singing in what later became his trademark
style. He was well-received by fans and critics alike, and went on to
sign with Death Row Records in 1993. He was also featured on Mista Grimm's
"Indosmoke" with Warren G. Then in 1994 he produced his first
hit single "Regulate" with Warren G. He was also featured
in many Tupac releases, including his collaboration record Thug Life:
Volume I. In 1998, after a tumultuous time at Death Row Records, he
released a double album was titled G-Funk Classics Vol. 1 & 2 and
was followed up in late 2001 with Music & Me which peaked at No.3
on the Billboard hip-hop charts in 2001. In 2002, Nate appeared on a
celebrity episode of The Weakest Link, making it to the last three players
before being voted off by Xzibit and Young MC. As of 2004, he had featured
in and contributed to over 40 chart singles. Sadly his final years were
encumbered with ill health, suffering a stroke in december 2007 which
had rendered the left side of his body paralyzed, but as he was recovering,
in 2008 he suffered a second stroke. His long awaited his self-titled
album Nate Dogg, recorded in 2004, was finally released on June 3rd
4th 1966
~ March 8th 2011
and co-founding member of the pioneering Seattle grunge band, Alice
in Chains, Mike Starr has been found dead in a house in Salt Lake City,
Utah. Mike was 44 years old, but no details have as yet emerged to the
cause of death.
American bassist Mike Starr born in Honolulu, Hawaii is best known as
a founding member and bassist with the alternative grunge rock band,
Alice in Chains, formed in Seattle in 1987. The band was one of the
most successful music acts of the 1990s, selling over 25 million albums
worldwide, and over 12 million in the US alone. The band achieved two
number-one Billboard 200 albums "Jar of Flies" and "Alice
in Chains", 14 top ten songs on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart,
and eight Grammy Award nominations. Mike
is featured on albums We Die Young -1990; Facelift-1990; Sap-1992; Dirt-1992;
Music Bank-1999; Nothing Safe: Best of the Box-1999; Live-2000; Greatest
Hits-2001; and The Essential Alice in Chains released in 2006. Mike
left Alice In Chains in 1993 while it was touring behind the album Dirt.
However in 1992 he had also been a founding member of the heavy metal
supergroup Sun Red Sun along with Ray Gillen and Bobby Rondinelli, both
former members of Black Sabbath. The project was cut short by Gillen's
death in 1993. Their self-titled debut album was recorded at Jimi Hendrix's
Electric Lady Studio in New York City released in 1995. Mike was later
featured in the third season of the VH1 reality television series Celebrity
Rehab with Dr. Drew in 2010, which documented his treatment for heroin
addiction at the Pasadena Recovery Center, which began in August 2009.
His subsequent stint staying in a sober living environment was then
documented on the spinoff Sober House. He and fellow recovering addicts
Mackenzie Phillips and Tom Sizemore appeared in the eighth episode of
Celebrity Rehab's fourth season to provide testimonials about their
recovery to that season's patients. During this appearance, Mike had
marked six months and seven days of sobriety.
4th 1952 ~ February 6th 2011
Irish guitar virtuoso, singer-songwriter-composer, Gary Moore has sadly
died in his sleep in the early hours of the morning while on holiday,
in Estepona, Costa del Sol, Spain.
At 58 years, he leaves behind a loving family.
Irish blues-rock guitarist and singer-songwriter-composer, and sadly,
one of rock's most underrated guitarists, was born Robert William Gary
Moore in Belfast, Northern Ireland; he collaborated with a broad range
of artists including George Harrison, Trilok Gurtu, Dr. Strangely Strange,
Colosseum II, Jimmy Nail, Albert Collins, Mo Foster, Ginger Baker, Jack
Bruce, Jim Capaldi, Vicki Brown, Cozy Powell, the Beach Boys, Ozzy Osbourne
and Andrew Lloyd Webber. He experimented with many musical genres, including
rock, jazz, blues, country, electric blues, hard rock and heavy metal.
