Passages

[Lemmy Caution]

Maybe he's making a late comeback.

... Or jbeall is having what Richard Pryor called "a Joe Frazier flashback"
(in a funny bit explaining why he didn't want to get in the ring with Muhammad Ali for a charity exhibition)

SpoilerShow

jbeall's link is dated Nov 2001 in the web address itself

[colinr0380]

Geraldine McEwan

She featured in a number of Kenneth Branagh's Shakespeare adaptations such as Henry V and the 1920s updating of Love's Labour's Lost (still my favourite Branagh Shakespeare), and was also the Nurse in Julie Taymor's Titus. And was also disturbingly brutal in The Magdalene Sisters. Plus voicework on the Wallace and Gromit film and the short after it A Matter of Loaf and Death, along with a voice in the English dub of Arrietty.

[Polybius]

Maybe he's making a late comeback.

... Or jbeall is having what Richard Pryor called "a Joe Frazier flashback"
(in a funny bit explaining why he didn't want to get in the ring with Muhammad Ali for a charity exhibition)

"This motherfucker's kickin' his own ass!"

[Drucker]

Totally missed this one. Don Covay. He wrote the songs "Mercy", "See-Saw", "I'll Be Satisfied." The CD two-fer of Mercy!/See-Saw is essential for fans of 60s rock/R&B. Jimi Hendrix plays on a bunch of his songs as well, and you can hear early signs of his style.

[jbeall]

Maybe he's making a late comeback.

... Or jbeall is having what Richard Pryor called "a Joe Frazier flashback"
(in a funny bit explaining why he didn't want to get in the ring with Muhammad Ali for a charity exhibition)

SpoilerShow

jbeall's link is dated Nov 2001 in the web address itself

Yeah, my bad. I was reading the NY Times and it was a linked article at the bottom. A lot of years-old obits have been appearing lately as recommended articles at the bottom of whatever I'm reading, and since I wasn't aware of his death back in 2011, I just assumed it was new. Oh well, better check those obit-dates from now on.

[Ugarte]

Lizabeth Scott

[Lemmy Caution]

Totally missed this one. Don Covay. He wrote the songs "Mercy", "See-Saw", "I'll Be Satisfied." The CD two-fer of Mercy!/See-Saw is essential for fans of 60s rock/R&B. Jimi Hendrix plays on a bunch of his songs as well, and you can hear early signs of his style.

Aw. I'm a big Don Covay fan.
And if you listen to his singing, it's not hard to notice that Mick Jagger largely/partly copied his style. The Stones covered Mercy Mercy soon after it came out. And that is such a classic song. It's such a great song that he essentially re-did it as Take This Hurt Off Me, with the great backing vocal ("fool, fool, fool-fool-fool") and the lyric "Don, you don't have to say a mumbling word ...")

Don Covay was also an early experimenter with dubbing his own voice to sing along with himself, something Marvin Gaye would have tremendous success with on the seminal What's Goin' On? album.

I listen to Don Covay all the time. Recently been enjoying his semi-reggae version of Chuck Berry's Memphis. Covay was a terrific song-writer ("Don, your baby's gonna leave you, her bags are packed up under the bed"), and also had a dramatic flair and really was able to put a song across.

One of my favorite lesser-known soul albums is Different Strokes for Different Folks (1971). Sweet Thang; Standing in the Grits Line; Ain't Nothing A Young Girl Can Do For Me, etc -- the whole thing is terrific.

Here's a longer obit from the WaPo, which does note Mick copying Covay's singing for the Mercy Mercy cover. I think Mick's mimicry is most noticeable on ballads, and especially on the Stones' Black and Blue album.

[Drucker]

Lemmy have you heard the House Of Blue Lights album? That was the next one I was going to pick up. Glad to hear his 70s work is worthwhile, too.

[britcom68]

Lizabeth Scott

Could you provide a link to the obit or any official family announcements? Ms Scott has been declared dead several times before, once it was a prank, the other times it was just an error. thanks.

[Lemmy Caution]

I'm not really a fan of the Blue Lights album. It's mostly blues and blues/rock. It has its merits, but I don't think the blues really fits Don Covay that well. Or maybe better to say he's a great soul singer/songwriter, and those gifts are less evident on a blues album, imo. My favorite song there is Homemade Love which is the only soul/boogie number there. The Different Strokes album is the same band -- dubbed The Jefferson Lemon Blues Band -- but it's really a Don Covay soul showcase and I think it's great. Rewards multiple listens.

As for his many writing credits, Covay penned my favorite Jerry Butler tune, You Can Run (But You Can't Hide From Love). Now that I think about it sounds like it'd be a follow-up to Covay's Rumble in the Jungle, with the title echoing Muhammad Ali.

Some other of my favorite obscure but great soul albums:
Jimmy McCracklin -- Yesterday is Gone
Eddie Floyd -- Soul Street (primarily the 1st side)
Jerry Williams -- Gone (not Swamp Dog, but a rocker who made this album with Duck Dunn)

[giovannii84]

Lizabeth Scott

Where did you read this news? I can't see this online anywhere.

[ordinaryperson]

RWBY creator Monty Oum

[Ugarte]

Re Lizabeth Scott - There has been no official notice yet. An obit will appear in the LA Times very soon.

[Feego]

Mary Healy, the female lead in The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. Such a strange coincidence. I literally just watched this film for the very first time last night, and now sitting down to look up some of the actors, find out that Mary Healy just died a couple of days ago.

[Dylan]

Stewart Stern, who wrote the screenplays for Rebel Without a Cause and the TV miniseries Sybil, among others. I actually met him a couple times, and he couldn't have been nicer.

[vidussoni]

Re Lizabeth Scott - There has been no official notice yet. An obit will appear in the LA Times very soon.

Film noir actress Lizabeth Scott dies at 92

[colinr0380]

The South African writer André P. Brink, who wrote screenplays for some South African films in the 1970s and had one of his apartheid novels, A Dry White Season adapted into a film with Donald Sutherland, Susan Sarandon and Marlon Brando.

[colinr0380]

Bryant Crenshaw, who appeared in Harmony Korine's Gummo.

[hearthesilence]

Crickets bassist Joe B. Mauldin

[hearthesilence]

Legendary UNC basketball coach Dean Smith. He has a speaking cameo (with many other coaches) in Spike Lee's He Got Game.

[dx23]

Ed Sabol, founder of NFL Films.

[beamish13]

Stewart Stern, who wrote the screenplays for Rebel Without a Cause and the TV miniseries Sybil, among others. I actually met him a couple times, and he couldn't have been nicer.

He also authored a terrific book on the making of his friend Paul Newman's 1987 adaptation of THE GLASS MENAGERIE

[thirtyframesasecond]

Yes, it's hard to disentangle Demis Roussos from the mention of him in Mike Leigh's classic TV film Abigail's Party, in which Alison Steadman playing the title character seemingly on a determined quest to create the ultimate 1970s evening party in spite of her guests regularly uses "Do you like Demis Roussos?" as her opening conversational gambit!

The Roussos ballad A Flower Is All You Need also turned up as the slightly incongruous title song to Aldo Lado’s Last House On The Left inspired horror film, Night Train Murders!

Aphrodite's Child's 'Rain and Tears' was well used in Hou Hsiao Hsien's 'Three Times' too!

[flyonthewall2983]

Jerry Tarkanian

[flyonthewall2983]

Bob Simon