Dropping Like Flies

[kosmo vinyl]

Dave "Baby" Cortez

he actually died in 2022,which was  recently discovery by a 15-year-old Australian doo-wop historian, which then prompted the NYT to write his obit this year.

Dave ‘Baby’ Cortez, Hitmaker Who Seemed to Vanish, Is Dead at 83
His “The Happy Organ” reached No. 1 in 1959, but his pop stardom was short-lived, and his death in 2022, with an anonymous burial, remains a source of mystery.

The Happy Organ was the first instrumental Billboard #1 on the Hot 100

no idea if this gift link will or not but lots of twists and turns in it

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/arts/music/dave-baby-cortez-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Vk8.Q9V3.XjP6-oTuyhjH&smid=url-share

[hutch]

I avoid buying a record if he is on it.

[Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK]

I avoid buying a record if he is on it.

Wow, what did Dave "Baby" Cortez do to get on your bad side?

[hutch]

I don’t know the origin of my visceral hatred for him….

[Insanity-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl]

David Gergen

[Mobius]

David Gergen

At least we still have Jergen’s lotion

[grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli]

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[Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK]

David Gergen

At least we still have Jergen’s lotion

This is amazing. This is nature as beauty.

[kosmo vinyl]

David Kaff aka David Kaffinetti aka Spinal Tap's Viv Savage.

He also played keyboards in Rare Bird who had a minor hit with Sympathy

https://youtu.be/9vN6-1Zeg2w

[grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli]

Fauja Singh, the Turbaned Torpedo, at 114. Hit and run.

[Space Freely]

Connie Francis

[Space Freely]

Brian Braman

At least we still have bras, man.

[grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli]

Felix Baumgartner

[Cock Van Der Palm]

at least we still have Chauncey Gardiner

Felix Baumgartner