Musicians We are Losing

Ricci Martin, the youngest son of Dean Martin, has died.
Said to be a musician, but I could not find him on youtube

AWWWW man. I remember in Nawlins one time we was gracin da wawtah front an he WALKED hizzown band outta da club and up to da Jaksen Pawk jut doin bout a 20 minit version a "Closer walk wid dee"

Aw man gonna miss him music dayum.

All the good ole ones of the Preservation Hall be long gone. Now Mr Fountayne ..

Glenn Yarbrough: Folk Musician Dies in Nashville of Complications From Dementia, Family Says
Yarbrough, known for his band The Limelighters as well as his solo work, including the title song for the 1956 film "Baby the Rain Must Fall," died Thursday, his daughter told The New York Times.

James Woolley: Former Nine Inch Nails Keyboardist Dies at 50, Ex-Wife Says
"RIP James Joseph Woolley 1966-2016 We will miss you," Kate Van Buren posted on Facebook with photos of Woolley. He played with Nine Inch Nails from 1991-1994. The cause of death was not stated.

I remember when my wife and I went to the Preservation Hall, and sat on the floor in front. It was a small place with people packed like sardines. The music was unbelievable. We even had a meal at Commander's Palace and that other famous place that starts with a B. At 81, my memory is shot.

3 Doors Down: Band's Former Guitarist, Matt Roberts, Dies at 38, Father Says
Roberts was found dead in a Wisconsin hotel early Saturday morning, his father Darrell told TMZ. He had been scheduled to play at a charity event. He left the band in 2012.

Juan Gabriel

Buckwheat Zydeco

Jean Shepard
Ollie Imogene Shepard
November 21, 1933 - September 25, 2016

Bobby Vee, whose hits included the chart-topping ‘Take Good Care of My Baby,' died today (24 October). He was 73 years old and was in the advanced stages of Alzheimer's disease, according to his son, Jeff Velline. Vee was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in 2011, and performed his last show that same year.

Born Robert Thomas Velline in 1943 in Fargo, North Dakota into a musical family, he joined his older brother’s band when he was 15. After Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper were killed in the infamous plane crash of 1959, the promoter needed a band to fill in, when it was decided that the tour should continue. The next date was in Moorhead, Minnesota and the 15-year-old Bobby Vee and the Shadows got their big break.

By the autumn of 1959 Snuffy Garrett, a young staff producer at Liberty Records, had persuaded the label to sign Bobby Vee. After several of his singles flopped, a radio station in Pittsburgh started to play Vee’s version of an old Clovers R&B hit, ‘Devil or Angel.' Soon the single was top ten in cities all over America; it finished up at No.6 in the Billboard chart.

His next single ‘Rubber Ball,' co-written by Gene Pitney, also went to No.6 in the US and to No.4 in Britain in 1960. From then on, Vee could do no wrong on either side of the Atlantic. He had a string of hits including ‘More Than I Can Say’ (No.4 UK), ‘How Many Tears’ (No.10 UK), Goffin & King’s ‘Take Good Care of My Baby’ (No.3 UK, No.1 US), ‘Run To Him’ (No.6 in the UK, No.2 US), ‘Please Don’t Ask Barbara’ (No.29 UK, No.15 US), ‘Sharing You’ (No.10 UK, No.15 US) and ‘A Forever Kind Of Love’ (No.13). In 1963 he scored one of his biggest hits with ‘The Night has A Thousand Eyes,' which went to No.3 in both Britain and America.

Pete Burns, lead singer of the Eighties goth new wave band Dead or Alive and their smash "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)," died Sunday after suffering cardiac arrest, his management said Monday. Burns was 57.

Holly Dunn Dead at 59