Make This A Birthday To Remember.......

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May 10th:

Happy Birthday, to:

Graham Gouldman [Graham Keith Gouldman; art rock and pop rock singer, songwriter and musician; bass guitarist with 10cc] -

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May 10th:

Happy Birthday, to:

Sly Dunbar [Lowell Fillmore Dunbar; reggae drummer and percussionist; Sly & Robbie rhythm section and production] -

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May 10th:

Happy Birthday, to:

Young MC [Marvin Young; hip hop and pop rapper, singer-songwriter, producer and actor] -

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May 10th:

Happy Birthday, to:

Judith Jamison [Judith Ann Jamison; dancer and choreographer; artistic director emerita of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre] -

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May 10th:

Remembering, on his Birthday:

Bill Coday [1942-2008; soul and blues musician and singer] -

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May 10th:

Remembering, on his Birthday: -

Larry Williams [Lawrence Eugene Williams; aka Lawrence Edward Williams; 1935-1980; R&B, rock and roll, funk and soul singer, songwriter, producer and pianist] -

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May 10th:

Remembering, on his Birthday: -

Sid Vicious [Simon John Ritchie; 1957-1979; punk rock bassist and vocalist; The Sex Pistols]

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May 10th:

Remembering, on his Birthday: -

Jackie Lomax [John Richard Lomax; 1944-2013; rock guitarist and singer-songwriter] -

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May 10th:

Remembering, on her Birthday:

Nancy Walker [Anna Myrtle Swoyer; 1922-1992; actress and comedian, film and television director] -

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May 10th:

Remembering, on his Birthday: -

David O. Selznick [1902-1965; film producer, screenwriter and film studio executive; 'Gone With The Wind' 1930; 'Rebecca' 1940] -

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May 10th:

Remembering, on his Birthday: -

Dimitri Tiomkin [Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin; 1894-1979; film composer and conductor; 'High Noon', 1952; 'The High And The Mighty', 1954; 'The Old Man And The Sea', 1958 ] -

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May 10th:

Remembering, on his Birthday: -

Max Steiner [Maximilian Raoul Steiner; 1888-1971; film composer and arranger for theatre and films, and conductor; 'Gone With The Wind', 1939] -

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May 10th:

Remembering, on her Birthday: -

Mae Murray [Marie Adrienne Koenig; 1885-1965; actress, dancer, film producer and screenwriter] -

[moe]

Nancy Walker played "Rosie" in the commercial for Bounty Paper Towels.

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She certainly did.....'the quicker picker-upper'...and said those commercials led to her being offered the role of Ida Morgenstern...

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And she directed The Village People's box-office turkey Can't Stop the Music...and by all accounts was a holy terror on set.

[moe]

Sansradio, I NEVER knew that! Yes, it was a total box office turkey!!

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May 11th:

Quote for the Day:

"I was living in a fleabag hotel, and one night I heard these sirens and someone was breaking in a store below.

I looked out and police had surrounded the store, and I turned my tape-recorder on.

I saw 'Bonnie and Clyde a couple of times, and with those two things that's how I came to write 'Indiana'."

- R. Dean Taylor; Melody Maker interview; July 1974.

Happy Birthday, to:

R. Dean Taylor [Richard Dean Taylor; pop, rockabilly and soul singer, songwriter and record producer] -

[moe]

R. Dean Taylor posted here on SDF, Westgrand.

[9A]

She certainly did.....'the quicker picker-upper'...and said those commercials led to her being offered the role of Ida Morgenstern...

Mother of Rhoda, Mary Richards' neighbor. Who could forget "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and its spinoff "Rhoda?"

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May 11th:

Remembering, on his Birthday: -

Wes Henderson [Wesley Earl Henderson, Sr; 1942-2014; R&B and soul bass guitarist, Bobby Taylor & The Vancouvers] -

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May 11th:

Happy Birthday, to:

Eric Burdon [Eric Victor Burdon; rock, R&B, soul, funk and blues singer, songwriter and actor; The Animals; War] -

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May 11th:

Happy Birthday, to:

Alyson Williams [ R&B and house singer] -

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May 11th:

Happy Birthday, to:

Tom Giuliano [pop singer; The Happenings] -

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May 11th:

Happy Birthday, to:

Arnie Satin [Arnold 'Arnie' Harris Silver; doo-wop singer; The Dovells] -

[moe]

Westgrand, has Eric Burdon done any recent touring?

