(05-22-2020 02:10 AM)DavidSt Wrote:  Hillard 'Sweet Pea' Atkinson, R&B singer of Was (Not Was) with the hit Walk The Dinosaur, dead at 74.

He is the deep voice singer on the song.

Artist: Was (Not Was)
Album: What Up, Dog?
Song: "Dad, I'm In Jail"
1988 Capitol Records

(05-11-2020 07:31 AM)MemTigers1998 Wrote:  Mr & Mrs Costanza were 2 of my favorites on Seinfeld. That dynamic of them always screaming and yelling at each other was hilarious. Also, "why the hell did you trade Jay Buhner??"

Luigi Simoni, a former InterMilan coach who led the Italian team to the UEFA Cup title in 1998, died Friday. He was 81. He had been hospitalized since suffering a stroke last July.

https://apnews.com/43170e0461f4db79f4df6d9358f3a2bb

Former Braves All-Star Biff Pocoroba dies


Biff Pocoroba spent 10 years with the Atlanta Braves


Longtime Braves catcher Biff Pocoroba died, the Braves confirmed Wednesday. Pocoroba was 66.

Pocoroba spent his entire 10-year career with the club from 1975-84. He earned All-Star honors in 1978.

The Braves drafted Pocoroba in the 17th round of the 1971 draft. He went on to hit .257/.339/.367 with 21 homers and 172 RBIs across 596 games.

He appeared in 56 games, hitting .275/.351/.383 for the 1982 Braves, who won the National League West title. His All-Star season included a .242/.312/.332 line with eight doubles, six homers and 34 RBIs.

(05-27-2020 01:45 PM)GoodOwl Wrote:  

(05-11-2020 07:31 AM)MemTigers1998 Wrote:  Mr & Mrs Costanza were 2 of my favorites on Seinfeld. That dynamic of them always screaming and yelling at each other was hilarious. Also, "why the hell did you trade Jay Buhner??"

Seinfeld actors are dying left and right as we speak with Richard Herd as the latest.

don't recall seeing this one posted:


http://pic.twitter.com/DHNCz5lAe6

Gang Of Four “supreme leader” and guitarist Andy Gill has died age 64

and this yesterday: Gang Of Four planning to release guitarist Andy Gill’s final recordings

Also, R.I.R. Rest in Rhythm my man.

Drummer Jimmy Cobb died of lung cancer at age 91 last Sunday. Played on Miles' Kind of Blue lp, among many others.








Why Are “Rhyme” and “Rhythm” Spelled Like That?

Actor Anthony James died from cancer. Great character actor playing villains in movies and tv shows from the 60s to 90s like from Gunsmoke, tv dramas and Unforgiving.





Richard Herd on his two most famous characters from TJ Hooker and Sienfeld.

(05-27-2020 01:35 PM)GoodOwl Wrote:  

(05-22-2020 02:10 AM)DavidSt Wrote:  Hillard 'Sweet Pea' Atkinson, R&B singer of Was (Not Was) with the hit Walk The Dinosaur, dead at 74.

He is the deep voice singer on the song.

Artist: Was (Not Was)
Album: What Up, Dog?
Song: "Dad, I'm In Jail"
1988 Capitol Records

Don Was is featured on this top 50 Texas Music country charts today. Can you believe Don produced albums for Travis Tritt, Bonnie Raitt, Willie Nelson, The HighwayMen and others under country? It looked like he appeared in Alan Jackson's Don't Rock The Jukebox music video.

Patrick F. Dye former Football Coach at East Carolina, Wyoming and Auburn died today of kidney failure. He was 80. He was positive for COVID19 but asymptomatic. The kidney failure predated the virus and was the cause of his death.

Thanks Coach for all you did and meant to Auburn University and the alumni! We'll miss you!

And on a side note Pepper Rogers passed away almost a month ago and I don't recall having seen his death posted here. He was colorful, humorous and a large part of the experience in the 70's.

(06-01-2020 01:44 PM)JRsec Wrote:  Patrick F. Dye former Football Coach at East Carolina, Wyoming and Auburn died today of kidney failure. He was 80. He was positive for COVID19 but asymptomatic. The kidney failure predated the virus and was the cause of his death.

Thanks Coach for all you did and meant to Auburn University and the alumni! We'll miss you!

And on a side note Pepper Rogers passed away almost a month ago and I don't recall having seen his death posted here. He was colorful, humorous and a large part of the experience in the 70's.

He was a good one! You will be missed coach...Go Pirates!

Former University of Indiana football player, Chris Beaty shot dead at 38. He was one of the several victims shot dead at the protests over the weekend in Indianapolis.

(06-01-2020 01:44 PM)JRsec Wrote:  Pepper Rogers passed away almost a month ago and I don't recall having seen his death posted here. He was colorful, humorous and a large part of the experience in the 70's.

missed the announcement of Pepper's death...here it is:

Legendary Georgia Tech football player, former head coach Pepper Rogers dies at 88


Pepper Rodgers, who helped lead Georgia Tech football to the 1952 national championship as a student-athlete and later served for six seasons as the Yellow Jackets’ head coach, died Thursday in Reston, Va. He was 88.

