# 2024 SDMB Celebrity Death Pool **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 1, 2023, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940 "2023-12-01T06:01:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 76
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2024, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/1502 "2024-07-20T03:00:53Z")
> **[Sheila Jackson Lee, long-serving Democratic congresswoman and advocate for...](https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/19/politics/sheila-jackson-lee-texas-dies/index.html)** > > Sheila Jackson Lee, a longtime Democratic congresswoman from Texas who was an outspoken advocate for Black Americans for decades, has died, according to a statement from her office. She was 74. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2024, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/1503 "2024-07-20T04:09:51Z")
Dammit. She was on my list for next year. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2024, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/1504 "2024-07-20T11:41:05Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > > [@RTFirefly](#): > > > > Not sure where he fits in the family tree. > > Dan appears to be [Kenny’s brother](https://oldtimemusic.com/dan-loggins-facts/) (they were both born in Everett WA). Weird - @Superdude’s link says they were second cousins. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2024, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/1505 "2024-07-20T13:52:02Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > > [@eschereal](#): > > > > > [@RTFirefly](#): > > > > > > Not sure where he fits in the family tree. > > > > Dan appears to be [Kenny’s brother](https://oldtimemusic.com/dan-loggins-facts/) (they were both born in Everett WA). > > Weird - @Superdude’s link says they were second cousins. In this thread people are getting Dan Loggins and Dave Loggins mixed up. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2024, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/1506 "2024-07-20T14:48:09Z")
Well there’s just too many damn Logginses! How are we supposed to keep track? 😅 ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2024, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/1507 "2024-07-20T14:49:58Z")
Well, there’s one less now. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2024, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/1508 "2024-07-20T15:06:29Z")
Bobby Grier, who was the first black player to play in the Sugar Bowl, died July 8. He was 91. When the University of Pittsburgh accepted an invitation to play Georgia Tech in the January 2, 1956, Sugar Bowl, Georgia Governor Marvin Griffin sent a letter to the Georgia Board of Regents requesting that schools from Georgia refrain from participating in racially integrated sporting events. > **[Pittsburgh legend Bobby Grier, first Black player to participate in Sugar...](https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/pittsburgh-legend-bobby-grier-first-black-player-to-participate-in-sugar-bowl-dies-at-91/)** > > Grier was a trailblazer for both the University of Pittsburgh and college football ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2024, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/1509 "2024-07-20T15:11:28Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Well there’s just too many damn Logginses! How are we supposed to keep track? 😅 Dave is dead. Dan is apparently alive. Kenny is reported to have said, “I’m alright. Nobody worry ‘bout me.” ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2024, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/1510 "2024-07-20T16:12:14Z")
Bravo! 😄 ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2024, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/1511 "2024-07-20T21:56:29Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Well, there’s one less now. Well done. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2024, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/1512 "2024-07-20T22:09:04Z")
So I’d be a real jerk to point out that it’s “fewer”? ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2024, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/1513 "2024-07-21T01:09:35Z")
I managed to hold it back. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2024, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/1514 "2024-07-21T11:24:56Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > So I’d be a real jerk to point out that it’s “fewer”? Of course not! This is the Dope, a place where one can let one’s pedant freak fly! ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2024, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/1515 "2024-07-21T17:05:24Z")
Jerry Fuller, member of the Creepy Song Hall of Fame, died. He wrote “Young Girl” and other hits. > **[Jerry Fuller, Songwriter-Producer Whose Dozens of Hits Include ‘Young Girl,’...](https://variety.com/2024/music/obituaries-people-news/jerry-fuller-dead-songwriter-young-girl-travelin-man-1236079249/)** > > Jerry Fuller, a songwriter whose hits include Gary Puckett's 'Young Girl' and Rick Nelson's 'Travelin' Man,' has died at 85. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2024, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/1516 "2024-07-22T01:53:28Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > He wrote “Young Girl” I’m surprised to find out he didn’t also write "This Girl Is a Woman Now’, “Woman Woman” and “Don’t Give In” - the grand slam of creepy songs by a single artist. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2024, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/1517 "2024-07-22T15:22:35Z")
> [@Kent\_Clark](#): > > > [@Loach](#): > > > > He wrote “Young Girl” > > I’m surprised to find out he didn’t also write "This Girl Is a Woman Now’, “Woman Woman” and “Don’t Give In” - the grand slam of creepy songs by a single artist And the classic “I Swear She Told Me She Was Eighteen” ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2024, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/1518 "2024-07-22T16:42:00Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > > [@Kent\_Clark](#): > > > > > [@Loach](#): > > > > > > He wrote “Young Girl” > > > > I’m surprised to find out he didn’t also write "This Girl Is a Woman Now’, “Woman Woman” and “Don’t Give In” - the grand slam of creepy songs by a single artist > > And the classic “I Swear She Told Me She Was Eighteen” In 2020 I had a unique pick with Benny Mardones. Could be a themed list idea. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/zWHjJt4833I/hqdefault.jpg "Benny Mardones - Into the Night ( Full Original Video 1980)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWHjJt4833I) ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2024, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/1519 "2024-07-22T17:53:08Z")
Meh, “Young Girl” ranks pretty low on my “Creepy Sex Predator” playlist. Yes, the narrator is attracted to an underaged girl, but he knows it’s wrong, and he’s trying to fight it - “Young girl, get out of my mind. My love for you is way out of line.” At least he’s not inviting her back to his apartment for sex, a la “Hot Child In The City”. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2024, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/1520 "2024-07-22T19:45:04Z")
I feel “Sweet Little Sixteen” belongs on the list. Sung by Chuck Berry (when he was thirty-two), Pat Boone (when he was thirty), Jerry Lee Lewis (when he was twenty-seven), Eric Burdon (when he was twenty-five), John Lennon (when he was twenty-three), and Cliff Richard (when he was seventy-six). ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2024, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/1521 "2024-07-22T20:11:31Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > Meh, “Young Girl” ranks pretty low on my “Creepy Sex Predator” playlist. Yes, the narrator is attracted to an underaged girl, but he knows it’s wrong, and he’s trying to fight it That’s why I included “This Girl Is a Woman Now” and Gary Puckett’s bad relationship set list. Tried to fight it. Failed. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940.md?page=75) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940.md?page=77)