YoungWillz

Report of the death of Richard H Timberlake, Amercan economist and advocate of free banking, aged 97:

I blindly followed the link on IMDB. I'll smack him into the living unknowns. Literally, who cares, you and I know the ones who will quickly obit, then slowly obit, then there's folk like this Kaplan guy who will never, ever obit, all for DDP purposes of course!

John Poole, former conductor for the BBC Symphony and musical director for the BBC Singers, dead at 85: https://www.classicalmusicdaily.com/articles/p/j/john-poole.htm

Jerry Sloan dead on the wires....https://www.nba.com/jazz/news/jazz-statement-passing-jerry-sloan?cid=jazz_natsocial_twitter_jerry_20200522

Whose Line Is It Anyway? (UK) Alumni. Peter Cook (b. 17 November 1937; d. 9 January 1995) Archie Hahn (b. 1 November 1941) Graeme Garden (b. 18 February 1943) Jonathan Pryce (b. 1 June 1947) Betty Thomas (b. 27 July 1947) George Wendt (b. 17 October 1948) Chris Langham (b. 14 April 1949) Enn Reitel (b. 21 June 1950) Clive Anderson (b. 10 December 1952) Jon Glover (b. 26 December 1952) John Sessions (b. 11 January 1953) Debi Durst (b. 24 March 1953) Griff Rhys Jones (b. 16 November 1953) Catherine O'Hara (b. 4 March 1954) Arthur Smith (b. 27 November 1954) Steve Steen (b. 26 December 1954) Jimmy Mulville (b. 5 January 1955) Jim Sweeney (b. 7 February 1955) Mike McShane (b. 25 June 1955) Stephen Frost (b. 28 December 1955) Rory McGrath (b. 17 March 1956) Paul Merton (b. 9 July 1957) Stephen Fry (b. 24 August 1957) Colin Mochrie (b. 30 November 1957) Sandi Toksvig (b. 3 May 1958) Jane Brucker (b. 14 May 1958) Jan Ravens (b. 14 May 1958) Karen Maruyama (b. 29 May 1958) Ryan Stiles (b. 22 April 1959) Julian Clary (b. 25 May 1959) Josie Lawrence (b. 6 June 1959) Richard Vranch (b. 29 June 1959) Jim Meskimen (b. 10 September 1959) Greg Proops (b. 3 October 1959) Tony Slattery (b. 9 November 1959) Caroline Quentin (b. 11 July 1960) Rory Bremner (b. 6 April 1961) Laura Hall (b. 21 September 1961) Neil Mullarkey (b. 30 November 1961) Eddie Izzard (b. 7 February 1962) Debra Wilson (b. 26 April 1962) Patrick Bristow (b. 26 September 1962) Brad Sherwood (b. 24 November 1964) Chip Esten (b. 9 September 1965) Ardal O'Hanlon (b. 8 October 1965) Phil LaMarr (b. 24 January 1967) Wayne Brady (b. 2 June 1972) Samuel Johnson (b. 8 February 1978) The following have no dob associated on Wiki or IMDB. Martin Hawkins was a camera operator who obviously starred once, most likely when Ryan Stiles went rogue. Niall Ashdown (b. ??????1964) Mark Cohen (b. ??????????) Russell Fletcher (b. ????????) Martin Hawkins (b. ??????????) Richard Kaplan (b. ????????????) George McGrath (b. ????????) Paul Rider (b. ??????????) Lee Simpson (b. ???????) Christopher Robin Smith (b. ?????1959) Ron West (b. ????????) Denelda Williams (b. ????????)

Well, I haven't done a list in ages. Might as well give it a go, though I'll probably stick it in the Comedy thread. And for a few of those, comedy is stretching it.... Never in a million years! I can only hope Slattery and Coogan go on one of those road trips. You know, the one where you drive a car. Into the sea.

Tony Hadley, Muhammed Shalehan loves you madly! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-52765493

Ashley Cooper QO for the DDP: https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-tennis-australia-cooper/tennis-australian-great-cooper-dies-at-83-idUKKBN22Y0ZX

Lady Letitia Inge (nee Thornton-Berry) has died: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/241982/inge She was the wife of Field Marshal Peter Inge, Baron Inge, who remains alive and a soon to be pick on the DDP if I'm not mistaken.

Ok, so I said I wouldn't do any more. However... Aquarian Dream. According to the sleeve notes on Tough! by Pucho and the Latin Soul Brothers released in 1966, Claude Bartee is referred to as being in his "late twenties" (so anywhere between 1937 and 1940 I guess) and a native of Detroit. https://www.amazon.com/Tough-PUCHO-LATIN-SOUL-BROTHERS/dp/B07T3TWYHJ. I've seen him referred to as sideman for Pucho and also Grant Green so it's the same guy. That's it.

