Dropping Like Flies

[beetsnotbeats]

Music Pioneer Ahmet Ertegun Dies at 83
 
 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
 Published: December 14, 2006
 Filed at 6:33 p.m. ET
 
 NEW YORK (AP) -- Ahmet Ertegun, who helped define American music as the founder of Atlantic Records, a label that popularized the gritty R&B of Ray Charles, the classic soul of Aretha Franklin and the British rock of the Rolling Stones, has died, his spokesman said. He was 83.
 
 Ertegun remained connected to the music scene until his last days -- it was at an Oct. 29 concert by the Rolling Stones at the Beacon Theatre in New York where Ertegun fell, suffered a head injury and was hospitalized. He later slipped into a coma.
 
 ''He was in a coma and expired today with his family at his bedside,'' said Dr. Howard A. Riina, Ertegun's neurosurgeon at New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical Center.
 
 Ertegun will be buried in a private ceremony in his native Turkey, said Bob Kaus, a spokesman for Ertegun and Atlantic Records. A memorial service will be conducted in New York after the New Year's.
 
 Ertegun, a Turkish ambassador's son, started collecting records for fun, but would later became one of the music industry's most powerful figures with Atlantic, which he founded in 1947.
 
 The label first made its name with rhythm and blues by Charles and Big Joe Turner, but later diversified, making Franklin the Queen of Soul as well as carrying the banner of British rock (with the Rolling Stones, Cream, Led Zeppelin) and American pop (with Sonny & Cher, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and others).
 
 Today, the company, part of Warner Music Group, is the home to artists including Kid Rock, James Blunt, T.I., and Missy Elliott.
 
 He also had a local connection: Ertegun and his business partner Jerry Wexler borrowed money from Max "Waxie Maxie" Silverman to start their first label. That label failed but obviously they didn't quit there.

[distance]

Originally posted by Surly Bonds:
  Hannah Barbera

how old was that chick?

[RonniStar]

The Who Wrote Elvis's hit single "Burning Love" has died

[ChampionshipVinyl]

James Brown, the dynamic, pompadoured �??Godfather of Soul,�?� whose rasping vocals and revolutionary rhythms made him a founder of rap, funk and disco as well, died early Monday, his agent said. He was 73.
 
  James Brown

[Random Citizen]

Gerald Ford

[BookerT]

Originally posted by Random Citizen PDX:
  Gerald Ford

"tragedy today as former president gerald ford was eaten by wolves. he was delicious."

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Didn't he like, sleep with OJ or something?
 
 I wonder if his death will drive his wife to drink?
 
 

Originally posted by Random Citizen PDX:
  Gerald Ford

[chaz]

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[Frank Gallagher]

Why do they ALWAYS happen in threes!
 
 James Brown
 Gerald Ford
 Sadam Hussein
 
 Weird....two of them were tyranical bullies too!

[RonniStar]

The daughter of Bart Bacharach & Angie Dickerson

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Unofficial: Sneaky Pete Kleinow, member of the Flying Burrito Brothers and steel guitarist.
 Kleinow appears on numerous rock and country-rock albums, including those by:
 
 Jackson Browne
 Dillard & Clark
 The Byrds
 John Lennon
 Frank Zappa
 Little Feat
 Rita Coolidge
 The Steve Miller Band.
 Stevie Wonder
 Fleetwood Mac
 The Golden Palominos
 Yoko Ono
 Dion and the Belmonts
 Billy Joel
 Joan Baez
 the Bee Gees
 Booker T. and the MG's
 Gene Clark
 Joe Cocker
 Gordon Lightfoot
 Leonard Cohen
 The Rolling Stones
 Linda Ronstadt
 Dave Mason
 John Cale
 The Knack
 Joni Mitchell
 Doug Sahm
 Neil Sedaka
 The Eagles
 Robert Palmer
 The Ventures
 Peaches & Herb
 The Everly Brothers
 Jermaine Jackson
 Gladys Knight
 Carly Simon
 Sly & the Family Stone
 Ringo Starr

Unofficial: Sneaky Pete Kleinow, member of the Flying Burrito Brothers and steel guitarist.
 
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  I'm not dead...

[RonniStar]

I Found Out About This Story Last Night!
 
 Iwao Takamoto, the animator who designed the cartoon canine Scooby-Doo as well as characters on such shows as The Flintstones and The Jetsons, died Jan. 8 after suffering a massive coronary, a spokesman told the Reuters news service. He was 81.
 
 Takamoto died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, where he was being treated for respiratory problems, said Gary Miereanu, a spokesman for Warner Brothers Animation.
 
 Takamoto designed Scooby-Doo, his equally famished and cowardly master Shaggy, and their pals Velma, Daphne and Fred in the late 1960s while working at the Hanna-Barbera animation studio. The Great Dane's name was inspired by an improvised line at the end of Frank Sinatra's "Strangers in the Night."
 
 He also designed the snickering dog Muttley, who was featured in a number of productions, and Astro, the family dog on The Jetsons. For The Flintstones, he created the Great Gazoo, a green alien.
 
 Takamoto's death comes exactly three weeks after that of Hanna-Barbera co-founder Joseph Barbera, who was 95; Barbera's business partner, William Hanna, died in 2001.

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

It's funny, Ronnistar, this seems to be the only thread you ever post on. What's your fascination with death?  

[shemptiness]

Lilly Munster