It’s a little-known fact that ‘The Endless Summer’ made its world debut in January of 1964 in Wichita, Kansas.
Dr. Loretta “Lee” Pfingstel Ford, EdD, RN, PNP, NP-C, CRNP, FAAN, FAANP, who set up the first program that educated nurses to become Nurse Practitioners (at University of Colorado and originally in pediatrics, but as the concept expanded would eventually include all nursing disciplines) and would later become founding dean of the University of Rochester’s nursing school, died at 104.
It’s Taps for Ryan Whyte Maloney leaving 56 pts on the table.
‘The Voice’ Alum Ryan Whyte Maloney dies by suicide
People say the last song he sang was Mash’s theme.
Where’s that handbasket. 
You realize the lyrics to the MASH theme were written by Mike Altman, the director’s 14-y/o son, who made more in song royalties than his dad made directing the movie (because he did not get residuals in his contract).
Dude probably still getting paid when the show runs in re-runs. Lyric writers and Song writers split residuals for songs.
It’s why Gene Roddenberry wrote lyrics to the Star Trek theme. He basically screwed over the song writer of half the residuals even though the words don’t appear in the show or any of the movies.
Gene was quite the swindler moneymaker in some ways.
I mean, better than…uh, L. Ron Hubbard. At least Gene didn’t fabricate a cult.
Well, uh …
Is my memory bad? I remember the “suicide is painless” lyrics from the movie, but I only recall the music from the TV show, sans words.
You are correct. He still gets the royalties as one of the writers of the song. Roddenberry got royalties even though the lyrics were never sung. The only thing that matters is who has songwriter credit.
Oh, yes. But you get the royalties 50-50 no matter if the words are sung. That is why Gene Roddenberry is a schemer for writing words to the Star Trek theme and making money on a song he had nothing to do with.
Roddenberry wasn’t the only one Carroll O’Connor has a writing credit for the closing theme for All in the Family. Like Star Trek, the theme has lyrics, but they aren’t used.
Contrast that to Hugh Wilson, the creator of WKRP in Cincinnati, who wrote the lyrics for the theme song, but didn’t take a credit for it.
But, who wrote the lyrics to the end theme?
Someone fluent in Goon-babble.
Singer Marianne Faithfull has died at 78.
She was, IIRC, the first person to ever utter the word “fuck” onscreen.
Marianne Faithful was one of those names from the 1960s I would see in books while growing up but was never really all that clear on who she was.
Somehow, I got the idea she was a famous girlfriend? Maybe with The Rolling Stones?
(I’m doing all this from memory, btw - now I’ll go read the article)
For some reason, I thought for a long time that Faithfull was the female singer on the Stones’ Gimme Shelter. I only relatively recently learned that she wasn’t.
She did, however, sing backup on a Metallica song.
And she also sang I got you in a duett with David Bowie. Where she was famously naked underneath a nun’s costume (you can see at the very beginning of the video that there is something to this).
For some reason, I had the impression that she was alluded to in You Can’t Always Get What You Want. Not sure where I got that idea.