Celebrity Death Thread 2021

Weatherly had a top-ten country hit in 1975 with I'll Still Love You but was best known as a songwriter. Among his compositions are Smooth Sailin', Neither One Of Us, Roses & Love Songs, All That Keeps Me Going, It Must Have Been The Rain, Storms Of Troubled Tiimes, Where Do I Put Her Memory, Where Peaceful Waters Flow, and You're The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me.

 
The Posies have released eight studio albums, two live albums and 19 singles. Among their best-known songs are Conversations, Golden Slumbers, Dream All Day, Accidental Architecture – I'm including that one for Mister Hectic – Suddenly Mary, It's Great To Be Here Again and a remake of the Hollies' King Midas In Reverse. Harris was a member of the Posies from 2001 to 2014.

 
Harris was a member of the Posies from 2001 to 2014.
I dug a few songs from Frosting On The Beater (1993) plus a random rarity they released a year later, and a couple from Solid States (2016).

"Dream All Day" was the song I played in my car each morning on my way into work when I was 23 years old, because I got a job that year that required me to wake up at (I think it was) 530 in the morning. It was rockin' enough to keep me awake, and the title was perfect.
 
Porter had four chart hits, each under a different name. I Like What You Give (Nolan) was a #40 R&B hit and #70 pop hit in 1971. Groovin' Out On Life (Frederick II) was a #25 R&B hit in 1971. Keep On Keeping On (N.F. Porter) reached #39 R&B and #77 pop in early 1972. If I Could Only Be Sure (Nolan Porter) was a #29 R&B hit and #89 pop hit in 1973. His records were produced by Gabriel Mekler, who also produced albums for Janis Joplin, Steppenwolf and Three Dog Night.

 
Porter had four chart hits, each under a different name. I Like What You Give (Nolan) was a #40 R&B hit and #70 pop hit in 1971. Groovin' Out On Life (Frederick II) was a #25 R&B hit in 1971. Keep On Keeping On (N.F. Porter) reached #39 R&B and #77 pop in early 1972. If I Could Only Be Sure (Nolan Porter) was a #29 R&B hit and #89 pop hit in 1973. His records were produced by Gabriel Mekler, who also produced albums for Janis Joplin, Steppenwolf and Three Dog Night.

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Plummer appeared in more than 200 movies, television episodes and TV mini-series including Blackheart, Waterloo, International Velvet, Murder By Decree, The Fall Of The Roman Empire, 66 episodes of Counterstrike and 12 episodes of Departure.

The Mrs. told me yesterday that he hated The Sound of Music and the he used to call it The Sound of Mucus.
That is WAY too cool.
 
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