Jimmy Swaggart, Rick Hurst, Lalo Schifrin, and Mick Ralphs Dies

Early summer of 2025 has taken 4 more rememberable people that I’ll take a look at here.

These guys were televangelist, gospel singer, and author; played Deputy Cletus Hogg on The Dukes of Hazzard; composed the music for movies like Cool Hand Luke and The Amityville Horror, and TV like Hawaii 5-0; and wrote songs and played guitar for Mott the Hoople and Bad Company.

Great Balls of Fire (1989) – Dennis Quaid (Jerry Lee Lewis) and Alec Baldwin (Jimmy Swaggart) in Great Balls of Fire (1989)

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Mannix

Mannix was an American detective television series that aired on CBS from September 16, 1967, to April 13, 1975. Created by Richard Levinson and William Link, and developed by executive producer Bruce Geller (also of Mission: Impossible fame), the series starred Mike Connors as Joe Mannix, a rugged, intuitive private investigator operating first in a high-tech corporate setting and later as an old-school solo detective.

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