The Dearly departed....

cml387 · 06-06-2011 5:47pm #1

Prompted by Old Goat,this thread will be dedicated to the passing of great cultural icons of our past.

And we've had some notable ones in the last few days:

Flick Colby (23 March 1946 – 26 May 2011).
Choreographer of Pan's People on Top Of The Pops.

James Arness (May 26, 1923 – June 3, 2011).
Played the part of Mat Dillon in "Gunsmoke".

Andrew Gold (August 2, 1951 – June 3, 2011).
Songwriter famous for "Lonely Boy" and "Never let Her Slip Away"

chucken1 · 06-06-2011 7:30pm

I love Andrew Gold

R.I.P

mike65 · 06-06-2011 7:49pm

Just saw that on the music vid thread. Not a fan as such but Gold certainly had a knack for a pop tune.

mrsbyrne · 07-06-2011 4:23pm

chucken1 wrote: »

I love Andrew Gold R.I.P

inexplicably tearful on hearing Never Let her Slip Away. Part of the soundtrack of my life...RIP

OldGoat · 08-06-2011 6:55pm

hate having to use this thread so quickly.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jun/08/voice-of-daleks-roy-skelton-dies

Roy Skelton, voice of Zippy & George of childrens Rainbow program and also the voice of the Dalak and Cybermen of Dr. Who fame passes away at 79.

chucken1 · 24-06-2011 7:47pm

Peter Falk died yesterday aged 83

http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/06/24/peter-falk-dies/

cml387 · 25-06-2011 9:30am

Last week at work we had a major audit,which had management (and consequently us) on the verge of collective nervous breakdown.

It ended last Friday week,and a collective sugh of relief went around the place.
I suggested that it would be interesting if the auditor,about to leave the building,turned around and said.....

mike65 · 28-06-2011 3:19pm

Anyone remember Raw Sex? (the musical act, not the good old days! :pac: )

Simon Brint who was 50% of it (the other part being Rowland Rivron) died on May 29th but I only just found out thanks to an obit by Ade Edmundson published yesterday.

Here with Kirsty MacColl (sighs)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qCvLky3DME

katopyrgos · 09-07-2011 4:33pm

cml387 wrote: »

Prompted by Old Goat,this thread will be dedicated to the passing of great cultural icons of our past.

And we've had some notable ones in the last few days:

Flick Colby (23 March 1946 – 26 May 2011).
Choreographer of Pan's People on Top Of The Pops.

James Arness (May 26, 1923 – June 3, 2011).
Played the part of Mat Dillon in "Gunsmoke".

Andrew Gold (August 2, 1951 – June 3, 2011).
Songwriter famous for "Lonely Boy" and "Never let Her Slip Away"

I was very sad to read that James Arness had died, back in the late 50s and early 60s I nostalgically remember him in Gunsmoke on UTV. TV was relatively new in Ireland then. Brings back great memories.. a bit sad too

Rubecula · 09-07-2011 6:07pm

And Betty Ford has passed away. She started the clinic to help addicts of drink and drugs after being addicted herself.

cml387 · 15-08-2011 9:35pm

BBC television and radio presenter Rober Robinson died today aged 83.

looksee · 15-08-2011 11:32pm

cml387 wrote: »

Last week at work we had a major audit,which had management (and consequently us) on the verge of collective nervous breakdown.

It ended last Friday week,and a collective sugh of relief went around the place.
I suggested that it would be interesting if the auditor,about to leave the building,turned around and said.....

Its late. I'm thick. Chucken and Cicero obviously understand this, please put me out of my misery and explain it

Incidentally when I saw the title of this thread I thought it was going to be about the price of funerals.

cml387 · 16-08-2011 7:47am

looksee wrote: »

Its late. I'm thick. Chucken and Cicero obviously understand this, please put me out of my misery and explain it

Incidentally when I saw the title of this thread I thought it was going to be about the price of funerals.

Mr Rumpled-Coat Columbo had a trick whereby, when interviewing a suspect, he would end the interview and walk to the door.
Just as the guilty party was breathing a sigh of relief,Columbo would turn around and say "..just one more thing".
And this would be the question that would break the case,and the suspect would start sweating,and then we'd head for the commercial break.

OldGoat · 16-08-2011 8:52am

cml387 wrote: »

BBC television and radio presenter Rober Robinson died today aged 83.

I loved "Call my bluff". As a kid I'd sit on the floor with the dictionary and race to find the word before the reveal at the end of the round.
I don't know if that was the spur to my love of words or if that was just an outlet to an existing passion but the program was a highlight of my week.
Frank Muir and Robert Morley as captains of the teams were gleefully wicked in their definations of the obscure words.

cml387 · 16-08-2011 8:55am

OldGoat wrote: »

I loved "Call my bluff". As a kid I'd sit on the floor with the dictionary and race to find the word before the reveal at the end of the round.
I don't know if that was the spur to my love of words or if that was just an outlet to an existing passion but the program was a highlight of my week.
Frank Muir and Robert Morley as captains of the teams were gleefully wicked in their definations of the obscure words.

