# Goodbye Larry Adler

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye-larry-adler/75294>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 7, 2001, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye-larry-adler/75294 "2001-08-07T15:42:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2001, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye-larry-adler/75294/1 "2001-08-07T15:42:40Z")

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Harmonica player Larry Adler has [died](http://www.abc.net.au/news/newslink/nat/newsnat-7aug2001-103.htm) at 87. A great player and a man of principle. Took his instrument places where no-one thought it could go.

So soon after Junior Wells, too. ☹

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**Author:** ![Farmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e495f1/32.png) [@Farmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2001, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye-larry-adler/75294/2 "2001-08-07T17:17:47Z")

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So did a couple of strippers I knew.

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**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2001, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye-larry-adler/75294/3 "2001-08-07T17:46:15Z")

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I was rather upset when I saw his obit this morning, as he’d scored and played the music to the Kay Kendall film “Genevieve.” Had I KNOWN he was still alive, I’d have tried to get ahold of him . . .