Gary started playing guitar on an old battered acoustic guitar at the
age of 8. At the age of 14, he got a better guitar and taught himself
to play the right-handed instrument in the standard way despite being
left-handed. After seeing Jimi Hendrix and John Mayall's Bluesbreakers
in his home town of Belfast, his own style was developing into a blues-rock
sound that would come to dominate his career. But his greatest influence
in the early days came from guitarist Peter Green, of Fleetwood Mac
fame, who was a mentor to Gary when performing in Dublin. Later he paid
a tribute to Pete on his '95 album Blues for Greeny, an album consisting
entirely of Green compositions. On this tribute album he played Green's
1959 Les Paul Standard guitar which Green had lent him after leaving
Fleetwood Mac, which he ultimately purchased at Green's request. Now
16, Gary's first professional band was a Dublin based blues-rock band
'Skid Row' in 1969. The band was founded by bassist Brendan "Brush"
Shiels, with Phil Lynott on vocals. The band became a power trio, with
Gary, Brendan now on vocals and bass, and drummer Noel Bridgeman. They
recored 4 albums, Skid-1970; 34 Hours-1971; Skid Row-1971, released
1990; and Live And On Song BBC Live in Concert-69/71. Gary released
his first solo album in 1973, 'Grinding Stone', also in the 70s he did
3 stints with the legendary Irish rock band Thin Lizzy, in 1974, 1977
and 1979 staying long enough at last to record on their 9th album 'Black
Rose: A Rock Legend' which debuted at No.2 in the UK album chart, the
band's most successful studio album to date, but Gary would never be
constrained by the music group format. In 1978, he appeared on three
other artists' recordings - Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'Variations', Rod
Argent's 'Moving Home', and Gary Boyle's 'Electric Glide'. Also in 1978
his solo career continued with help from Phil Lynott, the combination
of Gary's blues-based guitar and Lynott's voice produced "Parisienne
Walkways", which reached the Top Ten in the UK Singles Chart in
April 1979 and the Thin Lizzy-Moore version appears in the videos for
Waiting for an Alibi and Do Anything You Want To. He left Thin Lizzy
half way through their '79 American tour, to go to LA in an attempt
to make a solo rock presence, but with the offer to tour with Van Halen,
he recruited Motown session player bassist Tony Newton, vocalist Willie
Dee and percussionist Mark Nauseef, formerly of the Ian Gillan Band
to form the power trio G-Force, the tour was a success, and the album
was released that same year, then they dis-banded; his solo career again
continued. After a series of rock records, including albums 'Victims
of the Future', 'Dirty Fingers' and others, Gary returned to his blues
music with 1990s 'Still Got the Blues', with contributions from Albert
King, Albert Collins and George Harrison. In 1993 he formed the power
trio BBM, with ex Cream's bassist Jack Bruce and drummer Ginger Baker.
They recorded one album, 'Around The Next Dream', much of the work was
written by Gary with contributions by Bruce and Baker. They
went on a UK tour and also played rock festivals on the continent, before
disbanding and
his solo career again continued. He
stayed with the blues format until 1997, when he decided to experiment
with modern dance beats on 'Dark Days in Paradise'; but 'Back to the
Blues' saw his return to his tried and tested blues format in 2001.
He continued with this style on Power of the Blues-2004, Old New Ballads
Blues-2006, Close As You Get -2007 and Bad For You Baby-2008. Gary also
contributed guitar sections to Richard Blackwood's 2000 album, 'You'll
Love to Hate This', and 2003 saw Gary featured on the Monsters of Rock
tour. A few other of many hi-lites included 1987's, collaboration on
the UK charity record "Let It Be", a cover of The Beatles
track. He performed a guitar solo for inclusion on the recording, which
was released under the group-name of 'Ferry Aid'. The record raised
funds for the survivors of the MS Herald of Free Enterprise disaster,
and in 1993 he was included on a cassette Rock Classics Vol. 1 with
"Run to Your Mama", and "Dark Side of the Moog".
