2024 SDMB Celebrity Death Pool

Dammit. She was on my list for next year.

Weird - @Superdude’s link says they were second cousins.

In this thread people are getting Dan Loggins and Dave Loggins mixed up.

Well there’s just too many damn Logginses! How are we supposed to keep track? :sweat_smile:

Well, there’s one less now.

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.

Dave is dead. Dan is apparently alive. Kenny is reported to have said, “I’m alright. Nobody worry ‘bout me.”

Bravo! :smile:

Well done.

So I’d be a real jerk to point out that it’s “fewer”?

I managed to hold it back.

Of course not! This is the Dope, a place where one can let one’s pedant freak fly!

Jerry Fuller, member of the Creepy Song Hall of Fame, died. He wrote “Young Girl” and other hits.

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.

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”.

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).

That’s why I included “This Girl Is a Woman Now” and Gary Puckett’s bad relationship set list.

Tried to fight it. Failed.