RIP...for all that have passed
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Carol Channing and Dean Ford of Marmalade.
i was at a local mortuary today to pick up my recently deceased mother’s certificates and there was a group of old rockers waiting to enter the chapel. I saw the casket from afar and as I was leaving “Reflections of MyLife” was playing.. I asked the rep who was being celebrated and she told me. His name was Thomas McAleese aka Dean Ford, and he was the writer and singer of that song. It has one of the most gut-wrenching lyrics in pop music; “ the world is a bad place, a bad place a terrible place to live, but I don’t wanna die!”
I was very touched by this experience and said my Mass for him and his loved ones today.
RIP: Tommy/ Dean.
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I was sorry to hear about your mother, Jenny Wren.
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My condolences jennywren.
Beautiful rendition of Reflections. (I looked it up after you mentioned it)
Reflections of my life...
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My heart goes out to Jenny and Dean and everyone. Have listened to this song a hundred times or more over the years.
"REFLECTIONS OF MY LIFE" THE MARMALADE ~ 1969 - original recording ~ HQ AUDIO
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oobu24 wrote:
My condolences jennywren.
Beautiful rendition of Reflections. (I looked it up after you mentioned it)
Reflections of my life...
I love that song! Remember it well, too. He could still sing it great in 2014.
He died of complications of Parkinson’s.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Ford
And my condolences to you as well, jennywren.
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Jonas Mekas, pioneering filmmaker who worked with John Lennon, Yoko Ono, The Velvet Underground and Sonic Youth dies aged 96
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Peter Tork of The Monkees died at age 77
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PETER TORK of THE MONKEES (1942-2019)
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jimmix wrote:
PETER TORK of THE MONKEES (1942-2019)
In the 1960s, George Harrison invited him to play banjo on his first solo album, the “Wonder Wall” soundtrack, although his picking reportedly only appears on bootleg outtakes and in the film itself.
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Looks like no one has mentioned Stanley Donen, who directed, among other things, "Singin' in the Rain," possibly my favorite movie ever.
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My step sister passed away recently. My heart goes out to our collective family.
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Very sorry to hear that SurSteven.
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SurSteven wrote:
My step sister passed away recently. My heart goes out to our collective family.
Sorrows. Peace.
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oobu24 wrote:
Very sorry to hear that SurSteven.
Thank you oobu24 and The_Fool. She could be quite the character at times. She would have fit in very well here.
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Bruce M. wrote:
Looks like no one has mentioned Stanley Donen, who directed, among other things, "Singin' in the Rain," possibly my favorite movie ever.
He also directed On the Town and It's Always Fair Weather with Gene Kelly, Seven Brides For Seven Brothers, Damn Yankees, Royal Wedding starring Fred Astaire, Funny Face - Fred Astaire & Audrey Hepburn, Give a Girl a Break - Debbie Reynolds, The Pajama Game - Doris Day, Love is Better Than Ever - Elizabeth Taylor, Indiscreet - Cary Grant & Ingrid Bergman, Kiss Them For Me - Cary Grant, The Grass is Greener - Cary Grant, Charade - Cary Grant & Audrey Hepburn, Two For the Road - Audrey Hepburn & Albert Finney, Arabesque - Gregory Peck & Sophia Loren, Lucky Lady - Liza Minnelli & Gene Hackman, The Little Prince, the original, good Bedazzled with Peter Cook & Dudley Moore, and Staircase, about an old gay couple played by Richard Burton and Rex Harrison at a time when movies did not star old or gay couples. He also choreographed the greatest dancers of his time.
He and Gene Kelly changed movie musicals from the old Busby Berkeley formula to what we now think of as movie musicals. You can look at any musical and easily tell if it was made before or after Stanley Donen started directing.
His death is essentially the end of an era. He worked in a time when they used trained dancers and singers who could act, rather than today's actors who can be taught a few basic steps and maybe carry a tune.
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HaileyMcComet wrote:
Bruce M. wrote:
Looks like no one has mentioned Stanley Donen, who directed, among other things, "Singin' in the Rain," possibly my favorite movie ever.
He also directed On the Town and It's Always Fair Weather with Gene Kelly, Seven Brides For Seven Brothers, Damn Yankees, Royal Wedding starring Fred Astaire, Funny Face - Fred Astaire & Audrey Hepburn, Give a Girl a Break - Debbie Reynolds, The Pajama Game - Doris Day, Love is Better Than Ever - Elizabeth Taylor, Indiscreet - Cary Grant & Ingrid Bergman, Kiss Them For Me - Cary Grant, The Grass is Greener - Cary Grant, Charade - Cary Grant & Audrey Hepburn, Two For the Road - Audrey Hepburn & Albert Finney, Arabesque - Gregory Peck & Sophia Loren, Lucky Lady - Liza Minnelli & Gene Hackman, The Little Prince, the original, good Bedazzled with Peter Cook & Dudley Moore, and Staircase, about an old gay couple played by Richard Burton and Rex Harrison at a time when movies did not star old or gay couples. He also choreographed the greatest dancers of his time.
He and Gene Kelly changed movie musicals from the old Busby Berkeley formula to what we now think of as movie musicals. You can look at any musical and easily tell if it was made before or after Stanley Donen started directing.
His death is essentially the end of an era. He worked in a time when they used trained dancers and singers who could act, rather than today's actors who can be taught a few basic steps and maybe carry a tune.
Hugh Jackman is one exception to that - a triple threat and only an Oscar win away (he was nominated) from an EGOT.
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Katherine Helmond, 89, from Soap
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Katherine also played the ogre's wife in Time Bandits
Dream Away (George Harrison song) - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_Away_(George_Harrison_song)
"Dream Away" is a song appearing on George Harrison's 1982 album Gone Troppo and released as a single in Japan. The song was featured over the end credits of Harrison's 1981 HandMade Films production Time Bandits which was director Terry Gilliam's first successful solo movie but second solo directorial effort overall. Aside from the film's orchestral score, this was the only song featured in Time Bandits …