His lovely,erudite chairing Brain Of Britain is a stand out for me.

mike65 · 16-08-2011 9:55am

Ah indeed! (as Rory Bremner might say)

Another parody, the famed pish and tish

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npvQ3M3WaPA

Call my Bluff definitely a part of my teenage years, I hope he has a sense of humour. Of course the joke is that Stephen Fry would be so parodyable now.

mike65 · 23-08-2011 11:44am

Songwriter Jerry Leiber of Leiber & Stoller died overnight, here's one of his greatest tracks as performed by Donald Fagen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G_nr6gRlUo

Spread · 23-08-2011 2:31pm

I saw a show (The Birth Of The Blues) based on the music of Lieber & Stoller, in The Half Moon Theatre (Mile End) about 30 years ago. J McCann sang On Broadway and Stand By Me. Showaddywaddy were the band and they belted out, Yakedy Yak, Charlie Brown, Love Potion No 9, Smokey Joe's Cafe, There Goes My Baby and other timeless numbers. I can honestly say that this was the best show that I've ever seen. All the songs are legend. May he rest in peace.

Cicero · 03-09-2011 12:05am

Know it's a bit olde news but to update this thread...Bubba Smith....aka Hightower in the Police Academy films and former Super Bowl star.....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-14400604

up for anything · 12-09-2011 7:20am

I hated Fantasy Island but this is sad.

Ricardo Montalban, the star of 'Fantasy Island' and 'The Colbys', has died.

Montalban (right) with the late Hervé Villechaize - Stars of Fantasy Island
The Mexican-born actor, who was 88, passed away at his home in Los Angeles on Wednesday, surrounded by his family.

Montalban's career began in Mexican theatre and he became one of Hollywood's only Latino stars in the 1940s.

His film credits included the 'Spy Kids' series, 'Cannonball Run II' and 'Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan'.

cml387 · 12-09-2011 8:16am

up for anything wrote: »

I hated Fantasy Island but this is sad.

It was sad when it happened in January 2009 but we've got over it now.

OldGoat · 12-09-2011 8:38am

up for anything wrote: »

I hated Fantasy Island but this is sad.

It might not be compleatly clear in the first post but this thread is about the freshly departed.
If we were to start listing everyone who passed, ehhh, in the past, then we would have a monster thread on our hands.

mike65 · 12-09-2011 9:47am

LOL! I thought Montalban had died once already.

up for anything · 12-09-2011 5:49pm

I am an oul wan and the years seem like hours to me.

:p

mike65 · 27-09-2011 3:47pm

David Croft died today - who? If you sat in front of British comedy in the 70s and 80s you'll know him - 'Allo 'Allo, Dads Army, It Ain't Half Hot Mum, Hi-Di-Hi, Are You being Served and a few more written with Jimmy Perry or Jeremy Lloyd.

cml387 · 27-09-2011 6:47pm

mike65 wrote: »

David Croft died today - who? If you sat in front of British comedy in the 70s and 80s you'll know him - 'Allo 'Allo, Dads Army, It Ain't Half Hot Mum, Hi-Di-Hi, Are You being Served and a few more written with Jimmy Perry or Jeremy Lloyd.

Obituary here

Spread · 06-10-2011 8:21pm

Steve jobs .......... if not for him we would not be doing this. RIP.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/tributes-flood-in-for-steve-jobs-2366230.html

Rented Mule · 06-10-2011 8:23pm

Spread wrote: »

Steve jobs .......... if not for him we would not be doing this. RIP.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/tributes-flood-in-for-steve-jobs-2366230.html

That's not necessarily true, but I don't want to derail this thread.

RIP Steve

Cicero · 06-10-2011 9:27pm

I recokon these words of Steve's will be quoted, tweeted, broadcast and otherwise discussed by millions in the coming days...think it's as good advice as any...

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Full speech from 2005 here:

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html

chucken1 · 15-10-2011 1:41pm

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/corrie-favourite-betty-driver-dies-101858484.html

RIP Betty

Rubecula · 17-10-2011 11:44pm

DAn Wheldon was killed in a massive car smash in USA. Racing cars around a track at 200mph is always going to be dangerous, but when a talented driver (or anyone else for that matter) is killed in the pursuit of a sport, it is very sad. The pictures from the Indy 300 race he was in were shown on TV and the crash looked particularly horrendous. I can only hope that this young man did not suffer too much. His fellow drivers were very complimentary to his memory and seemed to mean what they said genuinely.

RIP Dan Wheldon.

OldGoat · 18-10-2011 8:30am

Brings to mind all the drivers past who are no longer with us through either accident or old age.

Rubecula · 18-10-2011 9:59am

Indeed it is very sad. So many could be named that it would start it's own forum let alone a thread. But that would just be too sad for me.:(

cml387 · 22-10-2011 6:17pm

Cathal O'Shannon, RTE television journalist, died today.