He also took part in a comedy skit "The Easy Guitar Book Sketch"
with comedian Rowland Rivron and fellow British musicians Mark Knopfler,
Lemmy from Motorhead, Mark King from Level 42, and David Gilmour. While
Gary was somewhat less popular in the US, his work has brought much
acclaim and commercial success in most other parts of the world
especially in Europe and Japan. Throughout his career Gary has been
recognised as an influence by many notable guitarists including Patrick
Rondat, Jake E. Lee, John Norum, Joe Bonamassa, Adrian Smith, Randy
Rhoads, John Sykes, Kirk Hammett, and Gus G among others ~
3rd 1933
~ January
30th 2011
winning English film score composer, trumpet player and bandleader,
John Barry has sadly died of a heart attack at his home in Oyster Bay,
America, at the age of 77. He leaves behind Laurie, his wife of 33 years,
his four children, son Jonpatrick, and daughters Susie, Sian and Kate,
and five grandchildren.
Born John
Barry Prendergast in
York, he is best known for composing 11 James Bond soundtracks and was
hugely influential on the 007 series' style. As a teenager he learned
the trumpet and grew interested in composing and arranging music. During
his National Service in Cyprus, he began performing as a musician. After
which he started work as an arranger for the Jack Parnell and Ted Heath's
Orchestra and he formed his own band in 1957, The John Barry Seven,
with whom he had several hit records, including "Hit and Miss",
the theme tune he composed for the BBC's Juke Box Jury programme, a
cover of the Ventures' "Walk Don't Run", and the theme for
the United Artists Western The Magnificent Seven. His career breakthrough
was the BBC television series Drumbeat, when he appeared with The John
Barry Seven and arranged for many of the singers, including Adam Faith
and his films ''Beat Girl'', ''Never Let Go'', and ''The Amorous Prawn''.
John was employed by the EMI record company from 1959 until 1962 arranging
orchestral accompaniment for the company's recording artists. His work
caught the eye or ear of the producers of a new film called Dr. No,
the result would be his arrangment and the performance by John Barry
& Orchestra of one of the most famous signature tunes in film history,
the "James Bond Theme". After the success of Dr. No, John
scored eleven of the next 14 James Bond films. He also wrote scores
for dozens of films, TV series and musicals, one of his best known compositions
is the theme for the 1971 TV series The Persuaders!, starring Tony Curtis
and Roger Moore. In a career spanning over 50 years, John received a
number of awards for his work, including five Academy Awards; two for
Born Free, and one each for The Lion in Winter, for which he also won
a BAFTA Award, Out of Africa for which he also won a Golden Globe, and
Dances with Wolves, for which he also won a Grammy Award and in 2002,
he was named an Honorary Freeman of the City of York.
May 30th 1945 ~ January 26th 2011
Gladys Horton, co-founder and former lead singer of the popular Motown
all-female group, "The Marvelettes," has sadly died at the
age of 65 in Sherman Oaks, Calif. a nursing home where she had been
bravely fighting complications from a stroke that she suffered a few
years ago. Gladys leaves behind a loving family including her sons,
Sam and Vaughn along with two grandchildren.
Born in Gainesville, Fla, but tragically orphaned at 9 months old, Gladys
was raised by foster parents, in a suburb of Detroit. It was here as
a student at Inkster High School, when she developed a strong interest
in singing and joined the high school glee club. She got together with
other members of the glee club, Katherine Anderson, Juanita Cowart,
Georgeanna Tillman and later Georgia Dobbins to form a group, calling
themselves "The Casinyets," short for "can't sing yet".
Following a successful talent contest to sing for Motown, Georgia, who
was the group's first lead singer, co-created "Please Mr. Postman".
Sadly, Georgia had to leave the group after her father forbid her from
singing in nightclubs. Where upon Gladys became the lead singer and
the group changed their name to "The Marvelettes". Motown
released their song in the summer of 1961 when Glays was only fifteen.
