Meeko
July 17, 2012, 10:01am
2042
What about the Anti-Death Pool?
You score points equal to a celebrities age at their Birthday in any given year you have them on your list.
And if you DIDN’T go to “But Meeko, we can’t make jokes on that!”
Then all I can say is :
**
You! Out of the Deathpool!**
I just bought a ticket to a deeper circle of hell with this one, didn’t I?
I guess this means she is for real a Honky Tonk Angel .
Motown bassist Bob Babbitt dead at 74 :
Prominent Motown studio musician and Funk Brothers member Bob Babbitt, whose bass playing pounded through the Temptations hit “Ball of Confusion” and Marvin Gaye’s “Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology),” has died. He was 74.
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Well-known for decades among musicians, Babbitt laid down bass lines on Stevie Wonder’s “Signed, Sealed, Delivered,” along with “The Tears of a Clown” by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, “Inner City Blues” by Marvin Gaye, and Edwin Starr’s “War.”
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After leaving Motown, he recorded with Bette Midler, Jim Croce, Bonnie Raitt and Frank Sinatra.
In all, he played on more than 200 top 40 hits, including “Midnight Train to Georgia,” by Gladys Knight and the Pips and “Ready to Take a Chance Again” by Barry Manilow
That is some discography. Except the Manilow.
Meeko
July 17, 2012, 9:37pm
2046
I’m certain more than 5 people died. Most of them pointless, mind you.
Lok
July 18, 2012, 1:30am
2047
Fit my theme, but didn’t make my list. Such is life. Or death, as the case may be.
Who had the “name ends in -son” (I think that was it) theme last year where everyone and his brother whose name ended in -son died except those on the theme list?
Rajesh Khanna , huge Bollywood star, has died at age 69.
Cicero
July 19, 2012, 1:44am
2051
carnivorousplant:
Andy Williamsnews.
dammit.
I thought that was the same person as Andy Griffith. Duh.
Tom Davis, half of SNL’s Franken & Davis, has died of cancer , at age 59.
a35362
July 19, 2012, 11:14pm
2053
Oh, wow. Franken named his daughter after him (Thomasina?).
anyrose
July 19, 2012, 11:49pm
2054
They were very funny together in the 70s
Loach
July 20, 2012, 12:23am
2055
I know it’s their thing but the constant repetition of “Mr.” in the New York Times is annoying.
William Raspberry , whose Washington Post column was eventually syndicated to more than 200 newspapers, has died at the age of 76. In 1994, Raspberry became the second black journalist to win a Pulitzer Prize for commentary.
Sooooooooooooo, did anyone famous attend any midnight movies last night?
Too soon?
Baker
July 21, 2012, 1:09am
2058
Whoa, your DeathMistress is back. I’ve been having computer problems and have only been able to check this place out on the library computers.
All these deaths but only one, Jon Lord, for points.
God, we suck at making picks.