# Old performers you'll be sorry to see go

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-performers-youll-be-sorry-to-see-go/392828>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 19, 2007, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-performers-youll-be-sorry-to-see-go/392828 "2007-02-19T16:53:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-performers-youll-be-sorry-to-see-go/392828/1 "2007-02-19T16:53:04Z")

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As much action as the Death Pools get, and without trying to muscle in on that territory as such, I’m curious which old and still active entertainers you will really miss when they leave us.

Some of my favorites who continue to provide great music are:

[Jean “Toots” Thielemans](http://www.tootsthielemans.com/) perhaps the greatest harmonica player in the jazz field. Also guitar and whistling.

[Marian McPartland](http://www.npr.org/programs/pianojazz/). Piano

[Dave Brubeck](http://dave-brubeck.com/). Piano

[George Shearing](http://www.georgeshearing.net/). Piano

[Horace Silver](http://www.horacesilver.com/). Piano

Dozens more, but I’ll leave room for yours.

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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-performers-youll-be-sorry-to-see-go/392828/2 "2007-02-19T16:54:56Z")

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I’ll be very sad when Paul or Ringo dies, and absolutely devasted when the last Beatle dies.

And Bob Dylan & Joan Baez.

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**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-performers-youll-be-sorry-to-see-go/392828/3 "2007-02-19T17:02:04Z")

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[Earl Scruggs](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Scruggs) - banjo innovator and virtuoso performer.

[Jerry Lee Lewis](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Lee_lewis) - Given his lifestyle, who would’ve thought he’d be the last surviving member of the Sun Records “[Million Dollar Quartet](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Million_Dollar_Quartet)”?

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**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-performers-youll-be-sorry-to-see-go/392828/4 "2007-02-19T17:40:42Z")

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Yeah, I was just thinkin’ that about Dave Brubeck the other day.

Tony Bennett