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Compiled by George Graham
As broadcast on WVIA-FM 12/29/99
Time once again for another feature of our annual year-end wrapup, this time at
the end of the 1900s, our radio obituary page, noting the passing of people in
the music world, whom we lost during 1999. As usual, a few are household names,
while many others are people whose influence is perhaps better known than their
names, and whose passing the commerical media largely ignores. There were a lot
of people we lost this year, so as I did last year, I'll read them in
chronological order of passing. We'll start with a three from the very end of
last year, whom we did not get a chance to report at the time.
- Bryan MacLean, Member of Love, 58, 12/25/98
- Dick Grove, jazzman, educator, author, 71, 12/26/98
- Johnny Moore, member of the Drifters, 64, 12/30/98
- Michel Petrucciani, jazz pianist, 36, 1/6/99
- Charles Brown, blues & jazz pianist, vocalist, 76, 1/21/99
- Jimmy Domengeaux, member of Steve Riley & Mamou Playboys & Black Dog,
44, 1/25/99
- Ed Herlihy, announcer 89, 1/30/99
- Gwen Guthrie, R&B singer, 42, 2/3/99
- Richard Boone, jazz trombonist 68, 2/3/99
- Bobby Troup, wrote "Route 66," acted on TV, 80, 2/7/99
- Buddy Knox, 50s rock & roll singer, 65, 2/14/99
- Betty Roche, jazz singer (w/ Ellington) 81, 2/16/99
- Stanley Dance, jazz author, critic 88, 2/23/99
- Horace Tapscott, jazz pianist, 64, 2/27/99
- Dusty Springfield, British soul singer, 59, 3/2/99
- Lowell Fulson, bluesman, 77, 3/6/99
- Yehudi Menuhin, violinist, 82, 3/12/99
- Mighty Joe Young, bluesman, 71, 3/24/99
- Joe Williams, jazz singer, 80, 3/29/99
- Jesse Stone, jazz pianist, rock & roll pioneer & producer, 97, 4/1/99
- Lionel Bart, lyricist & composer of "Oliver!" 68, 4/3/99
- Red Norvo, jazz vibist, 91, 4/6/99
- Boxcar Willie (Lecil Martin), country singer, 57, 4/12/99
- Anthony Newley, songwriter, 67, 4/14/99
- Alexander "Skip" Spence, Moby Grape & Jefferson Airplace member, 53,
4/16/99
- Roger Troutman, R&B artist, member of Zapp, 54, 4/25/99
- Al Hirt, jazz trumpet man, 76, 4/27/99
- Darrell Sweet, member of Nazareth, 51, 4/30/99
- Shel Silverstein, singer-songwriter, poet, cartoonist, children's book author,
66, 5/9/99
- Bruce Fairbairn, rock producer, 49, 5/17/99
- Andy Simpkins, jazz bassist, 67, 6/5/99
- Mel Torme, jazz singer, 73, 6/5/99
- Ernie Wilkins, jazz saxophonist & arranger, 79, 6/5/99
- Mark Sandman, founder of "Morphine" 47, 7/3/99
- Joaquin Rodrigo, classical composer, 97, 7/5/99
- Helen Forrest, big band singer, 82, 7/11/99
- Harry "Sweets" Edison, jazz trumpeter, 83, 7/27/99
- Leroy Vinnegar, jazz bassist, 71, 8/3/99
- Bobby Sheehan, member of Blues Traveler, 31, 8/20/99
- Newell "Spiegle" Willcox, jazz trombonst, 96, 8/25/99
- Katie Webster, blues & boogie pianist, 63, 9/5/99
- Sal Salvador, jazz guitarist, 73, 9/22/99
- Art Farmer, jazz trumpeter, 71, 10/3/99
- Milt Jackson: jazz vibes great (Modern Jazz Quartet), 76, 10/9/99
- George Forrest, Broadway composer ("Stranger in Paradise"), 84, 10/10/99
- Ella Mae Morse, big band singer (w/Freddie Slack), 75, 10/16/99
- Hoyt Axton, singer-songwriter, 61, 10/26/99
- Frank DeVol, film composer, 88, 10/27/99
- Donald Mills, last of the Mills Bros., 84, 11/13/99
- Doug Sahm, Sir Douglas Quintet founder, 58, 11/18/99
- Don "Sugarcane" Harris, pioneering blues violinist, 61, 12/1/99
- Rick Danko, bassist for The Band, 56, 12/10/99
- Charles Earland, jazz organist, 58, 12/11/99
- Hank Snow, country artist, 12/20/99
- Curtis Mayfield, soul/R&B singer-songwriter, 56, 12/26/99
No dates available:
- Edward Cobb: wrote Standells' "Dirty Water"
- David H. "Butch" McRae: founding member of Amazing Rhythm Aces
- Leon Thomas, jazz vocalist
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