Four more losses to reflect on here, summer of 2026…
These guys were the long time drummer for the rock band ZZ Top; an actor, often cast as a mafioso, best known for his role in The Sopranos; an actor/politician best known as Cooter in the Dukes of Hazzard; and a soul-jazz and hard bop tenor saxophonist, known as the tenor saxophone soloist on Henry Mancini’s “The Pink Panther Theme”.
Four more music related deaths to report.
These artists have recorded #1 hits, sang in movies, written books; was a award winning lyricist with his wife; founded the folk-turned-prog-rock band Strawbs; and was a classically trained pianist-turned rock keyboardist for the British progressive rock band Rare Bird and played Viv Savage in Rob Reiner’s, This is Spinal Tap movie.
What happened in 1924?
Another year has passed. Every year I look back to see what was happening 100 years ago. Here we go. The first Winter Olympics, the 1924 Winter Olympics open in Chamonix, in the French Alps. The original five Winter Olympic Sports were bobsleigh, curling, ice hockey, Nordic skiing and skating.
Mammoth skyscrapers of stone thundering across the earth!
I watched the 1957 Universal-International, science-fiction/horror movie “The Monolith Monsters” on Svengoolie. It was produced by Howard Christie (Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man, Abbott and Costello Go to Mars, Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops, Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy, and TV such as Wagon Train, The Virginian, Larado) , and directed by John Sherwood (The Creature Walks Among Us).
