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« Reply #31 on: January 30, 2018, 07:00:47 PM »
Glee cast member Mark Salling, dead of suicide at 35.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/30/entertainment/mark-salling-dead/index.html

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« Reply #32 on: January 31, 2018, 03:09:51 AM »
Cartoon voice Doug Young (Doggie Daddy from Quick Draw McGraw) passed away January 7 at age 98, as per Mark Evanier’s blog.
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« Reply #33 on: February 01, 2018, 09:25:55 AM »
Former NBA player Rasual Butler and American Idol alum Leah LaBelle, a married couple, were killed in an automobile crash; they were 38 and 31, respectively.

http://www.ajc.com/news/national/former-nba-player-rasual-butler-wife-killed-car-crash/0EW0D3kMJGKaXZ801i0CZK/
http://radiotvtalk.blog.ajc.com/2018/01/31/american-idol-notes-leah-labelle-dead-jennifer-hudson-as-aretha-franklin/

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« Reply #34 on: February 04, 2018, 07:25:25 PM »
Indianapolis Colts LB Edwin Jackson was killed after being hit by a drunk driver. He was 26.
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« Reply #35 on: February 04, 2018, 11:43:30 PM »
Former Temptations lead singer Dennis Edwards has died at age 74:

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/temptations-lead-singer-dennis-edwards-dead-at-74-w516296

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« Reply #37 on: February 05, 2018, 07:49:11 PM »
Very sad. He was great on Frasier. RIP.
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« Reply #39 on: February 06, 2018, 10:14:37 AM »
Very sad. About three episodes from finishing the series for about the third time (for me, more times for the friend I'm watching with)
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Re: 2018 Obituaries Thread
« Reply #40 on: February 12, 2018, 02:53:39 PM »
Two from the music world:

* Daryle Singletary, 46, up-and-coming country music star of the mid-to-late 1990s, died early today (Monday, Feb. 12) at his home in Lebanon, Tenn., of unknown causes. His best-known hits were "Too Much Fun" and "I Let Her Lie," both 1996 top 5 country hits; and the 1997 No. 2 hit "Amen Kind of Love":

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2018/02/12/country-singer-daryle-singletary-known-90-s-hit-too-much-fun-dead-46/329076002/

* Vic Damone, 89, died Sunday, Feb. 11, of a respiratory illness. He was one of the last of the true pop vocalists of the pre-rock era, having a No. 1 hit in 1949 with "You're Breaking My Heart" (he was just 21 at the time, very young for the era) and a top 5 hit in 1950 with "My Heart Cries For You":

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2018/02/12/singer-vic-damone-dies-florida-89/329305002/

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« Reply #41 on: February 12, 2018, 03:27:31 PM »
Frank Sinatra said Vic Damone "had the best pipes in the business."
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« Reply #42 on: February 13, 2018, 05:30:52 AM »
Marty Allen, the “Hello dere!” comic who was partnered with Steve Rossi, age 95, from complications of pneumonia. He was a frequent celebrity panelist on Hollywood Squares in the 70s.
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Re: 2018 Obituaries Thread
« Reply #43 on: February 13, 2018, 03:35:55 PM »
Former Temptations lead singer Dennis Edwards has died at age 74:

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/temptations-lead-singer-dennis-edwards-dead-at-74-w516296

Just passed this one up -- was a member of the group during the late 1960s/early 1970s phase. Sang on hits like "Cloud Nine," "I Can't Get Next To You," "Ball of Confusion," "Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)" and "Papa Was a Rolling Stone." He replaced original Temptation David Ruffin, who had been fired in 1968. Could do ballads as well as the urban funk that the Temptations became known for during their late 1960s/early 1970s phase.

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Re: 2018 Obituaries Thread
« Reply #44 on: February 13, 2018, 03:42:50 PM »
And a followup to my previous post on Daryle Singletary ... the deaths are starting to come for 1990s singers. On Jan. 23, Lari White passed away after a battle with cancer:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2018/01/23/lari-white-dead-52/1060245001/

Lari had a string of hits in the mid 1990s, reaching the top 10 with hits like "That's My Baby," "Stepping Stone" and "Now I Know." Also recorded a duet with Travis Tritt and wrote several songs for acts like Tritt, Pat Green and Lonestar.

RIP.

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