Random Memorial for Monday 12/31/18

Gone but not forgotten:  Nanette Fabray.

(Which is also the way we close out this year's dead celebrity tune trilogy [for 2018 ... 'cause I'm not always the timeliest]).

As you may know, I loves me an obscure reference .. and so it excites me to recall one of Nanette's last TV roles on 'The Golden Palace' when she (spoiler alert) stole Miles away from Rose ... but it excites me even more to have found a clip from a Carol Burnett show that featured Nanette AND Sonny and Cher AND Carol and Harvey and Lyle to post below.

Oh no Nanette (not to be confused with 'No No Nanette') -- you will surely be missed.

UM ... *THIS* SONG ... FOR *ALL* THE WINS!:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVh-jant-Yo

Random Memorial for Monday 12/24/18

Gone but not forgotten:  Charles John Mahoney.

(Yep, it's the *second* of my annual dead celebrity tune trilogy [although super late as it's for 2018]).

Here's the thing ... I became a Mahoney fan back in 1987 when he was on the big screen with my fav Cher in 'Suspect'.  Although I wasn't a regular 'Frasier' watcher, I knew enough to know that he was a superdad to cute Moose aka Eddie.  (And, as such, I refuse to believe the stories that Eddie was replaced by his own son late in the series OR that Moose had a tendency to bite John every chance he could.)

Since this is all about tunes from those whom we've lost, I've searched the youtube and I've decided to include TWO closing montages from TV classics that feature the dearly departed:  ER ('You're Nobody til Somebody Loves You') and the aforementioned Frasier ('On the Sunny Side of the Street').

You who taught us that gruff can still be lovable ... you will be missed.

JOHN AS YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE SEEN HIM:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUbnWpidvHc

MAY YOU ALWAYS FIND YOUR WAY TO THE SUNNY SIDE OF THE STREET:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvIpe0uN6F8

Random Memorial for Monday 12/17/18

Gone but not forgotten:  Aretha Louise Franklin.

(In other news, it's (way past) time for my annual "dead celebrity tune trilogy" [in this case, for 2018]).

First up in this year's set is the (late) Queen of Soul herself ... a voice that only comes along once in a lifetime ... and that will live on forever despite her passing because of her amazing and prodigious body of work (including this underrated tune of hers from her "slumping sales" years that is kind of one of my new favorite love songs that she ever did).

Understanding the context that I was a child who grew up in the late 80's ... you whom I knew as Pavarotti's stand-in for 'Nessun Dorma' ... and as George Michael's duet partner from 'I Knew You Were Waiting for Me' ... and as every milliner's best friend much later in our lives ... I sincerely hope that you now know 'Who's Zooming Who' ... and that you always know that you will be forever remembered and greatly missed.

UNITED TOGETHER (FOREVER):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytxEIqzltIQ