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Topic: MILESTONES
Boots Randolph, a saxophone player best known for his 1963 hit "Yakety Sax," died July 3 in Nashville, Tennessee. He was 80. He had suffered a cerebral hemorrhage June 25 and had been hospitalized in a coma. Publicist and spokeswoman Betty Hofer said he had been taken off a respirator earlier Tuesday.

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Randolph played regularly in Nashville nightclubs for 30 years. He recorded more than 40 albums and spent 15 years touring with the Festival of Music, teaming with his fellow instrumentalists Chet Atkins and Floyd Cramer. Randolph had his own nightclub in Printers Alley in Nashville for 17 years, closing it in 1994. He played regularly at other nightclubs before and after that and continued performing until shortly before his death. His other single hits included “Hey, Mr. Sax Man” in 1964 and “Temptation” in 1967. Homer Louis "Boots" Randolph III (June 3, 1927 – July 3, 2007) was an American musician best known for his 1963 saxophone hit, "Yakety Sax", which was adopted by British comedian Benny Hill as a theme tune for his shows. Randolph was a major part of the "Nashville Sound" for most of his professional career. ...MORE in Wiki Bio... | BOOTS BIO and CDiscography


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Will Schaefer, the Kenosha-born composer who wrote music for "I Dream of Jeannie" and "The Flintstones" has died of cancer. Schaefer died in a nursing home. The Wisconsin-native wrote background music, which is different from theme songs, for such TV shows as "The Flying Nun," "Hogan's Heroes," "The AristoCats," "The Jetsons," "The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie" and "The Tonight Show" with Johnny Carson. He also composed and recorded music for more than 700 commercials, including ads for companies such as Ford, Chevrolet and Pillsbury. He also reworked the song "It's a Small World" for Disney to give it an international flavor corresponding to different rooms in the theme park ride. His professional accolades included three Clio Awards for his work on commercials. He also was nominated for an Emmy Award for his score to the Walt Disney TV movie "The Skytrap," and for a Pulitzer Prize for his concert piece "The Sound of America," commissioned for the 1976 bicentennial celebration. ...
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'Unchained Melody' composer passes away
Topic: MILESTONES

Hy Zaret (born August 21, 1907 - died July 2, 2007) was an American lyricist and composer best known as the co-author of the 1955 hit "Unchained Melody", one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century. Zaret was born Hyman Harry Zaritsky in New York City and attended West Virginia University and Brooklyn Law School, where he received an LLB. He scored his first major success in 1935, when he teamed up with Saul Chaplin and Sammy Cahn to co-write the pop standard "Dedicated to You."

The early '40s brought some collaborations with Alex C. Kramer and Joan Whitney, including 1941's "It All Comes Back to Me Now". Zaret also wrote lyrics for an English translation of the French Resistance song "The Partisan" (aka "The Song of the French Partisan"), which was later covered by Leonard Cohen, "My Sister and I," was a hit in 1941 for Jimmy Dorsey; and "So Long, for a While," the theme song for the radio and TV show "Your Hit Parade". He also wrote the Andrew Sister's novelty song "One Meatball." Zaret's biggest success, though, was "Unchained Melody," a song he co-wrote with film composer Alex North for the 1955 prison film Unchained (hence the title but the word 'unchained' never appears in the lyrics), which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song.

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DAKOTA STATON, a highly regarded jazz vocalist known for her soulful interpretations and for her bluesy 1957 album "The Late, Late Show," has died. details

Singer and actress BETTY HUTTON, whose stage credits ranged from Two for the Show in 1940 to Annie in 1980, died on March 11 2007 of colon cancer at her Palm Springs home. Details


BOBBY ROSENGARDEN was a jazz drummer who worked with musicians from Igor Stravinsky to Jimi Hendrix but became best known for making musical wisecracks as the bandleader on “The Dick Cavett Show.” MORE

RAY EVANS was an American songwriter. He was a partner in a composing and songwriting duo with Jay Livingston, known for the songs they composed for films. Evans wrote the lyrics and Livingston the music for the songs. He died on the 42nd anniversary of the death of Nat King Cole, who had made Evans and Livingston's "Mona Lisa" so famous. Biography

FRANKIE LAINE, the big-voiced singer whose string of hits made him one of the most popular entertainers in the 1950s, died Tuesday, 6 FEB 2007. He was 93....details. | BIO/VIDEO

BARBARA McNAIR, who starred opposite Elvis Presley and Sidney Poitier and became one of the first black women to to host her own television variety show ( See Video), has died at 72. McNair died on Sunday FEB 4, 2007 after a long battle with throat cancer, husband Charles Blecka told Reuters. McNair, who started singing in church as a girl, was still performing as recently as late last year.......more | BIO/PHOTO/DISCOGRAPHY/YouTube Video


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