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May 11th:

Happy Birthday, to:

Mort Sahl [Morton Lyon Sahl; comedian, actor and social satirist; early influential stand-up comic] -

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May 11th:

Happy Birthday, to:

Valentino [Valentino Clemente Ludovico Garavani; fashion dress designer] -

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Mother of Rhoda, Mary Richards' neighbor. Who could forget "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and its spinoff "Rhoda?"

Or this overlooked pilot:

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May 11th:

Remembering, on his Birthday: -

Ewart Abner [Ewart Gladstone Abner, Jr; 1923-2997; record company executive; President of Vee-Jay Records; President of Motown Records, 1973-1975] -

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May 11th:

Remembering, on his Birthday:

Shabbo Do [Adolfo Gutierrez Quinones; also Adolfo Gordon Quinones; 1955-2020; actor, dancer and choreographer] -

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May 11th:

Remembering, on her Birthday: -

Natasha Richardson [Natasha Jane Richardson; 1963-2009; actress]

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May 11th:

Remembering, on his Birthday: -

David Gest [David Alan Gest; 1953-2016; entertainer, comedian, producer and television personality] -

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May 11th:

Remembering, on his Birthday: -

Les Chadwick [John Leslie Chadwick; 1943-2019; bass guitarist, Gerry & The Pacemakers] -

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May 11th:

Remembering, on his Birthday: -

Butch Trucks [Claude Hudson Trucks; 1947-2017; rock, jazz, blues, jam and southern drummer; founding member of The Allman Brothers Band] -

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May 11th:

Remembering, on his Birthday: -

Doug McClure [Douglas Osborne McClure; 1935-1995; actor; 'Trampas' on 'The Virginian'] -

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May 11th:

Remembering, on his Birthday: -

Bernard Fox [Bernard Lawson; 1927-2016; actor; Dr. Bombay on 'Bewitched'] -

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May 11th:

Remembering, on his Birthday: -

Denver Pyle [Denver Dell Pyle; 1920-1997; actor and director; Jesse Duke on 'The Dukes Of Hazzard'] -

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May 11th:

Remembering, on his Birthday: -

Foster Brooks [1912-2001; actor and comedian] -

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May 11th:

Remembering, on his Birthday: -

Phil Silvers [Philip Silver; 1911-1985; actor; 'The Phil Silvers Show'] -

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May 11th:

Remembering, on his Birthday: -

Doodles Weaver [Winstead Sheffield Glenndenning Dixon Weaver; 1911-1983; character actor, comedian and musician; Professor Feetlebaum] -

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May 11th:

Remembering, on his Birthday: -

J. C. Higginbotham [Jay C. 'Jack' Higginbotham; 1906-1973; jazz trombonist] -

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May 11th:

Remembering, on his Birthday: -

Salvador Dali [Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dali i Domenech; 1904-1989; surrealist painter] -

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May 11th:

Remembering, on her Birthday: -

Martha Graham [1894-1991; modern dancer and choreographer; innovator of modern dance; The Graham Technique] -

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May 11th:

Remembering, on her Birthday: -

Margaret Rutherford [Margaret Taylor Rutherford-Benn; 1892-1972; actress; ] -

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May 11th:

Remembering, on his Birthday: -

Irving Berlin [Israel Beilin; 1888-1989; composer; 'White Christmas'; 'God Bless America'] -

[moe]

Denver Pyle starred in quite a few Perry Mason shows. In fact Pyle was in the very last Perry Mason episode playing Hollywood Produce Jackson Sidemark

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May 11th:

Remembering, on his Birthday: -

Joseph 'King' Oliver [Joseph Nathan Oliver; 1885-1938; jazz cornet player and bandleader; King Oliver Creole Jazz Band] -

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Denver Pyle starred in quite a few Perry Mason shows. In fact Pyle was in the very last Perry Mason episode playing Hollywood Produce Jackson Sidemark

'The Case Of The Final Fade-Out'....and as a case in point, Moe, it comes to us all...

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Denver Pyle starred in quite a few Perry Mason shows. In fact Pyle was in the very last Perry Mason episode playing Hollywood Produce Jackson Sidemark

And featuring Erle Stanley Gardner himself, as the judge....