A superb broadcaster, his greatest work was possibly the Spanish civil war documentary "Even the olives are bleeding"

chucken1 · 22-10-2011 9:24pm

Hidden History: Irelands Nazis was really an eye opener for me.

RIP Cathal

Rubecula · 23-10-2011 10:43am

I have no idea if any of you are interested in motorbike racing. But in MotorGP (the world championship) the very talented Italian rider Marco Simoncelli was killed in Sepang after another horrific crash.

RIP Marco.

Jellybaby1 · 24-10-2011 4:06pm

Rubecula wrote: »

I have no idea if any of you are interested in motorbike racing. But in MotorGP (the world championship) the very talented Italian rider Marco Simoncelli was killed in Sepang after another horrific crash.

RIP Marco.

He was only 24 - what a horrific crash, a tragedy!

chucken1 · 29-10-2011 3:10pm

Sir Jimmy Saville died today

RIP
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2055045/Jimmy-Savile-dead-Presenter-dies-aged-84.html?ITO=1490

cml387 · 29-10-2011 3:22pm

Now then now then 'ow's about that?

RIP Jimmy.

Jellybaby1 · 29-10-2011 5:17pm

Unusual, eccentric, and I never heard anything bad about Jimmy Saville. I remember him from Top of the Pops, Jim'll Fix It and also for the first charity walks he led in Dublin for the Central Remedial Clinic, I walked on two of them and enjoyed the whole experience thoroughly. Bless him.

Spread · 29-10-2011 9:31pm

He was huge in the 60s and made TOTPs his own. I remember him dying his hair pink and buying a pink Rolls Royce to go with it. Then his signature Jimmy $avi££e. Must have been ADHD to live the lifestyle he did ............. always full tilt, and very little holding back. I hope he sleeps easy .......... one of England's great eccentrics.
RIP Jimmy

Jellybaby1 · 30-10-2011 11:30am

In case anyone needs remembering this link has Jimmy Saville's life in pictures. He certainly made a few 'fashion' statements in his time:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/gallery/2011/oct/29/jimmy-savile-life-in-pictures#/?picture=381150927&index=0

Rubecula · 30-10-2011 6:34pm

He was generous, helpful, kind, and considerate. He was liked and even loved by many, despite his monetary wealth, he was incredibly rich in other ways.

I think he was ultimately very lonely too.

Bless you Sir Jim. RIP.

up for anything · 08-11-2011 8:34am

Smokin' Joe Frazier, Ex-Heavyweight Champ.

Bits of my childhood keep dying. I am getting old.

Rubecula · 08-11-2011 6:20pm

Many many people claim he was better than Tyson. RIP Smokin' Joe.

cml387 · 13-11-2011 11:16pm

Terry Willers died yesterday aged 76.
A name that means nothing to anyone under 40,he was the cartoonist on Hall's Pictorial Weekly.

From RTE

He was well-known for his cartoons on the long-running RTÉ programme Hall's Pictorial Weekly and on the Mike Murphy Show, as well as on the Sunday Independent, Evening Herald and Irish Farmers Journal.
For several years he organised an international cartoon festival in Rathdrum, Co Wicklow.
His funeral will take place in Rathdrum tomorrow.
Mr Willers is survived by his wife Valerie, daughter Julie and son Steven.

Jellybaby1 · 14-11-2011 3:29pm

Aww, so sorry to hear this. I loved his work.

BBDBB · 22-11-2011 3:20pm

A good friend of mine was bereaved yesterday by her Nana, not quite her last surviving relative but near as dammit and she was obviously very close to her. Nana had been very unwell for some time and been in the hospital for several months steadily declining, recovering, declining etc

Anyway my friend visited for two hours, came away to sort out the dog back home and got the sad but inevitable phone call as she got home. She sorted the dog and returned quickly to the hospital and went straight to Nanas room, not seeing any staff at the desk and sat with her, talking to her now she was finally at peace as you do. As she was sat there, ward visiting hours started and as she was upset and teary, she didnt want to go out into the ward from the private room. So she rang the buzzer.

Then she heard the nurses voices, asking "was that Gretas room?" "it cant be" "I thought she'd died" "she has" "well who is that ringing the buzzer" etc as of course they didnt realise she was in there and were now contemplating either a resurrection or some kind of haunting

The look on the two nurses faces as they opened the door at the same time as my friend opened it was absolutely priceless apparently and caused much hilarity when they realised what had happened

I dare say it had Nana Greta laughing too from her vantage point

RIP Nana Greta

meeting123 · 25-11-2011 2:48pm

Poor nana Greta - but that is a great story, I hope she's laughing from Heaven!!

Rubecula · 28-11-2011 12:08pm

Gary Speed, Footballer and manager of Wales. Great servant to the game was found at home, hanged.

RIP Gary and thanks for the memories.

BBDBB · 28-11-2011 8:14pm

I was utterly shocked by the sad news of Gary Speeds passing

in a game of prima donnas, cheats, divers, fakers and over paid talentless oiks, he was a great player who conducted himself with dignity and professionalism

He will be sorely missed

RIP

The Dearly departed....

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