Obituary Thread, famous people, places & events.

[ManAboutTown]

Quincy Jones passes at 91

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/04/enter...bit/index.html

He was extremely talented and very instrumental in launching Michael Jackson's solo career in the late-'70s. He produced "Off the Wall," "Thriller," and "Bad," all of which had several #1 hits and really set the tone for pop/dance music in the '80s. He was amazing.

[Bowser214]

Bernard Marcus founder of Home Depot passed away

https://www.koco.com/article/bernard...o97Xh_ouEkBXGg

[Laramie]

1937 - 2024

Rest in Peace, Thunder superfan Judy Love.

[Jeepnokc]

Chuck Woolery passes at 83.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/24/enter...bit/index.html

[Bill Robertson]

Alice Brock died. She was the owner of Alice's Restaurant that inspired the Arlo Guthrie song. It will feel different hearing the song this Thanksgiving.

[gjl]

Former Sen. Fred Harris, D-Okla., died Saturday (11/23/24) at age 94. Harris is remembered for championing Democratic Party reforms in the 1960s.

[unfundedrick]

Former Sen. Fred Harris, D-Okla., died Saturday (11/23/24) at age 94. Harris is remembered for championing Democratic Party reforms in the 1960s.

He also ran for president once.

[Mott]

https://www.santafenewmexican.com/ne...e594c2664.html

[Plutonic Panda]

Eminem’s mom died: https://www.reviewjournal.com/entert...3XM-VT1cvwDtZg

[jedicurt]

Eminem’s mom died: https://www.reviewjournal.com/entert...3XM-VT1cvwDtZg

welp. time to stop on the way home to get the stuff to make spaghetti

[Plutonic Panda]

welp. time to stop on the way home to get the stuff to make spaghetti

I think there’s actually a spaghetti place in Detroit that Eminem either owns or at least he worked there one time and made an appearance. Maybe it’s just a joke.

[Mott]

Brewer of Brewer and Shipley has passed. Charles Michael Brewer was born on April 14, 1944, in Oklahoma City, the eldest of four children. Most remembered for their hit ‘One Toke Over The Line’.
The success of “One Toke Over the Line,” recorded after the duo returned to the Midwest, brought complications. In September 1970, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, in a speech in Las Vegas, warned that drug use was threatening “to sap our national strength” and called out a number of pop songs, including the Beatles’ “With a Little Help From My Friends” and the Byrds’ “Eight Miles High,” as “latent drug culture propaganda.”

Within a year, under the Nixon administration, the Federal Communications Commission warned broadcasters about playing songs with lyrics that might promote drug use. As a result, “One Toke Over the Line” was banned by radio stations in Buffalo, Miami, Houston, Washington, Chicago, Dallas and New York. Brewer & Shipley, Mr. Brewer said, came to embrace the crackdown as “a badge of honor.”

[Martin]

obviously the best rendition of that song...

[Dob Hooligan]

Rickey Henderson, primarily of MLB Oakland A's, dies at 65. Born on Christmas day 1958, he was the greatest lead off man and base stealer of all time.

[5alive]

BTW, Gail Farrell who is singing One Toke Over the Line in the above video is from Durant.

[Bill Robertson]

Rickey Henderson, primarily of MLB Oakland A's, dies at 65. Born on Christmas day 1958, he was the greatest lead off man and base stealer of all time.

I saw that at dinner on the ESPN crawler. So sad. Only 65. My age. He's one of the icons of baseball.

[Bill Robertson]

Brewer of Brewer and Shipley has passed. Charles Michael Brewer was born on April 14, 1944, in Oklahoma City, the eldest of four children. Most remembered for their hit ‘One Toke Over The Line’.
The success of “One Toke Over the Line,” recorded after the duo returned to the Midwest, brought complications. In September 1970, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, in a speech in Las Vegas, warned that drug use was threatening “to sap our national strength” and called out a number of pop songs, including the Beatles’ “With a Little Help From My Friends” and the Byrds’ “Eight Miles High,” as “latent drug culture propaganda.”

Within a year, under the Nixon administration, the Federal Communications Commission warned broadcasters about playing songs with lyrics that might promote drug use. As a result, “One Toke Over the Line” was banned by radio stations in Buffalo, Miami, Houston, Washington, Chicago, Dallas and New York. Brewer & Shipley, Mr. Brewer said, came to embrace the crackdown as “a badge of honor.”

Good for them. It was a great song. And now that it's being more and more legalized the song was just way ahead of its time.