Add Leah Chase to List of the Missed. I played her on my theme team Die You On The Bayou a few years back.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-7095873/Legendary-Queen-Creole-Cuisine-Leah-Chase-dies-96.html
I believe all of this was covered by election night and my "yeah, exactly..."
In that list of folk like Cliff Richard I was surprised to learn are actually still in the closet, tbh.
Yes, well done Toast, you win. The other hit was indeed the Stones' Ruby Tuesday and the successful British MOR band with two number ones that also had a minor hot with one of her songs was the New Seekers with 'Look what they've done to my song, Ma'.
Having considered it carefully, with the Freudian possibility of sexual innuendo (lock and key) I came to the conclusion: she was looking for a word that rhymed with 'me'.
I got there in the end. It's Melanie.
The cover was 'Ruby Tuesday', and the top 5 hit was 'Brand New Key' - a no. 1 in 1976 for The Wurzels as 'Combine Harvester'. Ooh arr.
Could/would someone (hello committee!) please enlighten us devoted Deathlisters as to why (according to Deathlist 2019) Herman Wouk continues to live. Oversight? Or is there a deeper systemic problem, and Deathlist has itself passed over the great divide?
OldWillz died today of cancer. Pain free at last.
I've been running about for months sorting stuff out while he was in the hospital, now he's gone. Kept it quiet because it's been cool to have something else to occupy me.
Orphan now.
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