Quote:Rodgers was a three-sport high school star at Atlanta’s Brown High School, winning a state championship in football as a senior in 1949. He stayed in Atlanta to attend Georgia Tech, where he was a three-year football letter-winner under legendary head coach Bobby Dodd from 1951-53 (freshmen were ineligible to compete in varsity athletics at the time).

A quarterback and place-kicker, Rodgers helped lead the Yellow Jackets to the 1952 national championship. He threw a touchdown pass and kicked a field goal and three extra points in the Jackets’ 24-7 win over Ole Miss in the 1953 Sugar Bowl, which clinched Tech’s third national title (and first in 24 years). He capped his collegiate career by passing for 195 yards and three touchdowns and kicking a field goal and two extra points on his way to being named MVP of the Yellow Jackets’ 42-19 rout over West Virginia in the 1954 Sugar Bowl. In 2018, he was a member of the inaugural class of the Sugar Bowl Hall of Fame.

Georgia Tech compiled a 32-2-3 overall record, claimed two SEC championships and won three major bowl games (1952 Orange Bowl, 1953 and ’54 Sugar Bowls) in Rodgers’ three seasons on the squad.

After his stint as an aviator, he joined the coaching ranks as an assistant at Air Force. He spent nine seasons as an assistant, two at Air Force (1958-59), five at Florida (1960-64) and two at UCLA (1965-66) before landing his first head coaching position at Kansas in 1967. In 1968, his second season at Kansas, he led the Jayhawks to a 9-2 record, the Big Eight championship, a berth in the Orange Bowl and a No. 6 final national ranking. The conference championship remains the last one that KU has won.

Following four seasons at Kansas, he was named head coach at UCLA in 1971. In 1972 and ’73, he led UCLA to records of 8-3 and 9-2. After leading the Bruins to a No. 9 final national ranking in ’73, he returned to his alma mater as Georgia Tech’s head coach in 1974. As Tech’s head coach from 1974-79, he led the Yellow Jackets to four winning seasons in six years, highlighted by a Peach Bowl berth in 1978. Among his most notable wins as the Jackets’ head coach was a 24-3 triumph over No. 12 Notre Dame in 1976, a game that Tech won without throwing a pass.

Rodgers went on to coach the Memphis Showboats of the United States Football League (1984-85) and the Memphis Mad Dogs of the Canadian Football League (1995). He served as vice president of football operations for the NFL’s Washington Redskins from 2001-04.

Pepper Rodgers was a six-time coach of the year in his 13 seasons as a collegiate head coach – two-time Big Eight Coach of the Year at Kansas, two-time Pac-8 Coach of the Year at UCLA and two-time Southern Independent Coach of the Year at Georgia Tech.

John Majors passed away this morning at his home while overlooking the Tennessee River. He was 85. He was a star on the field and and a stellar head coach, most notably for his years at Pitt. We lose another great. Go with God John.

(06-03-2020 03:23 PM)JRsec Wrote:  John Majors passed away this morning at his home while overlooking the Tennessee River. He was 85. He was a star on the field and and a stellar head coach, most notably for his years at Pitt. We lose another great. Go with God John.

His parents used to have the place next to some friends of ours at Orange Beach. I never got to know John, who was a good bit older than I was, but I did get to know younger brother Bobby pretty well.

CBS Mom tv show actress Mary Pat Gleason dead at 70. Her character died this season.

Singer Chris Trousdale of Boy Band Dream Street dead at 34 from the coronavirus.

Actress Peggy Pope dead at 90. Best remember as Elvira in the movie The Last Starfighter.

Long time Grand Ole Opry guitarist, Jimmy Lapps dead at 81.

Steve Priest, guitarist for Sweet, dead at 72.

Former Olympics Gymnast and actor Kurt Thomas dead at 64. Gymkata is his more memorable film role.

Rupert Hine (1947–2020), prolific music producer who worked with The Fixx, Tina Turner, Stevie Nicks, Duncan Sheik, Suzanne Vega, Howard Jones, Rush and many other artists during a long music career.

Died: Friday, June 5, 2020. (Who else died on June 5?)
Details of Death: Died at the age of 72.

In-Demand Music Producer

Rupert Hine started his music career as a performing artist in a folk duo and was in the band Quantum Jump. He started producing in the 1970s but really made a name for himself during the New Wave period of the 1980s. He produced the album “Reach the Beach” for The Fixx, which featured “One Thing Leads to Another.” He produced the successful Howard Jones albums “Human’s Lib” and “Dream into Action.” Hines was the producer on various songs for Tina Turner including the hit “Better Be Good to Me” and worked with Stevie Nicks, Rush, and Suzanne Vega. He wrote the soundtrack for the 1980s cult classic movie “Better Off Dead,” starring John Cusack.