Sorry for your loss Rob
Condolences to you and your family Rob.
RIP Florian Schneider at age 73, co-founder of Kraftwerk, a pillar of electronic music.
My condolences, Rob.
My condolences Rob on your loss.
Wow. Roy Horn, from Siegfried and Roy, after getting Covid. Not enough he gets mauled by a tiger.
Little Richard. I have to admit I thought he was already dead.
Condolences to you and your family Rob. So sad to lose a parent too soon
@The Old Man posted:Little Richard. I have to admit I thought he was already dead.
The start of great rock & roll with a bit of Bible
@flwino posted:The start of great rock & roll with a bit of Bible
And gender-bending which I don't think anyone understood at the time.
@robsutherland posted:My dad.
Echoing everyone else, my condolences, Rob. I'm very sorry to read this. May his memory be a blessing.
Thank you all.
Jerry Stiller, 92, "natural causes"
Man, rough weekend. Roy Horn, Little Richard, Jerry Stiller, geez....
The world is a little less funny today.
RIP to Jerry Stiller and condolences to his family and loved ones.
Raise your hand if you remember seeing Stiller and Meara on The Ed Sullivan Show. 
Raise your hand if you remember watching The Ed Sullivan Show.
Raise you hand if you know who Ed Sullivan was.
@The Old Man posted:Raise your hand if you remember seeing Stiller and Meara on The Ed Sullivan Show.
Raise your hand if you remember watching The Ed Sullivan Show.
Raise you hand if you know who Ed Sullivan was.
Believe it or not I can raise my hand three times.
Raise your hand if you remember what network programming replaced the Ed Sullivan Show when it finally went off air?
@wineismylife posted:Believe it or not I can raise my hand three times.
Raise your hand if you remember what network programming replaced the Ed Sullivan Show when it finally went off air?
Man are you old.
Without looking it up I don't know. I did watch The Beatles first live appearance on the show so I've got that.
@The Old Man posted:Raise your hand if you remember seeing Stiller and Meara on The Ed Sullivan Show.
Raise your hand if you remember watching The Ed Sullivan Show.
Raise you hand if you know who Ed Sullivan was.
I certainly remember the Ed Sullivan show and watched it many times. I remember seeing Stiller and Meara, but can't say necessarily it was on is show. I also remember Topo Gigio.
Yes to all 3 of TOM's questions, but I got WIML's wrong. I guessed it was All In The Family...right year at least.
CBS Sunday Night Movie. Debuted right after the Ed Sullivan Show to fill the time slot. Currently making a nostalgic return. Returned Sunday May 3 with Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark.
@irwin posted:I certainly remember the Ed Sullivan show and watched it many times. I remember seeing Stiller and Meara, but can't say necessarily it was on is show. I also remember Topo Gigio.
And of course Senor Wences.
I liked Stiller best as George's father, better than the two actors who played Jerry's. Not a bad life, a decades-long career with a resurgence in his "senior" years. A loving wife and a successful son and dying at 92. We should all be so lucky.
@The Old Man posted:And of course Senor Wences.
I liked Stiller best as George's father, better than the two actors who played Jerry's. Not a bad life, a decades-long career with a resurgence in his "senior" years. A loving wife and a successful son and dying at 92. We should all be so lucky.
The Stillers used to go to synagogue on the West side where my mom was the Executive Director. Always very nice to the congregants.
What a funny man - RIP
Steve West - Founding DJ (1983) on 91X in San Diego one of the first mainstream alternative music stations in the US. I came to SD for the first time shortly after it was founded and was amazed to find a regular FM station playing all the music I loved. If there were others in the US there werent many
Update: Was talking to a friend who has worked in alternative radio for decades. The alternative music genre began in the late 70's. The two pioneering stations were KROQ in L.A. And WLIR in Long Island, NY. 91X lineage goes back to KROQ
Sorry about Steve. "If there were others in the US there werent many." True, but in Chicago, were else, I think can beat that. August 1972 Chicago's alternative WXRT began. I began listening to it then.
@The Old Man posted:Raise your hand if you remember seeing Stiller and Meara on The Ed Sullivan Show.
Raise your hand if you remember watching The Ed Sullivan Show.
Raise you hand if you know who Ed Sullivan was.
Raise your right hand if you don’t give a rats ass 
The great Fred Willard. Remember the days of Fernwood 2 Night?
"Update: Was talking to a friend who has worked in alternative radio for decades. The genre began in the late 70's. The two pioneering stations were KROQ in L.A. And WLIR in Long Island, NY. 91X lineage goes back to KROQ"
So your friend was not aware of WXRT which was in the early 70s? Would that not make them the true pioneers?
Wha happened? RIP Fred Willard - very funny person
Phyllis George. Only 70. I was just thinking about when I was a kid living to 70 was considered pretty good.
@jcocktosten posted:Wha happened? RIP Fred Willard - very funny person
Indeed. He was rarely the star, but he was always great. There was a humbleness to his role selection but that didn't distract from his funniness. I will remember him best from his Christopher Guest films. RIP.
@winetarelli posted:Indeed. He was rarely the star, but he was always great. There was a humbleness to his role selection but that didn't distract from his funniness. I will remember him best from his Christopher Guest films. RIP.
Always enjoyed him in roles that he played, including Phil’s dad in Modern Family. I believe he did a lot of ad libbing in Best of Show
@thistlintom posted:Always enjoyed him in roles that he played, including Phil’s dad in Modern Family. I believe he did a lot of ad libbing in Best of Show
I have never seen Modern Family but glad he continued to work.
I remember his in Fernwood 2 Night.
RIP Fred. Great in Best in Show and Fernwood 2 Night.
Fernwood Tonight was great. Fred played the Ed McMahon role to Martin Mull's talk show host. This is from memory:
Fred Willard: I was driving along a mountain road when I saw a sign that said, "Watch for falling rocks". I stopped and thought, okay, I'll give it 5 minutes, but then I have to go.
Looks like Fred Willard had at least an appearance in the upcoming Netflix series Space Force. I'm guessing one of his last roles. Sounds like he literally worked all the way up to his death.
Retired, from disability, LA police officer Ken Osmond, 76. (Are you old enough to know?)
I'm old enough. Too bad. I also remember that 50 years ago in Maryland, marijuana possession was illegal and haircuts were legal. Things have changed.
Annie Glenn, wife of John Glenn, one of my childhood heroes. 🙁 Had the chance to hang out with them both often in the late 90s and through the 00s.
PH