In Memorium

[Natalka]

^ I didn't know who he was, but I love that pic!

[walkonby]

everyone knows that song!! When A Man Loves A Woman, Percy Sledge lost his battle with cancer today at 73



http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/14/entert...dge-dies-feat/



Percy Sledge, the R&B belter whose biggest hit, "When a Man Loves a Woman," became a cornerstone of soul music, died Tuesday. He was 73. Sledge died in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, said Stephanie Price of the East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner's Office. Sledge died of natural causes, said East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner Dr. William Clark. He had been in hospice care for cancer, Clark added.
In a career that started in the 1960s, Sledge had a number of hits, including "Take Time to Know Her," "Warm and Tender Love" and "It Tears Me Up" among them.
But his first and biggest hit, "When a Man Loves a Woman," towered over them all.
Over a mournful, slowly rising instrumental track provided by organist Spooner Oldham, drummer Roger Hawkins and guitarist Marlin Greene -- key musicians of what became the Muscle Shoals sound, heard on countless soul records -- Sledge crooned, pleaded and roared his way through the tune. It came directly from the heart: Originally called "Why Did You Leave Me Baby," he'd written it about a former girlfriend, drawing from a tune that he used to sing to himself as a child.
"I hummed it all my life, even when I was picking and chopping cotton in the fields," the Alabama-born singer told the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
At the time, Sledge was working as a hospital orderly, picking up gigs at night with a group called the Esquires Combo. In a fit of generosity, he gave the songwriting credit for "Woman" to two of the Esquires, Calvin Lewis and Andrew Wright, who had helped him with a few chords.

[Natalka]

RIP - honestly, that is one beautiful song!

[dededi]

I saw Percy Sledge when I was 8 at a concert my parents went to on Toronto's Lakeshore and remember most of it. He had a great voice and put on a really good show. RIP.

[Natalka]

RIP, so very young - Jonathan Crombie, who played Gilbert Blythe in the Anne of Green Gables movies, has died at the age of 48.

The actor's sister, Carrie Crombie, told CBC News on Saturday that her brother suffered a brain hemorrhage and died in New York City on April 15.





http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/jonath...t-48-1.3038948

[walkonby]

RIP, so very young - Jonathan Crombie, who played Gilbert Blythe in the Anne of Green Gables movies, has died at the age of 48.

The actor's sister, Carrie Crombie, told CBC News on Saturday that her brother suffered a brain hemorrhage and died in New York City on April 15.





http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/jonath...t-48-1.3038948

I never knew he was the son of former City of Toronto Mayor David Crombie.....his death so young is tragic.

[Midnightly]

soo sad, loved Jonathan Crombie he was the perfect gilbert

[Natalka]

Norman Rockwell Museum is saddened to learn of the passing of Mary Doyle Keefe, the original model for Norman Rockwell's iconic "Rosie The Riveter" painting, at age 92.

Ms. Keefe was a neighbor of Rockwell's in Arlington, Vermont, when he called on the 19-year old telephone operator to pose for the illustration that appeared on the cover of "The Saturday Evening Post" on May 29, 1943.

Her image became a symbol for millions of American women who went to work during World War II. The original painting is part of the permanent collection at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.

[Natalka]

RIP - Lois Lilenstein, of Sharon, Lois, and Bram



TORONTO - Lively children's entertainer Lois Lilienstein of Sharon, Lois & Bram fame has died. She was 78.

Her son David Lilienstein said she died Wednesday at home in Toronto surrounded by friends and family. She had a rare form of cancer, which was diagnosed last October.

"She knew it was happening, she was at peace with it, and she died very peacefully and not in pain," Lilienstein said Thursday as he recalled a childhood filled with music.

Lilienstein endeared herself to audiences young and old with enthusiastic performances of songs including "Skinnamarink," "Peanut Butter" and "I Am Slowly Going Crazy."

The trio further entrenched themselves as preschool stars with their CBC-TV series "The Elephant Show," which ran from 1984 to 1989. It also aired in the United States on Nickelodeon, where it was a consistent ratings draw.

http://www.thestarphoenix.com/entert...657/story.html

[Natalka]

[Natalka]

My son just loved this song - he was really little when he learned it, with the actions - it was SO cute!

[gryphon]

Sawyer Sweeten who played one of the twin sons on everybody loves raymond, died of a self inflincted gunshot wound.....he was 19.

[Natalka]

That is so very sad... he was visiting his parents when he did it - went out on the front porch and shot himself.

[SharonMe]

So many sad losses.
I was surprised Lois died, I know Sharon had battled cancer.
I saw them in person years ago.

[Natalka]

Suzanne Crough, star of 'The Partridge Family,' dead at 52

Crough, who played the tambourine-shaking Tracy Partridge on the classic ABC series from 1970-1974, died Monday at her home in Laughlin, Nev. (no cause of death yet)





Crough's other TV credits include roles on Mulligan's Stew, Goober and the Ghost Chasers, and the TV movie Children of Divorce. Crough was married with two daughters.