DCS: chuck berry
All right, guys, uh, listen. This is a blues riff in “B”, watch me for the changes, and try and keep up?
Archive of posts filed under the dead celebrity spotlight category.
DCS: greg guidry
Greg Guidry liked to sing gospel and play piano. As a teenager, he formed a band with future Doobie Brothers keyboardist/vocalist Michael McDonald. In 1977, with his friend and collaborator Rich Lang, Greg drove from his native St. Louis to New York City to pursue a career in the music industry. The pair wrote and …
DCS: fats domino
No use for you to cry I’ll see you by and by ‘Cause I’m walkin’ to New Orleans
DCS: martin landau
A one-time cartoonist, Martin Landau abandoned his artistic career to pursue acting. He worked with the great Lee Strasberg at the prestigious Actors Studio, along with his friend Steve McQueen. He met and became close friends with fellow actor James Dean. Martin made his first major big-screen appearance alongside James Mason in Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller …
DCS: leona gage
With her mother working two jobs and her father tending to the home, Leona Gage was on her own. At 13, Leona met 24-year old US Air Force airman Gene Ennis. The two were married and Leona gave birth to their first child at 14. Ennis shipped out for duty and never responded to Leona’s …
DCS: charles bradley
In 1962, Charles Bradley was taken to the venerable Apollo Theater by his sister to see a performance by energetic soul singer James Brown. Charles was inspired. He soon left home to escape poor living conditions and found himself on the streets, homeless and sleeping on subway cars at night. He found salvation with the …
DCS: tom petty
Maybe somewhere down the road a-ways You’ll think of me, wonder where I am these days Maybe somewhere…
DCS: hugh hefner
In 1953, Hugh Hefner started a worldwide, multi-million dollar publishing and entertainment empire on his kitchen table with an eight thousand dollar loan. Hef once said: “Life is too short to be living somebody else’s dream.” Hugh Hefner, the embodiment of the American Dream, passed away in September 2017 at the age of 91.
DCS: del bissonette
In 1927, as a minor leaguer, Del Bissonette led the International League in five categories — runs, hits, doubles, triples, home runs, and RBIs. The next season, Del signed with the Brooklyn Robins (a team that would eventually become the Brooklyn Dodgers) as a first baseman. He achieved a .320 batting average and became only the third Major Leaguer to be …
DCS: june foray
Animator Chuck Jones once said: “June Foray is not the female Mel Blanc. Mel Blanc was the male June Foray.” June, who passed away in July 2017, was the voice of our childhood. Yesterday would have been her 100th birthday.