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John D Loudermilk, songwriter on The Nashville Teens' Tobacco Road, I Wanna Live for Glen Campbell and Everything's Alright for the Newbeats amongst many others, has died aged 82. http://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/music/2016/09/22/songwriter-john-d-loudermilk-dead-82/90826022/

Your link is deader than Loudermilk it seems. Google provides no confirming info

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John D Loudermilk, songwriter on The Nashville Teens' Tobacco Road, I Wanna Live for Glen Campbell and Everything's Alright for the Newbeats amongst many others, has died aged 82. http://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/music/2016/09/22/songwriter-john-d-loudermilk-dead-82/90826022/

Your link is deader than Loudermilk it seems. Google provides no confirming info

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Works for me. Try this one if you like: http://www.rollingstone.com/country/news/tobacco-road-songwriter-john-d-loudermilk-dead-at-82-w441524

 

News is everywhere, except Louisiana it seems.

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John D Loudermilk, songwriter on The Nashville Teens' Tobacco Road, I Wanna Live for Glen Campbell and Everything's Alright for the Newbeats amongst many others, has died aged 82. http://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/music/2016/09/22/songwriter-john-d-loudermilk-dead-82/90826022/

Your link is deader than Loudermilk it seems. Google provides no confirming info

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Works for me. Try this one if you like: http://www.rollingstone.com/country/news/tobacco-road-songwriter-john-d-loudermilk-dead-at-82-w441524

 

News is everywhere, except Louisiana it seems.

 

 

 

Loudermilk was no slouch as an artist in his own right, mind: https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dpopular&field-keywords=JOHN+D.+LOUDERMILK

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Rod Temperton, British songwriter and Oscar nominee, has died after a short battle with cancer. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-37565125

 

Wrote Thriller and Rock With You for Michael Jackson and Yah Mo B There for James Ingram and Michael McDonald.

 

Huge body of work.

 

Here's his UK #2 hit Boogie Nights by Heatwave: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob9sDpmRuqc

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Aaah, the man that wrote

 

"Got to keep on dancing, keep on dancing

Got to keep on dancing, keep on dancing"

 

 

Respect.

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Let's not forget Jacko's brilliant input of "Aaaagghhh!s" and "Urrrgghhh!s"

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Rod Temperton, British songwriter and Oscar nominee, has died after a short battle with cancer. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-37565125

 

Wrote Thriller and Rock With You for Michael Jackson and Yah Mo B There for James Ingram and Michael McDonald.

 

Huge body of work.

 

Here's his UK #2 hit Boogie Nights by Heatwave: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob9sDpmRuqc

 

Unsurprisingly I only really know of him because he penned a couple of numbers for Karen Carpenter's ill-fated solo album.

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Rod Temperton, British songwriter and Oscar nominee, has died after a short battle with cancer. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-37565125

 

Wrote Thriller and Rock With You for Michael Jackson and Yah Mo B There for James Ingram and Michael McDonald.

 

Huge body of work.

 

Here's his UK #2 hit Boogie Nights by Heatwave: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob9sDpmRuqc

 

Unsurprisingly I only really know of him because he penned a couple of numbers for Karen Carpenter's ill-fated solo album.

 

 

 

"Ill fated" in the past. To be fair to Rod Temperton he lived long enough to see it claimed as a misunderstood masterpiece. She died thinking it a total failure. You'll find people now willing to claim it alongside Nick Drake albums as an example of how the world got it wrong first time around.

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Robert Bateman, songwriter in the Motown era, who co-wrote Please Mr Postman, has died of a heart attack aged 80. http://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/music/2016/10/12/robert-bateman-motown-dead-80-obituary/91942908/

 

Here are The Marvelettes with his song Playboy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HBf5DMV0qk

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Curly Putman, American songwriter who wrote Green Green Grass Of Home and D-I-V-O-R-C-E, has reportedly died aged 85. https://twitter.com/LebanonHistory/status/792778983851032577

 

Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curly_Putman

now buried 6 feet under that green green grass then :(

 

 

For interest the BBC Obit: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-37822831

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Mentor Williams, writer of 'Drift Away' has er, drifted away, aged 70 (or possibly 69)

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No, he didn't.

Why am I seeing multiple news sources then?

 

 

He's dead alright. I posted notice of that in Dead Pop Stars.

 

He recorded the first version, but he didn't write Green Door. Look it up.

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No, he didn't.

Why am I seeing multiple news sources then?

He's dead alright. I posted notice of that in Dead Pop Stars.

 

He recorded the first version, but he didn't write Green Door. Look it up.

Ah. I saw the word singer songwriter and thought he wrote the song. Should look a bit more in depth sometimes

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No, he didn't.

Why am I seeing multiple news sources then?

He's dead alright. I posted notice of that in Dead Pop Stars.

 

He recorded the first version, but he didn't write Green Door. Look it up.

Ah. I saw the word singer songwriter and thought he wrote the song. Should look a bit more in depth sometimes

 

 

Good lad.

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Report here of the death at 82 of songwriter and musician John Schroeder, who co-wrote Walkin' Back To Happiness. http://www.cymandeofficial.com/

 

He also had a UK hit with Johnny Pearson as part of Sounds Orchestral with Cast Your Fate To The Wind: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwLyuaFYMfQ

 

Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Schroeder_(musician)

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What a rotten way to pay back my faith in his ability to see 2018...

 

(Or not to reach the Drop 40, to be more accurate...)

 

EDIT - On the bright side, I appear to have added him to my Hartlepool, Hares, DbN and Alt Obits teams.

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7/20 dead already on my team!!! (Yes, I know Aspin is not getting an obit, but still.)

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