Bob Wilson, Frank McLintock, Charlie George, Bob McNab, Pat Rice, John Roberts, Peter Simpson, George Graham, Eddie Kelly, Peter Storey, George Armstrong, Jon Sammels, John Radford and Ray Kennedy according to one YouTube source.

I'll not put you off, I'll try and chip in. Oh, then there's all those fucking charity singles. Enjoy listing everybody on The Crowd's You'll Never Walk Alone. And an interminable amount of football singles (you are beginning to find these in the 1970s), from World Cups, European Cups, FA Cups.... And the Eurobeat stuff. Oh the spelling fun you will have! But I'll not put you off.

A little better with the 80s I'd presume, I've researched 1981 to 1987 with all the bands who had top 30 hits. However, I'll warn you now - there were so many synth records which effectively were studio productions with the occasional passing session singer. Stars on 45? The Tweets? Windjammer (an actual band) who I found no line up for? There still will be those ones waiting, and never mind that you are going for Top 75. So how do you decide who was on the record? The synth programmer and mixer? The minefield awaits, don't rush to get there.

Cool stuff, think I'm done with my researches for the As, too many dead ends becoming one huge circle.

The Angelettes. I appreciate your difficulty here, as the girls were all (apart from Sue) under 18 at the time of the record. Now helpfully, Julie Abbot (Hammersley) has her own webpage with a little more information: https://joolshammersley.com/jools and her hubby Michael also: https://michaelhammersley.com/about-the-author so I'd say they are likely resident in Cheshire. This clipping is also helpful: http://www.spectropop.com/Angelettes/full/full11.htm and if we tie that in with the Wiki which indicates The Angelettes appeared on TOTP on 27 April 1972: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_performers_on_Top_of_the_Pops Then what we get is Jan (17), Patricia (17) and Susan (18) all attending Levenshulme High School in Manchester and Julie (17) attending Bury Grammar. That puts their dobs somewhere in the region of 1953-1955.

This may get done in bits and pieces. After The Fire. Information on Ivor Twydell here: https://www.policeprofessional.com/news/gloucester-strengthens-its-chief-officer-team/. Deffo the same guy according to the comments here: https://mylifesajigsaw.blogspot.com/2011/02/iva-twydell-resting-in-your-love-1981.html - born in Luton and grew up either in Kensworth or Dunstable - so born 1957 gotta be some help. While there are loads of links to Andy Piercy, I can't find anything about his origins - coy Christian, I bet he's baptised! Interview here with Peter Banks from 2005, indicating he was resident on Mersea Island near Colchester then - might be an in: http://www.bbc.co.uk/suffolk/content/articles/2005/03/01/foster_factor_march_2005_feature.shtml and also this indicates in the early 1970s Andy Piercy was lodging in Framlingham - whatever good that will do. John Russell - *shrug*

Report of the death of Jon Whiteley, Scottish former child actor who won an Academy Juvenile Award for The Kidnappers: https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/18460539.jon-whiteley-ashmolean-museum-curator-oscar-winning-actor-died/?fbclid=IwAR2HANjvgX9_jmZcjejCMQVy0vpGjDb-EgscfIw92SeBClyy9akIT4So-mc IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0925804/

Aha, couldn't find that one. No middle initial! Reminds me, I wonder how sometime jazz forumster Barry B Benson is doing, now that the good weather is here.

Got a Times Obit: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/victor-wild-obituary-vx262bhdt (Paywall)

Death Notice for James B Sherwood aged 86, founder and chairman emeritus of Sea Containers Ltd and who expanded into owning the Venice-Simplon Orient Express: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/241927/sherwood Already a Times Obit: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/jim-sherwood-obituary-xd8bzh35r (Paywall)

Death Notice for children's author Heather Amery: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/241902/amery Wrote First Thousand Words and the Poppy And Sam and Farmyard Tales series of books, among others.

I hope the newly unemployed and the dead NHS workers appreciate his sacrifice. Winter is coming....

Ravi Zacharias being reported dead. https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/cwn/2020/may/world-renowned-christian-apologist-ravi-zacharias-dies

Willie K has worn his last Hawaiian shirt, strummed his last tune, shaken the last grass from his skirt: https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2020/05/19/hawaiian-music-legend-willie-k-dies-after-lengthy-battle-lung-cancer-battle/

Doing as well as the mighty Death Impends. I count myself fortunate to be in such esteemed company!