# Oh Lee Abramson, why'd you have to go?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-lee-abramson-whyd-you-have-to-go/743968>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 23, 2016, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-lee-abramson-whyd-you-have-to-go/743968 "2016-01-23T14:43:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cardboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Cardboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardboard)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2016, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-lee-abramson-whyd-you-have-to-go/743968/1 "2016-01-23T14:43:16Z")

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Today’s death in music tribute goes to Lee Abramson, who according to his Wikipedia page was “the first person to write music using ModelTalker, a computerized speech production program.” Abramson put out numerous albums and even ran for president once.

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**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-lee-abramson-whyd-you-have-to-go/743968/2 "2016-01-27T00:04:11Z")

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I just saw this now, your intention to make a topic every day about someone in music. Don’t do it. Make one thread and make a post a day in that if you want to, but a thread a day is too much. So I’m going to close this topic and the other one.