Larry Elgart, the bandleader and composer who helped record American Bandstand’s longtime theme song “Bandstand Boogie”, has died at the age of 95. Elgart also helped introduce a new generation to swing music with his 1982 hit “Hooked on Swing”.
Richard Anderson (not that one), who is best known as Oscar Goldman in the Six Million Dollar Man TV series, and who I didn’t realise was still alive all this time, has died at age 91.
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No one had Larry Elgart or Richard Anderson…
Shelly Berman’s enthusiasm has been permanently curbed.
Shelley Berman on what laughter is. (Warning: it’s not funny.)
We may have to give our points back.
He’s only mostly dead.
And points is points.
Good. He still owes me 20 bucks.
Ric Flair is recovering!
I will of course cheerfully support our excellent Death Shroom if he should decide that it’s necessary that we give back the points, either now or later in the year.
My only thought about it is that it would seem bad business for a terrorist chief to let his followers doubt his continued existence for such a stretch of time as he has already done. His death has been rumored on more than one earlier occasion, but unless I’ve missed something, such rumors have been corrected quickly each time. But not this time.
I would expect to see a body, especially since he owes Loach money.
RIP Walter Becker
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/walter-becker-steely-dan-co-founder-dead-at-67-w500956
Wow.
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I am anxiously awaiting 4 months of “successful precision drone strikes”, thereby making this discussion moot
The Russkis beat him up and stole his Loach money.
The years have reeled him in. And he’s never going back to his old school.
From your lips to God’s ears.
I am majorly bummed! Steely Dan has long been one of my favorite and most highly regarded groups. I was fortunate enough to see them in concert three years ago. Becker was funny, made lots of jokes, and introduced all the other band members. I felt kind of sorry for him because when he mentioned his own name he got about the same polite round of applause as everyone else. Then he introduced Donald Fagen and every man, woman and child in the place lept to their feet in thunderous applause. I suppose he was used to it, but still…
I had no idea he was only 67. I thought he and Fagen were a few years ahead of me in school and I’m 68. Way too young!
Still, I’m happy that Fagen survives. Of the two he’s always been my favorite, and of course he’s the one behind the Steely Dan sound. Listen to a Becker solo album and it doesn’t sound like Steely Dan, listen to a Donald Fagen solo album and it does. Not only vocally but instrumentally as well. Here’s hoping for many more good years ahead for him. Gotta be tough losing a close friend of 50 years or so.
And on a woo note, for some reason I’ve played Two Against Nature in its entirety twice over the last couple of days, and I haven’t listened to it in several years.
dammit.