The song jumped to No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Motown's
first No.1 Pop hit. She led on several other hits songs, including "Beechwood
4-5789," "Playboy" and "Too Many Fish In The Sea".
Gladys was later replaced as lead singer in 1965 by Wanda Young, but
stayed with the group until 1967. She relocated to California in 1970
and for years had retired from the business to take care of her handicapped
son. On occasion, she performed as Gladys Horton of the Marvelettes.
In the late 1980s, she and Wanda reunited to collaborate on the 1990
Marvelettes album for Ian Levine's Motor City Records label titled The
Marvelettes...Now! though Wanda didn't take part in the group's performances.
The Marvelettes released the single "Holding On With Both Hands"
in 1990, which the lead was sung on record by Wanda but performed by
Gladys in public due to Wanda's severe personal problems.
April 16th 1947 ~ January 4th 2011
Scottish singer-songwriter and musician, Gerry Rafferty, known for Stuck
in the Middle With You and Baker Street has sadly
died at
the age of 63 after
battling liver and kidney illnesses over the last few years.
He is survived by his loving daughter Martha,
his granddaughter Celia, and brother Jim.
Born in Paisley, near Glasgow
into an unhappy family, Gerry was educated at St Mirin's Academy. In
1963 he left to work in a butcher's shop, then at the tax office. At
the same time he also worked in a local group, the Mavericks. In 1966
Gerry and his old school friend Joe Egan released a single, "Benjamin
Day" / "There's Nobody Here", as members of a band The
Fifth Column. He then joined Billy Connolly in a folk band The Humblebums,
recording 2 albums with Billy, 'The New Humblebums' and 'Open Up the
Door'. It was Gerry who urged Connolly to go it alone as a comic, after
which Gerry recorded his first solo album, 'Can I Have My Money Back'.
In 1972, Gerry again teamed up with friend Joe Egan to form Stealers
Wheel, a group which was beset by legal wranglings, but did have a huge
hit "Stuck in the Middle With You" which was used in the notorious
ear-slicing scene in Reservoir Dogs in 1992, and the smaller
top 40 hit "Star". The duo disbanded in 1975. In
1978, Gerry cut a solo No.1 album, City to City, which included the
song with which he remains most identified, "Baker Street".
The single reached No. 3 in the UK and No. 2 in the U.S. The album sold
over 5.5 million copies, toppling the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack
in the U.S. on 8 July 1978. "Baker Street" features an awesome
saxophone solo by Raphael Ravenscroft which remains a mainstay of soft-rock
radio airplay. In October 2010 the song was recognised by the BMI for
notching up over 5 million plays worldwide. Stuck in the Middle With
You has achieved over 4 million plays worldwide, and Right Down The
Line has achieved over 3 million plays. After City To City, Gerry released
a further 12 albums. He also contributed to the soundtrack to the film,
Local Hero with the song "The Way It Always Starts" in 1983,
and co-produced The Proclaimers' first UK hit single, "Letter from
America", in 1987 with Hugh Murphy. Sadly
alcohol gradually took over his life, and spiraled into alcoholism,
but then in 2009, Gerry did released 'Life Goes On', the album features
a mixture of new recordings, covers of Christmas carols, traditional
songs and edited tracks from his previous three albums.
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List of Core Exercises with Instructions & Videos
This list of core exercises provides you with instructions for a wide range of core workouts. These core exercises are used to help a martial artist's rotational or twisting power and this contributes to stronger kicks, punches and grappling techniques. Moreover, stronger core muscles allow martial artists to better absorb hits (i.e. withstand punches to the stomach). Martial artists use these core exercises in order to strengthen their abs, obliques and lower back. If you are looking for more traditional martial arts strength exercises (i.e. Hojo Undo), please visit the main Strength Training section.
All stretches and exercises should be supervised by a trained instructor in order to prevent injuries and to ensure the proper technique is utilized. If you have had an injury or are in pain, please see a doctor before starting any stretching or exercise program. For additional exercises, please visit the main Martial Arts Physical Fitness section.
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